The mountains are higher and the rivers run deeper
Our house is wide open to visit each day
As I'm growing older our loves getting closer
I'll always love you the rest of my days

Your the love of my lifetime, you were always the loving kind
We were meant for each other of that I am sure
The rest just comes easy, you never once failed to please me
Come sit by the fireside, I'll always be near

The kids are all grown and gone, now you are the only one
To comfort and guide me through the difficult years
Our lives had good meaning no need for complaining
Always standing beside me, I love you my dear

Your the love of my lifetime, you were always the loving kind
We were meant for each other of that I am sure
The rest just comes easy, you never once failed to please me
Come sit by the fireside, I'll always be near

The mountains are higher and the rivers run deeper
Our house is wide open to visit each day
As I'm growing older our loves getting closer
I'll always love you the rest of my days
I'll always love you the rest of my days
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Good Health   
Words & Music by Brendan O'Loughlin
(Irish St. Patrick's Day festival, party time, drinking song. Chorus would make a great beer jingle. Coors, Miller, Bud, Guinness, any takers)

As we all sang the songs of our favorite towns
Kerry, Cork, and sweet Donegal
In the shade of the moonlight
And under the old apple tree

As we danced in the halls from the Spring through to Fall
Merry making and having a ball
We're looking real good
As well as I think that we should

They're dancing in the streets
And they're singing Irish aires
In all the local pubs and at football rugby clubs
And all this time we will drink
Good health to our friends

Come all ye young men from the sweet Curragh Finn Belfast, Dublin, or any port of call
Look who just walked in the door
The one and only Christy Moore and friends

Now the night has just gone and the daybreak has come
Lay our heads down to rest for awhile
Don't forget that we're all set
To crank up that good music again

There'll be one more time if you don't cross the line
We've all here to see the Rose of Tralee
Darling girl from Clare
And the race at the Curragh of Kildare
 

Voices In The Wind 
Words & Music by Brendan O'Loughlin
(We all have memories in quiet moments, and sometimes its as if the people of our past are with us again.)

Sweet dreams, as the night sleeps
And the memories of when we were young
Singing songs of the right and wrongs
Of the rich and famous people that are gone

Hear their voices blowing in the wind
All their love, they will send
Here, there and everywhere to you
Across the seas and oceans wild and free

Stories told, by the men of old
Of how they danced to the beat of their drum
Lullabies under starlit nights
Of a vast and blue horizon in the sun

Come to me in my memories
Telling tales of their fortunes wealth and fame
Now their gone, but their names live on
They are legends one for all and all for one
 

Want To Come Back 
Words & Music by Brendan O'Loughlin

I come from where the people are always good
fun
And times can be hard, for the work is still done
There's hills and there's mountains and their
winding rocky roads
To see the River Shannon change direction as
it flows

There's many a time I've traveled so far far away
And when I come home, I still feel I want to stay
Cause all the things I'm used to will never be the
same
But I want to come back again and again.

Whenever you get the time to think about your
home
It will be because you're feeling all alone
You've got to be prepared to satisfy your mind
And take yourself back to where you were a child.

That island of my dreams I've been so close to
day by day
The harvester and bomber are all out saving the
hay
Christmas time and New Year's Eve is that so far
away
Where only getting ready for the grand
St. Patrick's Day.

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I'm hear in the U.S.A. cant forget about Bantry
Bay
The catch of the day the saving the hay
The chat at McGuire's pub.
Peggy and Bridget Malone are the only one's
with a phone
You got to queue up it's a little bit rough
To make a private call home.

All the people hear are singing everywhere
Without any fear they come from far and near
Just to get together to talk about the weather
And all the little things that they have done so well

Tis hear in the town of Kilkee in the summer it's
where to be
Not a worry or care in the County of Clare
There's nothing too much to compare
There's Murphy and Donovan too, expressing
their point of view
It's rough and it's tough, and there's never
enough
Of that good old mountain dew

There's lots of good thing's to be seen from here
to the Cliff's of Dooneen
The Treaty Stone, the Mountains of Morne
I'm not too sure if I'm comin' or goin'
So if it's O.K. to suggest, your welcome to be
my guest
There's charity nuns, fathers and suns,
The Murphy's, O'Loughlin's and Dunnes.
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Bonfires 
Words & Music by Brendan O'Loughlin
(Celtic Blues Rock. Smooth JJ Cale and Eric
Clapton style blues riffs and chorus fronted by
a song about traditional Irish stuff. Recorded in
Nashville and produced by Kathy Mattea's fiddle
player, Jonathan Yudkin.)

