Puppy Love

Sung by Damian McGinty.

And they called it puppy love.
Oh, I guess they’ll never know
How a young heart really feels
And why I love her so.

And they called it puppy love
Just because we’re in our teens.
Tell them all, please tell them it isn’t fair,
To take away my only dream.

I cry each night, my tears for you
My tears are all in vain
I hope and I pray that maybe someday
You’ll be back in my arms once again.

Someone, help me, help me, help me please
Is the answer up above?
How can I, oh, how can I tell them
This is not a puppy love?

Someone, help me, help me, help me please
Is the answer up above?
How can I, oh, how can I tell them
This is not a puppy love?

Not a puppy love.

Ireland’s Call

Sung by Keith Harkin, Damian McGinty, George Donaldson, Paul Byrom, and Ryan Kelly on Celtic Thunder CD.
Sung by Keith Harkin, Daniel Furlong, George Donaldson, Emmet Cahill, and Ryan Kelly on Voyage II DVD.

Ireland…
Ireland…

Side by side, we stand like brothers
One for all and all together
We will stay united through darker days
And we’ll be unbeatable forever

Ireland, Ireland,
Together, standing tall
Shoulder to shoulder
We’ll answer Ireland’s call.

Come the day and come the hour
Some will live in song and story
We were born to follow our guiding star
And to meet our destiny with glory

Ireland, Ireland,
Together, standing tall
Shoulder to shoulder
We’ll answer Ireland’s call.

Hearts to steel and heads unbowing
Vowing never to be broken
We will fight until we can fight no more
‘Til our final requiem is spoken.

Ireland, Ireland,
Together, standing tall
Shoulder to shoulder
We’ll answer Ireland’s call.

Ireland, Ireland,
Together, standing tall
Shoulder to shoulder
We’ll answer Ireland’s call.
We’ll answer Ireland’s call.

She

Sung by Paul Byrom.

She may be the face I can’t forget
A trace of pleasure or regret
May be my treasure or the price I have to pay
She may be the song the summer sings
May be the chill the autumn brings
May be a hundred different things
Within the measure of a day

She may be the beauty or the beast
May be the famine or the feast
May turn each day into a heaven or a hell
She may be the mirror of my dreams
A smile reflected in the stream
She may not be what she may seem
Inside her shell

She, who always seems so happy in a crowd
Whose eyes can be so private and so proud
No one’s allowed to see them when they cry
She may be the love that cannot hope to last
That comes to me from shadows in the past
And I’ll remember ’til the day I die

She maybe the reason I survive
The why and wherefore I’m alive
The one I care for through the rough and ready years

Me, I’ll take the laughter and her tears
And make them all my souvenirs
For where she goes, I’ve got to be
The meaning of my life is
She
She
Oh, she.

Lauren & I

Sung by Keith Harkin.

So see the leaves fall to the ground,
And see them lyin’ all around,
‘Cause still I can’t see you,
And there’s the wind that plays in the air,
Flying around, how it does not care
Still I can’t see you

And the seasons pass away
And I still sit here lonely, each and every day,
Wonderin’ what’s gone wrong.
‘Cause I don’t remember seasons lastin’, oh, so long
Oh, so long.

And I still can’t see you
(I’m dreamin’ every night, I’m searchin’ every day)
And I still can’t see you
(I had her in my sights and let her slip away)
And I still can’t see you
Lauren and I
Lauren and I

And there’s the stars way in the sky
Leading my way and I don’t know where or why
Still I can’t see you.
And when my back’s against the wall
I see a reason for it all
But I still can’t see you

And I still can’t see you
(I’m dreamin’ every night, I’m searchin’ every day)
And I still can’t see you
(I had her in my sights and let her slip away)
And I still can’t see you
Lauren and I
Lauren and I
Lauren and I
Lauren and I

Brothers In Arms

Sung by Ryan Kelly.

These mist-covered mountains
Are a home now for me
But my home is the lowlands
And always will be
Someday you’ll return to
Your valleys and your farms
And you’ll no longer burn
To be brothers in arms

Through these fields of destruction
Baptisms of fire
I’ve witnessed your sufferin’
As the battles raged higher
And though they did hurt me so bad
In the fear and alarm
You did not desert me
My brothers in arms

There’s so many different worlds
So many different suns
And we have just one world
But we live in different ones

Now the sun’s gone to hell
And the moon’s riding high
Let me bid you farewell
Every man has to die
But it’s written in the starlight
And every line on your palm
We’re fools to make war
On our brothers in arms

The Old Man

Sung by George Donaldson.

The tears have all been shed now
We’ve said our last goodbyes
His soul’s been blessed
He’s laid to rest
And it’s now I feel alone.

He was more than just a father
A teacher; my best friend
And he’ll still be heard
In the tunes we shared
When I play them on my own.

I never will forget him
For he made me what I am
Though he may be gone
Memories linger on
And I miss him, the old man.

