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lyrics

Stardust

Each Sunday in the graveyard
Fresh flowers, with tears are wet,
For the precious ones they laid there,
The ones they can't forget.
And their prayers they fall like teardrops
In the scald of pain and grief
From that fire that took their young ones 
With the cruel hand of a thief.

Chorus
They were young and they were beautiful,
They were handsome, they were wild:
A father's spitting image 
A mother's mirrored child,
Whom they call in every moment — 
Each loved, remembered name,
Who were lost to them that Valentine's
And no one yet to blame.

Time is endless for them,
The sad years go so slow,
They’re still searching for the answers
But no one seems to know.
For truth, and justice hidden,
No closure yet can flow
Till there’s Justice for the loved ones
They lost those years ago.

Chorus
They were young and they were beautiful,
They were handsome, they were wild:
A father's spitting image 
A mother's mirrored child,
Whom they call in every moment — 
Each loved, remembered name,
Who were lost to them that Valentine's
And no one yet to blame.

—© Frank Callery.

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from Songs from a Life — Dear Dirty Dublin, track released February 22, 2022
Lyrics and Melody written by Frank Callery.
Voclas: Frank Callery.
Guitars and Keyboards: Paul Grant.
Mandolins: Martin Murray.

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Frank Callery Kilkenny, Ireland

Frank Callery is an award-winning songwriter, poet, editor, journalist and historian, who revels in the words and music of his heritage and tradition. A Dubliner, he has lived in Co. Kilkenny for the past 25 years.
I have written hundreds of songs and arranged song settings of the works of W.B. Yeats, Winnifred Mary Letts, John M. Synge, Robin Flower (Bláithín), Eva Gore-Booth and Moira O'Neill. ... more

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