Once again their gathering to celebrate the
bonfires of the night
Come far and near for to hear the sweet sweet
sound of the Uilleann pipes
Poets and writers of great songs, Celtic music
all night long
It's what we call the fest in May, I'm over  here
myself from the U.S.A.

Again I'll be meeting all the people that one time
I used to know
One by one they're growing old, seems to me that
my life's put on hold
It's nice to have their company, it brings back all
my memories
I believe my destiny's to be here one more year
for to see
The bonfires lighting up the skies
Here in the West, no one can rest
We're having a ball, there's music for all
You son of a gun, drink up and have fun
We'll be here till dawn
On my way to Galway Bay to listen to the
ocean's wild and free
There's fishermen from Crossmaglen casting
out their nets into the sea
Sometimes I think it's time to stay, I've been
away too long they say
But I'll be back again some day, to hear the
music and once more to see
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Green With Blue
Words & Music by Brendan O'Loughlin

I'm going back
To the place that I call home
To see all my friends
That I left long time ago

I may not be the same
I'm really not to blame
It's hard to know
How everything will go

In all this time we spent together
Our love has become stormy weather
It's time to leave, it might be better
Life goes on.

The mountains are high
And the rivers run deep
The sea's all around us
And the fields are still green

I'm easy and free
This is where I want to be
Let's all join our hands
And sings the songs of this great land

I miss you now and forever
I hope our lives will get better
Cause you've helped and made me
Become what I am.
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I'm playing the honkytonks and bars
Trying to imitate the Doors and the Cars
Irish rock and rhythm and blues
Trying to make it big in America

Phoenix, Dallas and Montreal
Got to entertain you one and all
Some people think that I'm quite good
I'm glad cause I can't go home again

I've just turned forty five
Good God am I still alive, sure I'm all right
The booze and stuff's catching up
I'm not sure if I've had enough, but I'll survive

I've got to play these reels and gigs
So I can hold down theses few Irish gigs
The Dublin House and the Inisfree
I'm sure you'll all have me back again

Four long years in this here town
Hoping the freeways don't come tumbling down
Driving in the fast lane, trying to get to the gig
Always dreaming of making it big

Shannon to New York, and back again
I think this is as far as I've ever been
Would you like a cocktail, sir Oh'Oh !!!!!!
No thank you ma'am

I'm playing the honkytonks and bars
Trying to imitate the Doors and the Cars
Irish rock and rhythm and blues
Trying to make it big in America
Making it big in America.
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When You're Alone 
Words & Music by Brendan O'Loughlin

Tell me where you go when you are dreaming
Tell me what you do when you’re alone.
Do you ever think of coming here to see me?
I miss you almost every single night.

I hope you’ve not forgotten all about me.
It’s been so long since I have heard from you.
Can’t you take a pen and paper and write me?
And tell me what you think that I should do.

Chorus
Don’t you know I can’t forget you.
You’re in my mind both night and day.
I wonder are your dreams about me, 
Am I in your thoughts when you’re alone?

Now I’m coming home real soon I hope I see you
I have a feeling that our lives have changed.
But that’s all right cause I will still love you
Maybe in a different kind of way.
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Here Comes The Night  LISTEN
Words & Music by Brendan O'Loughlin
(Contemporary style folk song that many people will read many different things into. With some great guests including the producer, Jonathan Yudkin, (Kathy Mattea) playing fiddle. Another track recorded in Nashville.)

I'm living each day in the midst of a dream
Of the wonderful nights I spent over here
Telling my soul it's where I should be
Please don't leave me now

I don't know why I'm so far away
From the people I can still hear say
Just play good music and live for today
But don't you leave me now

You are the one in my nightly dreams
Can't get you out of my mind it seems
I tell all my friends it's where I should be
Close by you now

Here comes the night time again
Dreaming of the places that we've been
You're gonna be my lover and my friend
Forever and forever

I'm doing the best that I can do
Don't you know this song's for you
Faithful and remaining true
My days are with you now

I'm doing the best that I can do
Don't you know this song's for you
Faithful and remaining true
My days are with you now

I'm doing the best that I can do
Don't you know this song's for you
Faithful and remaining true
My days are with you now
With you now
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