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Bealach Ph​á​raic​/​C​é​ilí

from The Song Box by Pat Burgess

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Gaelic title, meaning Páraic's way and dedicated to the memory and writings of Paraic ó Conaire. Céilí is an Irish word for a dance gathering.

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Bealach Pháraic (Páraic’s Way) /Ceilí

How to put an image into words, how to write a feeling on a page
How to sing I’m longing, to be on a boreen (bóthairín) to the sea

Raise me up and bring me there, to walls of stone and flowers so rare
To feel the wind and hear the sea, and lock away these memories

Take the bike down from the train and pedal west through Galway rain
To Bearna, Furbó, Spiddal go, by Inverin to Carraroe
Where Poet’s ramblings and Artist visions were inspired

Raise me up and bring me there, to walls of stone and flowers so rare
To feel the wind and hear the sea, and lock away these memories

Where time is still and silence be
Across the bay, embracing me

Smoke and peat burn back the years, to melting summers on the pier
Ag súil le chéile, go dtí an Céilí, a haon, dó, trí

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from The Song Box, released May 12, 2022

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Pat Burgess Leixlip, Ireland

Pat Burgess is an Irish singer/songwriter from Leixlip, Co. Kildare. Born in Raheny, Dublin in 1956, he has been actively involved with music for the past 45 years. Lead singer/founder member of the Irish Americana group “The Rye River Band” for 35 years they have recorded 2 albums, 1 EP and 2 singles with the band, one a charity single (Dublin Simon).
The Song Box album is his first solo project.
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