Newgrange Lyrics

The song Newgrange is performed by Wolfe Tones in the album named 25th Anniversary in the year 1991 .



Your mysteries lay hidden in stones that can't speak,
Thru' time all your wondrous knowledge we seek,
Be ye tomb or a temple we'd like to know why
On mid-winter's morning you seek light from the sky,
Your white quartz stones must have brightened the days
When the sun it shone down and reflected its rays,
You refuse us a key or some Rosetta Stone,
We gaze on just Circles and Motifs and Bone.


chorus:


Sing away Bru/ na Bo/inne on the Banks of the Boyne,
Fal de da for your glory would not yield to time,
Glory o! to the men and the women laid to rest
Who brought greatness to Ireland, the Isle of the Blessed.


From your pillars of grandeur and the answer is sought,
When the tombs of the Pharoahs were only a thought,
Irish folk in their labour looked up from the Boyne
To see standing a temple that would not yield to time.
You saw Cheftains, Na Fianna and monks stopped to call
And they trampled the hills onto Tara's Royal Halls,
And they watched on the Cradle of our art and design
That inspired Irish artists much later in time.


Chorus:

For you're set in a county still Royal with its arms
With a river of beauty with countless wild charms.
You stand there majestic and tower on the plain,
And your Pa*sage of Wonder a secret remains.
So be proud all of Ireland of a history long gone,
That inspired generations of men later on.
Your age is your greatness and a testament still
As we look at Bru/ na Bo/inne on a Co. Meath hill



Wolfe Tones - 25th Anniversary

Jul 1991

  1. Celtic Symphony
  2. The Merry Ploughboy
  3. Women Of Ireland
  4. Rock On Rockall
  5. The Foggy Dew
  6. James Connolly
  7. The Man From Mullingar
  8. Flow Liffey Waters
  9. First Of May
  10. The Piper That Played Before Moses
  11. Janie Mac I'm Nearly Forty
  12. Give Me Your Hand
  13. The Boys Of The Old Brigade
  14. Dingle Bay
  15. The Big Strong Man
  16. Monsignor Horan
  17. Boston Rose
  18. The Zoological Gardens
  19. The Broad Black Brimmer
  20. Newgrange (Bru Na Boinne)
  21. Treat Me Daughter Kindly
  22. Come Out Ye Black And Tans
  23. Slieve Na Mban
  24. Far Away In Australia
  25. Goodbye
  26. Helicopter Song
  27. An Dord Feinne (Oro Se Do Bheatha Abhaile)
  28. The Merman
  29. The Teddy Bear's Head
  30. Banna Strand
  31. Many Young Men Of Twenty
  32. The Wests' Awake

Newgrange