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Cad is mian leat? what do you want?
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Bi/ i do chodladh liom sleep with me
Ar mhiste leat a insint dom? do you mind telling me?
Cad is mian leat? what do you want?
An dtiocfa/ liom? will you come with me?
Cad is mian leat? what do you want?
An dtiocfa/ liom? will you come with me?

Nuair a leagan mo chrann when my tree falls
An ndeireadh tusa liom? will you tell me?
Cad is mian leat? what do you want?
An bheidh tu/ liom? will you be with me?
Cad is mian leat? what do you want?
An dtiocfa/ liom? will you come with me?

Bi/ i do chodladh liom sleep with me
Ar mhiste leat a insint dom? do you mind telling me?
Cad is mian leat? what do you want?
An dtiocfa/ liom? will you come with me?

An ndeireadh tusa liom? will you tell me?
Cad is mian leat? will you be with me?
Cad is mian leat? what do you want?
An tiocfa/ liom? will you come with me?
Cad is mian leat? what do you want?
An dtiocfa/ liom? will you come with me?


Bi/ i do chodladh liom sleep with me
Ar mhiste leat a insint dom? do you mind telling me?

As i went out walking one fine summer morning
The birds in the bushes did wistle and sing
The lads and the lasses in couples were courting
Going back to the factory their work to begin

He spied one amongst them, she was fairer than any
Her cheeks like the red rose that blooms in the spring
Her hair like a lily that grows in young valley
She was only a hard working factory girl

He stepps up beside her, more closely to be with her
She said "my young man, don't stare me so
I go all in my pocket and silver as well
No more will i answer that factory call"

i can do what i want
I'm in complete control
That's what i tell myself
I've got a mind of my own
I'll be alright alone
Don't need anybody else
I gave myself a good talking to
No more being a fool for you
But i see you
And all i remember
Is how you make me want to surrender

Damn your eyes
For taking my breath away
For making me wanna say
Damn your eyes
For getting my hopes up high
For making me fall in love again
Damn your eyes

It's always the same
You say that you'll change
Somehow you never do
I believe all your lies
But look in your eyes
You make it all seem true
I guess i see what i wanna see
Or is it my heart just deceiving me

My own love said to me
"my mother won't mind.
And my father won't slight you
For your lack of kind".
He went away from me
And this he did say
"it will not be long love,
'till our wedding day"

He went away from me
And he moved through the fair
And slowly i watched him
Move here and move there
He went his way homeward
With one star awake
As the swan in the evening
Moves over the lake

I dreamed last night
That my young love came in
He came in so sweetly
His feet made no din
He stepped upside me
And this he did say
"it will not be long love
Till our wedding day"

All the days are long
Till the baby comes
God will take all fear
If you say this clear

I am enough for myself
I don't need anything else
I am enough for myself

I am dynamite
I am dynamite
I am enough for myself

Black is the color of my true love's hair
Her lips are like some roses fair
She has the sweetest smile the gentlest hands
And i love the ground whereon she stands

I love my love, and well she knows
I love the ground whereon she goes
I wish the day soon would come
When she and i will be as one

And black is the color of my true love's hair
Her lips are like some roses fair
She has the sweetest smile the gentlest hands
And i love the ground whereon she stands

I go to the clyde and mourn and weep
But satisfied i never shall be
I'll write her a letter with a few short lines
And suffer death a thousand times

And black is the color of my true love's hair
Her lips are like some roses fair
She has the sweetest smile the gentlest hands
And i love the ground whereon she stands
I love the ground whereon she stands
I love the ground whereon she stands

It was the third of june, another sleepy, dusty delta day
I was out choppin' cotton and my brother was baling hay
At dinner time we stopped and walked back to the house to eat
And mama hollered out the back door "y'all remember to wipe your feet"
Then she said "i got some news this morning from chocktow ridge
Today billy joe macallister jumped off the tallahachee bridge"

Papa said to mama as he passed around the black eyed peas
"well billy joe never had a lick of sense, pass the biscuits, please
There's five more acres in the lower forty i got to plow"
And mama said it was shame about billy joe, anyhow
Seems like nothing ever comes to no good on chocktow ridge
And now billy joe macallister's jumped off the tallahachee bridge

Mama said to me "child, what's happened to your appetite?
I've been cooking all morning and you haven't touched a single bite
That nice young preacher, brother taylor, dropped by today
Said he'd be pleased to have dinner on sunday, oh, by the way,
He said he saw a girl that looked a lot like you on chocktow ridge
And she and billy joe was throwing something off the tallahachee bridge"

A year has come and gone since we heard the news about billy joe
Brother married becky thompson, they bought a store in tupelo
There was a virus going 'round, papa caught it and he died last spring
And now mama doesn't seem to wanna do much of anything
And me, i spend a lot of time picking flowers up on chocktow ridge
And drop them into the muddy water off the tallahachee bridge

jealous


(sin

A song sinead did together with
World party on their album
"private revolution"
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I heard about the trouble they had
Down on the farm
They say they lost all the white horses
And half of the corn
The woman of the house
She came screaming into town
We said sister why go crying
When you can watch it all burn down
And sit here dreaming
Of our hawaiian island world?

