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Magic Celtic Carpet

from Clear as day as the night is long by Hugh Doolan

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Song's inception: 17th March 1993, living abroad in Italy; inspired to write a song for all those who leave Ireland for whatever reason. Relevant again in 2011

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The best feelings I did have
For the turf I did leave
Were the ones that made me glad
There'd someday be reprieve

But on such a day as this
I return there in my mind
And walk gently there
To bend down and kiss its magic celtic carpet

How am I to know if my seeds they will sow
In this foreign state outside my own

‘Twas me who did elope there
Leaving a ladder on the window ledge
And a stained letter to all my friends
Telling them I had to go away again

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To the factories closed
Navvies ghosts
Fishermen dry-docked
Dole receivers and school leavers
Young mothers their babies to rock
Well I say..
Don’t lay down
Try and raise a cheer
On this one day of the year
There's a magic celtic carpet
‘neath our wandering, wandering feet

I've climbed down a thousand rungs
And broke my fall before
And got up to work at foraging
For love and for money and for more

So if I could send it all on home
Bitter sweet honey
It still would never ever be enough
To wipe the soil off these foreign hands

Repeat chorus:

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from Clear as day as the night is long, released November 11, 2010

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Hugh Doolan Dublin, Ireland

Soundtrack artist, engineer/producer, singer-songwriter Hugh Doolan is from Dublin, Ireland. Think melange of folk and orchestral, a lab for bluesy experiments and free electronica. Check out new album 'im perfect' which is a series of mostly instrumental nuggets, interspersed with a few pieces with vox and words; all best described as psychedelicate, folkytronic and soundscapey. tks ... more

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