Grace

Album: Grace & Other Irish Love Songs (1996)
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  • As we gather in the chapel here in old Kilmainham Jail
    I think about these past few weeks, oh will they say we've failed?
    From our school days they have told us we must yearn for liberty
    Yet all I want in this dark place is to have you here with me

    Oh Grace just hold me in your arms and let this moment linger
    They'll take me out at dawn and I will die
    With all my love I place this wedding ring upon your finger
    There won't be time to share our love for we must say goodbye

    Now I know it's hard for you my love to ever understand
    The love I bare for these brave men, the love for my dear land
    But when Pádraic called me to his side down in the GPO
    I had to leave my own sick bed, to him I had to go

    Oh, Grace just hold me in your arms and let this moment linger
    They'll take me out at dawn and I will die
    With all my love I'll place this wedding ring upon your finger
    There won't be time to share our love for we must say goodbye

    Now as the dawn is breaking, my heart is breaking too
    On this May morn as I walk out, my thoughts will be of you
    And I'll write some words upon the wall so everyone will know
    I loved so much that I could see his blood upon the rose

    Oh, Grace just hold me in your arms and let this moment linger
    They'll take me out at dawn and I will die
    With all my love I'll place this wedding ring upon your finger
    There won't be time to share our love for we must say goodbye
    For we must say goodbye
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Comments: 3

  • Patrick from NrisbaneA beautiful love song
  • Johnnyf from DublinRod Stewart killed that song. Poor oul' Jim would be turning in his grave.
  • Walter Crawford from MagherafeltBeautiful, song that "plucks" at the heartstrings, I found it very moving.
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