The preacher said his church has been empty
Two sundays in a row
I said no father please forgive them
For they do not what they know
Been called on by the devil
Your man from down below
And traded in their free-will
For a part in satan's show
And they don't hear the screaming
Of a dying virgin girl
They just sit there wanting
Their hawaiian island world

The shopkeeper from illinois came round
A freshly fired gun in his hand
He said he'd just shot a young poet
For writing something he didn't understand
Gone were the lines that he loved to forget
Safe were the folk words of truth would upset
With god right behind him
His gun by his side
There was nowhere for these weirdos
To run or to hide
The day of their judgement
It was due to arrive
Get them on the record
Make sure they don't survive
And we can all sit watching
Our hawaiian island world
Don't wake me 'cos i'm dreaming
Of my hawaiian island world
I just made love to my hawaiian island girl

Sin

(original title; my donald)


My donald he works on the sea
On the waves that blow wild and free
He splices the ropes and sets the sails
While southward he rolls to the home of the whale


He ne'er thinks o' me far behind
Or the torments that rage in my mind
He's mine for only half part of the year
Then i'm left all alone wi' nocht but a tear


Ye ladies wha' smell o' wild rose
Think ye for your perfume tae whaur a man goes
Think ye o' the wives and the bairnies wha' yearn
For a man ne'er returning frae hunting the sperm


My donald he works on the sea
On the waves that blow wild and free
He splices the ropes and sets the sails
While southward he rolls to the home of the whale

The city lights flick to display
Bang there goes another day
The believers in the basement
They are singing songs about a way
Reborn and regenerate
But none of this communicates to me

Up here on the second floor
I've forgotten what i'm waiting for
A friend, a brother, mother, woman
Maybe
But i have all these in the sulphate
Emotionless and considerate
To me

And it's a hard sun
A hard sun that
's been beating on my back
It's a hard sun
That shines it's light on me

It's a hard sun
A hard sun that
's been beating on my back
It's a hard sun
That shines it's light on me

The silver clock chimes off again
Reminds me of my childhood pain
And the burden that was lifted
When i made it to the city
Disillusioned and full of hate
But a member of the mother state and free

At empty walls i sit and stare
I sense a feeling in the air
In the throws of thought i wonder
Can i make it on my own
But, deep down in my heart i known
That i ain't never, ever going home

And it's a hard sun
A hard sun that
's been beating on my back
It's a hard sun
That shines it's light on me

It's a hard sun
A hard sun that
's been beating on my back
And it's a hard sun
That shines it's light on me

Song by the band max from their album silence running


Away from the snow
Runaway horses
In place of the dawn
Some new shape is breaking.
Jets to the western
Tracks to the eastern
Over the wasteland 24:7

Hold on
Hold on
At the first turn of the second block
Hold on

I would never throw
Love out the window
Well that's how it is yeah yeah
I tell you the story
Of loves we seen twice
I be looking out for you yeah yeah

Won't ya hold on
Hold on
At the first turn of the second block
Go there
Hold on
At the first turn of the second block
Won't you hold on

And one live as two
And two live as three
It's a black and in blue
Kind of a thing love
I've seen you right there
Rain in your hair
I seen you right there
I was calling calling
Over this place
Can't you see me falling

Hold on
Hold on
At the first turn of the second block
Won't you
Hold on

At the last turn at the very last turn
Won't you
Hold on

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Sinead's backing lyrics;
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Away, away, away from the snow,
Away from the snow
There's something drowning
24:7 you took your believe
Runner on the shadows is waiting for me

Somebody might not waiting to the last turn around
.....................comes around
Where you pushing.......away...place to go
In the meantime show me what you're given though

(peter gabriel)

I caught sight of my reflection
I caught it in the window
I saw the darkness in my heart
I saw the signs of my undoing
They had been there from the start
And the darkness still has work to do
The knotted chord's untying
They're heated and they're holy
Oh they're sitting there on high
So secure with everything they're buying

In the blood of eden
Lie the woman and the man
With the man in the woman
And the woman in the man
In the blood of eden
Lie the woman and the man
We wanted the union
Oh the union of the woman
The woman and the man

At my request, you take me in
In that tenderness, i am floating away
No certainty, nothing to rely on
Holding still for a moment
What a moment this is
Oh for a moment of forgetting,
A moment of bliss
Heyyyy

I can hear the distant thunder
Of a million unheard souls
Of a million unheard souls
Watch each one reach for creature comfort
For the filling of their holes

In the blood of eden
Lie the woman and the man
With the man in the woman
And the woman in the man
In the blood of eden
Lie the woman and the man
We wanted the union
Of the woman and the man

In the blood of eden
Lie the woman and the man
I feel the man in the woman
And the woman in the man

In the blood of eden
Lie the woman and the man
I feel the man in the woman
And the woman in the man

In the blood of eden
We've done everything we can
In the blood of eden
Saw the end as we began
With the man in the woman
And the woman in the man
It was all for the union
Oh, the union of the woman,
The woman and the man.

Children be still,
Children,
Lace curtains drawn,
For self respect
Ripped down and torn
Now the neighbours will never forget
Don't let them forget
Time gets hard, men get harder still
Still
A crack in the pane
The gab between
Those who remain
And those who have been
I am cracked, i'm scratched
But you were just one thing
One thing stays the same

Time gets hard, men get harder still
I will be still
I will be still
Time gets hard, men get harder still
Harder still

Children
Time gets hard, men get harder still

Birthday present
From the rag and bone shop
A heart that works too well
A heart that won't stop
Beating
Though sometimes i wish it would stop
Stop

Time gets hard, men get harder still
I will be still
Time gets hard, men get harder still
Harder still
Be still
Harder still
Time gets hard, men get harder still
Harder still
Time gets hard, men get harder still
Harder still
Children
Harder
Still
Children
Harder
Still
I will be still

Homeless
Homeless

Homeless, homeless, moonlight sleeping on a midnight lake.
Homeless, homeless, moonlight sleeping on a midnight lake.
Homeless, homeless, moonlight sleeping on a midnight lake.
Homeless, homeless, moonlight sleeping on a midnight

Somebody say; uhu uhu uhu uhu
Somebody sing; hello hello hello
Somebody say; uhu uhu uhu uhu
Somebody cry; why why why
Somebody say; uhu uhu uhu uhu
Somebody sing; hello hello hello
Somebody say; uhu uhu uhu uhu
Somebody cry; why why why

Well strong wind, strong wind
Many death tonight it could be you

Homeless
Homeless
Homeless
Homeless
I'm homeless

Homeless, homeless, moonlight sleeping on a midnight lake.
Homeless, homeless, moonlight sleeping on a midnight lake.
Homeless, homeless, moonlight sleeping on a midnight lake.

