Elegy

Elegy (No Rainbows Here)

In a southern land as the old year waned

And the valley mist was falling

The sky was grey, no rainbows here

Not a single bird was calling

There lived two brothers in yon dark place

Where the path led to the valley

And they were young and they were cruel

And they had no thought for mercy

They laid their plans and they laid in wait

For the old man returning

They took a life and what they could sell

For a meagre handful of cold silver

They reveled long into the night

With no care a man lay dying

And as they walked away, the morning rain

Wept the tears the world was crying

They do not know or understand

The worth of gold earned fairly

And they spare no thought for justice done

That would cost their freedom dearly

And those that live by cold blue steel

Reap a bitter harvest sorely

Three lives destroyed for want of love

As the wheel of fate turned coldly

The coin it spins and it comes to land

At the whim of fortune’s madness

The beauty of the moonlit night

Or dark despair of grief and sadness

Is trua go deo faid táimíd beo

Go mbeidh orainn rogha a dhéanamh

Is fíor, mo bhrón, má canaim ceol

Go mbeidh ort éist le fothram