Blue Green Bangle Its black clouds scudding 'cross the midland sky In the bedroom window Sandy catches her eye Full of tears as she watches the Texan's car fade away In the distance He'd been tellin' her before that the mine's closing down Soon her husband Jimmy would be home every day The company was pullin' out he was heading back To his own family back in Galveston And he handed her a blue green bangle That he found in the hills outside Slane He said someday when this is all forgotten You might pick it up and think of me again. "Now he's gone" she said "and his plunder's done An' I'll just be remembered as the Irish one" With that she opened up the windows wide And flung the blue green bangle Far down the muddy drive Later on she awoke with a rattle at the door There stood her Jimmy and her uncle Joe Arms linked together singing a wild rebel song From so long ago Jimmy looked at her with a twinkle in his eye Saying "A gyppo gave me this for you, it's a surprise an' he says who wears it will live contentedly Providing that they don't tell any lies. And he handed her the blue green bangle The had lain out in the muddy drive Then he took her writs and he slipped it on It surprised him that it fitted her so fine Yes he handed her a green blue bangle That had lain in the earth for so long And he grabbed her by the waist He whisked her round the place And uncle Joe he diedled out the door Sung by Sen Tyrrell on "Cry of a dreamer" (1995) XX OCT98
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