Strong wind, strong wind
Many death tonight it could be you
Strong wind, strong wind
Many death tonight it could be you
Strong wind, strong wind
Many death tonight it could be you

Homeless, homeless, moonlight sleeping on a midnight lake.

Sung by sinead o'connor as a
Tribute to cole porter to benefit
Aids research and relief
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You do something to me
Something that simply mystifies me
Tell me, why should it be
You have the power to hypnotize me?
Let me live 'neath your spell
Do do that voodoo that you do so well
For you do something to me
That nobody else can do
Let me live 'neath your spell
Do do that voodoo that you do so well
For you do something to me
That nobody else can do
That nobody else can do

(livingston / evans)


You're near, that moment's here
I'm almost in your arms
Tonight, the mood is right
I'm almost in your arms

One sigh, one word and i
Will rush to your embrase
Say that certain word,
Sigh that certain sigh
And with all my heart,
To your arms i'll fly

It's strange,
How we are changed
By the things that seem so small
One look can write a book
One touch can say it all

We know those nights of love
And now we found our way
I'm almost in your arms
To stay

You're near, that moment's here
I'm almost in your arms
Tonight, the mood is right
I'm almost in your arms

One sigh, one word and i
Will rush to your embrase
Say that certain word,
Sigh that certain sigh
And with all my heart,
To your arms i'll fly

It's strange,
How we are changed
By the things that seem so small
One look can write a book
One touch can say it all

We know those nights of love
And now we found our way
I'm almost in your arms
Almost in your arms
Almost in your arms
To stay

Petit poulet
Tout c'est okay
Maintenant bebe tout c'est okay
The life you left behind won't find you
The love you kept inside will come
And even when your own heart blinds you
Nothing undoes the work you've done

The sun's still in the sky
The moon is there at night
The ground is still underfoot
And still holds you

Petit poulet (little chicken)
Tout ca c'est ok (everything is alright)
Maintenant bebe (now baby)
Tout ca c'est ok (everything is alright)


There isn't any answer to the question
You only learn to live with it
There isn't any answer in religion
Don't believe one who says there is

But... the voices are heard
Off all who cry
I am around you as long in the night
Kissing your plight
Baby child
Kissing your plight
Kissing your plight

I am the sun up in the sky
I am the moon also at night
I am the ground under your foot
I am holding you

Petit poulet (little chicken)
Tout ca c'est ok (everything is alright)
Maintenant bebe (now baby)
Tout ca c'est ok (everything is alright

Ah danny boy, the pipes,
The pipes are calling
From glen to glen,
And down the mountain side

The summer's gone,
And all the flowers are falling
'tis you, 'tis you
Must go and i must bide

But come ye back
When summer's in the meadow
Or when the valley's hushed
And white with snow

And i'll be here
In sunshine or in shadow
Oh danny boy, oh danny boy,
I love you so

But if you come,
And all the flowers are falling
And i am dead,
As dead i may well be

You'll come and find
The place where i am lying
And kneel and say
An "ave" there for me

And i will hear,
Though soft your tread above me
And o'er my grave
Will warmer sweeter be

And you will bend
And tell me that you love me
And i will sleep
In peace until you come to me

But if i live
And should you die for ireland
Let not your dying thoughts
Be just of me

But say a prayer to god
For our dearest island
I know he'll hear
And help to set her free

And i will take your pike
And place my dearest
And strike a blow,
Though weak the blow may be

Twill help the cause
To which your heart was nearest
Oh danny boy, oh, danny boy
I love you so.

(patrick kavanagh)
Performed at some concerts during her tour in 1995

On raglan road on an autumn day
I saw her first and knew,
That her dark hair would weave a snare
That i might one day rue.
I saw the danger yet i walked
Along the enchanted way.
And i said, "let grief be a fallen leaf
At the dawning of the day."

On grafton street in november,
We tripped lightly along the ledge
Of a deep ravine where can be seen
The worth of passions pledge.
The queen of hearts still making tarts
And i not making hay.
Oh, i loved too much by such, by such
Is happiness blown away.

I gave her gifts of the mind,
I gave her the secret sign that's known
To the artists who have known the true
Gods of sound and stone.
And word and tint i did not stint
For i gave her poems to say.
With her own name there and her dark hair,
Like clouds over fields of may.

On a quiet street where old ghosts meet
I see her walking now,
Away from me so hurriedly.
My reason must allow,
That i had ruled, not as i should.
A creature made of clay.
When the angel woos the clay,
He'll lose his wings at the dawn of day.

Sarah mclachlan & sin

Remember tumble weeds on an empty road
That coffee pot on a burnin' stove
The christmas tree in a place a called home
That's what i miss the most

This drifting leaves fall to the ground
I scoop them up and i throw them down
I close my eyes and i start to count
The lonely people leaving town

And i feel like a monkey in winter
And you are a lizard in the sun
Yes i feel like a monkey in winter

Say hello to something new
Is what a friend told me to do
'cos beggars can't be choosers and i can't afford to loose
We never touched we never kissed
We never loved though we thought we did
So i walked away and i called it quits
What the eyes don't see, you know the heart won't miss

But i feel like a monkey in winter
And you are a lizard in the sun
Yes i feel like a monkey in winter
And winter's just began

Remember summer long ago
The sun beats down, the air was clean
It came and went away
Things come and go
But do you, do you remember me?

Remember tumble weeds on an empty road
Coffee pot on a burnin' stove
The christmas tree in a place a called home
That's what i miss the most

We never touched we never kissed
We never loved though we thought we did
So i walked away and i called it quits
What the eyes don't see, you know the heart don't miss

But i feel like a monkey in winter
And you are a lizard in the sun
Yes i feel like a monkey in winter
And it looks like winter's gone

[performed sometimes live at concerts]

There once was a farmer who took a young miss
To the side of his barn where he gave her a lecture
On horses and chickens and eggs
And told her that she had such beautiful manners
That suited the girl of his charms
A girl that he wanted to take him his washing and ironing
And if she did they would be married
And have...

