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Where the Brook Waters Flow

from The Hills Above the Valley by Barry Kinane

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About a drowning in a bog hole in 1932 in the Killough bog now under the Blessington lakes.

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WHERE THE BROOK WATERS FLOW

Where autumn trees shed their leaves
And winter winds did blow
Spring lambs played in fields
summers would come and summers would go
Biddy McEvoy lived her life
Where the brook waters flow

Below the village on the Killough bog
In the June of Thirty Two
Biddy and her family cut the turf
Every summer as they'd always do
but one fateful day still resonates
Where the brook waters flow

Into the bog Biddy fell and drowned
No one heard the sound
Across the Killough her fathers cry
Oh God oh no Oh God O why
Beautiful Biddy just twenty two
Where the brook waters flow

One hundred men from the quarry came,
They dropped their tools and prayed
The back of a door Biddy was laid
To carry her home, they carried the weight
from that day on, their lives were shook
Where the brook waters flow

A Eucharistic medal placed in her palm
Her father left a broken man
In the shadow of the hill time stood still
Where the brook waters flow

The autumn trees will shed their leaves
And the winter winds will blow
Spring lambs will play in fields
Summers will come and summers will go
All that will be are the memories
Where the brook waters flow

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from The Hills Above the Valley, released May 19, 2017

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Barry Kinane

Singer Songwriter from Co. Wicklow Ireland.“Kinane has a rare gift of taking the stories of life and relatively recent history to weave magical musical tales that are like short stories of the highest quality. I could rave about this album for days....” Nicky Rossiter Irish music magazine ... more

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