The Land We Call Tara - Dillon/Lennon

Paul Lennon and I got our “Irish up” after our last collaboration and did one more to share with everyone. Hope you all have a wonderful St. Patrick’s Day! Here are the lyrics:

The Land We Call Tara
© 2015 Lyrics - Colleen Dillon, Music – Paul Lennon

If I was to write an Irish song
To sing with my good friends all the year long
It’d be of green clovers, whiskey and Yeats
Poetry, music, and warm fires of peat
Poetry, music, and warm fires of peat

We’d come together to have a wee pint
The Guinness between us, good stories all night
The fiddle would sing with the drums steady beat
Tapping along with the shoes on our feet
Tapping along with the shoes on our feet

Someone would start a warriors’ lament
We’d cry in our cups for the lives that were spent
Freedom from the troubles America called
Away from oppression our children did crawl
Away from oppression our children did crawl

The song will bring us to the place we’d call home
Happy there now or by a dream in a song
One place we all know we will always belong
The land we call Tara is calling us home
The land we call Tara is calling us home