...sweet violets
Sweeter than the roses
Covered all over from head to toe
Sweet violets

That

September '77
Port elizabeth weather fine
It was business as usual
In police room 619
Oh biko, biko, biko, because
Oh biko, biko, biko, biko
Oh biko, biko, biko, because
Oh biko, biko, biko, biko
Yihla moja, yihla moja
The man is dead, the man is dead

When i try to sleep at night
I can only dream in red
The outside world is black and white
With only one colour dead
Oh biko, biko, biko, because
Oh biko, biko, biko, biko
Oh biko, biko, biko, because
Oh biko, biko, biko, biko
Yihla moja, yihla moja
The man is dead, the man is dead

You can blow out a candle
But you can't blow out a fire
Once the flame begins to catch
The wind will blow it higher
Oh biko, biko, biko, because
Oh biko, biko, biko, biko
Oh biko, biko, biko, because
Oh biko, biko, biko, biko
Yihla moja, yihla moja
The man is dead, the man is dead
Yihla moja, yihla moja
The man is dead, the man is dead
Yihla moja, yihla moja
The man is dead, the man is dead

A song by a band called "marxman" containing
Background vocals by sinead.
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A thousand cultures stolen ships that came sailing
Sighted from the shoreline people stood waiting
But armies came invading and raiding to conquer
Understood nothing of a land that stood longer
But might was much stronger than right could ever be
Took away the land planned a new destiny
Butchery and murder and still i say murder
Butchery and murder and still i say murder

Wait! hold up cos phrase will break the mould
Culture growing stronger aging never old
Death accelerating, and i don't want to die
Fish hooked by a ship, lord take me where i lie
Gone where the lucky ones, disease or suicide
The pride of survivors to cry for those that died
To resurrect the status and overcome the ploy
No bells or beads to barter for this young black boy

Ship ahoy
Lord take me where i lie, don't let my children die
Ship ahoy
Lord take me where i lie, don't let my children die

Gone are the days now the ships cease to sail
I don't think so what does a wage entail
Nine of five slavery or a twenty four seven
Most slaves tricked by the promise of a heaven
Controlled by the sound of a whip that goes sack
Mind - forged manacles make sure there's no slack
Think your not a slave, cos no whip marks your back
Now a bureaucrat wields the nine tails of the cat

Ain't nothing changed but the weather the song remains the same
Hollis comes left set up upon the lamebrain
You can't tame the beast, the beast can't be changed
Have to smash the system, wisdom rearranged
Slavery claimed to be histories mystery
Wished it could be....it's still part of we
Search and look around my birthplace is torn
But england has fallen dusk negates dawn

Ship ahoy
Lord take me where i lie, don't let my children die
Ship ahoy
Lord take me where i lie, don't let my children die

Ship ahoy, ship ahoy, now they call it perestroika
Mandela's free but still can't stop the slaughter
Now they call it free trade, free choice for all
But the real freedom is ten per cent small
Freedom is a song which the caged bird sings
They keep the key all we see is the keyring
Fooled by the glisten, but the glisten is not gold
And i will not buy the beads that i'm sold

I stand here stand clear truth be my witness
How many hitlers before you see the litmus
Test i won't rest, slave who won't behave
And no i want not the freedom of the slave
If the east wants the beast let the beast roam
Cos in the east the death of the beast was sown
You can fool the people that they're equal
But you won't fool me with a sequel

Ship ahoy
Lord take me where i lie, don't let my children die.
Ship ahoy
Lord take me where i lie, don't let my children die.


Don't let my children die
Don't let my children die

Lord take me where i lie, don't let my children die.
Don't let my children die
Children
Don't let my children die
Children
Don't let my children die
Children
Etc.....

Lonely man
Tired man
Play the blues
Sing while you have nothing to lose
Silver moon
Weeping moon
Cry for me
Show me your soul sympathy

You have done all you can
Live no more
Sigh as you walk through the door

Take my hand
Take my hand
Lie on sand
Rest on sand

Close your eyes
Slowly close
Go to sleep
Sleep while you've dreams to keep

You have meant all you can
Live no more
Sigh as you walk through the door

Take my hand
Take my hand
Lie on sand
Rest on sand

Windy shore
Crying
But don't cry no more

There is a house in new orleans,
They call the rising sun.
And it's been the ruin of manys a poor boy,
And god, i know i'm one.

My mother was a tailores
She sewed my new blue jeans
An' my father was a gamblin' man
Down in new orleans.

Now the only thing a gambler needs
Is a suitcase and a trunk.
And the only time that he's satisfied
Is when he's down and drunk.

So mothers tell, tell your children
Not to do what i have done
Not to spend their lives in sin and misery
In the house of the rising sun.

I've got one foot on the platform
And another one on the train.
I'm going home to new orleans
To wear that ball and chain.

There is a house in new orleans,
They call the rising sun.
And it's been the ruin of manys a poor boy,
And god, i know i'm one.

Poor, poor boy
Poor, poor boy
Poor, poor boy
Poor, poor boy
Poor, poor boy
Poor, poor boy
Poor, poor boy
Poor, poor boy
Poor, poor boy
Poor, poor boy

My only love
What will happen to me
What will happen to me
When you are gone

I'm frightened love
What will god do to me
What will god do to me
When i am all alone

Child i won't be gone
See i am in your soul
And in your song
The calling of your heart has brought me in

So good morning love
Shall i kiss your face
Shall i give you a taste
Of what i'm dreaming of

Child, i can't be gone
See i am in your soul
And in your song
The calling of your heart has brought me on

So good morning love
Shall i kiss your face
Shall i give you a taste
Of what i'm dreaming of

You're my only love
You're my softest love
My only love
Oh--
Oh--
You're my softest love

Song by the band also named world party, which can
Be found on their album entitled "private revolution"


Can you hear the music
It's coming from the forest where we used to live.
Can you hear the laughing
Coming from the clearing
At the bottom of the hill?
Ba-ba-ba-bah
Climb the hill and see the creatures
Run about their world.

