====== #2099 - Kerry Dance ======
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  *Composer:
    *++James Lyman Molloy|{{search>"James Lyman Molloy" @cobs}}++ (1837-1909), 1879(([[:refs#Grand Roller Organ, A Musical Wonder]]))
  *[[/data/media/midi/2099.mid|MIDI]] | ++show|\\ {{http://www.rollerorgans.com/mid2roll.php?cob=2099&.gif?}}++
  *++Lyrics:|\\
//chorus: //\\
Oh, the days of the Kerry dancing\\
Oh, the ring of the piper's tune\\
Oh, for one of those hours of gladness\\
Gone, alas, like our youth, too soon!\\
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When the boys began to gather\\
In the glen of a summer's night\\
And the Kerry piper's tuning\\
Made us long with wild delight!\\
Oh, to think of it\\
Oh, to dream of it\\
Fills my heart with tears!\\
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//chorus//\\
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Was there ever a sweeter Colleen\\
In the dance than Eily More\\
Or a prouder lad than Thady\\
As he boldly took the floor.\\
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Lads and lasses to your places\\
Up the middle and down again\\
Ah, the merry hearted laughter\\
Ringing through the happy glen!\\
Oh, to think of it\\
Oh, to dream of it\\
Fills my heart with tears!\\
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//chorus//\\
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Time goes on, and the happy years are dead\\
And one by one the merry hearts are fled\\
Silent now is the wild and lonely glen\\
Where the bright glad laugh will echo ne'er again\\
Only dreaming of days gone by in my heart I hear.\\
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Loving voices of old companions\\
Stealing out of the past once more\\
And the sound of the dear old music\\
Soft and sweet as in days of yore.\\
\\
When the boys began to gather\\
In the glen of a summer's night\\
And the Kerry piper's tuning\\
Made us long with wild delight!\\
Oh, to think of it\\
Oh, to dream of it\\
Fills my heart with tears!\\
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//chorus//\\
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    *++James Lyman Molloy|{{search>"James Lyman Molloy" @cobs}}++ (1837-1909), 1879
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The opening bars are possibly based on //The Cuckoo// by Margaret Casson, c1790