NOTES:
Ok… one more irish-like song… and then it’s back to the depressing alt-folk you know and love (loathe?)

Anyway, I wrote a song in FAWM 06 and another in FAWM 07 that had similar themes and I realized during the summer that the really could be related and if I wrote another, I could have a trilogy. So here’s #3 to complete the story.

(In case you haven’t heard the other two, the story very briefly is Johnny McGee has run away to the sea, leaving his true love behind.)

There’s two different “voices” on this one, sort of. The quote sections are from the letter mentioned in the song. The other voice is the girl’s parent, who is tasked with giving Johnny the letter… and showing Johnny where she “waits”.
(I.E. dead)

It probably really need a female vocal for this one (any volunteers. =) ) My voice is really showing the strain from other things so the vocal will have to be redone at a minimum anyway.

This is one of the sappier sadder things I’ve written…

LYRICS:

When the wind
blows in from the sea
And the frost paints
your name on the door

I think of the words you promised
and look to the shore

(chorus)
“I will wait on that hillside
I will wait by the sea
I will wait through tide’s turning
for you to come home to me”

That day you came to see me
and you asked for your lady fair
You longed for her beside you
for the touch of her golden hair

I handed you her letter
and your smile stripped off the years
I waited there in silence
and shared your longing tears

(chorus)

“He offered me a marriage
He wanted me to wife
But I said I would not have him
I have given you my life

Now hurry home my darling
Hurry home to me
Until your here beside me
My soul waits for thee”

(chorus)

I brought you to that hillside
to the place she waits alone
We sat among the stillness
until the sun had flown

(chorus)