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James Olin Oden​/​Turlough Carolan - Bring on the Night​/​Sidhe Beag Sidhe Mh​ó​r

from The Craic is Free by James Olin Oden

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This is a song of immigration and pining for a lover left behind. I wrote it really more as a metaphor of the break-up of the Irish Wolfhounds. It was metaphor for that thing you just can’t have, but from afar is so very lovely, and almost glow’s. In the instrumental portions Carolan’s “Sidhe Beag Sidgh Mhór” is played. It is a lovely tune that Eric Hahn played as my wife, Katherine, walked down the aisle. The name means “little hill big hill” and refers to hills all over Ireland where it is said the Tuatha De Danan retreated after the invasion of the Milesians.

lyrics

Slowly the day slips away into the night,
As I lay in dreams gentle sway, my lass is in my sight,

(Chorus)
She’s fairer than the moon and the stars,
She lightens up my heart.
But in the day she’s so far away, and I have no respite.

As it season pass, and I go to mass I fervently hope and pray,
To see my lass as the tears amass, and down my cheeks stray.

(Chorus)

As each dram pass, and drunkenness amass she’s almost in my sight,
Oh I’m one drink away from dreams gentle sway, and I will see her light.

(Chorus)
Bring on the night

credits

from The Craic is Free, released May 26, 2013
Guitar, Tony Dixon Low D, Vocals - James Olin Oden
Vocals - Caitlin Cary
Double Bass - David Pitts
Uillean Pipes - Eric Hahn

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James Olin Oden Raleigh, North Carolina

It's always been about what moves the heart. The songs I sing are compelling stories whose telling must be told over and over again. The stories range from dark acts that should not be forgotten to the silly revelries that we should never forsake. My hope is that as my heart is moved by the music so too may yours be moved.

Sláinte Mhór...James

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