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Irish '60s Songbook page 14

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  She Sang Hymns Out Of Tune (Nilsson)
Recorded by The Freshmen
1969 Target 7N17757 / Mr. Beverly's Heavy Days
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She sang hymns out of tune
And carried a yellow balloon,
She traded her love for a Spanish doubloon
And talked to the people,
The people who are

Now I have a clock on the wall,
It keeps time and that isn't all,
It tells me how long she's been gone,
Gone to the people,
The people who are.

She lived in a sorcerer's room
And pounded the table and brandished the broom,
She turned ten thousand when she touched the moon
And turned to the people,
The people who are.

Rain came down and scattered away
The old antique caretaker's children that play,
Early that morning she passed away,
Passed to the people,
The people who are.

She sang hymns out of .....
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  Today's Teardrops (Pitney)
Recorded by Austin Graham & The Donie Collins Showband
1967 Pye 7N17329 / Agricultural Irish Girl
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Todays teardrops are tomorrow's rainbows
And tomorrow's rainbows we will share me and you
So dry your eyes, little girl, dry your eyes,
And we're gonna see skies of blue yeah, yeah.

Had a tough time gettin started,
Maybe you're just a little downhearted
All you gotta do is a count to 10,
Baby you'll be smiling when,

Todays teardrops are tomorrow's rainbows
And tomorrow's rainbows we will share me and you
So dry your eyes, little girl, dry your eyes,
And we're gonna see skies of blue yeah, yeah

Gonna be just a love of gladness,
Don't wanna hear nothin 'bout sadness
Come a little closer come a to me,
With each kiss you're gonna see

Todays teardrops are.....
 
 
     
  The Pillow That Whispers
Recorded by Des Smyth & The Collegemen
1965 Pye 7N15867 / Lonely Street
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As dawn mets the darkness a lonely night ends
I cry 'cause the hurt seems so strong now,
My arms just keep reaching where your head used to lay
On the pillow that whispers she's gone now.

Echoes run down the hall when I talk to the wall
It would be easy to lose all control now,
'Cause here next to me where my baby used to be
Is the pillow that whispers, she's gone now.

A fool is so lonely and how the tears burn
I know I must stop this hurt somehow,
I'm so tired of sleeping I've been crying all night
On the pillow that whispers she's gone now.
 
 
     
  Down The Trail Of Aching Hearts
Recorded by The Clipper Carlton (featuring Merv Allen)
1971 Release RL566 / I Can't Help It If I'm Still In Love With You
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Down the trail of aching hearts
Where nobody's hidin' their tears,
You sent me there where sadness starts
Down the trail of aching hearts.

You told me I was your darling
You kept me hanging around,
Somebody else is your darling now
Lonesome and blue I'll be found.

Down the trail...

Once I was passing your window
Under the light of a star,
Somebody else played my love song
And played it on my old guitar.

Down the trail...
 
 
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  The Spinning Wheel
Recorded by Eddie Mack & The Columbia
1965 Rex R11018 / Way Out Of Reach
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Mellow the moonlight to shine is beginning,
Close by the window young Eileen is spinning.
Bent o'er the fire her blind grandmother sitting,
Is crooning and moaning and drowsily knitting.

Chorus:
Merrily cheerily noiselessly whirring,
Swings the wheel spins the wheel while the foot's stirring.
Sprightly and lightly and merrily ringing,
Trills the sweet voice of the young maiden singing.

Eileen, alanna, I hear someone tapping.
'Tis the ivy dear mother against the glass flapping.
Eileen, I surely hear somebody sighing.
'Tis the sound mother dear of the autumn winds dying.

There's a form at the casement, the form of her true love,
And he whispers with face bent, I'm waiting for you love.
Get up from the stool, through the lattice step lightly,
And we'll rove in the grove while the moon's shining brightly.

The maid shakes her head, on her lips lays her fingers,
Steps up from the stool, longs to go and yet lingers,
A frightened glance turns to her drowsy grandmother,
Puts her foot on the stool spins the wheel with the other.

Lazily, easily, now swings the wheel round
Slowly and lowly is heard now the reel's sound
Noiseless and light to the lattice above her
The maid steps, then leaps to the arms of her lover.

Slower and slower and slower the wheel swings
Lower and lower and lower the reel rings
Ere the reel and the wheel stop their ringing and moving
Through the grove the young lovers by moonlight are roving.
 
 
     

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