The Lilt Of A Grandmother's Song by bert

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In the Lilt of a Grandmother's Song
That's where I learned right from wrong
There were maidens who sighed and martyrs who died
In the Lilt of a Grandmother's Song.

With her silvery hair in her old rocking chair
She sang of a spinning wheel turning
When her son left the shore to return nevermore
She sang of a fond mother's yearning.

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She sang me to sleep with songs of the deep
St. Brendan who sailed the world over
Of pretty coleens and the smell o' poteen
Gold sovereigns and a wild rover.

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From the Old Shannon Shore, to the Mountains of Mourne
Songs of laughter and kissing the blarney
Of the Orange and Green and Old Skibbereen
And the hills and the lakes o' Kilarney.

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