 Genius Lyrics
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Paul Brady – Arthur McBride
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Arthur McBride (also called “Arthur McBride and the Sergeant”) is a traditional Irish folk song.
It was first collected around 1840 in Limerick by Patrick Weston Joyce; also in
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Paul Brady – Crazy Dreams
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Snow-bound siren in the winter dawn / There's a blizzard blowing in from off the river / It's ten below out on these city streets / But the feeling in your heart is even colder
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Paul Brady – Nothing But the Same Old Story
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I was just about nineteen / When I landed on their shore / With my eyes big as headlights / Like the thousands and thousands who came before / I was going to be something
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Paul Brady – The Lakes of Pontchartrain
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T'was on one bright March morning I bid New Orleans adieu / And I took the rode to Jackson town, me fortune to renew / I cursed all foreign money, no credit could I gain / Which
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Paul Brady – The Homes of Donegal
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I've just dropped in to see you all / I'll only stay awhile / I want to hear how you're getting on / I want to hear you smile / I'm happy to be back again / And greet you big and
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Paul Brady (Ft. The Forest Rangers) – Gimme Shelter
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Ooh, a storm is threatnin' / My very life today / If I don't get some shelter / Oh yeah, I'm gonna fade away / War, children / It's just a shot away, it's just a shot away / War
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Paul Brady – Smile
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They say the world is heading for a breakdown / No more safe ground anymore / Just one little slip and we'd all be gone without a trace / But when I see your face I just have to
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Paul Brady – The Island
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They say the skies of lebanon are burning / Those mighty cedars bleeding in the heat / They're showing pictures on the television / Women and children dying in the streets / And we
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Paul Brady – Paradise Is Here
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You say you wanna live some / Move out into the fast lane / You say you need excitement / To make you come alive / Some place a million miles from / The shadows that surround you
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Paul Brady – Help Me to Believe
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I guess it’s time to face the whole truth / This situation’s here to stay / We keep returning to this same place / I watch my courage slip away / I look for something in your eyes
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Paul Brady – Follow On
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Shutters on the windows, chains upon the door / Sleepless nights spent waiting for an answer / Dreams of heaven falling, panic in the town / Lonely men with fingers on the future
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Paul Brady – Love Goes On
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People like us / We search the sky at night / Waiting for stars to fall / Holding our breath / Hoping our time will come / Waiting to hear the call / Time after time / We seem to
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Paul Brady – Not the Only One
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I was in a daze moving in the wrong direction / Feeling that I'd always be the lonely one / Then I saw your face on the edge of my horizon / Whispering that I wasn't the only one
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Andy Irvine and Paul Brady – Mary and the Soldier
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Come all you lads of high renown that will hear of a fair young maiden / And she roved out on a summer's day for to view the soldier's parading / They march so bold and they look
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Paul Brady – Steel Claw
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A night in television wonderland / Just one more fairytale about some rich bitch / Lying by the swimming pool / It's the golden school / And life is easy when you make the rules
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Andy Irvine and Paul Brady – The Jolly Soldier
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Oh it's of a jolly soldier that lately came from war / He loved a fair young damsel, a damsel so fair / And her fortune was so great that it could scarcely be told / And she loved
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Paul Brady – I Believe in Magic
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The moment I first saw you / Girl, I knew / That I could spend a lifetime / Loving you / Then we found out how easy / Love can slip away / Now it's become a mystery / How to make
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Paul Brady – The Hawana Way
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I was down in a hole snufflin' like a mole / When my friend on the phone told me it's ok / There's a place you can be, the music sets you free / Come on over and we'll do it the
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Paul Brady – Paddy’s Green Shamrock Shore
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From Derry Quay we sailed away on the 23rd of May / We were boarded by a pleasant crew bound for Americay / Fresh water there we did take on, five thousand gallons or more / In
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Paul Brady – Nobody Knows
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Johnny's got high expectations, he's going to rise / Everyone knows, that Johnny is ready, he's ready to fly / Up on the rooftop he turns to the crowd / No one is waiting, no one
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Paul Brady – Maybe Tomorrow
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Any grown-up ought to know better than to be here / But it's so hard to steer clear / When I'm around you / Got no business / Showing up where I don't belong / We both know it's
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Paul Brady – I Only Want You
