Loreena McKennitt
Loreena McKennitt - Raglan Road songtekst
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Het lied is een Ierse ballade gebaseerd op een gedicht van de Ierse dichter Patrick Kavanagh. Oorspronkelijk heette het gedicht 'Dark Haired Miriam Ran Away'. Peter Kavanagh, Patrick's broer vertelde dat het gedicht gaat over Patrick's vriendin die Hilda heet. Voluit: Dr. Hilda Moriarty. Patrick is nooit met haar getrouwd. Zij trouwde met Donogh O'Malley, minister van het ministerie van Volksgezondheid in Ierland. Hun zoon, Daragh O'Malley, is een welbekende Ierse acteur.
Patrick heeft in de titel van het gedicht haar naam veranderd in Miriam.
Het gedicht is later op muziek gezet en kreeg als titel 'Raglan Road'. De muziek is van een andere bekende Ierse song getiteld 'The Dawning of the Day'.
On Raglan Road on an autumn day I saw him first and knew That his dark hair would weave a snare That I might one day rue I saw the danger and yet I walked Along the enchanted way And I said, "Let grief be a falling leaf At the dawning of the day" On Grafton Street in November We tripped lightly along the ledge Of a deep ravine where can be seen The worth of passions pledge The Queen of Hearts still making tarts And I not making hay But I loved too much, by such and such Is happiness thrown away I gave him the gifts of the mind I gave him the secret sign That's known all to the artists Who have known true gods of sound and time With word and tint I never did stint I gave him reams of poems to say With his own name there and his shiny black hair Like the clouds over fields of May On a quiet street where old ghosts meet I see him walking now Away from me so hurriedly My reason must allow That I had ruled not as I should A creature made of clay When the angel woos the clay he'll lose His wings at the dawn of the day