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Tip's Jig / Rye's Ramble / T​í​r na n​Ó​g

from Grand Promenade by Maggie McKaig

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Music of three of my original jigs mixed with Ella Young's intriguing language from her book "Celtic Wonder-Tales." After creating all these songs, I ended up writing a play to put them in, titled, of course, "Celtic Wonder Tales." The play was produced in the summer of 2002 in San Francisco by Center Stage at the San Francisco Day School, with 80 children ages 8-14, 15 small folk harps, and 30 or so musical numbers.
It was insane. But completely magical.

Tír na nÓg is the land of ever lasting youth.

A Stór Mo Chroí means "Treasure of my Heart"

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Tír na nÓg

Budding on trees, green leaves of spring
Golden skies of autumn weather
The sun and the moon rose over the hills
Shining unending together

And looked over snowy fields covered with corn
In those fair sea sundered places
The Isle of the Sea God Manannán mac Lir
The faraway land Tír na nÓg

Come with me cara
Come away A Stór Mo Chroí
A wondrous life awaits us
Come away A Stór Mo Chroí
In a boat of rainbow colors
We’ll sail a crystal seas
To the edge of the world A Stór Mo Chroí

Come with me now, Tír na nÓg waits
But I shall not wait here forever
We’ll ride on a silver white horse o’er the waves
Soft and as light as a feather

We’ll travel as fast as the blink of an eye
A thought that is here and then gone
To a land as enchanted as you’ve ever seen
The faraway land Tír na nÓg .

Come with me cara
Come away A Stór Mo Chroí;
A wondrous life awaits us
Come away a-stor-mo-chroi,
In a boat of rainbow colors
We’ll sail a crystal seas
To the edge of the world, A Stór Mo Chroí

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from Grand Promenade, released June 20, 2003
Maggie McKaig--guitar, lead and harmony vocals
Shawn Haussler--Irish whistle, harmony vocals
Lisa Stine--harp

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Maggie McKaig Nevada City, California

I'm a singer-songwriter, guitarist, accordionist, composer, poet, essayist, playwright. Since 2009 I've led World music quartet Beaucoup Chapeaux. With my partner of 45 years Luke Wilson we raised two sons, made seven albums, and grown veggie gardens and fruit trees on five acres of never ceded land once occupied by the Nisenan Tribe near Nevada City, CA.
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