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"Kerry Candlelight" Help needed

  • 18-01-2010 03:28PM
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2


    Hello people of Kerry!
    I desperately need someone’s help with song lyrics.
    My Mum learned a song, years ago, called “Kerry Candlelight”.
    For some reason, this song-title re-entered her consciousness late last year, but she cannot remember much more about it & it’s doing her brain in :confused:
    Does anyone know ANY of the lyrics to this (even a couple of lines, would probably jog her memory).
    Any help would be greatly appreciated & will help my mother’s sanity ;)
    Thanks


Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,079 ✭✭✭✭Malice


    Oddly enough it's available on E-Bay in Germany.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 249 ✭✭boroman


    Here are the words of KERRY CANDLELIGHT written by
    the late BRYAN Mc MAHON of Listowel
    (1)
    I am standing here at Euston, and my heart is light and gay,
    For ‘tis soon I’ll see the moonlight all a- dance on Dingle Bay,
    So behind me, then, is London, with the magic of its night,
    And before me is a window filled with Kerry Candlelight.
    CHORUS
    ‘Tis the lovely light of glory that came down from heav’n on high,
    And, whenever I recall it, there’s a teardrop in my eye,
    By the mountainside at twilight, in a cottage gleaming white,
    There my true love sit’s a dreaming, in the Kerry Candlelight.
    (2)
    She’ll be waiting by the turf fire; soon our arms will be entwined,
    And the loneliness of exile will be lost or cast behind,
    As we hear the Christmas greetings of the neighbours in the night,
    Then our hearts will beat together in the blessed Candlelight.
    (3)
    Now the train is moving westwards, so God speed its racing wheels,
    And Gods speed its whistle ringing o’er the sleeping English fields,
    For I’m dreaming of an altar where, beside my Breda bright,
    I will whisper vows of true love in the Kerry Candlelight.


    I hope this makes your mother happy.
    Boroman.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2 SE22_Local


    boroman, thank you so, so much for this.

    You’ve made a Mayo-Mammy very happy indeed :D


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