Bij het sessiefestival op 5 november is om half 4 een MEE-zingmoment in Café Ons Dorp.
Hieronder vindt u de teksten van de liedjes die dan gezongen worden:
Sweet days in Co. Clare
Chorus:
Oh sometimes, when I’m in bed
My hands folded behind my head
Almost asleep, then I’m there
Such sweet days in Co. Clare.
The cliffs of Moher, I walked alone
In February, cold to the bone
In November, a Burren’s walk
Nobody there, no need to talk
Monday night’s, Doolin Hotel
Friends and music, we played so well
We sang and laughed, the mood was good
To the soul such perfect food
Chorus
Ennistymon, Brendan’s shop
We bought a fiddle, then we stopped
He played a tune, played so well
He found his voice, that I could tell
He closed his eyes, I closed mine
Music floated, all was fine
Tears in me eyes, a moment true
At Sandymount with ocean’s view
We took a ferry, my son and me
To bring the fiddle where it should be
Miltown Malbay, such a long way
To Holland from Clare , crossing the Celtic Sea
Chorus
In pitch-dark nights, I hear the sea
The breaker’s sound lulls me to sleep
When I rest from the ballyhoo
I drift away, my mind goes slow
The starlit sky, the endless dome
Makes me lonesome, I long for home
Long for my sweethearts, but once I’m there
My heart returns to Co. Clare
Chorus
Words & Music: Job Cornelissen.
The Bonny Light Horseman
When Boney commanded his armies to stand
He leveled his cannons right over the land
He leveled his cannons right over the plain
And he slew my light horseman on his way back from Spain
Broken hearted I’ll wander, broken hearted I’ll remain
Since my bonny light horseman in the war he was slain
And the dove she laments for her mate as she flies
“Oh, where, tell me where is my true love?” she cries
“And where in this wide world is there one to compare
With my bonny light horseman who was slain in the war?”
Broken hearted I’ll wander, broken hearted I’ll remain
Since my bonny light horseman in the wars he was slain
Oh, Napoleon Bonaparte, you’re the cause of my woe
Since my bonny light horseman to the wars he did go
Three years and six months, since he left this bright shore
Oh, my bonny light horsemen will I never see more
Broken hearted I’ll wander, broken hearted I’ll remain
Since my bonny light horseman in the wars he was slain
Will Ye Go Lassie Go?
Oh the summertime is coming
And the trees are sweetly blooming
And the wild mountain thyme
Grows around the blooming heather
Will ye go, Lassie go?
Chorus:
And we’ll all go together
To pluck wild mountain thyme
All around the blooming heather
Will ye go, Lassie go?
I will build my love a tower
Near yon’ pure crystal fountain
And on it I will build
All the flowers of the mountain
Will ye go, Lassie go?
Chorus
If my true love she were gone
I would surely find another
Where wild mountain thyme
Grows around the blooming heather
Will ye go, Lassie go?
Chorus
The Brewer Lad
In Perth there lived a bonnie lad
A brewer to his trade O
An’ he is courted Peggie Roy
A young and handsome maid O
Chorus:
Wi’ a fall dall diddle um a die dum doo
Wi’ a fall dall diddle um a die doh
Well, he’s courted her for seven long years
A’ for to gain her favor
But there came a lad from Edinburgh town
Who swore that he would have her
It’s will ye go along wi’ me
An’ will ye be my honey?
It’s will ye go along wi’ me
An’ leave your brewer laddie?
Oh I will go along wi’ you
Along wi’ you I’ll ride O
I’ll go wi’ you to the ends of earth
Though I’m spoke to the brewer lad O
Oh the brewer, he came home at one
A-spying for his honey
Her father, he made this reply
“She’s not been here since Monday”
Oh wasn’t that an uncoo’ play
Wouldn’t anyone be offended
To court a lad for seven long years
And leave him at the end oh
Oh be it so, and let her go
For it shall never grieve me
I’m a lad that’s free, as you can see
And a small thing will relieve me
She’s rambled up, she’s rambled down
She’s rambled through Kirkaldy
Many’s the time she rued the day
She jilt’ her brewer laddie
He’s done his course and of he’s gone
The country he has fled O
He’s left no sark upon her back
Nor blanket on her bed O
The brewer, he set up in Perth
And there he brews strong ale’ O
OHe’s courted with another lass
And she became his maid’ O
Ye lovers o, where ever ye be
Just let this be a warnin’
An’ never slight your own true love
You’ll be lonely in the morning.
Green Grow The Rushes ( Robbie Burns)
There’s is not but care on hand
In every hour that passes oh-oh-oh
That signifies the life of man
If it were not for the lasses-oh
Chorus:
Green grow the rushes-oh
Green grow the rushes-oh
The sweetest hour that ev’r I spend
If it were not for the lasses-oh
The richest race may riches chase
And riches they may fly them oh-oh-oh
And when at last they catch them fast
Their hearts may not enjoy them oh
Chorus
Give me an hour at evening
My arms around my dearie-oh-oh-oh
And worldly cares and worldly man
May all go topsy-turvy -oh
Chorus
Oh you’re so grave, you snear at this
You’re not but senseless asses oh-oh-oh
The wisest man the world e’er saw
He dearly loved the lasses- oh
Chorus
Old nature swears, the lovely Dears
Her noble work , she classes oh-oh-oh
Her apprentice’ hands she tried on Man
And the she made The Lassses oh.
Chorus
Wide World – Sophie Janna
I was awake, and you were a sleep
I was drowning in worry, a spinning wheel.
I turn away from you as if I want to hide.
The morning I fear so I keep it inside.
Chorus:
But won’t you stay here
Call this you’re home
the world is to wide
to travel alone 2x
And songbirds are sining to welcome the morning.
there ain’t nothing but darkness, that I want to fade in.
I don’t dare to tell you, in the light of the day.
A silly old dream that will scare you away.
Chorus
And then you wake up, and reach out your arms.
and pull me towards you, and make me feel warm.
There is no need for talking it will fall in to place.
And gently your thumb wipes away, tears on my face.
Chorus