Episode 6 Transatlantic Sessions

When I went to Plockton with my wife, when I was here six years ago

doing this show, we stayed in a nice inn in Plockton.

So then I go to pay in the morning

and they're playing the record, The Crossing!

I asked the lady, I said, "Is this the radio?"

She said, "No, this is a CD". I said, "Oh, you know this is me?"

She said, "We wondered if it was you." I love that!

"I wondered if it was you!"

# There was a time

# When we'd be the last to leave

# Watching the sun come up

# While everyone fell asleep

# The music was always loud

# And I smoked and drank too much

# Until I'd fall in your arms

# And into your loving touch

# And now as the years roll by

# Time has reeled me in

# I've slowed down a notch or two

# From the way things were then

# And those old ways of mine I've left them behind

# Those crazy days are through

# The only thing I still do

# Like I used to do

# Is carry this torch for you

# Remember the days

# When we'd pack our bags and run

# Chasing a crazy dream

# Into the morning sun

# And now as the twilight falls

# I find I'm satisfied

# Just watching the fire glow

# As long as you're by my side

# And here in my heart it seems

# Time has passed me by

# I love you as much today

# As the very first time

# I still want you

# The way I wanted you then

# If I could do it all over

# I'd do it all over again

# And those old ways of mine

# I've left them behind

# Those crazy days are through

# The only thing I still do like I used to do

# Is carry this torch for you

# The only thing I still do

# Like I used to do

# Is carry this torch for you. #

# You came, I know not where you came

# We met 'twas in the dance

# There was honey in each word of yours

# Glamour in each glance

# Though many were around me there

# I nothing saw but him

# Upon his brow a starry gem Brushed fallen snow seemed dim

# It was not for the diamond ring upon your lilywhite hand

# It was not for your noble name It was not for your land

# You're gone, it was a weary night We parted at the burn

# You swore by all the stars above that you would soon return

# I knew you'd soon return my love and I a bride would be

# But backward will the burnie run 'ere ye return to me

# It was not for the diamond ring upon your lilywhite hand

# It was not for your noble name It was not for your land

# They tell me that some smiling dame of lineage like to thine

# Will take thee by the fickle hand Thy falsehood placed in mine

# The music and the rose-red wine to greet her shall appear

# For a bridal song a sigh I pray And bridal pledge, a tear

# It was not for the diamond ring upon your lilywhite hand

# It was not for your noble name It was not for your land

# Oh, would that thou had passed me by in coldness or in pride

# Nor wrought the cruel wrong on her and on the truth relied

# The hunter's to the greenwood gone His spear lies at its rest

# But he'll not wound a trusting dove sheltering in his breast

# It was not for the diamond ring upon your lilywhite hand

# It was not for your noble name It was not for your land

# It was not for the diamond ring upon your lilywhite hand

# It was not for your noble name

# It was not for your land. #

# My heart tonight is far away across the rolling sea

# In the sweet Miltown Malbay and it's there I'd love to be

# So long ago and far away nothing can compare

# And my heart's tonight in Ireland in the sweet County Clare

# In the town of Scariff the sun was shining in the sky

# When Willie Clancy played his pipes and the tears welled in my eyes

# And the years have passed and gone since the times we had there

# But my heart's tonight in Ireland in the sweet County Clare

# My heart tonight is far away across the rolling sea

# In the sweet Miltown Malbay and it's there I'd love to be

# So long ago and far away nothing can compare

# And my heart's tonight in Ireland in the sweet County Clare

# That August in Kilrush when the rain was lashing down

# And our hotel was that hay barn on the outskirts of town

# We were all sick and feverish and Dolan had the flu

# But Johnny produced some whiskey and the sun came smiling through

# My heart tonight is far away across the rolling sea

# In the sweet Miltown Malbay and it's there I'd love to be

# So long ago and far away nothing can compare

# And my heart's tonight in Ireland in the sweet County Clare

# Those nights in Sixmilebridge when the songs and music flowed

# And when it came to closing time Sure the lights were turned down low

# And the sergeant from Kilkishen

# He would buy us all one more

# And we never left that pub before the clock was striking four

# Lahinch and Ennistimon Liscannor and Kilkee

# But best of all was Miltown when the music flowed so free

# Willie Clancy in the County Clare

# I'm ever in your debt

# For the sights and sounds of yesterday are shining memories yet

# My heart tonight is far away across the rolling sea

# In the sweet Miltown Malbay and it's there I'd love to be

# So long ago and far away nothing can compare

# And my heart's tonight in Ireland in the sweet County Clare

# In the days of Sweeney in the sweet County Clare. #

I had a bit of a brain thing going on

and I couldn't remember this first line

and I turned to Chapin and I said, "Well, SHE'LL know it!"