As a boy, he’d take me walkin’
By mountain, field and stream
And he showed me things
Not known to kings
And secret between him and me.

Like the colors on the pheasant
As he rises in the dawn
Or how to fish
And make a wish
Beside a fairy tree

I never will forget him
For he made me what I am
Though he may be gone
Memories linger on
And I miss him, the old man.

I thought he’d live forever
He seemed so big and strong
But the minutes fly
And the years roll by
For a father and a son.

And, suddenly, when it happened
There was so much left unsaid
No second chance
To tell him thanks
For everything he’d done

Oh, I never will forget him
For he made me what I am
Though he may be gone
Memories linger on
God, I miss him, the old man.

The Island

Sung by Keith Harkin.

They say the skies of Lebanon are burning
Those mighty cedars bleedin’ in the heat
They’re showing pictures on the television
Women and children dying in the street
And we’re still at it in our own place
Still tryin’ to reach the future through the past
Still tryin’ to carve tomorrow from a tombstone.

But, hey, don’t listen to me
‘Cause this wasn’t meant to be no sad song.
I’ve sung too much of that before
Right now I only want to be here with you
‘Til the morning dew comes falling
I wanna take you to the island
And trace your footprints in the sand
And in the evening when there’s no one around
We’ll make love to the sound of the ocean

They’re raising banners over by the markets
Whitewashing slogans on the shipyard walls
Witch doctors praying for a mighty showdown
No way our holy flag is gonna fall
Up here we sacrifice our children
To feed the worn-out dreams of yesterday
And teach them dying will lead us into glory

But, hey, don’t listen to me
‘Cause this wasn’t meant to be no sad song.
I’ve sung too much of that before
Right now I only want to be here with you
‘Til the morning dew comes falling
I wanna take you to the island
And trace your footprints in the sand
And in the evening when there’s no one around
We’ll make love to the sound of the ocean

Now I know us plain folks don’t see all the story
And I know this peace and love’s just copping out
And I guess these young boys dying in the ditches
Is just what being free is all about
And how this twisted wreckage down on Main Street
Will bring us all together in the end
And we’ll go marching down the road to freedom.

Freedom.
Freedom.

Steal Away

Sung by Celtic Thunder’s Keith Harkin, Damian McGinty, George Donaldson, Paul Byrom, and Ryan Kelly.

Steal away, let’s steal away,
No reason left to stay.
For me and you,
Let’s start anew,
And, darlin’, steal away.

Let’s steal away and chase our dream,
And hope they never find us.
The deary days, the empty nights,
We’ll leave them all behind us.

Steal away, let’s steal away
No reason left to stay.
For me and you,
Let’s start anew,
And, darlin’, steal away.

We’ll leave with just our memories,
And make a new beginning.
We have to choose,
To win or lose,
And it’s time we started winning.

Steal away, let’s steal away,
No reason left to stay.
For me and you,
Let’s start anew,
And, darlin’, steal away.

Steal away, let’s steal away,
No reason left to stay.
For me and you,
Let’s start anew,
And, darlin’, steal away.

Desperado

Sung by Ryan Kelly.

Desperado, why don’t you come to your senses?
You been out ridin’ fences for so long now
Oh, you’re a hard one
And I know that you’ve got your reasons
These things that are pleasin’ you
Hurt you somehow

Don’t you draw the Queen of Diamonds, boy
She’ll beat you if she’s able
You know the Queen of Hearts is always your best bet

Now it seems to me that some fine things
Have been laid upon your table
But you only want the ones that you can’t get

Desperado, oh, you ain’t gettin’ no younger
Your pain and your hunger, they’re drivin’ you home

And freedom, oh freedom, that’s just some people talkin’
Your prison is walking through this world all alone

Don’t your feet get cold in the wintertime?
The sky won’t snow and the sun won’t shine
It’s hard to tell the night time from the day
Well, you’re losin’ all your highs and lows
Ain’t it funny how the feeling goes away?

Desperado, why don’t you come to your senses?
Come down from your fences, open the gate
It may be rainin’, but there’s a rainbow above you
You better let somebody love you,
You better let somebody love you before it’s too late

It’s too late.

Remember Me (Recuerda Me)

Sung by Paul Byrom.

The moonlight dances among the trees
The campfire glows in the autumn breeze
And I am lost in my thoughts of you
Remember me, recuerda me

A comrade strums on a sad guitar
My mind is drifting to where you are
I’m holding you as I used to do
Remember me, recuerda me, mi amor!

So long ago, so far away, each night I pray
“Volverán los días pasados”  The old days will return
I promise you that come what may
Those days will stay ever in my memory

In all this world I could never find,
The love that I had to leave behind
But duty calls, so whate’er befalls
Remember me, recuerda me, mi amor

God only knows what tomorrow brings
You’re in my heart so my spirit sings
And I’ll be strong just as long as you remember me,
Recuerda me, mi amor!