City By The Laganside
(B.Connors)
City by the Laganside.
Seems as if you've lost you're pride;
Where there's life there's hope they say;
Hope will bring a better day.
Met my girl in Cromac Square,
Raindrops glistened in her hair:
Strolled around the City Hall,
While the evening starlings call.
There's our house near Carrick Hill,
Plants upon the window sill,
Whitewash on the backyard wall.
Curtains bought from market-stall.
Stuck it out through slump and gloom,
Sleeping in just one back room,
Saving for a bag of coal,
Long years waiting on the dole.*
Summers when they came around.
Spent them here in Belfast Town,
Never thought of Spanish sun,
The bus to Bellevue* was our fun.
Children now are scattered wide,
One lives on the Bangor side.
Another got a Queen's* degree,
Said goodbye and crossed the sea.
Carrick Hill and Sandy Row,
Flats rise up and houses go.
Streets where children laughed and played
Now in rubble they are razed.
Repeat First Verse.
Notes:
*Dole - unemployment benefit;
*Bellevue - Belfast Zoo;
*Queen's - Queen's University, Belfast.
- Seamus Kennedy
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Seamus Kennedy in Concert
- The Liar Time: 2:57
- Down in the Coalmine Time: 2:30
- Murphy & the Snails Time: 3:39
- Hard Times Time: 3:20
- The Drover's Dream Time: 2:24
- The Writing of 'Tipperary' Time: 5:14
- TWA Recruiting Sergeants Time: 3:45
- The Nuns & the Devil/Johnny & the Bishop Time: 1:31
- The Widow & the Fairy/The King of the Fairies Time: 3:28
- Rose Time: 0:43
- The Mouse Time: 1:22
- The Wearing of the Green/The Rising of the Moon Time: 3:41
- Moses-Ri-Tooral-I-Ay Time: 2:01
- Take Her in your Arms Time: 3:16
- Scottish People Time: 2:45
- The Greatest Love/A Bottle of the Best Time: 2:42
- Look at Maggie Now Time: 3:01
- City by the Lagan Side Time: 2:34
- Will Ye Go, Lassie, Go Time: 4:39
- The Parting Glass Time: 2:01
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