About Ancient Ghosts and Green Heart Songs

Ancient Ghosts and Green Heart Songs is a personal anthology of poems, songs, hymns, and music begun around 1995 as a kind of journal. The theme is very simple--celebration of my family, my grandparents and parents, my brothers, my husband and daughter, and an expression of gratitude to God for them, and for my Christian Faith and Irish heritage. Some are deeply sad while others are joyful. Some are prayers and others laments, or even protest against abuse. They are all born of love, of pain, of grief, and of profound Faith. The anthology will be complete when I return home...

Ancient Ghosts...some songs

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Home Again

I grew up on Irish music.  As a young adult I got into popular music, then as I became even more involved in "formal religion" I fell into the terrible attitude that I could only sing for God if I sang religious music.  What a mistake!  FINALLY, I realized the beauty and earthy spirituality of my ancestral music.  I realized God tapped a foot along with us!
 
 
Home Again

I'm home again.  Yes, I'm home again!
Back to the music I've longed for!
I've travelled the road of rock, pop and Jesus
But I'm home now again once more.

I grew up with the music my own people knew
Then wandered away for some years
And found that none other than Irish would do -
It's the music of laughter and tears.
So, (chorus)

The voices of seanchai, poet and bard
Call out to their prodigal one
Who searched for the music closest to God
But now all that searching is done.
For  (chorus)

For where is the grass ever greener
Or the soul ever closer to God
Than with music of bard and of dreamer
With its roots deep in old Irish sod?
So, (chorus)

A youth spent in searching is over
For now the full circle has come
As this prodigal, musical rover
Steps in beat with that old bodhran drum.
For, (chorus)

Copyright 1995 C‡it Finnegan

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