Shibboleth - Eleanor McEvoy

Your beauty in the spotlight

It was something to behold

A final hope of something good

A pool of solid gold

Mo ghrá, mo chroí, mo chúisle

How hard it is to see

A mhuirnín, they have brought you to your knees

You Riverdanced around the world

A shining shibboleth

You dared to take the breath away

Of everyone you met

Mo ghrá, mo chroí, mo chúisle

How hard it is to see

A mhuirnín, they have brought you to your knees

The rains that you’re so famous for

I’ve only realised

Are just the tears you fail to keep

Cascading from your eyes

Mo ghrá, mo chroí, mo chúisle

How hard it is to see

A mhuirnín, they have brought you to your knees

Mo ghrá, mo chroí, mo chúisle

How hard it is to see

A mhuirnín, they have brought you to your knees