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The wind blows cold across the water
Onto these northern shores
Where I was born, where I was brought up
And where I once belonged
Where I learned about love and I learned to be strong
And I learned right from wrong
But somewhere down the line I took a wrong turn
And I lost my way back home
I remember a pretty little dancer
She held my soul to ransom
I remember and the memory haunts me
Oh.. oh... and then some
I recall the wonder of it all
And though I try to hold on
Deep down in my soul I know...
I know those days are really gone
I can still see Portstewart harbour
And the shelter on the hill
Where lovers walked in the old days
Oh.. oh.. and they still do
And though it looks the same from a distance
Nothing stays the same
And when I look around me in my hometown
Nothing much remains
Of the things I loved and the things I knew
And those pretty little dancing girl memories of you
But the wind still blows cold across the water
Onto these northern shores
Where I was born, where I was brought up
And where I once belonged
© Errol Walsh
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Start Over Again
03:22
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We both made mistakes
For which we need to make amends
So why don’t we start over again
It’s never too late
To start out with a brand new slate
So why don’t we start over again
We’ve done some time
And walked some ragged lines
So many times before
But now we’ve found
Some kind of middle ground
I’m not about to let that go…. oh no
So why don’t we just listen
& tell each other what’s been missing
Why don’t we start over again
It would be a sin
For us to just give in
After all that we’ve been through
Our chemistry
Is a beautiful mystery
So honey… please don’t let it go… oh no
Lets keep it together
Through fair or stormy weather
Why don’t we start over again
Yeah why don’t we just start over again
© Errol Walsh
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John Dinny Waltz
04:40
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On the far side of town
As the lights flicker out
And the stars burn like white coals
On a hot summer night
A young girl sighs softly
As she slumbers & dreams
Of a shy young man’s smile
And just what it might mean
They first spied each other
‘Cross a hard-wood dance floor
Like two stranded lovers on opposite shores
Her smile said ‘come take me
But don’t play me false’
As the band opened up with
The John Dinny Waltz
They clung to each other
And they danced cheek to cheek
And a spark flew between them
Though not a word did they speak
Lost in each other
As the whole world stood still
Their hearts beat like thunder
As they savoured the thrill
And as they closed their eyes tightly
And swayed back & forth
They fell in love to the strains of
The John Dinny Waltz
© Errol Walsh & Ted Ponsonby
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Seventeen
04:05
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It's been a while since I was seventeen
And I don't think much about ‘old used to be's
But now and then it all comes back to me
Like a pain and then I see your face again
I got your message from a friend today
Surprised to hear you say you're coming over
I read your words and fell into a dream
How long it's been since we were lovers
But you can't pick up the past
When time has healed the old wounds over
And yesterday has grown into today
And you have to face the truth
It's no use starting over
With the same old song and nothing new to say
It's over now....it's really over
The threads that bound us then
Have long ago been broken
The hopes and dreams we shared are past & gone
If I could do it all again I wouldn't change a moment
But it's over now....it's all over now...it's really over
I cast my memory back to another time
When we were young and all the world was fine, so fine
When you and I
We were seventeen
Just seventeen
© Errol Walsh
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Deep Sea Diving
04:52
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All alone in this prison
Deep in the still of the night
Wait by the window just watching
Praying for one ray of light
And the clock on the wall counts the hours that pass
Like a slow train that never quite ends
I'm a deep-sea diver
Going down slow with the pressure bends
& it's so cold
Whose is that voice I keep hearing
Why can't you show me your face
Why do my thoughts have no anchor
Hopelessly drifting in space
Here come the medicine man, with his medicine chest
Potions and chemical spells
Driving me down
Driving me down to this lonely hell
& it's so cold
I can't seem to keep my two feet on the ground
It's falling away from me now
I can't get a grip on what's going down
Somebody please won't you throw me a line
I'm going down, deep-sea diving
Going down, deep-sea diving
& it's so cold
© Errol Walsh
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Long Way Down
03:23
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When love is hot the world is on fire
Shooting stars and flaming desire
& love can be sweet, there’s no denying
Cool & deep and oh so satisfying
But when you go down to that well
You better watch out that you don’t drown
‘Cos when you fall in love it’s a long way down
Its easy to fall, it just takes one look
Then in no time at all
She can read you like a book
It’s a risky business
‘Cos in the twinkling of an eye
You can be falling, falling, falling and it’s a long way down
When it’s sweet
You see the whole world through her eyes
And every moment is just a wonderful surprise
But when it’s not, you got to be prepared
So be scared my friend!... be very scared!
