Ralph McTell - From Clare to here 1990 video free download


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Ralph McTell - From Clare to here 1990

Released 1976

There's four who share this room

and we work hard for the craic

And sleeping late on Sundays

well I never get to Mass

It's a long, long way from Clare to here

It's a long way from Clare to here

It's a long, long way and it grows further day by day

Oh it's a long, long way from Clare to here

When Friday comes around

Terry's only into fighting

My ma would like a letter home

but I'm too tired for writing

It's a long, long way from Clare to here

It's a long way from Clare to here

It's a long, long way and it grows further day by day

Oh it's a long, long way from Clare to here

It almost breaks my heart

when I think of Josephine

I told her I'd be coming home

with pockets full of green

Oh it's a long, long way from Clare to here

It's a long way from Clare to here

It's a long, long way and it grows further day by day

Oh it's a long, long way from Clare to here

And the only time I feel alright is

when I'm into drinking

It sort of eases the pain of it

and levels out my thinking

Oh it's a long, long way from Clare to here

It's a long way from Clare to here

It's a long, long way and it grows further day by day

Oh it's a long way from Clare to here

I sometimes hear a fiddle play

or maybe it's a notion

I dream I see white horses dance

upon that other ocean

It's a long, long way from Clare to here

It's a long way from Clare to here

It's a long, long way and it grows further day by day

Oh it's a long, long way from Clare to here

It's a long way from Clare to here.

Comments

9 years ago

Mike van Beuren

I don't know why I always cry when I hear this song....

9 years ago

RiverboatSeven

I have been a big fan of Ralph's music since about 1965. But who's great idea was it to flood the studio with the fog machine? It just looks odd with the audience half immersed in the fog! Anyway beautiful song Ralph, as all of of your songs.

9 years ago

Kai Witomski

Ralph McTell - born this day in 1944.Happy Birthday Ralph.

9 years ago

HMichaelH

He reminds me of Harry Chapin.

9 years ago

nick wright

One of my favourite Ralph songs.Please listen to :" Pegasus bridge the writers".Thanks.

9 years ago

Steve Ford

The genius of this song is that Ralph gave it to us. Anybody can sing and play it with a basic ability to sing and play the chords and it's just as moving. Fond memories of a guy called Ray in Bristol who'd play this so beautifully, quiet and understated and a roomful of people sharing the emotion in Ralph's song, singing along reduced almost to tears.

10 years ago

greywolf271

Amazing, even better than Streets of London

10 years ago

rob waters

Wonderful song

10 years ago

rob huijsman

This is so beautiful, Ralph thank you for this song

10 years ago

nick wright

Please listen to the song: The Great War The Writers. Thanks.

10 years ago

terri purcell

As a Clare man this song pulls me apart yet I keep listening to it, I must go back soon

10 years ago

caerfai

Agree with both of the above. Ralph teaches a lot at his concerts. I didn't really rate him until I saw him live and I can say I totally under estimated him. The entire audience was spellbound for 2 hours. Very talented and very unique.

10 years ago

Rachel Burckardt

One of my favorite songs of all time...... I just love the refrain, with the repeated lyrics but each time melodically different. In fact, it's one of the best refrains melodically, exploring the melody in 4 inversions of the line, with soaring beauty in the 3rd inversion, and ending in the sad and melancholic relative minor!

10 years ago

stacey vienot

sanddoute la + belle chanson avec Streets of london et Nightmares. Bravo.

10 years ago

Olliver Gant

Thanks for posting this video I never heard Ralph McTell sing his original song. I had only heard it on the Nanci Griffith cover recordings. This is one of the only songs that makes me tear up every single time I hear it because it so poingnantly expresses regrets.

10 years ago

SirAntoniousBlock

Yeah what Zad said.

11 years ago

ZadZadrack

Ralph McTell, brother, you can be proud of yourself,for in your lifetime you have managed to possess the most precious talent a human being can have, and that is: THE ART OF COMMUNICATING EMOTIONS BETWEEN ALL SORTS OF PEOPLE ROUND THE WORLD, with a simple guitar and a wonderful tunes and lyrics. Bless you.

11 years ago

ecsplace

A great dig Thank you to fritz for posting this video. It is always special to hear the song from the man who wrote it especially when that man is Ralph McTell, a legend.

11 years ago

Kathja Rosendahl

tradition is what the heart and soul feels regardless of the nationality of the owner.....

12 years ago

folkmusicgirl

I have not heard this news. Where did you hear this from? Perhaps you are confusing it with another folk singer from England named Bert Jansch who did sadly recently pass away.

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