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from ECHO by Niamh de Barra

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Songmap

A pheasant, a bath in a field, low puddles in the grass,
A weeping willow by the burnt ruin of a house.
And a five-arched bridge with water whirling underneath.
Bare-branched trees, ivy-covered, bare-branched trees.

Still waters and moving statues and poets are
Springing from the black and stony soil.

Ar nós imircigh tar éis tamaill fillte,
Ní mhothaím sa bhaile ansiúd nó anseo,
Níl talamh ná tír ann a bhaineann liom.

Chomh domhain leis an gcré donn,
Tá'n baile ionam,
Ionam go domhain.


(Like a traveller returned after years away,
I feel at home neither here nor there.

As deep as the brown soil,
Home lies within.)

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from ECHO, released August 7, 2012

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Niamh de Barra County Cork, Ireland

In Pearse Street station, I heard two strangers, on opposite platforms, exchange a song for a tune on the double bass. Everyone in the station fell silent as the man in tweed sang ‘Fly me to the moon’.

So I took to the music. It’s bad luck to ignore signs.
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