Irish traditional song lyrics — collected by Beer Belly Band.
Chorus:
It’s a long lonely road that has no turning
And a sad stream that never sees the sea
But let the truth by known that a great unrest has grown
In the green land Luke Kelly left to me
Oh the young ones are all leaving Luke and none can bid them stay
They’re saying that there’s more to life than this
In the ignorance of man they don’t need a bond to band
When love can be destruction’s Judas kiss
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We sing the songs of warning Luke while computers prattle on
Empty echoes on the Raglan Road
‘Tis the famine of the mind that has always plagued our kind
When strangers reap the harvest we have sown
It’s you and me again Luke we’ve seen it all before
The foreign fields once more have turned to green
And with nothing but a song to face every right and wrong
But I can only dream what might have been
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