The Cocks Are Crowing - The Chieftains, Kevin Conneff & The Voice Squad

Been waiting to find You could've been happier given the time If he'd make up his mind You'd give yourself to anybody Who would cross that line And it was never a question He was crowing for repair You'd give him love and affection You couldn't keep him there Get over, regrets While you were sleeping with the angels He was under the bed And the more skin that you shed The more that the air in your throat will linger When you call him your friend And it was never a question He was crowing for repair You'd give him love and affection You couldn't keep him there Staring at a cold little hand Reading fault lines of a shell of a man You were waiting for a word from above Wouldn't you know it? No, answer ever did come And it was never a question You were crowing for repair You'd give him love and affection You couldn't keep him there And it was never a question You were crowing for repair You'd give him love and affection You couldn't keep him there

All the birds and all the bees making honey and melodies for you and me And I'll waste a day away dreaming dreams like these of you and me I would have wasted all my days in a dream That's where I know you'll always be I never stopped to wonder if you might be real And now you're lying next to me Before you came to me I was looking at the heavens like Galilee What the devil would become of me Tripping over my memories I'm no longer dream-chasing I've given up my star-gazing Oh boy, you're so amazing I never thought I'd need my life saving I would have wasted all my days in a dream That's where I know you'll always be I never stopped to wonder if you might be real And now you're lying next to me

Take back your weather bring me the skies The day is so bright I cannot open my eyes Day's like this is where we found our love So please Mr. weatherman bring us the sun Uuuhuuu-huu-hhuuu Uuuhuuu-huu-hhuuu Uuuhuuu-huu-hhuuu Uuuhuuu-huu-hhuuu And I said that all time will tell That in love we hopelessly fell And I'll challange anybody – call my bluff Cause I'm so deeply and hopelessly in loved Hm-pa-param-pa-pa-ram-ram Hm-pa-param-pa-pa-ram-ram Hm-pa-param-pa-pa-ram-ram Hm-pa-param-pa-pa-ram-ram Sun on the river is glistening like boat To jump in the water like the summer is of all both We'll stay out here make him out to stop the sun Till I, to shadows, plain all the way home And I said that all time will tell That in love we hopelessly fell And I'll challange anybody – call my bluff Cause I'm so deeply and hopelessly in loved ... Music Take back your weather bBring me the skies The day is so bright I cannot open my eyes Day's like this is where we found our love So please Mr. weatherman bring us the sun

A fond kiss, and then we sever; A farewell, and then forever! Deep in heart-wrung tears I'll pledge thee, Warring sighs and groans I'll wage thee. Who shall say that Fortune grieves him, While the star of hope she leaves him? Me, nae cheerfu' twinkle lights me; Dark despair around benights me. I'll ne'er blame my partial fancy, Nothing could resist my Nancy; But to see her was to love her; Love but her, and love forever. Had we never lov'd say kindly, Had we never lov'd say blindly, Never met--or never parted-- We had ne'er been broken-hearted. Fare thee well, thou first and fairest! Fare thee well, thou best and dearest! Thine be like a joy and treasure, Peace. enjoyment, love, and pleasure! A fond kiss, and then we sever; A farewell, alas, forever! Deep in heart-wrung tears I'll pledge thee, Warring sighs and groans I'll wage thee!

When first to this country a stranger I came, I placed my affections on a maid that was young, She being young and tender, her waist was small and slender, Kind Nature had formed her for my overthrow. On the banks of the Bann, where I first beheld her, She appeared like fair Juno or a Grecian queen, Her eyes shone like diamonds, her hair softly twining, Her cheeks were like roses or blood drips in snow. 'Twas her cruel parents that first caused our variance, All because I was poor of a low degree, But I'll do my endeavour to gain my love's favour, Although she is come from a rich family. My name is Delaney, a name that won't shame me, And if I had saved money, I'd have plenty in store, But drinking and courting, night rambling and sporting, Are the cause of my ruin and absence from home. Had I all the money that's in the West Indies, Or had I the gold of the African shore, I would spend it on pearls and on you my brown girl, For there's no other love on this earth I adore. Now since I have gained her I'm contented for life, I'll put rings on her fingers and gold in her ear. We'll live on the banks of the lovely Bann river, And in all sorts of splendour I'll style her my dear.

The holly she bears a berry as white as the milk And Mary she bore Jesus all wrapped up in silk, And Mary she bore Jesus Our Saviour for to be, And the first tree that's in the greenwood it was the holly. Holly, holly, and the first tree that's in the greenwood it was the holly. Oh the holly she bears a berry as green as the grass, And Mary she bore Jesus who died on the cross. . Oh the holly she bears a berry as black as coal, And Mary she bore Jesus who died for us all. . Oh the holly she bears a berry as blood it is red, And we trust in Our Saviour who rose from the dead.