Cathie Ryan

What's closest to the heart comes out
Closest, next or near it
What's closest to the heart comes out
Listen, you'll hear it
We have come the weary roads
Through the weather
In the hollow of the wild
Will we be together?

Come in from the wind and rain
Come in from the thunder
Come in with your aching heart
I won't see you go under
I'll hold you from the bitter cold
Through the wonder
In the hollow of the wild
No more need to hunger

What's closest to the heart comes out
Closest, next or near it
What's closest to the heart comes out
You'll hear it
Music in the darkest night
With you beside me
In the hollow of the wild
Come and feel the warming fire

You and me, me and you
Will you come? You're welcome to

'A dtiocfa tu?

Darling, I have come to tell you
Though it almost breaks my heart
But before the morning, darling
We'll be many miles apart

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Don't this road look rough and rocky?
Don't that sea look wide and deep?
Don't my baby look the sweetest
When he's in my arms asleep?

Can't you hear the night birds crying
Far across the deep blue sea?
When of others you are thinking
Won't you sometimes think of me?

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One more kiss before I leave you
One more kiss before we part
You have caused me lots of trouble
Darling, you have broke my heart

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'Twas the wild flowers I preferred

Who owed nothing to nobody

But blossomed in the ditches

And made their own way in the world

'Twas the wild flowers I admired

Who never done nothing to you

But driven from the garden

Sang their own songs in the spring

You can have your lily, you can have your rose

That were taken and broken and bred by men

They were grafted and lamed

Twisted and tamed

But the wild flowers I enjoyed

They had nothing to do with you

They flowered by the roadside

And wore their own colors in the sun

That were there before you, will be there after you

That will out, that will out like your own true nature

You can try, you can try

That you will never defeat

The wild flowers I enjoyed

They had nothing to do with you

Banished from the garden

They made their own way in the world

They sang their own songs in the spring

And wore their own colors in the sun

The back of the winter is broken

And light lingers long by the door

The seeds of the summer have spoken

In gowans that bloom on the shore

By night and day we'll sport and we'll play

And delight as the dawn dances over the bay

Sleep blows the breath of the morning away

And we follow the heron home

In darkness we cradled our sorrow

And stoked all our fires with fear

These bones that lie empty and hollow

Are ready for gladness to cheer

By night and day we'll sport and we'll play

And delight as the dawn dances over the bay

Sleep blows the breath of the morning away

And we follow the heron home

Long may you sing of the salmon

And the snow-scented sound of your home

While the north wind delivers its sermon

Of ice and salt water and stone

By night and day we'll sport and we'll play

And delight as the dawn dances over the bay

Sleep blows the breath of the morning away

And we follow

By night and day we'll sport and we'll play

And delight as the dawn dances over the bay

Sleep blows the breath of the morning away

And we follow the heron home

My work is done for this long day, the sun sets on the strand

My mind is as unsettled as my feet upon the sand

This is the ground I cannot hold, it rolls away from me

My heart is on the farthest wave, a boat upon the sea

Moving out to you, moving out to you

My heart is on the farthest wave moving out to you

Sometimes I hear you say my name, you steal into my sleep

And stir the sea inside of me, the longing running deep

I have enough to see me through, do you have all you need?

My heart is on the farthest wave, I cannot stop the sea

Moving out to you, moving out to you

My heart is on the farthest wave moving out to you

I have enough to see me through, do you have all you need?

My heart is on the farthest wave, I cannot stop the sea

Moving out to you, moving out to you

My heart is on the farthest wave moving out to you

I am old, very old, but I don't need a wattle

I am old, yes, I'm old, but I'm not a dry nettle

All I need is man who is high in his mettle

Glory oh glory, glory, when the evening declines

Glory oh glory, glory, as the evening declines

And before the black hunger, I'd husbands in plenty

Maybe your granddad was one of the many

Or was he that red-coat who swigged more than any?

Glory oh glory, glory, when the evening declines

Glory oh glory, glory, as the evening declines

You can have all your gold, the high king of all metals

With soft talk and kisses we'll never want better

And the west of a ditch is the best of all settles

Glory oh glory, glory, when the evening declines

Glory oh glory, glory, as the evening declines

I am old, very old, but I don't need a wattle

I am old, yes, I'm old, but I'm not a dry nettle

So you clout the pot, and I'll clout the kettle

Glory oh glory, glory, when the evening declines

Glory oh glory, glory, as the evening declines

It matters nothing what they did to you

The storm is over, the wreckage through

Leave them in your wake, no more for you to take

Be like the sea

If it hurts your heart, cast it up on the shore

Let it go forever, ceart go leor

Wash away the sorrow, the tears of no tomorrow

Be like the sea

The sea, the sea, dive with me

We'll lose these rags we're wearing and be

Like the sea, the sea, wild and free

We'll swim out past the longing so deep

Down below these waves in the deepest depth

There are echoes sounding true as your breath

The still, small voice in you, the endless open blue

Be like the sea

Go on forever, shine out in the sun

The full a ta se everyone

Dance yourself around, give up the small ground

Be like the sea

The sea, the sea, dive with me

We'll lose these rags we're wearing and be

Like the sea, the sea, wild and free

We'll swim out past the longing so deep

Away out past the longing so deep

'Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam

Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home

A charm from the skies seems to hallow us there

Which seek through the world, is ne'er met with elsewhere

Home, sweet home, there's no place like home

Home, sweet home, there's no place like home

I gaze on the moon as I tread the drear wild

And feel that my mother now thinks of her child

As she looks on that moon from our own cottage door

Through the woodbine whose fragrance will cheer me no more

Home, sweet home, there's no place like home

Home, sweet home, there's no place like home

An exile from home, splendor dazzles in vain

Oh give me my lowly-thatched cottage again

The birds singing gaily that came at my call

Give me them and that peace of mind, dearer than all

Home, sweet home, there's no place like home

Home, sweet home, there's no place like home

Home, sweet home, there's no place like home

Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home