He didn't have any problems when I asked if I could sing it, so here's one of his that I sing on occassion.
Friends in Good Company
by Rhaury Ui'Eochaid
Life can be hard and lovers can fail you
Troubles like storm winds come too fierce to sail through
Here mate! Sit down, rest at ease, have an ale too
Out of the wind and the rain and the tears.
Nothing like port for a shipman hard pressed
The same is a hall and a beer and your mates
With nothing a fellow with friends is well blessed
They can smile and drink and curse all their fates...
Life can be hard and lovers can fail you
Troubles like storm winds come too fierce to sail through
Here mate! Sit down, rest at ease, have an ale too
Out of the wind and the rain and the tears.
What can you trust? Even good swords will rust
To say naught of what oft' comes of love
When the hurt has to come, a good stout is a must
With your mates close as hands in a glove
Life can be hard and lovers can fail you
Troubles like storm winds come too fierce to sail through
Here mate! Sit down, rest at ease, have an ale too
Out of the wind and the rain and the tears.
Find a teef in your pocket, catch a bolt in your chest
Just for tell'n 'em, "please move along..."
With a beer in your fist, forget all the rest
And with your best mates sing a song.
Life can be hard and lovers can fail you
Troubles like storm winds come too fierce to sail through
Here mate! Sit down, rest at ease, have an ale too
Out of the wind and the rain and the tears.
Come out of the wind and the rain and the tears
Where nothing fits right? When you ache to the bone.
Spirits are raised by the tales one hears
And a trials half done if it's not borne alone...
Life can be hard and lovers can fail you
Troubles like storm winds come too fierce to sail through
Here mate! Sit down, rest at ease, have an ale too
Out of the wind and the rain and the tears.
Killing you softly with his song,
- Stormsinger Shavay
"We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams"
- Arthur O'Shaughnessy
