# Oh
(HOLDS NOTE)
# The Battle of the Hawthorn Trees
# Whoa
(HOLDS NOTE)
# The Battle of the Hawthorn
(HOLDS NOTE)
# Bless me mother for you know I've sinned
# I spent all my money on these brittle things
# Bless the kingdom that we've built on sand
# All the world right there in your hand
# Bless the blackbird in the hawthorn tree
# She waits for the blooming of the red berry
# The Battle of the Hawthorn will never be won
# You're as beautiful in winter as you are in sun
# Whoa
(HOLDS NOTE)
# The Battle of the Hawthorn Trees
# Whoa
(HOLDS NOTE)
# The Battle of the Hawthorn
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# Hands were shaking your mind it reels
# As we run like deer through the shivering fields
# With your fresh pressed thistle and St. Brigid's cross
# The lilly white sky
# Pillow of moss
# My love she gave to me
# The jewels of her mind
# And I hung them on the branches
# Frozen in time
# Whoa
(HOLDS NOTE)
# The Battle of the Hawthorn Trees
# Whoa
(HOLDS NOTE)
# The Battle of the Hawthorn
# Up the cnoc
# There's a howling wolf
# Howling for survival when we're all one blood
# Bless the blackbird in the hawthorn tree
# She waits for the blooming of her destiny
# The Battle of the Hawthorn will never be won
# Black skeleton of winter white wing in sun
# My love she gave to me
# The jewels of her mind
# And I hung them on the branches
# Frozen in time
# Whoa
(HOLDS NOTE)
# The Battle of the Hawthorn Trees
# Whoa
(HOLDS NOTE)
# The Battle of the Hawthorn
(HOLDS NOTE)
# Trees
# Yeah
# Whoa
(HOLDS NOTE)
# The Battle of the Hawthorn
(HOLDS NOTE)
# The Hawthorn Trees #
(CLAPPING AND CHEERING)
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
So, we're down here in the docks. This is pretty industrial.
But also, this is where The Spirit Store is.
So, how did that come to be?
Well, it was really the idea of Mark Dearey,
my business partner here this last 25 years.
Mark had spotted it in 1998 as a run-down old pub
and he had this idea
that he wanted to make a music venue out of it
and he approached me
and asked me would I be interested in getting involved
because I'd a background in the music business
and I couldn't believe it when I went down to see it.
It was in an awful state. I mean the roof was falling apart.
The whole place was falling apart and I went,
"Yeah, let's do it," straight away. Of course.
It was just...! It was such a novel idea.
It was just something I couldn't possibly turn down.
(TRADITIONAL TUNE)
One, two, one, two.
Was it a dockers pub? It was an old dockers pub.
The family that owned the pub had been living in it.
So, we knocked two bedrooms into one initially.
It was a tiny little folk club of 60 capacity
with long benches that you'd see in like Hogwarts
and we were very lucky at the very start.
We had the support of people like Christy Moore, Lúnasa
Kíla, John Spillane,
the great Ronnie Drew played two or three shows here
Brilliant. and it kinda got us started.
It sounds like you quickly garnered a reputation as an artist's venue.
We learnt our trade as we went along, you know.
Sometimes it's the very simple things.
Oh, absolutely.
Like a warm welcome, a decent PA, a good engineer.
And you painted it pink.
I mean, you can see it from space really, can't you at this stage.
It's fantastic. I love it. It's cheery and beautiful
and it's actually the last colour you expect
as you're driving down here at the docks.
True, true.
You've had some amazing acts perform here down through the years.
Tell me some of the names you've seen.
Hozier at the beginning, Ellie Goulding.
We had a brilliant show with The Darkness a few years ago.
Wonderful to have Ron Sexsmith and his full band here.
People like Kristin Hersh.
Had they heard of The Spirit Store? They wanted to come and play here?
Well, as you know like, sometimes when an act is touring
like the agent is on and obviously word gets around
with some of the major agents
that this is a decent place to apply your trade I suppose.
It's so inspiring and I hope that you realise yourself, and Mark
how important people like you are for the community, for the artist.
Where would we go? Where would we play?
But the most important show is the next show.
