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New Lyrics for the Ancient Celtic Melody Give Me Your Hand
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Mary Kay Aufrance composed lyrics and recorded the ancient Irish tune "Give Me Your Hand" with her vocals, performing with her husband Tom as Gairin Celtic Music on their album Musical Dreams, and she published her music score in her book titled Musical Dreams: Sheet Music and Lyrics.
"This traditional Irish tune was originally written by Turlough O’Carolan. Legend has it that the lyrics to this song were lost. So, I felt this song called out for me to write its story. In doing so, I felt the tune suited a space and time travel fantasy."
Give Me Your Hand
by Turlough O'Carolan,
Lyrics by Mary Kay Aufrance
Performed with Tom Aufrance
If you gave me a star from the back of the sky.
I would hold it in close like a small firefly.
And with light in my palm we could see to go far.
Past the mists and the moors through the otherworld doors.
Through eternity’s gate on the wings of our star.
Those souls who had sung this tune long ago,
might tell you a secret that only they know.
For their dreams still live on though their world is long gone.
But their lyrics were lost in the mists of all time
so we try to retrieve them today with all our rhymes.
So give me your hand and we’ll go to that land, that’s
beyond our time far on the wings of our star.
