Celtic Thunder Lyrics

Emmet Cahill's Ireland (2017)

I'll Take You Home Again Kathleen lyrics - Celtic Thunder

I'll take you home again, Kathleen

Across the ocean wild and wide

To where your heart has ever been

Since first you were my bonnie bride

The roses all have left your cheeks

I've watched them fade away and die

Your voice is sad when e'er you speak

And tears bedim your loving eyes

So I will take you back, Kathleen

To where your heart will feel no pain

And when the fields are fresh and green

Oh, I'II take you to your home Kathleen

Your voice is sad when e'er you speak

And tears bedim your loving eyes

Oh I will take you back, Kathleen

To where your heart will feel no pain

And when the fields are fresh and green

Oh, I'II take you to your home again

And when the fields are fresh and green

Oh, I'II take you to your home Kathleen

An Irish Lullaby lyrics - Celtic Thunder

Over in Killarney

Many years ago

Me Mither sang a song to me

In tones so sweet and low

Just a simple little ditty

In her good ould Irish way

And I'd give the world if she could sing

That song to me this day

Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ral, Too-ra-loo-ra-li

Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ral, hush now, don't you cry

Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ral, Too-ra-loo-ra-li

Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ral, that's an Irish lullaby

Oft in dreams I wander

To that cot again

I feel her arms a-huggin' me

As when she held me then

And I hear her voice a hummin'

To me as in days of yore

When she used to rock me fast asleep

Outside the cabin door

Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ral, Too-ra-loo-ra-li

Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ral, hush now, don't you cry

Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ral, Too-ra-loo-ra-li

Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ral, that's an Irish lullaby

Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ral, Too-ra-loo-ra-li

Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ral, hush now, don't you cry

Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ral, Too-ra-loo-ra-li

Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ral, that's an Irish lullaby

My Cavan Girl lyrics - Celtic Thunder

As I walk the road from Killashandra

Weary I'm sat down

For it's twelve long miles around the lake

To get to Cavan town

Though Ougher and the road I go

Once seemed beyond compare

Now I curse the time it takes to reach

My Cavan girl so fair

The autumn shades are on the leaves

The trees will soon be bare

Each red-gold leaf around me seems the colours of her hair

My gaze retreats to find my feet

And once again I sigh

For the broken pool of sky reminds me

The colours of her eye

At the Cavan Cross each Sunday morning

Where she can be found

And she seems to have the eye of every boy in Cavan town

If my luck will hold I'll have the golden summer of her smile

And to break the hearts of Cavan men

She'll talk to me a while

So next Sunday evening finds me homeward - Killashandra bound

To work the week, till I return and court in Cavan town

When asked if she would be my bride at least she'd not said "no"

So next Sunday morning, rouse myself, and back to her I'll go

As I walk the road from Killashandra

Weary I'm sat down

For it's twelve long miles around the lake

To get to Cavan town

Though Ougher and the road I go

Once seemed beyond compare

Now I curse the time it takes to reach

My Cavan girl so fair

Now I curse the time it takes to reach

My Cavan girl so fair

Macushla lyrics - Celtic Thunder

Macushla, Macushla your sweet voice is calling

Calling me softly again and again

Macushla Macushla I hear it's dear pleading

My blue eyed Macushla I hear it in vain

Macushla, Macushla your white arms are reaching

I feel them enfolding, caressing me still

Fling them out from the darkness my lost love Macushla

Let them find me, and bind me again if they will

Macushla, Macushla your red lips are saying

That death is a dream and love is for aye

Then awaken Macushla, awake from your dreaming

My blue eyed Macushla awaken to stay

Sweet Sixteen lyrics - Celtic Thunder

When first I saw the love light in your eyes

I dreamt the world held nought but joy for me

And even though we drifted far apart

I never dream but what I dream of thy

I love you as I've never loved before

Since first I met you on the village green

Come to me e'er my dream of love is o're

I love you as I loved you, when you were sweet

When you were sweet sixteen

Last night I dreamt I held your hand in mine

And once again you were my happy bride

I kissed you as I did on 'Auld Lang Syne'

