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Title: Luke Kelly - Raglan Road + Lyrics
Added: Feb 7, 2010
Author: tommylad1231
Duration: 4:18
Description:
Lyrics:On Raglan Road of an autumn dayI saw her first and knewThat her dark hair would weave a snareThat I might one day rueI saw the danger and I passedAlong the enchanted wayAnd said let grief be a fallen leafAt the dawning of the dayOn Grafton Street in NovemberWe tripped lightly along the ledgeOf a deep ravine where can be seenThe worth of passion's pledgeThe Queen of Hearts still making tartsAnd I not making hayOh I loved too much and by such by suchIs happiness thrown awayI gave her gifts of the mindI gave her the secret signsKnown to the artists who have known The true gods of sound and stoneAnd word and tint I did not stintI gave her poems to sayWith her own name thereAnd her own dark hairLike clouds over fields of MayOn a quiet street where old ghosts meetI see her walking nowAway from me so hurriedly my reason must allowThat I had loved not as I shouldA creature made of clayWhen the angel woos the clayHe'll lose his wings at the dawn of day
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Youtube Comments: 81
niallsupergoon Says:
Mar 4, 2012 - at last something sensible
mckbln Says:
Mar 14, 2012 - You are most correct
The321dick Says:
Mar 17, 2012 - 1 person isn't on raglan road
auguritutto Says:
Mar 26, 2012 - Yes I know you're describing the song in its context but I have never been able altho would like to find printed documentation about this relationship and especially any image there may be of the lady at the heart of it.
jbarischrooney Says:
Mar 28, 2012 - The lyrics are taken from a poet Patrick Kavanagh. My father studied this poem years ago for his leaving cert and he tells me the poem is about Kavangah falling in love with a street lady, a prostitute. He fell in love with her and they married." The Queen of Hearts still making tarts And I not making hay", this refers to Kavanagh not sleeping with her at the time, even while she does so with those that hire her.
Teddyb1939 Says:
Apr 3, 2012 - I love this Luke version, he has recorded others but the feeling he puts into this song is absolute magic.
Pieappledave Says:
Apr 6, 2012 - What does any poem mean? Close your eyes and think about it. There's your answer.
mrtomburn Says:
Apr 10, 2012 - This is a love poem with a sad ending written by Patrick Kavanagh. Its about a man who came across a beautiful woman but she in all her beauty was untrustworthy and he for a while gave up on everything just to be with her. He should have been home looking after his farm but love got the best of him and he gave her everything he could including his heart but the Lady in the end had enough so she now shuns him which breaks his heart even more. Beautiful Poem / Song So well sung by Luke Kelly
hollymarg Says:
Apr 17, 2012 - It is a lovely piece. I played this (very badly) on a five string banjo in my brother's home recently...a lovely, lovely moment. Thanks Brian.
irelandcat711 Says:
May 1, 2012 - Luke got better and better as he progressed !!! we love and miss you Lucas !
ema stanisauskyte Says:
May 4, 2012 - my teacher is his aunty ..... :O
1mraware Says:
May 6, 2012 - its a kavanaugh poem, that kavanagh once asked luke to sing, considering word was going around dublin, that luke was singing it to perfection. when luke was in a pub singing one day, he seen kavanaugh, and was afriad to look at it as kavanaugh had a very bad temper, and was known to beat up guys, and kavaugh walked up to him, and , the rest is history....
kaneda83 Says:
May 8, 2012 - no woman would go near him.
TheOnlyException16 Says:
May 9, 2012 - Not quite, the poem was originally published under the name 'Dark Haired Miriam Ran Away', Miriam being the name of Patick Kavanagh's (the poet's) brother's girlfriend but his brother said he only did this to avoid embarrassment. It was inspired by Hilda Moriarty, a 22 year old medical student, who Kavanagh fell madly in love with.
TheOnlyException16 Says:
May 9, 2012 - Sadly Hilda didn't feel the same way and had been trying to end the relationship but the unexpected death of Kavanagh's mother delayed the separation. By the time this poem of unrequited love was published she was in a new relationship and was married the following year. Kavanagh was left heart-broken and embittered. He kept a painting of Hilda in his flat and when he died she sent an 'H' shaped wreath of red roses.
beaky102 Says:
May 9, 2012 - thumbs up if this makes you proud to be Irish
lowth69 Says:
May 10, 2012 - Having had to leave Ireland due to the recession, listening to this always makes me well up and long for home
dill1571 Says:
May 13, 2012 - This deserves 7,000,000 views not that shit that Justin Bieber sings...
MrManutdrock Says:
May 17, 2012 - beautiful studied this as a poem in college. Beautiful song performed by a great. RIP Luke Kelly
Lynnch1 Says:
May 19, 2012 - W.B.Yeats??
eoghanisonfire Says:
May 22, 2012 - Patrick Kavanagh
Lynnch1 Says:
May 23, 2012 - But of course!!!!!!! Sound man.
Laura Daly Says:
May 25, 2012 - I'm getting married in October and this song is out first dance! Gives me shivers everytime, and makes me proud to be Irish! A land of poets, scholars and pride.... Bróduil agus Éireannach
jaffacakeaddict1 Says:
Mar 3, 2012 - If you have to ask "Whit fooking spellin mishtakes" then it only proves my point further. Thanks for proving I was right.