Hennessey's - Arcady

When midnight comes and people homeward tread, Seek out your blanket and your feathered bed, Home comes the rover, his journey's over Yield up the night time to old John O'Dreams Yield up the night time to old John O'Dreams. Across the hill the sun has gone astray Tomorrows cares are many dreams away The stars are flying, your candle's dying Yield up the night time to old John O'Dreams Yield up the night time to old John O'Dreams. Both man and master in the night are one All things are equal when the day is done The prince and the ploughman, the slave the free man All find their comfort in old John O'Dreams All find their comfort in old John O'Dreams. When sleep it comes the dreams come running clear The hawks of morning cannot reach you here Sleep is a river, flow on for ever And for your boatman choose old John O'Dreams Yes for your boatman choose old John O'Dreams.

Oh the town it climbs the mountain and looks out upon the sea At sleeping time or waking, 'tis there I long to be To walk again that kindly street that place where life began And the boys of Barr na Sraide went hunting for the wren With cudgels stout we roamed about to hunt the dreólín We searched for birds in every furze from Litir to Dooneen We sang for joy beneath the sky, life held no print or plan And we, boys of Barr na Sraide, went hunting for the wren And when the hills were bleeding and the rifles were aflame To the rebel homes of Kerry the Saxon stranger came But the men who dared the Auxies and who beat the Black-and-Tan Were the boys of Barr na Sraide who hunted for the wren And here's a toast to them tonight the lads who laughed with me By the groves of Carham River or the slopes of Bean 'a Tí John Daly and Batt Andy and the Sheehans, Conn and Dan Were the boys of Barr na Sraide who hunted for the wren And now they toil on foreign soil where they have gone their way Deep in the heart of London town or over in Broadway And I am left to sing their deed and praise them while I can Those boys of Barr na Sraide who hunted for the wren And when the wheel of life runs down and peace comes over me Oh lay me down in that old town between the hills and sea I'll take my sleep in those green fields the place my life began Where the boys of Barr na Sraide went hunting for the wren

Sleep, lay me down, hold me closely in your arms And I will close my eyes. Please promise me that when I wake up from my dreams You'll be there by my side. Love, if you say you won't slip away Then I can go dreaming of forever more But I won't rest until I know that you'll be here in the morning by my side. Here in my reach, I can see the one that I've waited for so long And deep in my heart I'll know the arms that hold me now Will hold me from now on. Love, if you say you won't slip away Then I can go dreaming of forever more But I won't rest until I know that you'll be here in the morning by my side. I dread the dawn I awake and find you gone Please tell me you will stay. Then sleep will come, I know the arms that hold me now Will hold me all my days. Love, if you say you won't slip away Then I can go dreaming of forever more But I won't rest until I know that you'll be here in the morning by my side.