When My Father Sang Me Irish Songs lyrics

From my youth comes a memory

It lingers on like the love my father held for me

"Take my hand," he would say to me

"I'll take you home to a land you've never chanced to see"

When my father sang me Irish songs

Each word became a dream

His heart would cry a melody

Through tears of emerald green

On velvet notes he'd carry me

To where his heart belongs

'Twas my father's eyes I saw through

When he sang me Irish songs

In my mind I have sailed Tralee

And found a pride that's grown beyond my fantasy

In his voice I would bathe in joy

And feel the pain of the pipes that call for Danny Boy

Close your eyes and listen

And close your hand in mine

Can you see the shamrocks

Can you smell the mulling wine?

Come dance upon the fiddle and

Fly within your mind

To the smiling eyes of Ireland

Long before they cried