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You wrote a message in the sand / In words you thought I'd understand / To tell me things you could not speak / Of love you did not dare to seek / I tried to tell you in a song
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Paul Brady – The World Is What You Make It
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I knew this African called Hannibal / Rock it roll it send it down the avenue / Went out to see the Roman Empire fall / Uh huh? Uh huh? / Two thousand elephants in gold chain-mail
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Paul Brady – The Creel
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As I roved out on a moonlight night / Excitement for to find / I met on the way with a pretty little girl / And I asked her to be mine / [Chorus] / With me tooraya folderiddle da
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Andy Irvine and Paul Brady – Autumn Gold
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My mood is clothed in Autumn’s shades / My summer sun begins to fade / Fading away with the waning year / Changing my tempo now Autumn is here / Time to leave my friends behind / I
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Paul Brady – Harvest Time
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I've been working this old ground / How long I don't know / Planting here and hoeing there / Trying to make stuff grow / Always in a wishful state of mind / Waiting for my harvest
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Paul Brady – Oceans of Time
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Come every day it's sink or swim / Take it to heart or on a whim / Are we the loser or the hero? / It's a dice throw / So what if we lose our focus / Nobody's gonna notice / Oceans
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Paul Brady – One More Today
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You make me smile / As I lie here wrapped in you / Is there one wish / To make all my dreams come true? / Is there a gift / You could give to me tonight / That when we wake / Would
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Paul Brady – You‘re the One
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This old world is pretty crazy / People hurting everywhere / Cities dying, leaders lying / Demons dancing in the air / Once I thought I knew the answer / To the sorrow on this
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Paul Brady – Solid Love
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Baby, sometimes life can be / What it's not supposed to be / Friends can be so hard to find / When your heart's the constant kind / But that's all right, my sweet baby / Don't you
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Andy Irvine and Paul Brady – Martinmas Time
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It fell out upon one Martinmas time / When snow lay on the border / There came a troop of soldiers here / To take up their winter quarters / [Chorus] / With me right fol adle edle
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Paul Brady – I Will Be There
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When times are hard and friends are few / And you need someone to help you through / Just call my name and I'll come running to your side / Don't be afraid don't be afraid / I will
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Paul Brady – Jackson and Jane
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You Monaghan sportsmen I pray you draw near / To a few simple verses you quickly shall hear / It's the deeds of a hero that lives near Ballybay / And they call him Hugh Jackson, I
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Paul Brady – Don’t Come Again
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The first place that I saw my love, it was at a ball / I looked at her, I gazed at her, far above them all / But aye she look-ed on me with scorn and disdain / And the bonny wee
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Paul Brady – Trust in You
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In the shadow of a lightning storm / Black girl make a heart-move / Strong love come a rising high / Warm love and she whisper out / She trust in you / "You know that I trust in
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Paul Brady – Sail, Sail On
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Baby, I thought you had licked this modern day disease / Shifting in your chair like you got to be somewhere / I don't think I've ever seen you totally at ease / Addicted to the
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Paul Brady – Trouble Round the Bend
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Felt this hunger deep inside me / And I knew I had to go / Left my friends and my companions / Everyone I ever knew / Put the old ways far behind me / Lost their meaning long ago
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Andy Irvine and Paul Brady – Bonny Woodhall
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Down by yon green bushes near Calder’s clear stream / Where me and my Annie so often have been / When the hours flew past us, right happy were we / It was little she thought that a
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Paul Brady – Take Me Away
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Once upon a time / In a different state of mind / You could say that this boy / Really needed you / Stuck on dead end street / Dancing to the dark ancestral beat / And you come up
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Andy Irvine and Paul Brady – The Plains of Kildare
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Come all you bold sportsmen and listen to my story / It’s about noble Stewball that gallant racing pony / Arthur Marble was the man that first brought Stewball here / For to run
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Andy Irvine and Paul Brady – Lough Erne Shore
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One morning as I went a-fowling / Bright Phoebus adorned the plain / It was down by the shores of Lough Erne / I met with this wonderful dame / Her voice was so sweet and so
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Paul Brady – Living the Mystery
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Well the man's name is Sunshine / And he come up from the town / Said he bring a proposition / For a man when he's down / Gonna buy me an aeroplane / Gonna teach me how to fly
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Paul Brady – Good Love
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Sometimes I run out of words to say / You're holding back again / That's when I think I could walk away / I try imagining us apart / But I'd know I'd go insane / Must all roads
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