World party - how can i say no?
No party - you know i've got to go
Go party - to a world party tonight.

I'm going to ask a dolphin
See if you can find a tiger
Whose eyes are still alight
With your little head in his mouth
Everything's gonna be alright.
I hear theres going to be a harvest
Where every creature gets a share
Of life and food and light.
Ba-ba-ba-bah
Unless we learn we're the dumbest creatures
That ever walked the world

Are you going?
Yes we're going to a world party.
Well, how can i say no?
Yes we're going to a world party.
You know i've got to go.
Yes we're going to a world party.
You know, you know, you know, he
Pa-party
Pa-pa-party

This party's in the mountains
And in the fields and on the shore
And at the bottom of the sea
In the desert, in the marshes
Underground up your tree
Ba-ba-ba-bah
And out in space you can hear the creatures
Sing about their world

Are you going?
Yes we're going to a world party,
Well, how can i say no?
Yes we're going to a world party.
You know i've got to go.
Yes we're going to a world party.
Yes we're going to a world party.
Yes we're going to a world party.

Yes we're going to a world party.

(b.andersson/b.ulvaeus from abba)
Sinead sang this song on a uk-tv program
Ben elton show - may 15th 1998


Chiquitita, tell me what's wrong
You're enchained by your own sorrow
In your eyes there is no hope for tomorrow
How i hate to see you like this
There is no way you can deny it, i know
I can see that you're oh so sad, so quiet

Chiquitita, you and i know
How the heartaches come and they go and the scars they're leaving
You'll be dancing once again and the pain will end
You will have no time for grieving
Chiquitita, you and i cry
But the sun is still in the sky and shining above you
Let me hear you sing once more like you did before
Sing a new song, chiquitita
Try once more like you did before
Sing a new song, chiquitita
Try once more like you did before
Sing a new song, chiquitita

A song of world party of
Which sinead did the
Background vocals
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I'd give you all my money
Abandon that beautiful girl
Take my books
My choicest looks
And burn them all today
I've got rare '61 beatles
I've got a film of my dreams
But i'd lose them all
Burn em all
Go along without all of it
Give up the chances i see
If you'd take me up
Raise me up
Let me know the heart of it
Give me your sweet soul dream
Give me your sweet soul dream

I don't need a body
A body's nobody to me
It's just a cell
And i'm leaving well
When i get you to give me the key
You can take all my postcards and letters
My loves and my good memories
Well i'd lose them all
Burn them all
Go along without all of it
Give up the changes i see
If you'd raise me up
Take me up
Let me know the heart of it
Give me your sweet soul dream
Give me your sweet soul dream

I'm trying to learn understanding
Against the hell i can win
If you'd hold me up
Grow me up
Let me be a part of it
Give me the chance that i see
I could take me up
Raise me up
Get to know the heart of it
Give me your sweet soul dream
Give me your sweet soul dream
Give me your sweet soul dream

(traditional scottish song)

[performed sometimes live at concerts]

Harking is bonny and there lives my love
My heart lies on him and will not remove
It will not remove ohh for all that i have done
Ohh i never will forget me love anachie
For anachie gordon he's bonny and he's rough
He'd entice any woman that ever he saw
He'd entice any woman and so he has done me
O i never will forget me love anachie

Down came her father and he's standing by the door
Saying jeannie your trying the tricks of a whore
You care nothing for a man who cares so very much for thee
You must marry lord sultan and leave anachie
For anachie gordon he's barely but a man
Although he may be pretty but where are his lands
O the sultan's lands are broad and his towers they are high
You must marry lord sultan and leave anachie

With anachie gordon i'd beg for my bread
And before i'll marry sultan it's gold to my head
With gold to my head and gowns fringed to the knee
And i'll die if i don't get me love anachie
And you that are my parents to church you may me bring
But unto lord sultan i'll never bear a son
To a son or a daughter i'll never bow my knee
And i'll die if i don't get me love anachie

Jeannie was married and from church she was brought home
And when she and her maidens so merry should have been
When she and her maidens so merry should have been
She went into her chamber, she cried all alone

Come to bed now jeannie me honey and my sweet
For the style you my mistress it would be so sweet
Being mistress or jeannie it's all the same to me
But in your bed lord sultan i never will lie
And down came her father and he's spoken with reknown
Saying you that are her maidens go loosen off her gowns
But she fell down to the floor so close down by his knee
Saying father look i'm dying for me love anachie

The day jeannie married was the day that jeannie died
And the day that young anachie came home on the tide
And down came her maidens all wringing of their hands
Saying lord it's been so long you've spent so long on the sands
Ohh so long on the sands, o so long upon the flood
They have married your jeannie and now she lies dead.

You that are her maidens come take me by the hand
And take me to the chamber that me love she lies in
And he's kissed her cold lips 'til his heart has turned to stone
And he's died in the chamber that his love she lies in.

(trad. gospel)

Make me a channel of your peace
Where there is hatred let me bring love
Where there is injury, your pardon lord
And where there is doubt through faith in you

Make ma a channel of your peace
Where there is dispair in life let me bring hope
Where there is darkness or only light
And where there

(trad. arr: paddy moloney)
From the cd: long journey home


O, father dear, i oft times heard you talk of erin's isle,
Her lofty scene, her valleys green, her mountains rude and wild
They say it is a pretty place where in a prince might dwell,
Oh why did you abandon it, the reason to me tell?

Oh son i loved my native land with energy and pride
'til a blight came over on my crops, my sheep and cattle died,
The rent and taxes were so high, i could not them redeem,
And that's the cruel reason why i left old skibbereen.

