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When You're Gone I Say Your Name

from Half Moon Bay by Gerry O'Beirne

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I was born on the holy ground

A running boy in fields of clover

Living in the grandeur of my father's land



By the side of the swirling sea

I spent the days of childish wonder

And the rocks i held in my young hands

I never felt them slip away



Well the sun shone bright upon the waves

And the wind blew high as I was leaving

And I sailed so far away

Looking for adventure



But I would not stay where the city streets

Proclaimed so loudly man's endeavour

Though music is a pretty thing

In fine company



And the wilderness took my breath away

Under a sun that never falters

A man has to find his way

Where no-one ever goes



It was in the south where my new home lay

With a dark eyed girl and wild horses

With hummingbirds and roses there

In old Mexico

There the winds of change they blew so far

Of liberty and revolution

And it seemed that each man heard in his breast

The drumming of a nation



Oh on the field where the guns did play

I fell there with many another

Where the sage brush grows

And the desert wind is blowing free



I was born on the holy ground

A running boy in fields of clover

Living in the grandeur of

My father's land

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from Half Moon Bay, released April 25, 2019

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Gerry O'Beirne Dingle, Ireland

6 &12 string guitar, National steel, ukuleles etc.. his songs covered by Mary Black, Maura O'Connell .. has released four albums..toured solo and with Sharon Shannon, Patrick Street, Midnight Well, Andy M. Stewart, Kevin Burke, Andy Irvine, & the Waterboys. Performed at the White House, on Prairie Home Companion, opened for the Grateful Dead, played electric guitar with Marianne Faithfull. ... more

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