Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Green and Red of Mayo, artist - The Saw Doctors. Date of issue: 31.05.2005
Song language: English
Green and Red of Mayo |
| 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 |