This is my favorite song, as heard on a Niamh Parsons CD (I love her voice!). Someday, if I ever do become an artist, my plan is to make it into a picture book.

Tide Full In

It's sad 'round Dooris when the tide is low,
and the green fields buried 'neath the frost and snow,
and the dark night's lonely with the curlew's cry,
and I'm thinking, thinking of the times gone by.

Oh, the happy summers of the olden days,
and the brown boats stealing through the golden haze*
and the cuckoos calling from the woods within,
and my love beside me and the tide full in.

Was I not foolish, when I let him go
to seek his fortune where the West winds blow!
If a fair wind brought him to my aching heart,
with my two arms around him, we would never part.

Oh, the happy summers of the olden days...

Oh, a dear, dear letter on my fond heart lies --
its words of promise more than life I prize!
For it whispers, "Darlin', soon I'll fortune win,
and return to claim you with the tide full in!"

Oh, the happy summers of the olden days...


*this is my favorite line, and one of the reasons I want to make the song into a picture book.

so, yeah. Life continues.