Green and Red of Mayo — текст песни (The Saw Doctors)

We went out to a weekend festival on Clare Island in August 1990
and on the boat back on a perfect autumn evening the green and red of mayo was conceived with well known Galway free-spirited minstrel jarir al-majar. It became a song about a year later

The Green and Red of Mayo
I can see it still
It`s soft and craggy bogland
It`s tall majestic hills
Where the ocean kisses Ireland
And the waves carress it`s shore
The feeling it came over me
To stay forever more
Forever more

From it`s rolling coastal waters
I can see Croagh Patrick`s peak
Where one Sunday every Summer
The pilgrims climb the reek
Where Saint Patrick in it`s solitude
Looked down across Clew Bay
With a ringing of his bell
Called the faithful there to pray
There to pray
Take me to Clare Island
The home of Granuaile
It`s waters harbour fishes
From the herring to the whale
And now I must depart it
And reality is plain
May the time not pass so slowly
Before I set sail again
Set sail again

Copyright: jarir al-majar/l.moran/d.carton