(THE BIRD IN THE BUSH)
(CLAPPING AND CHEERING)
# It's hard for me, it's hard for me
# It's hard for me, the same thing, that you repeat
# It's playing constantly, it's constantly
# It's constantly, it's déjà vu, what do you mean
# It's hard for me, it's hard for me
# It's hard for me, the same thing that you repeat
# It's playing constantly, it's constantly
# It's constantly, it's déjà vu
# What do you mean
# Tiptoeing around saying anything of meaning
# I'm tryna have a conversation but you don't wanna hear it
# You shut me down, bulldoze me
# Just to try to only control me
# Nothing really changes cause you're not really willing
# Stop, wait, listen, hold that thought, give me a minute
# Here we go again, I'm second guessing
# My head is messing needs refreshing
# To see sense again
# If you can't show me where I stand with you
# Then let me show you where I'll land without you
# I'm so sick of, it's hard for me
# It's hard for me, it's hard for me
# The same thing, that you repeat
# It's playing constantly, it's constantly
# It's constantly, it's déjà vu, what do you mean
# It's hard for me, it's hard for me
# It's hard for me
# That you repeat
# It's playing constantly, it's constantly
# It's constantly, it's déjà vu
# What do you mean
# Me me me me me
# Is what you say when you dead wrong
# Me me me me me
# You never change cause you headstrong
# Sweet nothings in my ear, who left the gas on
# Click click blown up, it ain't ever your fault
# Strike the match, hide your hand, it's never happenstance
# Bob weave duck dodge, it's such a tragic dance
# Choreo so toxic, blades swung like Brit Brit
# You in the slick ish, treat me like a misfit
# Flip scripts prolific like Shonda, that's the meter
# Say I'm insecure, when I'm fine like Issa
# That's evil, no matter how you slice it like frieza
# My feelings and emotions in the ether
# True true true, what am I to do
# When you rubber and I'm glue
# Constantly making it about you you you you you
# No matter what you do, apologies never see the light
# So you constantly repeat it like
# It's hard for me, it's hard for me
# It's hard for me, the same thing that you repeat
# It's playing constantly, it's constantly
# It's constantly, it's déjà vu
# What do you mean
# It's hard for me, it's hard for me
# It's hard for me, the same thing that you repeat
# It's playing constantly, it's constantly
# It's constantly, it's déjà vu, what do you mean
# Every time we talk it turns back about you
# No matter what the problem or the issue
# I never get my point across, it don't get through
# You never take responsibility
# You always bring it back to me and me
# And me and me and me and me, rinse and repeat
# Repeatedly repeatedly #
(INSTRUMENTAL)
(CLAPPING AND CHEERING)
Thank you.
(INSTRUMENTAL)
# A Bhidí bheag mhúinte, is tú a d'fhág mo chroí dúnta
# Scéimh na gcúig gcúige i do chuirlín deas donn
# Tá rós i gclár d'éadain 'chuireadh maise ar mhnáibh Éireann
# Is in ainneoin chlann na nGael, is í Bidí mo rún
# I cast my eye on this charming fair maiden
# Is bhí mé dhá teannadh anonn le mo chroí
# Oró éist, a stór if you go with anyone
# Leave your mammy and come with me
# Tá buachaillí óga do m'iarraidh le pósadh
# Cha bpósaim go deoidh aon fhear in mur tír
# Ar neamhchead na slóite, tá mo ghean go rómhór ort
# Cha déanaim lá róúil go dtilleadh tú aríst
# I cast my eye on this charming fair maiden
# Is bhí mé dhá teannadh anonn le mo chroí
# Oró éist, a stór, if you go with anyone
# Leave your mammy and come with me
(INSTRUMENTAL)
# There are young men and many coming to me and from me
# They all swear they'll have me but it's all in vain
# Sure it's well known to many I'm in deep love with Jemmy
# I never will marry til I see him again
# I cast my eye on this charming fair maiden
# Is bhí mé dhá teannadh anonn le mo chroí
# Oró éist, a stór, if you go with anyone
# Leave your mammy and come with me
# Once in my youth twas I took a ramble
# Le mo chúl álainn, feamainneach, triopallach donn
# I asked her kindly if she would marry me
# Fág do mhamaí is éalaigh liom
# I cast my eye on this charming fair maiden
# Is bhí mé dhá teannadh anonn le mo chroí
# Oró éist, a stór, if you go with anyone
# Leave your mammy and come with me #
(INSTRUMENTAL)
(CHEERING AND CLAPPING)
(INSTRUMENTAL)
# Open air asylum
# Another shooting again
# No second to waste in the states
# Breathe it out suck it in
# Feeling within
# Yoga mats in the military base
# I say what I want
# Crime stays in the suites crime stays in the suites
# People burning in the streets no seconds at all
# Dissolved 'em keep 'em small
# Watching it all come down
# It goes on and on and on erasure
(INSTRUMENTAL)
# It goes on and on and on erasure
(INSTRUMENTAL)
# Broken prayers silenced voice
# Clean 'em out take aim
# Tell 'em all they're not being displaced
# Disarray far away all watch as they obey
# Just another loss of faith
# Blood soaked urban sprawl
# Golan missile scrawl files, they lost 'em all
# Keep them feeling small ghosts from Pinochet
# Unearth the disarray
# Watch us say obey
# It goes on and on and on erasure
(INSTRUMENTAL)
# It goes on and on and on erasure
(INSTRUMENTAL)
# It goes on
(INSTRUMENTAL)
# They know we know they lie
# They know we know they lie #