Dolores Keane - Teddy O'Neill

Dolores Keane - Teddy O'Neill

Lyrics:

I dreamt all last night
Oh bad 'cess to my dreaming
I'd die if I thought t'would come surely to pass
I dreamt while the tears down my pillow were rolling
That Teddy was courting another fair lass.

And didn't a wake with a weeping and a wailing
The pain in my heart was too deep to conceal
My mother cried "Nora dear, what is your ailing?"
But all I could answer was Teddy O'Neill.

I see the old cabin beyond the wee boreen
I see the old crossroads where we used to dance
I ramble the lane where he called me his stoirin
And my girlish heart was so full of romance.

But now all is so dark and so dreary
All dark and all silent, no piper, no reel
Not even the sun through the casement shines cheery
Since I lost my darling love, Teddy O'Neill.

I remember the day when the big ship was sailing
And the time it had come for my love to depart
How I cried like a child; oh goodbye to you Teddy
With a tear on my cheek and a stone in my heart.

He said t'was to better his fate' he went roaming
But what would be gold to the joy I would find
If he'd only come back to me tender and loving,
Yet poor but my own darling Teddy O'Neill

Category:

Music

Tags:

• irish
• celtic
• folk
• ireland
• galway
• neill
• song
• singing
• old

[lewis1936]

Perfect diction and voice.One of the greatest.

[lawlor95]

beautiful... just beautiful

[euroman32589]

i could listen to this woman all day

[daviddublin]

@2466711

You mention Mary and Francis Black and Sinead O'Connor (I must add the glorious Maura O.Connell).......I think you will find that they all bow down to the Queen...Dolores

Keane..........In fact I know they would

[89maisie]

@dcconsi I am Leitrim born but have lived (happily) in England for damned near 50 years, this performance brings out the Irish in me. I know exactly what you mean! its beyond beautiful! lovely lady! lovely song!

[euroman32589]

what a voice and story..beautiful.

[daviddublin]

No one sings this like Dolores

[MickeyLynott]

My late Nana used to adore this song. She said that some man living in her village used to sing this song many,many years ago.

[dcconsi]

for tomo

[dcconsi]

for the chief. and the banging door grma tomo

[landinia123]

how lucky we are to be able to listen to such wonderful singers 

[2466711]

you can take mary black, francis black sinead o connor and a few of the others

they would not hold a candle to Delores. this is just 100% perfect

brillant post.