Early Hours – Eleanor McEvoy

Early Hours 2004 (Mosco Vinyl Cat. No. MOSV101)
CD Hybrid/SACD (MSM51SACD128)

Lyrics

You’ll Hear Better Songs (Than This)
Memphis Tennessee
The D.J.
I’ll Be Willing
Driving Home From Butler’s
Ave Maria
Make Mine A Small One
Slipping Away
Sail Me High
Days Roll By
Where Did My Life Go?
At The End The Day
Anach Cuain (Eanach Dhuin)

You’ll Hear Better Songs (Than This) (Eleanor McEvoy)

You’ll hear better songs than this
With no trace of clumsiness
Melodies and harmonies that compliment the rhyme
Favourite songs that reminisce
Speak of times of happiness
Sentiments that make you warm inside

You’ll hear voices pure and fine
Voices far surpassing mine
HItting notes I’d never reach and never will I s’pose
Phrases I could never play
You will hear them any day
Played by people wearing younger clothes

But this song has a prayer to you
No other song on earth can do
This song swears my love for you
Until the end of time
If you need to hear the blues
Go put on those other tunes
If you need my love, go put on mine

You’ll hear better songs than this
Songs so full of loveliness
I would not compare my songs to anyone of those
When I need to play the blues
I will play those other tunes
But I will say I love you with my own

This song has a prayer to you
No other song on earth can do
This song swears my love for you
Until the end of time
If you need to hear the blues
Go put on those other tunes
If you need my love, go put on mine

Memphis Tennessee (Chuck Berry)

Long distance information, give me Memphis Tennessee
Help me find the party tryin’ to get in touch with me
She would not leave her number, but I know who placed the call
Cause my uncle took the message and he wrote it on the wall

Help me information get in touch with my Marie
She’s the only one who’d call me here from Memphis Tennessee
Her home is on the south side high upon a ridge
Just about a half a mile from the Mississippi bridge

Help me information more than that I cannot add
Only that I miss her and all the fun we had
But we were pulled apart ‘cause her Mom would not agree
Tore apart our happy home in Memphis Tennessee

Last time I saw Maria she was waving me good bye
With hurry home drops on her cheeks that trickled from her eyes
Marie is only six years old. Information please
Try and put me through to her in Memphis Tennessee

The D.J. (Eleanor McEvoy)

Tonight the D.J.’s letting his mood decide
Sliding up the fader on a song that so reveals what’s on his mind
I sip my drink and I thank the Lord for music sweet and slow
So vital to my soul
And so needed in our times
So my radio stays on

Tonight the D.J.’s spinning his favourite ones
It’s too late for his boss to even care what goes on air, his day is
done
But mine has just begun with music sweet and fine
So vital to my mind
So precious to my life
My radio stays on

Tonight the D.J.’s letting his mood decide
And so he shares with us the music that is serving him so well
I sip my drink and thank the Lord for music sweet and low
So vital to my soul
So vital to my soul
And so needed in these times
It’s so needed in our times
It’s so precious to my life
So precious to my life
So my radio stays on
My radio stays on …………‘till dawn

I’ll Be Willing (Eleanor McEvoy)

If you’re out of sorts and all you think are dreary thoughts
Don’t think that’s the way it has to be
If you’re feeling blue, and tired of what life throws at you
You can let yourself be soothed by me

If you do, I’ll be willing, I’ll be willing, I’ll be willing
If you do, I’ll be willing
Don’t you know I’ll be willing
I will be willing

When you’ve run around, helpin’ everyone in town
Given all you have to give for free
When your strength is gone and you can barely struggle on
You can always ask for help from me

If you do, I’ll be willing, I’ll be willing, I’ll be willing
If you do, I’ll be willing
Don’t you know I’ll be willing
I will be willing

When I was feeling grey
With nothing to sing and nothing to say
You came along and carried the sun to me
You brightened up my days
Helped me be strong, so don’t think it’s wrong
If you come to me, if you come to me
Won’t you come to me…….

If you do, I’ll be willing, I’ll be willing, I’ll be willing
If you do, I’ll be willing
Don’t you know I’ll be willing
I will be willing

(repeat ad lib)

Ave Maria (Eleanor McEvoy)

Ave Maria, don’t let her down
In your powder blue robe and your shiny gold crown
See, she’s put all her trust in you
Like she was brought up to do
So Ave Maria don’t let her down
You can’t let her down

Ave Maria, won’t you be kind?
‘Cause she’s spoken those prayers
Each day of her life
And the suffering that she goes through
She offers it up to you
So Ave Maria please be kind
Try to be kind.

Ave Maria, gracia plaina

Ave Maria, if you’re really there
With your perfect white skin and your shiny brown hair
When she kneels amongst the crowd
And sings the “Ave” out loud
Ave Maria, don’t you care?
Don’t you care?