You better watch out where you put your feet
And make sure that it’s on solid ground
‘Cos when you fall in love it’s a long way down
© Errol Walsh
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Matchbox Billy
03:54
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In a nowhere part of a nowhere town
A poor boy grew up alone
Abandoned by the ones he loved
Taken from his family’s home
Taken from his family’s home
Billy's favourite anything that he could find
Was anything made out of wood
And Billy, he had this raging need
To burn everything he could
To burn everything he could
To burn everything he could
I guess you could say he has a burning desire
And everybody knows that Billy loves to play with fire
Billy hates the whole damn world and if he could
He’d burn it down to the ground
Yeah he’d burn it right down to the ground Say hello to Matchbox Billy
Well I guess you know that every poor boy
Is still some mother's son
But Billy, he never was a hard case
He just never had no-one
No he just never had no-one
He just never had no-one
So Billy said goodbye to all his pain
The only way he knew how
With a full jerry-can and a matchbox in his hand
Goodbye, I’m leaving now
Goodbye, I’m leaving now
© Errol Walsh & Slim Pickens
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Heavy On My Mind
04:18
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Feels like it might be time
To head out on the road again
Take a last look around
As the years keep rolling down the line
Mmm hmmmmm
Time keeps rushing by
Like shooting stars across the sky
Watch them as they fly
Sometimes we just need to say goodbye
It all goes by so fast
It’s all over in a flash
All the dreams we left behind
All the truth we couldn’t find
Weighs heavy on my mind.... heavy on my mind
Mmm hmmmmm
Funny how it goes
I guess nobody knows what lies
Right around the bend
Or when the road might reach the end
‘Cos it all goes by so fast
It’s all over in a flash
All the dreams we left behind
All the truth we couldn’t find
Weighs heavy on my mind....weighs heavy on my mind…
© Errol Walsh
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Running Out Of Road
03:26
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When all that you got is a hammer
Every problem starts to look just like a nail
And when that don’t work out right
And you still can’t see the light
Could be you’re headed down a one way tunnel
When you’re down in a hole you got to stop digging
Forget about that hammer & that nail
What you need is a friend , not a shovel
You need somebody you can call to go your bail
But you’re running out of luck and you’re running out of time
You used up all your friends and you cleaned out all of mine
You been living 'a la mode' like you hit the mother-lode
Now seems to me my friend you’re running out of road
You’ve had friends you could number by the dozen
You’ve had women you could call on night or day
But you keep pushing on your luck
And this time you’ve come unstuck
And now my friend you’re running out of road
You’re out of luck...you’re out of time
You’re out of touch... you’re running blind
You’re out of step.... and you’re out of line
And finally you ran right out of road
© Errol Walsh & Rory Clements
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The Grey Mare’s Tail
Plunges down from Lurig’s crown
To the green wooded slopes below
And through Doory, Barahooley and along to Toberwine
Is where the glen’s gabhair fiáin roam
In Glassmullen bluebells cover the ground
Midst the glorious bright yellow gorse
Its springtime again and my heart is on the mend
In Glenariff, Queen of the Glens
From old Cloghcor to Redbay’s rolling shore
From forest to shining sea
The morning mist lies over fields of buttercups and clover
In the summer time
Sparkling in sunlight silver and gold
Through the green clad mountainside
The river sings a song of hearth and home
In Glenariff, Queen of the Glens
Where the autumn leaves can only be
Painted by God’s own hand
It steals my breath when I look out over yonder
Lost in wonder, it just steals my breath
Then when winter wraps her cold fingers round
Every creature and every tree
Silence falls and all the world is still
Under black velvet starlit sky
When my days are done and my mortal race is run
Let my soul be returned to the glen
Let my heart be at rest in the place that I love best
