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Sammy horner - The Song Isn't Singing

from Far Away Places. by Sammy Horner / The Sweet Sorrows / The Electrics

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The Song Isn't Singing

I’m just a poor farmer, an Irishman proud
we sang songs to the hearts of our women
and we danced in the fields like we owned the whole land
when the land of the song was still singing

but the blight it has come and ruined our crops
and the songs from our throats have been driven
to the grave like our mothers and fathers before
when the land of the song was still singing

they said we'd have hope if we worked hard and prayed
but they lied in the tidings they're bringing
my wife died to hunger my child of disease
in the land were the song wasn't singing

those English fat asses just sat on their hands 
and the church lied beyond my forgiving
for what’s there to say as they send me away
from a land where the song isn't singing

oh the tunes of my country the reels and the jigs
everyday in my head are still ringing
will I hear them one day, on a shore far away
from the land where the song isn't singing 

Sammy Horner vocals, guitar, bass, mandolin, bodhran
Kylie Horner whistle, accordion
Tim Cotterell fiddle

[I read this quote from a book that I can no longer find. One of the marks that changed how Ireland looked to strangers during the famine was that the music had stopped. A people known for their love of music had stopped singing. A chilling insight of how hunger damaged so much more than just their stomachs. ]

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from Far Away Places., released April 2, 2021

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