As to the church we wandered side by side

I love you as I've never loved before

Since first I met you on the village green

Come to me e'er my dream of love is o're

I love you as I loved you, when you were sweet

When you were sweet sixteen

Danny Boy lyrics - Celtic Thunder

Oh, Danny boy

The pipes, the pipes are calling

From glen to glen and down the mountain side

The summer's gone

And all the roses falling

Tis you, tis you must go and I must bide

But come ye back when summer's in the meadow

Or when the valley's hushed and white with snow

Tis I'll be here in sunshine or in shadow

Oh, Danny boy, oh, Danny boy I love you so

But come ye back when summer's in the meadow

Or when the valley's hushed and white with snow

Tis I'll be here in sunshine or in shadow

Oh, Danny boy, oh, Danny boy I love you so

Oh, Danny boy, oh, Danny boy I love you so

Oft In The Stilly Night lyrics - Celtic Thunder

Oft, in the stilly night

Ere Slumber's chain has bound me

Fond Memory brings the light

Of other days around me

The smiles, the tears

Of boyhood's years

The words of love then spoken

The eyes that shone

Now dimm'd and gone

The cheerful hearts now broken

Thus, in the stilly night

Ere Slumber's chain hath bound me

Sad Memory brings the light

Of other days around me

When I remember all

The friends, so link'd together

I've seen around me fall

Like leaves in wintry weather

I feel like one

Who treads alone

Some banquet-hall deserted

Whose lights are fled

Whose garlands dead

And all but he departed

Thus, in the stilly night

Ere Slumber's chain hath bound me

Sad Memory brings the light

Of other days around me

When Irish Eyes Are Smiling lyrics - Celtic Thunder

There's a tear in your eye

And I'm wondering why

For it never should be there at all

With such pow'r in your smile

Sure a stone you'd be guile

So there's never a teardrop should fall

When your sweet lilting laughter's

Like some fairy song

And your eyes twinkle bright as can be

You must laugh all the while

And all other times smile

And now, smile a smile for me

When Irish eyes are smiling

Sure, 'tis like the morning Spring

In the lilt of Irish laughter

You can hear the angels sing

When Irish hearts are happy

All the world seems bright and gay

What when Irish eyes are smiling

Sure, they steal your heart away

For your smile is a part

Of the love in your heart

And it makes even sunshine more bright

Like the linnet's sweet song

Crooning all the day long

Comes your laughter and light

For the springtime of life

Is the sweetest of all

And there's ne'er a real care or regret

And while springtime is ours

Throughout all of youth's hours

Let us smile each chance we get

When Irish eyes are smiling

Sure, 'tis like the morning Spring

In the lilt of Irish laughter

You can hear the angels sing

When Irish hearts are happy

All the world seems bright and gay

And when Irish eyes are smiling

Sure, they steal your heart away

When Irish eyes are smiling

Sure, 'tis like the morning Spring

In the lilt of Irish laughter

You can hear the angels sing

When Irish hearts are happy

All the world seems bright and gay

What when Irish eyes are smiling

Sure, they steal your heart away

Wild Mountain Thyme lyrics - Celtic Thunder

Oh the summer time is comin'

And the leaves are sweetly bloomin'

And the wild mountain thyme

Grows around the bloomin' heather

Will you go, lassie, go?

And we'll all go together

To pull wild mountain thyme

All around the bloomin' heather

Will you go, lassie, go?

I will build my love a bower

By yon pure crystal fountain

And on it I will place

All the flowers of the mountain

Will you go, lassie, go?

And we'll all go together

To pull wild mountain thyme

All around the bloomin' heather

Will you go, lassie, go?

If my true love she were gone

I'd surely find another

Where the wild mountain thyme

Grows around the bloomin' heather

Will you go, lassie, go?

And we'll all go together

To pull wild mountain thyme

All around the bloomin' heather

Will you go, lassie, go?

And we'll all go together

To pull wild mountain thyme

All around the bloomin' heather

Will you go, lassie, go?

