Dubliners - Song For Ireland lyrics

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Walking all the day<br />

near tall towers where falcons build their nests<br />

Silver wings they fly,<br />

They know the call for freedom in their breasts,<br />

Saw Black Head against the sky<br />

Where twisted rocks they run down to the sea<br />

Living on your western shore,<br />

Saw summer sun sets, I asked for more,<br />

I stood by your Atlantic Sea,<br />

And i sang a song for Ireland<br />

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Drinking all the day,<br />

In old pubs where fiddlers love to play,<br />

Saw one touch the bow,<br />

He played a reel that seamed so grand and gay,<br />

I stood on dingle beach and cast,<br />

In wild foam for Atlantic bass,<br />

Living on your western shore,<br />

Saw summer sunsets, I asked for more,<br />

I stood by your Atlantic Sea,<br />

And sang a song for Ireland<br />

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Talking all the day,<br />

With true friends who try to make you stay,<br />

Telling jokes and news,<br />

Singing songs to while the time away,<br />

Watched the galway salmon run,<br />

Like silver dancing, darting in the sun,<br />

living on your western shore,<br />

Saw summer sunsets, I asked for more,<br />

I stood by your Atlantic Sea,<br />

And i sang a song for Ireland<br />

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Dreaming in the night,<br />

I saw a land where no-one had to fight,<br />

Waking in your dawn,<br />

I saw you crying in the morning light,<br />

sleeping where the falcons fly,<br />

They twist and turn all in your air-blue sky,<br />

Living on your western shore,<br />

Saw summer sunsets, I asked for more,<br />

I stood by your Atlantic sea,<br />

And I sang a song for Ireland