SHE'S the one who wrote it - she forgot it too!

So it was great fun that both of us were a bit giddy

when we started off singing!

# Well, I know it ain't been roses

# Lately, it's just been thorns

# And no matter what we do

# Nothing seems to change

# Love has always been my shelter

# For you, it's been a storm

# But for a while I thought we'd always beat the rain

# Now there's a whole lot in life

# To be unsure of

# But there's one thing

# I can safely say I know

# That of all the things that finally desert us

# Pride is always the last thing to go

# But it don't bring you love

# If you don't love

# And it don't bring you time

# If you ain't got time

# And it don't bring you strength

# If you ain't strong

# And it don't bring you kindness

# If you ain't kind

# Now, I wish you only roses

# Without the thorns

# And I hope your dreams

# Are always within reach

# And I wish you shelter, baby

# Oh, from all your storms

# They scared you but they never seemed to teach

# That I can't bring you love

# If you don't love

# And I can't bring you time

# If you ain't got time

# And I can't bring you strength

# If you ain't strong

# And I can't bring you kindness

# If you ain't kind

# No, I can't bring you love

# If you don't love

# And I can't bring you time

# If you ain't got time

# And I can't bring you strength Baby

# If you ain't strong

# And it don't bring you kindness

# If you ain't kind. #

# I thought when someone died

# The spirit flew over furthest fields

# Now I see death will leave behind

# A scrap of light, a broken smile

# The remnants by which I might be healed

# The dead lifts me up

# In brighter sky

# The clouds below me race

# The dead lifts me up

# I see them face-to-face

# Her voices shake in song

# Through memories

# We have long endured

# Though this begins to make us strong

# The coming through The scraps of love

# It is by living that we are cured

# The dead lifts me up

# In brighter sky

# The clouds below me race

# The dead lifts me up

# I see them face-to-face

# The dead lifts me up

# In brighter sky

# The clouds below me race

# The dead lifts me up

# I see them face-to-face

# I see them face-to-face

# I see them face-to-face. #

I love what we do, I love what we get to do here and I feel like

-we're the luckiest people in the world to get to do this.

-Yes.

-I agree.

-And, er, it's just...

When it's over, it's so sad!

I know when I let my guard down and I'm tired

-that I'm just going to melt somewhere.

-Yeah.

When we're finished, if you have the feeling that you'd like to come back,

you're not really finished.

# On a Monday I was arrested

# On a Tuesday

# I was locked up in jail

# On a Wednesday my trial was attested

# On Thursday nobody broke my bail

# Now I'm all, almost done

# Yes, I'm all, almost done

# Almost done Yeah, I'm all, almost done

# And I ain't going to bring them yellow women no pail

# Take these stripes, these stripes around my shoulders

# Take these chains, these chains around my legs

# Oh, them stripes They sure don't worry me

# But these chains

# Lord, these chains are going to get me dead

# Now I'm all, almost done

# Yes, I'm all, almost done

# Yes, I'm all, almost done

# And I ain't going to bring them yellow women no pail, oh

# On a Friday my baby went a-walking

# On a Saturday she locked me out of that door

# On a Sunday we sat down a-talking

# On a Monday she pawned all of my clothes

# Now I'm all, almost done

# Yes, I'm all, almost done

# Yes, I'm all Almost done

# And I ain't going to bring them yellow women no pail... #

Donald!

Timmy!

# Yes, I'm all, almost done

# Yes, I'm all Almost done

# Yes, I'm all, almost done

# And I ain't going to bring them yellow women no pail

Whoo-ooh!

So I wake up in my hotel room, which is overlooking the loch

and think to myself,

I'm going to play music today. Ha-ha!

It's not a bad life, is it?

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