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I wandered today to the hill, Maggie
To view the scene below
The creek and the rusty old mill, Maggie
Where we sat so long ago
The green grove is gone from the hill, Maggie
Where first the daisies sprung
And the rusty old mill is still, Maggie
Since you and I were young
They say I am feeble with age, Maggie
My steps are less sprightly than then
And my face is a well-written page, Maggie
And time all alone was the pen
And they say we are aged and gray, Maggie
Like spray from the white breakers flung
But to me you're as fair as you were, Maggie
When you and I were young
And now we are aged and gray, Maggie
Our time here on earth nearly done
Let us sing to the days that were, Maggie
Oh, when you and I were young
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Love Is Like
03:20
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Love is like my old first car
It's blue sometimes and sticks in second gear
Love is like a tangerine
It's firm to slightly soft and it's heavy for its size
Love is like a used dishwasher that comes with an apartment
Where they only ask for first month's rent and there's no cleaning fee
Yeah, I know love
I know love
Love is like a John Wayne movie
But not the one you're thinking of
Love is like a baby's smile
– wait, no it's not, I take that back
Love is like a silent chord played on an old piano
By a Latvian trombonist on her quest to make it big
Yeah, I know love
I know love
Love is like a burning oven mitt
A gift from your first cousin
That never even fit
Yes, that's it
Love is like a tennis ball
I'm not sure why, it's just the way it is
Love is like an angry sea in a Bob Ross painting
According to my dad
Love is like an operation suddenly gone bad
Where the patient might not make it
And they're someone who you've hated
So it's kind of complicated and you're not sure what to think
Yeah, I know love
I know love
I know love
I know love
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Down by the Salley Gardens my love and I did meet
She passed the Salley Gardens with little snow-white feet
She bid me take love easy as the leaves grow on the tree
Ah but I, being young and foolish, with her would not agree
In a field by the river my love and I did stand
And on my leaning shoulder she laid her snow-white hand
She bid me take life easy as the grass grows on the weirs
Ah but I was young and foolish, and now am full of tears
She bid me take life easy as the grass grows on the weirs
Ah but I was young and foolish, and now am full of tears
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Roslin Castle
03:46
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Terror Time
03:34
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Heather will fade and the bracken will die
Streams will run cold and clear
And the small birds will be goin'
And it's then you will be knowin'
That the terror time is near
Where will you go and where will you bide
Now that the work's all done
And the farmer does not need you
And the council will not heed you
And the terror time has come
The woods give no shelter, the trees they are bare
Snow falling all around
And the children they are crying
And the bed on which they're lying
Has frozen to the ground
The frost will not lift, and the stove will not draw
There's ice in the water churn
Through the mud and snow you're sloshing
Trying to do your bit of washing
And the kindling will not burn
Needing the warming of your own humankind
You draw near a town, and then
The sight of you's offending
The police they soon are sending
And you're on the road again
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The Book of Love
03:43
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The book of love is long and boring
No one can lift the damn thing
It's full of charts and facts and figures
And instructions for dancing
But I
I love it when you read to me
And you
You can read me anything
The book of love has music in it
In fact that's where music comes from
And some of it is just transcendent
Some of it is just really dumb
But I
I love it when you sing to me
And you
You can sing me anything
The book of love is long and boring
And written very long ago
It's full of flowers and heart-shaped boxes
And things we're all too young to know
But I
I love it when you give me things
And you
You ought to give me wedding rings
I
I love it when you give me things
And you
You ought to give me wedding rings
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The Banks of Sullane
03:36
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Come pledge again your heart and your hand
One grasp that never will sever
Our password be our native land
Our motto love forever
And let the orange lily be
Your badge, my patriot brother
It's the everlasting green for me
And we for one another
Behold how green the gallant stem
On which the flower is blowing
How in one heavenly breeze and beam
Both flower and stem are glowing
The same good soil sustaining both
Makes both united to flourish
But cannot give the orange growth
And cease the green to nourish
The more the hand that plucks that flower
Will vainly strive to cherish
In that hour the stem blooms on
But the flower it begins to perish
Regard them then of equal worth
While lasts their genial weather
The time's at hand when deep in earth
They will both sink together
And though it be in our country's cause
Our party feelings blended
'Till lasting peace from equal laws
On both will have descended
'Till then the orange lily be
Your badge, my patriot brother
It's the everlasting green for me
And we for one another
And we for one another
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Sliabh na mBan
04:08
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