I am from the USA and stumbled upon Cara singing Bright Morning Star two year ago and have not stopped listening to her since. Cara and her sister Mary have absolutely beautiful voices! I can listen to them sing all day long. This is a beautiful song that Cara sings! Praise God that He blessed the Dillon sisters with such wonderful voices.
As a fellow American, I mourn that we are offered only earshit on this side of the pond. Taylor Swift, "Lady" Gaga, etc. I am half Irish and Scottish and I can't understand why most Americans have never even heard this music. It sure proves that evolution does not exist in music. We have survival of the unfittest.
It is calling from the past. Our Irish past. That's why this song from Cara is so hauntingly beautiful. It's a gorgeous echo of our past, yet still, the most modern, progressive, LGBTQI song I know. 2,000 years ago, under Irish, Gaelic, Brehon law, men and women were totally equal. The rest of Europe never got that. They still don't! For my part, let's accept equality between Women, Men and those like me who are genuinely, heart-archingly Trans. It's a hard world, but nothing like it was 20 years ago. Thks 😁🙏
Sorry it took me 3 years to hear this today from a link on a Facebook post by "Irish Music Magazine." So beautiful !!! Being of Irish descent myself, I love the really pretty Irish songs, Niamh Parsons, etc. This girl has such a gorgeous voice. I used to play guitar at some local Irish "seisiuns." Subscribed !!!
Lyrics: When the cuckoo is calling Over wood, land and valley And the tern and the swallow flies over our bay Then it's longing I'll be for the land of my fathers Where Bann and Blackwater sweep down to Lough Neagh A home I have made in the land of the stranger And its manys a long year since I've left Derry Quay Still I dream of the blue moon And the glens of old Ireland Where Bann and Blackwater sweep down to Lough Neagh And soon I must start And this is my last journey For my eyes they grow dim my hairs sparse and grey And soon I must follow the tern and the swallow Where Bann and Blackwater sweep down to Lough Neagh I long for to see the dark waters of Lough Neagh And I long for to gaze on Slieve Gallion bay And I long for to follow the tern and the swallow Where Bann and Blackwater sweep down to Lough Neagh And when I return to my native land In the spring I will hear the cuckoo sing round Lough Neagh And I'll be out there waiting For the tern and the swallow Where Bann and Blackwater sweep down to Lough Neagh And all I ask is a cairn in the land of my fathers Where Bann and Blackwater sweep down to Lough Neagh
You guys still move me with your "proper way to exploit six chords" as I would say in a shcool class, but really because you sing and play with the spirit of the music itself (bla bla, words) it is almost perfect, which is perfect...
As an irish person. Our songs are our stories of heart ache for all we have lost indured or missed over the years. We had no money or proper human rights for hundreds of years, but we had stories and songs that could never be taken away. Long may they be carried on. From generation and so forth.❤☘️
