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Irish '60s Songbook page 5

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  Cara Mia
Recorded by Billy Brown & The Freshmen / Tony Kenny & The Sands)
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Cara Mia why must we say goodbye?
Each time we part my heart wants to die
Darling hear my prayer, Cara Mia fair
I'll be your love till the end of time

Cara Mia mine
Cara Mia mine
Cara Mia mine
Cara Mia mine

Cara Mia why must we say goodbye?
Each time we part my heart wants to die
Darling hear my prayer, Cara Mia fair
I'll be your love till the end of time

Cara Mia mine
Cara Mia mine
Cara Mia mine
Cara Mia mine

Each time we part my heart wants to die
Darling hear my prayer
Cara Mia fair
I'll be your love till the end of time

(Originally recorded by Jay & The Americans and David Whitfield)

 
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  Distant Drums
Recorded by Seán Fagan & The Pacific Showband
1964 - Pye 7N15728 / Photograph To The Wall
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I hear the sound of distant drums
Far away, far away
And if they call for me to come
Then I must go and you must stay
 
So Mary marry me, let's not wait
Let's share all the time we can before it's too late
And love me now for now is all the time there may be
And if you love me Mary, Mary marry me
 
I hear the sound of bugles blow
Far away, far away;
And if they call, then I must go
Across the sea, so wild and grey.
 
So Mary marry me, let's not wait
For the distant drums might change our wedding date
And love me now, for now is all the time there may be
If you love me Mary, Mary marry me

(Originally recorded by Jim Reeves)
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  I Ran All The Way Home
Recorded by Brendan Bowyer & The Royal Showband
1964 - His Master’s Voice POP(I)1377 / Hucklebuck
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I ran all the home just to say I'm sorry
What can I say? I ran all the way.
 
I ran all the way home just to tell you I need you
Please let me stay, I ran all the way.
 
And now I'm sorry, sorry, sorry
I didn't mean to make you cry
Let's make amends
After all, we're more than friends
Yeah, yeah, yeah,

I ran all the way home just to tell you I love you
What more can I say? I ran all the way.
I ran all the way.

(Originally recorded by The Impalas as "[Sorry] I Ran All The Way Home")
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  From The Candy Store On The Corner
Recorded by Dickie Rock & The Miami Showband
1964 - Piccadilly 7N35202 / Twenty Flight Rock
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From the candy store on the corner
To the chapel on the hill,
Two young lovers are longing to go there
And they dream some day they will;

For their hearts are in tune with a love-song
Every promise they make they mean
For true love is a treasure of treasures
When you're only seventeen.

At seventeen it's a thrill
To dream some day they will
Walk hand in hand from the candy store
To the chapel on the hill,
Walk hand in hand from the candy store
To the chapel on the hill.

(originally recorded on Columbia by Tony Bennett)
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  Legend In My Time
Recorded by Austin Graham & The Donie Collins Showband
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If heartaches brought fame
In love's crazy game
I'd be a legend in my time.
If they gave gold statuettes
For tears and regrets
Id be a legend in my time.

But they don't give awards
And there's no praise or fame
For a heart that's been broken
Over love that's in vain;

If loneliness meant world acclaim
Everyone would know my name
I'd be a legend in my time.

Repeat from "But they don't give awards..."
 
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