Raglan Road - Interpretive Piano Cover

This version recorded April 2018 at Gardyne Theatre Studios, Dundee, Scotland. Sound engineering by C. Kidd.

Originally Raglan Road began life as a poem by Patrick Kavanagh: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Raglan_Road

It was later set to the melody of The Dawning of the Day and released by the Dubliners in 1986 as a single. It is arguably best known in a contemporary sense as the music that accompanies the bell tower scene from the 2008 film In Bruge.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5d6FBBWlu3k

Luke Kelly's inimitable definitive performance of Raglan Road: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xvkvFviIj8
I recorded this song once before in the past, and have played it more times than I could count, but I remain in continuous pursuit of the elusive 'perfect' rendition.
RAGLAN ROAD

"On Raglan Road of an autumn day I saw her first and knew
That her dark hair would weave a snare that I might one day rue
I saw the danger, and I passed along the enchanted way
And I said, let grief be a fallen leaf at the dawning of the day

On Grafton Street in November we tripped lightly along the ledge
Of the deep ravine where can be seen the worth of passion's pledge
The Queen of Hearts still making tarts and I not making hay
Oh, I loved too much and by such by such is happiness thrown away

I gave her gifts of the mind, I gave her the secret sign
That's known to the artists who have known the true gods of sound and stone

And word and tint without stint for I gave her poems to say
With her own mane bare,
And her own dark hair
Like clouds over fields of May

On a quiet street where old ghosts meet, I see her walking now
Away from me so hurriedly, my reason must allow
That I had loved not as I should a creature made of clay
When the angel woos the clay, he'd lose
His wings at the dawn of day"
(Accompanying photography: the Yamaha: by AnnaKate, 2017)

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