The West's Awake lyrics - Celtic Thunder

When all beside a vigil keep

The West's asleep, the West's asleep

Alas! and well may Erin weep

When Connacht lies in slumber deep

There lake and plain smile fair and free

'Mid rocks their guardian chivalry

Sing, Oh! let man learn liberty

From crashing wind and lashing sea

That chainless wave and lovely land

Freedom and nationhood demand

Be sure the great God never planned

For slumb'ring slaves a home so grand

And long a brave and haughty race

Honoured and sentinelled the place

Sing, Oh! not even their sons' disgrace

Can quite destroy their glory's trace

For often, in O'Connor's van

To triumph dashed each Connacht clan

And fleet as deer the Normans ran

Thro' Corrsliabh Pass and Ardrahan

And later times saw deeds as brave

And glory guards Clanricarde's grave

Sing, Oh! they died their land to save

At Aughrim's slopes and Shannon's wave

And if, when all a vigil keep

The West's asleep! the West's asleep

Alas! and well may Erin weep

That Connacht lies in slumber deep

But, hark! a voice like thunder spake

The West's awake! the West's awake

Sing, Oh! hurrah! let England quake

We'll watch till death for Erin's sake

The Parting Glass lyrics - Celtic Thunder

Of all the money that e'er I had

I spent it in good company

And of all the harm that e'er I've done

Alas it was to none but me

And all I've done for want of wit

To memory now I can't recall

So fill to me the parting glass

Good night and joy be with you all

Of all the comrades that e'er I had

They're sorry for my going away

And all the sweethearts that e'er I had

They'd wish me one more day to stay

But since it falls unto my lot

That I should rise and you should not

I'll gently rise and I'll softly call

Good night and joy be with you all

A man may drink and not be drunk

A man may fight and not be slain

A man may court a pretty girl

And perhaps be welcomed home again

But since it has so ought it'd been

By a time to rise and a time to fall

Come fill to me the parting glass

Good night and joy be with you all

Christmas Voices (2013)

Carol Of The Bells lyrics - Celtic Thunder

Hark how the bells, sweet silver bells

All seem to say, throw cares away

Christmas is here, bringing good cheer

To young and old, meek and the bold

Ding dong and dong, that is the song

With joyful ring, all caroling

One seems to hear, words of good cheer

From everywhere, filling the air

Oh, how they pound, raising the sound

O’er hill and dale, telling the tale

Gaily they ring, while people sing

Songs of good cheer, Christmas is here

Merry, merry, merry, merry Christmas

Merry, merry, merry, merry Christmas

On, on they send, on without end

Their joyful tone, to every home

Hark how the bells, sweet silver bells

All seem to say, throw cares away

Christmas is here, bringing good cheer

To young and old, meek and the bold

Ding dong and on, that is the song

With joyful ring, all caroling

One seems to hear, words of good cheer

From everywhere, filling the air

Oh, how they pound, raising the sound

O’er hill and dale, telling the tale

Gaily they ring, while people sing

Songs of good cheer, Christmas is here

Merry, merry, merry, merry Christmas

Merry, merry, merry, merry Christmas

On, on they send, on without end

Their joyful tone, to every home

Hark how the bells, sweet silver bells

All seem to say, throw cares away

Christmas is here

Gaudete lyrics - Celtic Thunder

Gaudete, gaudete

Christus est natus

Ex Maria virgine, gaudete [x4]

Tempus adest gratiae

Hoc quod optabamus

Carmina laetitiae

Devote reddamus

Gaudete, gaudete

Christus est natus

Ex Maria virgine, gaudete [x2]

Deus homo factus est

Natura mirante

Mundus renovates est

A Christo regnante

Gaudete, gaudete

Christus est natus

Ex Maria virgine, gaudete [x2]

Ergo nostra contio

Psallat iam in lustro

Benedicat Domino

Salus Regi nostro

Gaudete, gaudete

Christus est natus

Ex Maria virgine, gaudete [x4]

Mary Did You Know? lyrics - Celtic Thunder

Mary, did you know

That your baby boy

Would some day walk on water?

Mary, did you know

That your baby boy

Would save our sons and daughters?

Did you know

That your baby boy has come to make you new?

This child that you delivered

Will soon deliver you

Mary, did you know

That your baby boy

Would give sight to a blind man?

Mary, did you know

That your baby boy

Would calm the sea with His hand?

Did you know

That your baby boy has walked where angels trod?

When you kiss your little baby

Then you’ve kissed the face of God

Mary, did you know

Ooo...

The blind will see

The deaf will hear

The dead will live again

The lame will leap

The dumb will speak

The praises of the Lamb

Mary, did you know

That your baby boy

Is Lord of all creation?

Mary, did you know

That your baby boy

Would some day rule the nations?

Did you know

That your baby is heaven’s perfect Lamb?

The sleeping child you’re holding is the Great I Am

Mary, did you know?

God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen lyrics - Celtic Thunder

