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The Chieftains
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On Raglan Road on an Autumn Day,
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I saw her first and knew
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That her dark hair would weave a snare
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That I may one day rue.
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I saw the danger, yet I walked
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Along the enchanted way
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And I said let grief be a falling leaf
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At the dawning of the day.
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On Grafton Street in November,
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We tripped lightly along the ledge
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Of a deep ravine where can be seen
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The worst of passions pledged.
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The Queen of Hearts still baking tarts
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And I not making hay,
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Well I loved too much; by such and such
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Is happiness thrown away.
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I gave her the gifts of the mind.
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I gave her the secret sign
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That's known to all the artists who have
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Known true Gods of Sound and Time.
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With word and tint I did not stint.
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I gave her reams of poems to say
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With her own dark hair and her own name there
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Like the clouds over fields of May.
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On a quiet street where old ghosts meet,
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I see her walking now away from me,
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So hurriedly. My reason must allow,
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For I have wooed, not as I should
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A creature made of clay.
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When the angel woos the clay, he'll lose
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His wings at the dawn of the day.
Raglan Road - John Sheahan – 80th Birthd...
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