Traditional Irish
x4 |
On Raglan Road of an Autumn day, |
I saw her first and I knew. |
That her dark hair would weave a snare, |
that I might one day rue. |
I saw the danger and yet-I-passed, |
a-long the en-chanted way. |
And I said: "Let grief be-a-falling leaf, |
at the dawning of the day." |
On Grafton Street in Novem-ber, |
we tripped lightly a-long the ledge. |
Of a deep ra-vine where can be seen, |
the-true-worth of passion's pledge. |
The Queen of Hearts still making tarts, |
and I not making hay. |
For I loved too much and by such, by such |
is happiness thrown a-way. |
I gave her gifts of the mind, |
I gave her the secret sign. |
That's known to the artists who have known, |
the-true-Gods of sound and stone. |
And words and tint I did not stint, |
for I gave her poems to say. |
With her own name there and her long dark hair, |
like clouds over fields of May. |
On a quiet street where old ghosts meet, |
I see her walking now. |
A-way from me so hurried-ly, |
my reason must al-low. |
That I have loved not as I should, |
a creature made of clay. |
When the angel wooo-s the clay he'll lose, |
his wings, at the dawn of day. |
When the angel woo-s... the clay, he'll lose, |
his wings, at the dawn of day ... |