Oh, it's well i do remember that bleak december day,
The landlord and the sheriff came to drive us all away
They set my roof on fire with their demon yellow spleen
And that's another reason why i left old skibbereen.

Your mother too, god rest her soul, fell on the snowy ground,
She fainted in her anguish seeing the desolation round.
She never rose but passed away from life to mortal dream,
She found a quiet grave, my boy, in dear old skibbereen.

And you were only two years old and feeble was your frame,
I could not leave you with your friends, you bore your father's name,
I wrapped you in my c

There's a woman in erin who'd give me shelter and my fill of ale;
There's a woman in ireland who'd prefer my strains to strings being played;
There's a woman in eirinn and nothing would please her more
Than to see me burning or in a grave lying cold.

There's a woman in eirinn who'd be mad with envy if i was kissed
By another on fair-day, they have strange ways, but i love them all;
There are women i'll always adore, battalions of women and more
And there's this sensuous beauty and she shackled to an ugly boar.

There's a woman who promised if i'd wander with her i'd find some gold
A woman in night dress with a loveliness worth more than the woman
Who vexed ballymoyer and the plain of tyrone;
And the only cure for my pain i'm sure is the ale-house down the road.

(sebastian temple)
Taken from the cd: diana, princess of wales tribute (1997)

Make me a channel of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me bring your love
Where there is injury, your pardon lord
And where there's doubt, true faith in you.

Make me a channel of your peace.
Where there's despair in life let me bring hope
Where there is darkness, only light
And where there's sadness, ever joy.

Oh master, grant that i may never seek
So much to be consoled as to console
To be understood as to understand
To be loved, as to love with all my soul.

Make me a channel of your peace.
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
In giving to all men that we receive
And in dying that we are born to eternal life

In dublin town
Where i did dwell
A butcher boy
I loved so well
He courted me
My life away
And now with me
He will not stay

I wish i wish
But i wish in vain
I wish i was
A maid again
But a maid again
I ne'er can be
Till apples grow
On an ivy tree

She went upstairs
To go to bed
And calling to
Her mother said
Bring me a chair
Till i sit down
And a pen and ink
Till i write down

I wish i wish
But i wish in vain
I wish i was
A maid again
But a maid again
I ne'er can be
Till apples grow
On an ivy tree

He went upstairs
And the door he broke
And found her hanging
From her rope
He took his knife
And cut her down
And in her pocket
These words he found:

"oh, make my grave
Large, white and deep
Put a marble stone
At my head and feet
And in the middle
A turtle dove
So the world may know
I died of love".

(waterboys/ jagger-richards)
Live version recorded on 11 april 1986, sinead was doing the backing
Vocals on this song which included a piece of satisfaction from
The rolling stones.


Ooh!
...let me see the savage
I want to see the savage
Coming crashing through your face
I want to be there
When the savage comes
I want to be there
When the savage comes
When your savage earth heart
Cuts through
I wan be a witness
Send you respect into your ear that i'll be back
Trust in the shadows

I want to be there
When the savage comes
I want to be there
When the savage comes
When your savage earth heart
Cuts through!

Will you lay all of your deepest wildest secrets bare?
Will you let all of those rumbling old gods take rage?

I want to be there
When the savage comes
I want to be there
When the savage comes
When your savage earth heart
Cuts through!

Then i was taken smoothly by the vulture of the soul
That hideous strength
That numbs my tongue
And he led me like a born sinner
Through the fields of hell
To doubt my friends and to hate myself
But when the savage earth heart
...cuts through
When my savage earth heart
...cuts through
Then my savage earth heart
...cuts through!
And the culture of the soul laid waste.
The hate, the hate, the hate, the hate, the hate

I can't get any satisfaction
I can't get any satisfaction
When i'm driving in my car
And a man comes on the radio
He's telling me more and more
About some useless information
Supposed to drive my imagination
But he can't be a man 'cause he doesn't smoke
Six cigarettes, six cigarettes
Six cigarettes, six cigarettes

I can't get no
I can't get any satisfaction
I can't get any satisfaction
When i'm driving around the world
And i'm trying to please some girl
Saying baby baby come back
Maybe next week
'cause you see i'm on a losers street
I can't get no
I can't get any satisfaction
No satisfaction
No satisfaction
No satisfaction

I heard a voice asking what happens after the fire
And then a sound of breaking window and the scream of a tyre
And then the sound of a distant gun and the cry of a hungry child
The night is hot
But nothing's gonna stop
This gang going wild

After the fire the fire still burns
The heart grows older but never ever learns
The memories smoulder and the soul always yearns
After the fire the fire still burns

I saw matt dillon in black and white there aint no colour in memories
He rode his brother's harley across the t.v. while i was laughing at dom deluise
Now i'm cycling all my video tapes, i'm crying and i'm joking
I've gotta stop drinking
I've gotta stop drinking
I've gotta stop drinking

After the fire the fire still burns
The heart grows older but never ever learns
The memories smoulder and the soul always yearns
After the fire the fire still burns

The fire still burns, raging through the pain
Blackening the promises the tears and the rain
The fire will burn

A song by a band called max from their
Album called "silence running" on which
Sinead sings background vocals.
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This used to be a lonely place
Now it's morning time
And it was the only place
Morning time
Then mary paid off the angel so that
It's morning time
He night stops right here and know that
Morning time

One thousant pictures
They come down the roadway
They're gold and they're black
Like a motor cycle
Helen and mary are carrying flames
For the wild fire, for the wild fire
Just get away from your tears
What you got is already and spoken for
Over your shoulder they still want some revenge
As you know as you know
You seen that you got that
Morning time
Morning time
Morning time
Morning time
Morning time
Morning time
Morning time
Morning time

