St. Brendan's Isle - The Maguire Brothers

On the first day on January Eighteen ninety-two They opened ellis Island And they let the people through And the first to cross the treshold Of that Isle of hope and tears Was Annie Moore from Ireland Who was only fifteen years Isle of Hope, Isle of Tears Isle of Freedom, Isle of Fears But it's not the Isle you left behind That Isle of Hunger, Isle of Pain Isle you'll never see again But the Isle of home is always on your mind In a little bag she carried All her past and history And her dreams for the future In the Land of Liberty And courage is the passport When your old world disappears But there's no future in the past When you're fifteen years Isle of Hope, Isle of Tears Isle of Freedom, Isle of Fears But it's not the Isle you left behind That Isle of Hunger, Isle of Pain Isle you'll never see again But the Isle of home is always on your mind When they closed down Ellis Island In Nineteen Fourty-Three Seventeen million people Had come there for Sanctuary And in springtime when I came here And I stepped onto it's piers I thought of how it must have been When you're fifteen years Isle of Hope, Isle of Tears Isle of Freedom, Isle of Fears But it's not the Isle you left behind That Isle of Hunger, Isle of Pain Isle you'll never see again But the Isle of home is always on your mind Isle of Hope, Isle of Tears Isle of Freedom, Isle of Fears But it's not the Isle you left behind That Isle of Hunger, Isle of Pain Isle you'll never see again But the Isle of home is always on your mind

Blinding shining star You won't see so far Know what can't be shown Feel what can't be known You were an isle unto thyself You had a heart you hadn't felt Why would it hurt me Or was it real It was the night we had to part We were afraid to miss the start What did it matter Why would it matter And could we heal Blinding shining star You won't see so far Know what can't be shown Feel what can't be known I was a victim of magic Apollo catching my breath as I bled on the ground Somebody called me to follow I followed thinking aloud without hearing the sound Then all the planets fell to dust Lonely departing after us Gone not forgotten Long but forgotten old lore In every element of life Love camouflaging under strife or other matters Minds over matters let there be more Maybe you'll exit tomorrow The sorrow sweeping you off as your island replies Sudden invincible flowing A river clearer than all thou might view with thine eyes Why did fire-erupted lands arrive? Why did murderous animals survive? Why did we deserve to be revived? Why was any and everything alive?

'Twas on the Isle of Capri that I found her Beneath the shade of an old walnut tree Oh, I can still see the flowers blooming 'round her Where we met on the Isle of Capri She was as sweet as a rose at the dawning But somehow fate hadn't meant it for me And though he sailed with the tide in the morning Still my heart's in the Isle of Capri Summertime was nearly over Blue Italian sky above I said, "Lady, I'm a rover Can you spare a sweet word of love?" She whispered softly, "It's best not to linger" And then as I kissed her hand I could see She wore a lovely meatball on her finger 'Twas goodbye at the Villa Capri Summertime was nearly over Blue Italian sky above I said "Lady, I'm a rover Can you spare a fine word o'love?" She whispered softly "It's best not to linger" And then as I kissed her hand I could see She wore a plain golden ring on her finger 'Twas goodbye on the Isle of Capri 'Twas goodbye on the Isle of Capri 'Twas goodbye on the Isle of Capri

I was born in the Dublin streets Where the loyal drums do beat And the loving English feet walked all over us Where each and every night When me dad would come home tight He'd call the neighbors out with this chorus "Come out you black and tans, come out and fight me like a man Show your wife how you won medals down in Flanders Show her how the IRA made you run like hell away From the green and lovely lanes of Killeshandra" Come tell us how you slew them old Arabs two by two Like the Zulus they had knives and bows and arrows How bravely you faced one with your 16-pounder gun And you frightened all the natives to the marrow "Come out you black and tans, come out and fight me like a man Show your wife how you won medals down in Flanders Show her how the IRA made you run like hell away From the green and lovely lanes of Killeshandra" Come let us hear you tell how you slew the great Parnell And showed him what was well and persecuted Where are the stares and jeers that you proudly let us hear When our heroes of '16 were executed? "Come out you black and tans, come out and fight me like a man Show your wife how you won medals down in Flanders Show her how the IRA made you run like hell away From the green and lovely lanes of Killeshandra" Come out you British huns, come out and fight without your guns Show your wife how you won medals up in Derry You murdered five young men and you'd do the same again So get out of here and take your bloody army "Come out you black and tans, come out and fight me like a man Show your wife how you won medals down in Flanders Show her how the IRA made you run like hell away From the green and lovely lanes of Killeshandra" "Come out you black and tans, fight me like a man Show your wife how you won medals down in Flanders Show her how the IRA made you run like hell away From the green and lovely lanes of Killeshandra From the green and lovely lanes of Killeshandra"