Ned of the Hill Éamonn an Chnoic Sean Cannon

If you'd like to sing along, the lyrics are below: from the Album "Erin the Green" Ned of the HIl is
said to be about a dispossessed aristocrat, listen to this version: Oh who is without
That with passionate shout
Keeps beating my bolted door?
I am Ned of the Hill
Forspent wet and chill
From long trudging marsh and moor
My love, fond and true
What else could I do
But shield you from wind and from weather?
When the shots fall like hail
They us both shall assail
And mayhap we shall die together

Through frost and through snow
Tired and hunted I go
In fear both from friend and from neighbour
My horses run wild
My acres untilled
And all of them lost to my labour
But it grieves me far more
Than the loss of my store
That there's no one would shield me from danger
So my fate it must be
To sail eastwards o'er sea
And languish amid the stranger

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Music

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• Dubliners Celtic Irish

[Teddyb1939]

This is one of the lovliest songs I have heard in a long while. Sean Cannon the genius, on top form. I have just listened three times. magic stuff. Just fancy Sean & Luke in the same group...

[ramqen951]

Thank you, my friend.