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Morning Ramble ('round Ballyer)

from A Blast of a few Ballads on the Banjo by Derek Copley

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Derrol Adams, five-string banjo player and folk singer, wrote a beautiful song and melody called Memories. It would have been through the late folk singer Al O'Donnell that I first heard that one. I've used the same melody to write this little piece about going for a morning ramble with the dog around my the Gaels field in my home town of Ballyfermot.

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Cobwebs glisten call another morning
Footsteps fall to wake the dreaming dew
Birds and builders singing songs together
Flying now the day has just begun

Hear the hedgerow foragers in feeding
Chirping cries a young pup on the prowl
Blue skies tempt the footpath to grow longer
Breath of frosty air clears the head

Distant sounds of trucks and trailers shaking
Car horns sound up on the valley high
I could go on walking here forever
Whistling with the builders, birds and breeze

Sometimes I think about a time before me
of druids, gaels and ceremonies here
the embers of a firepit then reminds me
the empty cans the ritual of youth

Nighttime comes and dreams I hope are waiting
Helping these good days to carry on
Heavy clouds come to cast dark evening shadows
When they pass I’ll rest among the stars

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from A Blast of a few Ballads on the Banjo, released March 30, 2020
Written by Derek Copley
Melody Derroll Adams

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Derek Copley Dublin, Ireland

Traditional music and song, expressed on some kind of a banjo, at times played on 5-string banjo in clawhammer style, and other times on tenor banjo.

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