Move it out move it out
He was a gun runner
Took all his money to a better place
Cool air it blows through your window
You turn for the same thing
For the same thing
Outside there's all kind of ways you can travel
Breaks over here
Breaks over there
You get there now and you get there quick
From the sun breaks
And the low run
Then you climb on
Then you climb on
This was a lonely place
Now it's morning time
And it was the only place
Morning time
Then mary paid off the angel so that
It's morning time
The night stops right here know that
Morning time
Morning time
Morning time
You get that
You seen that
You want that
You need that
You got that
You want that
You seen that
You need that
Helen and mary
Helen and mary
Helen and mary
Helen and mary
I just got to get to you now
I just got to get to you now
I just got to get to you now
I just got to get to you now
This morning time

Once upon a time there were
Irish ways and irish laws
Villages of irish blood
Waking to the morning
Waking to the morning

Then the vikings came around (1)
Turned us up and turned us down
Started building boats and towns
They tried to change our living
Tried to change our living

Cromwell and his soldiers came (2)
Started centuries of shame
But they could not make us turn (3)
We are a river flowing
We're a river flowing

Again, again the soldiers came
Burnt our houses stole our grain
Shot the farmers in their fields
Working for livings
Working for a living

800 years we have been down (4)
The secret of the water sound
Has kept the spirit of a man
Above the pain descending
Above the pain descending

Today the struggle carries on
I wonder will i live so long
To see the gates being opened up (5)
To a people and their freedom
A people and their freedom

Once upon a time there was
Irish ways and irish laws
Villages of irish blood
Waking to the morning
Waking to the morning


Notes

(1)
The first documented viking landing took place in 795. until the
Anglo-norman invasion in 1170 the vikings would play an important
Role in ireland, both politically and economically. they created trade
Routes, founded kingdoms, and built the first towns in ireland,
Including dublin, cork and limerick.

(2)
Oliver cromwell landed in ireland in august 1649 at the head of a
Huge army, by may 1650 he had crushed opposition in all but the west.
(by 1652 the irish population had fallen to .7 m. in 1641 it had
Been 1.5 m. by 1660 .5 m cattle were being exported annually to
England.)

(3)
Both cromwell's and subsequent colonisation campaigns used the twin
Techniques of "planting" english and scotish settlers and forcing
Some locals to change or "turn" their religion to the protestant
Faith. so here he uses the ambiguity of the term "turn" to echo both
The image of the unbowed irish peasant and a metaphor for irish
History flowing like a un-turnable river.

(4)
Since the first english invasion in 1170

(5)
"gates" here evokes both images of the be-sieged walled cities of the
17th century and also of the present day prison camps in the north
Of ireland which at the time the song was being written (in the late
1970's early 1980's) were the subject of much political campaigning
Including hunger strikes by the inmates.

Think about my little girl
Her yellow skin and her dark curls
And how her father's heart was frozen
I spoke to her and i said:
"you won't regret the mother you have chosen"
I lied. where's she tonight?

I left him now we're apart
And i think about his cruel heart
And how his lies have left mine broken
To think that i spoke to him then i said:
"she won't regret the father she has chosen"
I lied. where's he tonight?

You were precious to me
After all i called you into being
I wanted you to know that
Yes, you were precious to me

She has chosen

And i miss my little boy
I strayed away, so far away
And i need him tonight
To feel his hands around my face
His loving eyes
His happy face
Would be so right

Once i sat in my husband's car
Him in my arms, woke up and saw me crying
My heart wouldn't work
And this he did my special child
He touched my face with his hand and smiled
Oh boy, everything's all right
Don't cry, everything's all right
Don't cry, jakes's here tonight
Don't hide, jake's here alive

Silent night,
Holy night,
All is calm,
We see,
All is bright

Round young virgin mother and child,
Holy infant so tender and mild
We say
Sleep in heavenly peace,
Sleep in heavenly peace.

Silent night,
Holy night,
Shepherds first saw the sight
Glorious streaming from heaven afar,
Heav'nly host sing allelluia
Christ the savior is born,
Christ the savior is born.

Silent night, holy night
Son of god in h'vn, love's pure light
Radiance beaming from thy holy face
With the dawning of redeeming grace
Jesus lord at thy birth,
Jesus lord at thy birth

Silent night,
Holy night,
All is calm,
We see,
All in bright

Round young virgin mother and child,
Holy infant so tender and mild
We say
Sleep in heavenly peace,
Sleep in heavenly peace.

This is to mother you
To comfort you and get you through
Through when your nights are lonely
Through when your dreams are only blue
This is to mother you

This is to be with you
To hold you and to kiss you too
For when you need me i will do
What your own mother didn't do
Which is to mother you

All the pain that you have known, ohh
All the violence in your soul, ohh
All the wrong things that you have done, ohh
I will take from you when i come

For i am to mother you
To comfort you and get you through
Through when your nights are lonely
Through when your dreams are only blue
This is to mother you

A song sinead did together with the the on
Their album called "mind bomb"
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Tell me what you're thinking baby
You heart's beating faster than mine
And i know something's going on
In your life
Your life
Your life

You were the girl i wanted to cry with
You were the girl i wanted to die with

And you were the boy who turned in to the man
Broke my heart & let go of my hand
Our bed is empty
The fire is out
And all the love we've got to give
Has all spurted out
There's no more blood and no more pain
In our kingdom of rain

You think you know about life
You think you know about love
But when you put your hands inside me
It doesn't even feel like i'm being touched

You were the boy i wanted to cry with
You were the boy i wanted to die with
You've moved further from my side
Year by year
While still making love
Dutifully sincere
But as silent as the car lights
That move across this room
As cold as our bodies silhouetted by the moon
And i would lie awake & wonder
Is it just me
Or is this the way that love is supposed to be?

Tell me what you told him baby
My heart's beating out of time in my mind
And i know something's going wrong
In our lives

I just wanted somebody to caress, this damsel in distress.
I just wanted somebody to undress, this damsel in distress.
I just wanted somebody to bless, this damsel in distress.
I just wanted somebody to possess, this young girl

Our bed is empty
The fire is out
And all the love we've got to give
Has all spurted out
Our bed is empty
The fire is out
And all the love we've got to give
Has all spurted out
Our bed is empty
The fire is out
And all the love we've got to give
Has all spurted out

There's no more blood and no more pain
In our kingdom of rain...

