《Michael Collins》歌词

歌曲： Michael Collins

所属专辑：Songs and Music from Cork (Classics from the Rebel County)

歌手： Johnny McEvoy

时长： 05:42

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Michael Collins - Johnny McEvoy[00:00:00]

Written by：Bollard[00:00:00]

The curlew stood silent and unseen[00:00:00]

In the long damp grass[00:00:02]

And he looked down on the road bellow him that[00:00:05]

Wound it's way through beal na mblath[00:00:07]

And he heard[00:00:11]

The young men[00:00:12]

Shouting and cursing[00:00:13]

Running backward and forward[00:00:14]

Dodging weaving and ducking the bullets[00:00:16]

That rained down on them from the hill side opposite[00:00:19]

Just as quickly as it started the firing stopped[00:00:24]

And a terrible silence[00:00:29]

Hung over the valley[00:00:31]

A lone figure lay on the roadside[00:00:35]

In the drizzling August rain[00:00:38]

Dressed in green great coat[00:00:42]

Leggings[00:00:45]

And brown hob nail boots[00:00:46]

That would never again[00:00:48]

Set the sparks flying from the kitchen flagstones[00:00:50]

As he danced his way through a half set[00:00:53]

A hurried whispered act of contrition[00:00:58]

And the firing breaks out again[00:01:00]

The curlew takes to flight[00:01:03]

And as he flies out over the empty[00:01:06]

Sad fields of west cork[00:01:07]

With his lonesome call[00:01:10]

He must tell the world[00:01:12]

That the big fella has fallen[00:01:15]

And that Michael[00:01:18]

Is gone[00:01:21]

On a far off[00:01:24]

August day[00:01:28]

Cold young men in ambush lay[00:01:30]

On a roadside[00:01:35]

By a hill where flowers grow[00:01:37]

So much hate for one so young[00:01:44]

Who was right and[00:01:48]

Who was wrong[00:01:50]

Though a thousand years[00:01:53]

May pass we'll never know[00:01:56]

Candles dripping blood[00:02:01]

They placed beside your shoulders[00:02:06]

Rosary beads[00:02:12]

Like teardrops on your fingers[00:02:15]

Friends and comrades standin by[00:02:21]

In their grief they wonder why[00:02:26]

Michael[00:02:30]

In their hour of need[00:02:32]

You had to go[00:02:35]

And when evening[00:02:41]

Twlight came[00:02:42]

Gentle fell the aughtm rain[00:02:45]

Oh but you lay still[00:02:49]

And silent on the ground[00:02:52]

As we hung our heads[00:02:59]

In prayer[00:03:01]

In our sorrow and dispare[00:03:03]

We wondered was it[00:03:07]

Friend or foe[00:03:09]

Who shot you down[00:03:12]

Candles dripping blood[00:03:16]

They placed beside your shoulders[00:03:21]

Rosary beads[00:03:27]

Like teardrops on your fingers[00:03:30]

Friends and comrades standin by[00:03:36]

In their grief they wonder why[00:03:42]

Michael[00:03:46]

In their hour of need[00:03:47]

You had to go[00:03:50]

Now the flame[00:04:05]

That you held high[00:04:07]

When you called out[00:04:10]

To the sky[00:04:12]

To end this senseless killing[00:04:14]

And this shame[00:04:19]

Has now passed[00:04:23]

To other hands[00:04:25]

And is carried through the land[00:04:28]

By some[00:04:33]

Not fit to even speak your name[00:04:35]

Candles dripping blood[00:04:41]

They placed beside your shoulders[00:04:46]

Rosary beads[00:04:52]

Like teardrops on your fingers[00:04:55]

Friends and comrades standin by[00:05:01]

In their grief they wonder why[00:05:06]

Michael[00:05:10]

In their hour of need[00:05:11]

You had to go[00:05:15]

Michael[00:05:20]

In their hour of need[00:05:21]

Why did you go[00:05:24]