L O R E E NA M C K E N N I T T

S H E ET M U S I C
PIANO VOCAL

The Old Ways

From the Quinlan Road CD The Visit

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are call-ing me home

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The pound- ing sea

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is call-ing me home

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On a dark new year's night

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heard

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Your hands played the tune

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T'was a vi-sion be-fore

Your eyes danced the song

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On the west coast of Clare

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We left the mu - sic be-hind

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and the dance

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We smelt

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as we stole

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felt the wind in our hair

With sadness
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Sudden-ly I knew

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that you'd have to go

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Your world was not mine,

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your eyes told me so

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I felt the cross -

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roads of time

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And I won- dered

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our gaze

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As we cast

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vi-sion came o

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Of thun-dering hooves

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and beat - ing wings

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In the clouds a - bove.

Turn-ing to go

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heard you call out my name,

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Like a bird in a cage

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you sang as you flew

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spreading
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"The old ways are lost,"

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