Nine years ago i fell in love
With a lady proud and fair
So passionate were she & i
We made fire in the air
I loved her more than life itself
She loved me just the same
And it broke my heart
To think we'd part if she ended the affair
But i was brutal, i was ignorant,
I was cruel, i was brash
I never gave a damn about
The beauty that i smashed
No sadist i, i found delight in
Making my love cry

Now i'd pray for a single kiss from her
To be lashed & crucified

And now i fear this lady fair
Can never more be mine
Long gone are nights in my lonely bed
All suffering and crying
And though i fear that thru this life
She'll call me only friend
'til i'm dead and buried in my grave
My love will never end

It's making me do things,
I don't want to do.
It's poisoning me, weakening me,
You can't see.
It's lessening, like you.
I'm still listening.
Still listening.

Rescue me,
Won't you, won't you?
It's getting so late, uhhhh
I can't see
I'm begging you;
I'm still listening

I believed you.
Oh, i wanted to.
And it was wonderful,
So beautiful,
All gave in.
Release me.

Rescue me, won't you? ohhhuuu
It's getting so late, uhhh
I can't see.
I'm telling you;
I'm still listening.

I believed you.
Oh, i wanted to.
But it's poisoning me, weakening me.
You can't see.
It's lessening.

Rescue me, won't you?
It's getting so late,
I can't see.
I'm telling you;
I'm still listening.

I'm still, still, still, still, still
Still, still, still, still, still
Listening, listening, listening
Still, still, still, still, still, still

You're not listening!

(cole porter)


While tearing off
A game of golf
I may make a play for the caddy
But if i do
I don't follow through
Cause my heart
Belongs to daddy

If i invite a boy some night
To dine on my fine
Finnan haddie
I just adore his
Asking for more
But my heart belongs to daddy

Yes my heart belongs to daddy
So i simply couldn't be bad
Yes my heart belongs to daddy
Lalala, lalala, lalala

So i want to warn you, laddie
Tho' i know you perfectly swell
That my heart belongs to daddy
Cause my daddy, he treats me so well

While tearing off
A game of golf
I may make a play for the caddy
But if i do
I don't follow through
Cause my heart belongs to daddy

And if i invite a boy some night
To dine on my fine
Finnan heddie
I just adore
His asking for more
But my heart belongs to daddy

Yes my heart belongs to daddy
So i simply couldn't be bad
Yes my heart belongs to daddy
Lalala, aauuhhhoo

So i want to warn you, laddie
Tho' i know you perfectly swell
That my heart belongs to daddy
And my daddy, he treats me so well
He treats me so well

I love you my hard englishman
Your rage is like a fist in my womb
Can't you forgive what you think i've done
And love me - i'm your woman
And i desire you my hard englishman
And there is no more natural thing
So why should i not get loving
Don't be cold englishman

How come you've never said you love me
In all the time you've known me
How come you never say you're sorry
And i do

Ah, please talk to me englishman
What good will shutting me out get done
Meanwhile crazies are killing our sons
Oh listen - englishman
I've honoured you - hard englishman
Now i am calling your heart to my own
Oh let glorious love be done
Be truthful - englishman

How come you've never said you love me
In all the time you've known me
How come you never say you're sorry
And i do
I do

A song sinead did together
With cristy moore on cristy's
Album "voyage"
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Everybody knew, nobody said
A week ago last tuesday
She was just fifteen years
When she reached her full therm
She went to a grotto
In just a field
In the middle of the island
To deliver herself
Her baby died
She died
A week ago last tuesday
It was a sad slow stupid death for them both
Everybody knew, nobody said
At a grotto
In a field
In the middle of the island

It was a sad slow stupid death for them both
Everybody knew, nobody said

(sinead o'connor/marco pirroni)

Sinead;
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The phone calls
Always left me unsure
They'd never say things of their own accord
I am preoccupied
I can't get them out of my mind
They are terrified

And if you said jump in the river i would
Because it would probably be a good idea
You're not supposed to be here at all now
It's all been a gorgeous mistake
Sick one or clean one
The best one
That god ever made

When i kissed you
You didn't mind
I thought i tasted of too many cigarettes
But you tasted like wine
And i'm not going to change my mind
Just because of what they said
The worm has laid eggs in their hearts
But not in my head

And if you said jump in the river i would
Because it would probably be a good idea
You're not supposed to be here at all now
It's all been a gorgeous mistake
Sick one or clean one
The best one
That god ever made

There's been days like this before you know
And i liked it all
Like the times we did it so hard
There was blood on the wall

And if you said jump in the river i would
Because it would probably be a good idea

And if you said jump in the river i would
Because it would probably be a good idea

And if you said jump...
And if you said jump...
Jump
Jump

Karen finley;
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Brother, do you have a prick?
Yes i do, just like cows do
Brother, do you have a prick?
Yes i do, just like cows do

After my mother washed me
Powdered me
I insisted that she'd masturbate me
You wonder why i've got panic attacks
You dream you ate me through my silken panties

But baby you've got it wrong
I don't smile when i cum

Jump start me
Jump start me
Jump, jump, jump, jump

Ain't got a leg, but i got a stump
Ain't got a dick baby, but i got a pump
Ain't got a titty, but i got a lump

Never knew how to walk
So i gotta jump
Jump start me
Jump start me
Jump in my heart
Jump from the start

Well, he loves to wear silk knotted scarves around his neck, baby
Finger them, finger the scarves
He twist the scarf around my neck, baby
I wish he was twisting it around my clit
I mean my dick
I mean my cock
Baby, twist it
Twist it good
Twist that silky scarf

Well you sell those ties at madison avenue
Work me
Work me good
And you perform that magic trick good
By taking that silk tie
Oiled
Knotted
Pull it out of my asshole
Let me cum
Let me cum