Ave Maria, gracia plaina

Ave Maria

Make Mine A Small One (Eleanor McEvoy/Kieran McEvoy)

The carol singers standing in the cold
Remind me of a night a year ago
When we were walking hand in hand
Laughing in the snow

When we found a bar we went inside
And drank to other Christmases gone by
Thinking ‘bout it now, you know
It almost makes me cry

Make mine a small one, I’ll drink it down
When I think of this time last year, when you were around
Make mine a small one, a chaser too
I’m drinking one to you honey, thinking of you

We made a promise as we drank our beers
That even though we’d hate this time of year
We’d always try and drink a toast
To all that we held dear

Make mine a small one, I’ll drink it down
I’ll think of this time last year, when you were around
Make mine a small one, a chaser too
I’m drinking one to you honey, thinking of you

And even though I think about it every day and every night
I will miss you most on new years eve

Make mine a small one, I’ll drink it down
When I think of this time last year, you were around
Make mine a small one, a chaser too
Make mine a small one, I’ll drink it to you

Slipping Away (Eleanor McEvoy)

Someone said they’d light a candle
Another said they’d say a prayer
It would take more than that to save him now
It would take more than that somehow
The nights go by so slowly
Suffering robs him of his sleep
He rescues what little life is in his hands
Taking what comfort he can

Slipping away, oh how he’s suffering with it
Slipping away, how hard it’s been
Saving the life he can save
Drinking every aching mouthful
Slipping away
Slipping like sand through your hand

Heaven holds no higher promise
Than release and sweet relief
Even relief would be a blessing now
Even release would help somehow
Kiss good-bye to sounds of weeping
Kiss good-bye to tears of pain
And if you can pray then pray for what he’d chose
Cause there’s not a God that would refuse

Slipping away, oh how he’s suffering with it
Slipping away, how hard it’s been
Saving the life he can save
Drinking every aching mouthful
Slipping away
Slipping like sand through your hand

Slipping away, oh, Slipping away

Sail Me High (Eleanor McEvoy)

I’d love a little light to come my way
Come my way and shine down on my bones
Wash me with a little sun
Drown me in a beam of gold

A little salt water would be nice
Nice to feel it on my toes
Time to loosen out my hair
Shake the sand out of my clothes

Take me out on the waves and sail me
Sail me high and let me go
Sail me to the sky and let me go
From a tiny boat below sail me high and let me go

Losing track of where I’ve been
S’been the thing I like the most
Loosening up wasting time
Drifting up along the coast

Coloured silk above my head
Heading out across the sea
Floating out beneath the clouds
Flying high upon the breeze

Take me out on the waves and sail me
Sail me high and let me go
Sail me to the sky and let me go
From a tiny boat below sail me high and let me go

Days Roll By (Eleanor McEvoy)

Get up, get washed, get dressed, get out the door, get on the bus
Get into work, and then
Come home, come rain, come shine, come on, you do it all the time
And
come Monday, do it all again

Doesn’t anyone ever wonder?
Doesn’t anyone ever ask why?
We are getting one year older every year and one year closer to our
final year

Days roll by
Why do I feel my life’s passing me by?
I see my days roll by

I know that no one knows it all or has it figured out
That’s all right ‘til all the years
All come all go and all run into one
All day I wonder, is this all there is?

Doesn’t anyone ever wonder?
Doesn’t anyone ever ask why?
They are getting one year older every year and one year closer to their
final year

Days roll by
Why do I feel my life’s passing me by?
I see my days roll by
Days roll by
Why do I feel my life’s passing me by?
I see my days roll by

And if you find you’re longing for a dream, that you’re living for,
that you’re dying for
You may find you’re longing for a dream, while denying the reality,
Denying the reality that…

Days roll by
Why do I feel my life’s passing me by?
I see my days roll by
Days roll by
Why do I feel my life’s passing me by?
I see my days roll by
(repeat ad lib)

Where Did My Life Go? (Bert Janch)

Champagne it flows like water
Cocaine like drifting snow
Everynight’s a party yes I know
But I can’t stop or turn the tide
And my feelings I can’t hide
Could you tell me, where’d my life go
Could you tell me, where’d my life go

High living is my weakness
Gets me high when I am low
And my friends all criticise me yes I know
But I can’t stop or turn the tide
And my feelings I can’t hide
Could you tell me, where’d my life go
Could you tell me, where’d my life go

Don’t try to change my ways I’m happy
I want to stay the way I am
But could you tell me, where’d my life go
Could you tell me, where’d my life go
Someone tell me, where did my life go

At The End Of The Day (Eleanor McEvoy)

At the start of the day, I don’t need a soul
That’s a part of the day that’s mine alone
As the day moves on, you come to mind
You call me to see if I’m doin’ all right
Little things come make me loose my groove
That’s when I find my thoughts returning to you
Much as I would like to believe that I’m immune……

At the end of the day I need your love
At the end of the day I need your touch
At the end of the day I need your arms
At the end of the day I need your love
I need your love….
(………..at the end of the day……..)
At the end of the day…
(…….I need your love……..)

I’ve had my share of heartache and pain
I’ve come to learn to love again
Some people say love makes you bleed
Some people say it’s all that you need
Sooner or later you learn for yourself
Lovin’ is as good and bad as everything else
I’m at a place, where I’m not afraid to say…..

(Repeated ad lib)

Eanach Dhuin (Annach Cuainn) (Trad. arr. Eleanor McEvoy & Brian Connor)

Ma aimse slainte
Is fada bheis trachta
Ar an meid a bathu in Annach Cuainn
‘S ‘ba thrua amarach
Gach athair ‘s mathair bean is paiste ata ag sille suil

A ri na ngrasta, ceap neamh is pairais,
nar bheag an tach duinn beirt na truir
Ach la chomh brea leis gan gaoith na baisteach
Lan an baid acu a scuaib ar suil.