In Glenariff, Queen of the Glens
© Errol Walsh & Rory Clements
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My Old Shoes
04:18
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She said that she'd never been so lonesome
She said she's sorry she’d been so untrue
She said if I had only made her happy
Some other man would not be wearing my old shoes
She told me that her mother never liked me
Nor her sister, nor her daddy too
She said I had no friends and our time was at an end
Just because of all the things I didn’t do
Yes just because of all the things I didn’t do
Now I always did like her mother
And her sister and her daddy too
But I didn't mow that lawn and I didn't build that barn
And these are just two of the things I didn’t do
Yeah... these are just two of the things I didn’t do
Well I hope that someday when you get married
That you love your family just like I do
But don’t forget there is sometimes a price you have to pay
And there are always things you should and shouldn’t do
So don’t forget to pay attention to others
But always to your own self be true
And if things don’t work out right though you labour day and night
Your best will always be the best that you can do
So remember son, if you ever do get married
I know you’ll love your family just like I do
But if you don’t mow that lawn and if you don’t build that barn
Some other man could end up wearing your old shoes
Just because of all the things you didn’t do
Yeah …just because of all the things you didn’t do
© Errol Walsh & Peter Byrne
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Somewhere in the Middle
03:20
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Somewhere in the middle of it all
It ain't no coincidence
That I'm sitting on this fence
I can't make my mind up where the pieces fall
They’re just somewhere in the middle of it all
Right from the start I been walking a line
That stretches down the middle of my heart and my mind
Should I lean to the left, or should I lean to the right?
And does it really matter, is it all so black and white?
Well the only thing that's clear to me
Is that I stand in doubt
Am I outside looking in or inside looking out?
Well I ain’t ever going to learn to dance
If I don't take a step or two and learn to take a chance
And it really doesn't matter if I stumble and fall
I'll just land somewhere in the middle of it all
Somewhere in the middle of it all
It ain't no coincidence
That I'm sitting on this fence
I can't make my mind up where the pieces fall
They’re just somewhere in the middle of it all
Ask me again in a few more years or so
About the choices that I made and where I aim to go
But there's no guarantee that I'll be any wiser then
But I might know a step or two that I didn't ‘way back when’
So don't be too surprised to find that nothing's changed at all
And I'm still somewhere in the middle of it all
Somewhere in the middle of it all
It ain't no coincidence
That I'm sitting on this fence .
I can't make my mind up where the pieces fall
They’re just somewhere in the middle of it all
© Errol Walsh & Dave Luke
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13. |
Loony Tune
02:27
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You got me crazy as a loon
I'm a whistling loony tune
If you're ever going to love me
Baby better make it soon
Oh baby no
Baby please don't go
Figure what you want from me
And then just let me know
‘Cos first you say you will
Then you say you won't
You tell me that you love me
Then you say you don't
What am I supposed to do?
How do I know what's true?
You tell me you were meant for me
And then you say we're through
You talk to me sincere
Say the words that I want to hear
Then you turn me right around
And stand me on my ear
Well I don't understand
But then I'm just a man
It could take me a whole lifetime
Just to figure out your plan
© Errol Walsh
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Errol Walsh Northern Ireland, UK
Singer-songwriter from Northern Ireland.
His decades-spanning songwriting career is full of care-
worn tales of life, love and luck - all delivered with a mellow, lived-in voice.
"This body of work from a true master will long be remembered after much of the imitations have faded into the mists of time" - Niall Toner, RTE Radio One
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