The tall gates of Dartmoor, song / Kevin Gillespie, singing in English
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I walk through the tall gates of Dartmoor today
After twenty-one years my hair is turning grey
But Lord how I pity the ones who must dwell
For the rest of their lives in the cold chains of hell.
For days without number and nights without end
I prayed I might one see my true-love again
Her memory has kept me from losing my mind
Within those four grey walls where the sun never shines.
Now broken and weary I step from the train
My cap in my hand and my head it’s bowed in shame
For Lord how I pity the ones who must dwell
For the rest of their lives in the cold chains of hell.
I wander this earth as a lonely old man
Never finding escape from the thing that I am
For time is my prison this world is my cell
After twenty-one years in the cold chains of hell
The tall gates of Dartmoor, song / Kevin Gillespie, singing in English | |
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ITMA Reference Number: | 714-ITMA-MP3 |
Main Performer: | Kevin Gillespie |
Title: | The tall gates of Dartmoor [sound recording] / Kevin Gillespie, singing in English |
Section: | Sound Recordings |
Recording Location: | Brass Rail Bar, Buncrana, Co. Donegal |
Recording Date: | 20 August 1991 |
Copyright: | Performer and Inishowen Traditional Singers' Circle |
Physical Description: | 1 computer file (MP3 file, ca. 3 min.) : digital, stereo |
Format: | MP3 |
Subject: | Ireland: Singing in English |
Language: | English |
Corporate Author: | Inishowen Traditional Singers' Circle |
Collection: | Jimmy McBride Collection. Audio Cassette 167 |
URL: | http://www.inishowensinging.ie |
Related Material: | The sailor and farmer’s daughter ; and other songs in Playlists |
PDF Download: | Download |