Robbie O’Connell – There Were Roses

Robbie O’Connell – There Were Roses Lyrics

Artist: Robbie O’Connell
Song: There Were Roses

My song for you this evening, it’s not to make you sad
Nor for adding to the sorrows of our troubled northern land
But lately I’ve been thinking and it just won’t leave my mind
I’ll tell you of two friends one time who were both good friends of mine

Isaac Scott from Banagh, he lived just across the fields
A great man for the music, the dancing and the reels
McDonald came from South Armagh to court young Alice fair
And we often met on the Ryan Road and laughter filled the air

There were roses, roses
There were roses
And the tears of a people ran together
Now Isaac he was Protestant and Sean was Catholic born

But it never made a difference, for the friendship it was strong
And sometimes in the evening when we heard the sound of drums
We said it won’t divide us, we always will be one
For the ground our fathers plowed in, the soil it is the same

And the places where we say our prayers have just got different names
We talked about the friends who’d died and hoped there’d be no more
It was little then we realized the tragedy in store
There were roses, roses

There were roses
And the tears of a people ran together
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From the album:
Green Linnet Records: The Twentieth Anniversary Collection Vol. II
Release Year: 2007