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Love and Memory by John Clare

Thou art gone the dark journey
That leaves no returning
'Tis fruitless to mourn thee
But who can help mourning?

I Am ! by John Clare

I am! yet what I am none cares or knows,
My friends forsake me like a memory lost;
I am the self-consumer of my woes,
They rise

die just to survive

Like when Clare she whispered
“John, I did not mean to stray, but I have not been true.”
I tiptoed out the way I came
One and one

unthought of
To express this good stuff
I'd channel John Clare
If I could then I would share my mind and lifetime
And find the right lines in lyrical

Homesick Lyrics
© John Vella, Clare Reynolds, Jordie Lane

I cannot shake this feeling
I just can’t let it go
I’m pushing past my ceiling
'cause

and the storm clouds in Clare 
they're calling out to America and all she has there
All her wolves cry for Jocelyn and her wings to take flight
But she sings Ave

Near the town of Liscannor in
The county of Clare
Where many great Irishmen's plans
Were laid bare you saw the wild seas as
You stood on the heath

Sullivan's John

Sweeney's Men

Irish Folk Favourites, Vol. 2 [St. Clair]

2001

Oh Sullivan John, to the road you've gone, far away from your native home. 
You've gone with the tinker's daughter, for along the road to roam. 
Ah