Green And Red Of Mayo Lyrics - Saw Doctors

We went out to a weekend festival on Clare Island in August 1990 

and on the boat back on a perfect autumn evening the green and red of mayo was conceived with well known Galway free-spirited minstrel jarir al-majar. It became a song about a year later 

Oh the Green and Red of Mayo 

I can see it still 

It's soft and craggy bogland 

It's tall majestic hills 

Where the ocean kisses Ireland 

And the waves carress it's shore 

Oh the feeling it came over me 

To stay forever more 

Forever more 

From it's rolling coastal waters 

I can see Croagh Patrick's peak 

Where one Sunday every Summer 

The pilgrims climb the reek 

Where Saint Patrick in it's solitude 

Looked down across Clew Bay 

And With a ringing of his bell 

Called the faithful there to pray 

There to pray 

Oh take me to Clare Island 

The home of Granuaile 

It's waters harbour fishes 

From the herring to the whale 

And now I must depart it 

And reality is plain 

May the time not pass so slowly 

Before I set sail again 

Set sail again 

The Green and Red of Mayo 

I can see it still 

It's soft and craggy bogland 

It's tall majestic hills 

Where the ocean kisses Ireland 

And the waves carress it's shore 

The feeling it came over me 

To stay forever more 

Forever more 

Copyright: jarir al-majar/l.moran/d.carton