God rest ye merry, gentlemen

Let nothing you dismay

Remember, Christ, our Savior

Was born on Christmas Day

To save us all from Satan’s pow’r

When we were gone astray

O tidings of comfort and joy, comfort and joy

O tidings of comfort and joy

From God, our Heav’nly Father

A blessed angel came

And unto certain shepherds

Brought tidings of the same

How that in Bethlehem was born

The Son of God by name

O tidings of comfort and joy, comfort and joy

O tidings of comfort and joy

And when they came to Bethlehem

Where our dear Savior lay

They found Him in a manger

Where oxen feed on hay

His Mother Mary kneeling down

Unto the Lord did pray

O tidings of comfort and joy, comfort and joy

O tidings of comfort and joy

Now to the Lord sing praises

All you within this place

And with true love and brotherhood

Each other now embrace

This holy tide of Christmas

All others doth deface

O tidings of comfort and joy, comfort and joy

O tidings of comfort and joy

In The Bleak Midwinter lyrics - Celtic Thunder

In the bleak midwinter

Frosty wind made moan

Earth stood hard as iron

Water like a stone

Snow had fallen, snow on snow

Snow on snow

In the bleak midwinter

Long ago

Heaven cannot hold Him

Nor earth sustain

And earth shall flee away

When He comes to reign

In the bleak midwinter, a stable place sufficed

The Lord God Almighty

Jesus Christ

Angels and archangels

May have gathered there

Cherubim and seraphim

Thronged the air

But His mother only, in her maiden bliss

Worshipped the beloved

With a kiss

What can I give Him?

Poor as I am

If I were a shepherd

I would bring a lamb

If I were a wise man, I would do my part

Yet what can I give him?

Give my heart

Gabriel's Message lyrics - Celtic Thunder

The Angel Gabriel from heaven came

His wings as drifted snow, his eyes as flame

All hail, said he, thou Holy Maiden Mary

Most highly favored lady

Gloria

For know a blessed mother thou shalt be

All generations laud and honor thee

Thy son shall be Emmanuel by seers foretold

Most highly favored lady

Gloria

Then gentle Mary meekly bowed her head

To me, be as it pleaseth God, she said

My soul shall laud and magnify his holy name

Most highly favored lady

Gloria

Of her Emmanuel, the Christ was born

In Bethlehem all on a Christmas morn

And all ye men throughout the world will ever say

Most highly favored lady

Gloria

Christmas Medley lyrics - Celtic Thunder

Just hear those sleigh bells jingling

Ring ting tingling too

Come on, it’s lovely weather

For a sleigh ride together with you

Outside the snow is falling

And friends are calling “yoo hoo”

Come on, it’s lovely weather

For a sleigh ride together with you

Our cheeks are nice and rosy

And comfy cozy are we

We’re snuggled up together like

Birds of a feather would be

Let’s take a road before us

And sing a chorus or two

Come on, it’s lovely weather

Here comes Santa Claus, here comes Santa Claus

Right down Santa Claus lane

Vixen and Blitzen, and all his reindeer

Pulling on the reins

Bells are ringing, children singing

All is merry and bright

Hang your stockings and say your prayers

‘Cause Santa Claus comes tonight

(Santa Claus is coming tonight, Santa Claus is coming tonight)

Here comes Santa Claus, here comes Santa Claus

Right down Santa Claus lane

He’s got a bag that’s filled with toys

For boys and girls again

Hear those sleigh bells jingle jangle

What a beautiful sight

Jump in bed, cover up your head

‘Cause Santa Claus is coming tonight

The toy shop door is locked up tight

And everything is quiet for the night

When suddenly, the clock strikes twelve

The fun’s begun

The dolls are in their best arrayed

There’s going to be a wonderful parade

Hark to the drum, oh, here they come

Cries everyone

Hear them all cheering

Now they are nearing

There's the captain stiff as starch

Bayonets flashing

Music is crashing

As the wooden soldiers march

Sabers a-clinking

Soldiers a-winking

At each pretty little maid

Here they come, here they come

Here they come, here they come

Wooden soldiers on parade

You better watch out, you better not cry

You better not pout, I’m telling you why

Santa Claus is coming to town

Santa Claus is coming to town

Santa Claus is coming to town

He’s making a list, checking it twice

Gonna find out who’s naughty or nice

Santa Claus is coming to town

Santa Claus is coming to town

Santa Claus is coming to town

He sees you when you’re sleeping

He knows when you’re awake

He knows if you’ve been bad or good

So be good for goodness sake

You better watch out, you better not cry

You better not pout, I’m telling you why

Santa Claus is coming to town

Santa Claus is coming to town

Santa Claus is coming to town

I saw Mommy kissing Santa Claus

Underneath the mistletoe last night

She didn’t see me creep

Down the stairs to have a peep

She thought I was tucked up in my bedroom fast asleep

Then, I saw Mommy tickle Santa Claus

Underneath his beard so snowy white

Oh, what a laugh it would have been

If Daddy had only seen

Mommy kissing Santa Claus last night

Oh, what a laugh it would have been

If Daddy had only seen

Mommy kissing Santa Claus last night

I saw Mommy kissing Santa Claus

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