Every Road Leads Back To Ireland 1936 JPitt-Payne

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 26Jan2014
2014

I've been content to knock around
since I was just a kid,
I've seen the world
met ev'ry sort and kind.
But now I'm getting older
something seems to beckon me,
towards the fair green Isle
I left behind.

All my life I've been roamin'
now at last I've started homin'
ev'ry road leads back to Ireland,
I declare.
Ev'ry bird in the mornin'
takes a message to Mavourneen
ev'ry road leads back to Ireland
when you're anywhere but there,
sure I can hardly wait to see
the shamrock growin' in the fields
and drive to Dublin singin'
to the music of the wheels
and when the people ask me
sure what made ye stay away
I'll grab me dear old mother
round the waist and I will say
All these years I've been waitin'
for the day of celebratin'
ev'ry road leads back to Ireland
when you're anywhere but there.

All my life I've been roamin'
now at last I've started homin'
ev'ry road leads back to Ireland,
I declare.
Ev'ry bird in the mornin'
takes a message to Mavourneen
ev'ry road leads back to Ireland
when you're anywhere but there,
sure I can hardly wait to see
the shamrock growin' in the fields
and drive to Dublin singin'
to the music of the wheels
and when the people ask me
sure what made ye stay away
I'll grab me dear old mother
round the waist and I will say
All these years I've been waitin'
for the day of celebratin'
ev'ry road leads back to Ireland
when you're anywhere but there.

The day that I get home
will be a happy day for me
the old folks will be waitin'
at the door,
and now I want to settle down
I'm ready to agree
I'll never leave old Ireland any more.

All my life I've been roamin'
now at last I've started homin'
ev'ry road leads back to Ireland,
I declare.
Ev'ry bird in the mornin'
takes a message to Mavourneen
ev'ry road leads back to Ireland
when you're anywhere but there,
sure I can hardly wait to see
the shamrock growin' in the fields
and drive to Dublin singin'
to the music of the wheels
and when the people ask me
sure what made ye stay away
I'll grab me dear old mother
round the waist and I will say
All these years I've been waitin'
for the day of celebratin'
ev'ry road leads back to Ireland
when you're anywhere but there.

All my life I've been roamin'
now at last I've started homin'
ev'ry road leads back to Ireland,
I declare.
Ev'ry bird in the mornin'
takes a message to Mavourneen
ev'ry road leads back to Ireland
when you're anywhere but there,
sure I can hardly wait to see
the shamrock growin' in the fields
and drive to Dublin singin'
to the music of the wheels
and when the people ask me
sure what made ye stay away
I'll grab me dear old mother
round the waist and I will say
All these years I've been waitin'
for the day of celebratin'
ev'ry road leads back to Ireland
when you're anywhere but there.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Every Road Leads Back To Ireland 1936 JPitt-Payne
by Ronald Hill
© MCMXXXVI by The Irwin Dash Music Co.Ltd.
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Sunday 26 January 2014 at 13.57
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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