Land Of Youth (Tir na nÓg)

Credits: Máire Brennan and Tim Jarvis. This appears on the album Maire, released in 1992. In Irish mythology and folk more...

Credits: Máire Brennan and Tim Jarvis. This appears on the album Maire, released in 1992. In Irish mythology and folklore, Tír na nÓg is one of the names for the Otherworld. It is depicted as a supernatural realm of everlasting youth, beauty, health, abundance and joy. This song is about Oisín, the son of Fionn MacCumhal, who followed Niamh of the golden hair to the land of youth and returned to find Ireland changed and himself an old man.

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Irish

English

Chorus:
You are the bright love of my heart
Stay with me always
You are the bright love of my heart
Be true to me
You are the bright love of my heart
You are my sweetheart
You are the bright love of my heart
Stay by my side

Beauty and grace with golden hair
Eyes like pearls came from the sea

Wherever you will go, I will go
Wherever you will turn, I'll follow so
Take me to the Land of Youth
Three hundred years

(Chorus)

Carried away on impulse
Followed my heart to the Land of Youth

Three hundred years and time stood still
Companions calling, there's warning

(Chorus)

Three hundred years

Fallen to earth, the thunder sound
Years overtake him, a gray old man

(Chorus)

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