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Not a bad day now

by Tony Reidy

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The Breeze on your face 04:03
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The Breeze on your face To be here To be here With our footprints in the sand To be part of the plan With believers and those who don’t believe Standing on the shore Each heart with a little hope Its time to feel The breeze on your face The beauty of this place The beauty of this place. This day will never be again With our boots and our mobile phones With our bodies and our bones We will sing a world of song Of fair and foul weather Songs bring us together Take time, take some time Break bread and pass the wine Pluck the wild mountain thyme Joy a glimpse of joy A fox hurries up the hill Every moment a miracle
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The seaguls cry 03:49
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The rebel priest 03:31
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Fair day in Westport town 03:28
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It's good for ya 03:12
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Its good for ya It’s not all in the history books Its not all on the telly The way to live the past and now Is to sing it from your belly The rebel songs and the laments The murder ballads too The love songs and the lullabies Belong to me and you Sing your songs of freedom Sing them every day Don’t leave to the others To sing your life away It’s good for ya It’s good for ya Sing out the old folkie songs We sang before we talked Of heroes and redemption songs Songs of praise and songs of work Don’t have to be Sinatra Or even Joni Mitchell Sing around your own four walls Sing around your kitchen The Hindus in far off India The monks down in Glenstall The Buddhist and his singing bowl All have their own songs In Mali and in Senegal The music is their own They chant and dance and play djembe They need no radio Sing a song with a broken heart Though your not feeling good Worrying is a waste of time So lighten up your load Always sing a song worth singing Be it old or be it new Bobby McGee or Jersey Girl And the Foggy Dew Leonard Cohen and Bob Dylan Bob Marley and the Stones The Clancy’s and Joe Heaney The high king of sean nós Luke Kelly and Richard Thompson Sweeney’s and Frank Harte Damo Christy and Dolores All sing it from the heart.
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Dance Gently Now 03:04
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Dance Gently Now Another Tuesday evening The crows are circling round They land on the highest tree In a west of Ireland town The funeral home is open now The people trickle through The undertakers all in black The people sign the book So dance gently now Make sure you dance in time One foot with the other Get your pacing right Don’t dance a dance of hatred Don’t dance your dance with fear One foot with the other Love is all you need The queue is getting longer now The cars fill up the square The mourners kiss a last goodbye The priest he says a prayer The night is growing darker now The crows have settled down This dance of life is over There’s no one left around
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Not a bad day now 03:01
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Not a Bad Day Not a bad day Not a bad day now It’s promised good for the weekend Sure a dropeen of rains no harm I heard the cuckoo yesterday The summer is landed There’s still a sting in the evening There’s a new moon Monday An awful gale last night I slept through it Its boiling rain all day Its awful heavy, awful heavy Throw off your winter clothes Hang them on the rainbow Let the heat of the noonday sun Warm up your bones It’s down for the day I got drownded A soft day thank God I think its breaking It would skin ya out there Coming from the east Remember the big snow In forty seven Throw off your winter clothes Hang them on the rainbow Let the heat of the noonday sun Warm up your bones Whatever the weather were right as rain Without the weather we’d have nothing to say
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The shelter of the convent trees 02:58
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The comfort of the Rosary Beads Alone in her room She strummed her old guitar Soon she’d walk out the door to a car After so many years Round these old stone walls She is leaving, its her life after all She entered these doors Full of innocence and hope Now she’s leaving much wiser God knows Look out the window and see Are you ready to leave The shelter of the convent trees The comfort of the rosary beads Foundation looked good ‘till corner stone moved Jesus never made so many rules She wanted to love him And she loved to dance The lines were blurred in this holy romance She still believes In all that’s good At Peter’s rock she is misunderstood Down on her knees She longed for his arms He held her with a crown of thorns She won’t be known As Brendan anymore Says a prayer as she walks out the door
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The three minute song 02:51
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A three minute song When a spark hits the mind And throws light into the eyes Seeing is believing Making sense of everything When the words come to call Notes like apple blossoms fall On a three minute song Making sense of it all Let the potter feel the clay Let the ink meet the page Let the hammer hit the nail Let the breeze blow the seed Make us feel When the Gods touch the keys And the artist hands are freed Every distance is near Making sense of everything Don’t try to catch the butterfly Don’t crush it in your hand Daisies push tarmac Without your command
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The average man 02:30
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Average Man A crow stands on the chapel gate As April rolled into May. The bell tolled for the average man As he’s buried beneath the clay His tapestry of life unveiled The fields he left behind The cards he played the ones he loved The patchwork quilt of his life Say a prayer, for the average man Call him the salt of the earth No hero no saint He tried to do his best You can see see the walls he built And the ones that he knocked down The gaps in life he stumbled through Not sure where he was going There were some days when he was free His song spilled over the fields Other days his horses chains Got tangled round his feet
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A knight in not so shiny armour 02:29
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A knight in not so shiny armour I say what makes your day Is it that rockabilly quiff in your hair? Do you want to be a millionaire? Or just work for an honest days pay Or go home to your children and play And wait for a lovers embrace Or kneel at some altar and pray I ask am I fit for the task Will I wear a different mask? Try to make some kind of splash See that my colours don’t clash Try to sing like Johnny Cash Someone in a different class Will I be just who I am Rise rise and fall Rise and answer the call Stumble into it all Like a knight in not so shiny armour Should I be bad or good? Do what I want or should I wish I knew where I stood I am not looking for sainthood I am not looking for blood I am not making the rules I’m just another man passing’ through Each with our very own names Dancing in life’s ballet Will we sing some happy refrains? Will we dance, throw away the chains I promise I won’t be afraid I will just live for the day Come what may, come what may

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released January 1, 2019

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Tony Reidy is from Co Mayo Ireland
His songs have been played on RTE Radio1,TG4 RnaG,
BBC Radio

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“enormous talent as a songwriter.”
Aidan O Hara…. Irish Music magazine

“A powerful Questioning voice for the ordinary man….Colin Irwin.. fRoots

“His keen compassionate eye for human frailty …His songs have a pungently poetic sense of place”….
Jon Lusk … BBC Music Magazine. ... more

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