My song for you this evening / There were roses gospel christian songs free mp3 midi download

There Were Roses

Melody -

1. My song for you this evening,
It's not to make you sad
Nor for adding to the sorrows
Of this troubled northern land,
But lately I've been thinking
And it just won't leave my mind
I'll tell you of two friends one time
Who were both good friends of mine.

2. Allan Bell from Banagh,
He lived just across the fields,
A great man for the music
And the dancing and the reels.
O'Malley came from South Armagh
To court young Alice fair,
And we'd often meet on the Ryan Road
And the laughter filled the air.

Refrain:
There were roses, roses
There were roses
And the tears of the people
Ran together

4. Though Allan, he was Protestant,
And Sean was Catholic born,
It never made a difference
For the friendship, it was strong.
And sometimes in the evening
When we heard the sound of drums
We said, "It won't divide us.
We always will be one."

5. For the ground our fathers plowed in,
The soil, it is the same,
And the places where we say our prayers
Have just got different names.
We talked about the friends who died,
And we hoped there'd be no more.
It's little then we realized
The tragedy in store.

6. It was on a Sunday morning
When the awful news came round.
Another killing has been done
Just outside Newry Town.
We knew that Allan danced up there,
We knew he liked the band.
When we heard that he was dead
We just could not understand.
7. We gathered at the graveside
On that cold and rainy day,
And the minster he closed his eyes
And prayed for no revenge.
All, all of us who knew him
From along the Ryan Road,
We bowed our heads and said a prayer
For the resting of his soul.

8. Now fear, it filled the countryside.
There was fear in every home
When a car of death came prowling
Round the lonely Ryan Road.
A Catholic would be killed tonight
To even up the score.
"Oh, Christ! It's young O'Malley
That they've taken from the door."

9. "Allan was my friend," he cried.
He begged them with his fear,
But centuries of hatred
Have ears that cannot hear.
An eye for an eye
Was all that filled their minds
And another eye for another eye
Till everyone is blind.

10. So my song for you this evening,
It's not to make you sad
Nor for adding to the sorrows
Of our troubled northern land,
But lately I've been thinking
And it just won't leave my mind.
I'll tell you of two friends one time
Who were both good friends of mine.

11. I don't know where the moral is
Or where this song should end,
But I wondered just how many wars
Are fought between good friends.
And those who give the orders
Are not the ones to die.
It's Bell and O'Malley
And the likes of you and I.

There were roses, roses
There were roses.
And the tears of the people
Ran together.