The Gold and Silver Days - Paddy Reilly

As I’m sitting in the firelight

And turning back the years

I can hear my mother singing, in the morning

As she scrubbed our shining faces

And then packed us off to school

All too soon those days were over without warning

So sing me the songs

Of our Gold and Silver days

Days filled with innocence and light

Not a penny to our names

We were happy just the same

In our Gold and Silver days

In the parlour on the friday night

My father took the floor

I can hear us join together, in the chorus

Singing «Just a Song at Twilight»

And The Moon behind the Hill"

Now those voices all are silent, gone before us

So sing me the songs of our Gold and Silver days

Days filled with innocence and light

Not a penny to our names

We were happy just the same

In our Gold and Silver days

When we gathered at the daisy fields

At sunday after mass

And we danced to Johnny Quigley and the Royal

Through the years we all were scattered

But our friends were good and true

Always there when they were needed, always loyal

So sing me the songs of our Gold and Silver days

Days filled with innocence and light

Not a penny to our names

We were happy just the same

In our Gold and Silver days

Sing me the songs of our Gold and Silver days

Days filled with innocence and light

Not a penny to our names

We were happy just the same

In our Gold and Silver days