Thom Moore: Music

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1.
In desert land,
the ghosts of all
the manly empires
bewail the waste
and the women left behind them.

Somewhere in Offaly,
you can see the girl,
and is she lonely?
Will Slieve Bloom do,
or Croghan Hill, the only?

"Hey-ey-ey-ey-ey-ey-ey,"
they'd heard the shepherd say.
"Come along down wit' ye now,
get yez home to stay."

2.
The young man goes
to the mecca-towns
of becks and whistles:
inside he knows
in his soul there's
bog and thistle.

Somewhere in Offaly --
Tullamore or Birr,
or Banagher? -- No:
Slieve Bloom will do,
or Croghan Hill, the only.

"Hey-ey-ey-ey-ey-ey-ey,"
he hears the shepherd say.
"Come along down wit' ye now,
get yez home to stay."

3.
Off in the distance,
where the sky comes down
and clouds come after,
there's rising ground
and the only road to master

Somewhere in Offaly,
not a million miles
from somewhere holy…
Slieve Bloom will do,
or Croghan Hill, the only.

"Hey-ey-ey-ey-ey-ey-ey,"
I'll hear the shepherd say.
"Come along down wit' ye now,
get yez home to stay."