Connemara Morn

(Words: Tom Kelly; Music: Brendan Nolan; Produced and arranged by David Gossage)

Key of D

I met Tom Kelly from Charlotte, North Carolina back in the early eighties in Montreal. Over fifteen years later we made contact again. In his home one day he showed me some lyrics he had written. There was something about these words that stayed with me.

Did you see me passing
Down a crowded avenue
Past the main street market
Where Coran’s Cafe stood

Where we shared so many memories
Pressed against the window pane
Looking out on hurried strangers
As they passed St. Stephen’s Green

Refrain:
Take me back to Connemara
And her misty fields of green
Where our hearts could soar the mountains
And sail upon her silver sea

We were lost in quiet moments
Touched by hearts forever torn
Between this city life of Dublin
And our Connemara morn

Where Lough Corrib shines
The old weirs forever worn
And where our hearts first beat together
And that Connemara morn

Take me back to Connemara
And her misty fields of green
Where our hearts could soar the mountains
And sail upon her silver sea

Where the currachs ride the waters
And face the coming storm
And we stood and watched at sunrise
On a Connemara morn

The years pass by so quickly
But the time so sad and slow
As I wait here at Tullycross
In the hopes youíd soon return

Take me back to Connemara
To the coastline of the Gael
Where seabirds glide along the waters
And the granite towers prevail

Take me back to Connemara
And her misty fields of green
Where our hearts could soar the mountains
And sail upon her silver sea