Cara Dillon - There Were Roses
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- From the album "Sweet Liberty" by Cara Dillon, released in 2003.
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Lyrics:
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
Isaac he was Protestant and Sean was Catholic born
But 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 will always be as one
There were roses, roses
There were roses
And the tears of a people ran together
It was on a Sunday morning when the awful news came round
Another killing had been done just outside Newry Town
We knew that Isaac danced up there, we knew he liked the band
But when we heard that he was dead we just could not understand
Now fear it filled the countryside there was fear in every home
When late at night a car came prowling round the Ryan Road
A Catholic would be killed tonight to even up the score
Oh Christ it's young McDonald they have taken from the door
There were roses, roses
There were roses
And the tears of a people ran together
I don't know where the moral is or where this song should end
But I wonder just how many wars are fought between good friends
And those who give the orders are not the ones to die
It's Scott and young McDonald and the likes of you and I
There were roses, roses
There were roses
And the tears of a people ran together
There were roses, roses
There were roses
And the tears of a people ran together
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Born in Dungiven in 1975, surrounded and infused with the rich cultural heritage of her native County Derry, Cara has risen to become one of the finest exponents of traditional Irish song anywhere in the world. Possessing a rare and unique voice that has been lauded since her very beginnings winning the All Ireland singing trophy aged only 14. Together with her husband and musical partner, Sam Lakeman, she has succesfully steered an eclectic musical path defying the typical pigeonholes that hinder most artists in her genre. Celebrated for entwining traditional and contemporary elements she has earned both commercial success and astonishing critical acclaim
If you don't shed a few tears while listening to this song. You must be made of stone. Incredible voice
I was born in 1975 in south east Antrim and lived through the worst of what this young lady is singing about...it strikes a cord with me....our beautiful Island of Ireland need to respect each other.
sorry
Den Danske Helt I’m a gen z so I’m ruining my generation so leave me alone
Beautiful song ❤️
Same Joel. Wish so many otherstud the hurt an words threw this song! People given the orders, weren't the ones who suffers. Were really all just people here on earth. From county Armagh G.road. 🇮🇪🇬🇧🇮🇪
I first heard this at work on the radio years ago, and it truly brought a tear to my cheek. 😪
Almost made it through without tearing up this time. Almost.
Just back from Belfast where I heard this sang acapella by a beautiful young n.irish girl at 3 in the morning after a heavy night celebrating my brothers wedding! It really hit me put it that way! Beautiful country and people.
Who downvotes this?? As a N.irisher, in my generation, we just want peace.
"Peace" yeah right, and they just had tae evacuate ppl this week due to another bomb...... but hey i cannae say fuck all look at Govan this week lol
@EuropeDP If you live here in Northern Ireland you have the luxury of being able to hold both British & Irish passports ...you will also be classed a British citizen if Northern Ireland is your place of birth...its in the Good Friday Agreement.
Think i 1st heard this on Billy Connolly's World Tour of England, Ireland and Wales
💔Heartbreakingly beautiful song.xx
Makes me cry every time I listen to this song
A song that truly breaks your heart
This song always gets me. Welling up😢
This is a beautiful song.Fantastic.There really is no room for hatred in this world.
your comment makes no sense
The 1st time listening to this song. Such a beautiful song being told how the people suffered 😢 beautiful but so sad.
I'm half Irish and lived in Ireland for 10 yrs it's a lovely country and most of the people both sides are nice but there's a rotten apple everywere you go it's sad and my heart goes out to you over there Paul p Birmingham England xx lol ❤😊
True @paul every place has a rotten apple but also with prenty of hospitable kind and good loving people
Prot
This is the best version of this song by far. ❤🏴 our cousins over in norn iron.
This is such a powerful song. It connects at ground level, it tells you that ordinary people suffered.
It's strikes home !!!😢
Brought a tear to my eye 🥹
I am deeply drawn to Ireland and it’s traditional and folk music. Songs like this take my soul and my dna back to Ireland where I my ancestors came from !
In Ireland we had to fight for freedom, not by choice, but animals given the orders. It's always the people given orders are never there in battle. It's 1 world we are all just guests here.
Born in Derry..moved to Co Down.. went to St Patricks primary school..a few miles from the Ryan Rd..lived in Derryleckagh.. Sands Family deserve respect
It's interesting how much it mirrors much of the hate in the UK right now. It's just directed at different people at the moment. People seem to forget that at the end of the day, we're all human. I always tear up at this. Part of the history of every Irish person who's ever lived.
Good Lord, what a beautiful rendition of this song
I am a half n half and this song is just beautiful I was born couple years after the troubles were over but as a kid we still had moments when people kicked off but that was not as bad as it would have been back in the 20th century
Beautiful song Beautiful lady,a truly great singer.
Such a beautiful song.
Beautiful song.
meu falecido esposo Francisco Freire me presenteou com as mais belas canções de Clara Dillon e desde então canto para minhas netas e netos acalmar e dormirem.
Cara is a lovely singer l have many of her cds ❤
the first time i heard this song was on the 15th of april 2023 and iam shocked i didnt hear it before i will be listening to it every day from here on .one of the most beautiful songs i have ever heard. and so true of the times that happened here.
This is such a beautiful song!😢Absolutely beautiful!😌
EvelinaTattanVlogs devastatingly beautiful.
Unreal
Nah it’s shit
Ah the tragedy. How can she sing this without breaking down in tears?
I've never even been to Ireland. But I'm Christian and have struggled with anger my whole life. I always try to sing along and I stop cause I get choked up. The, another eye for another eye till everyone is blind line is where it get's me. I think if more people could hear and truly listen to this song more of us would be reminded to STOP hating and hurting each other.
Myself and a good friend of mine cry when we hear this song. And if we're together it's worse. We both come from different communities in northern Ireland
@@andrewkurtz737 it will never happen..... just look at the news fae glasgow as well as the north this past week lol.....guess were too stubborn, and also alot of us have had mates killed by the other side, so we also never forgive....... then with the brexit coming, so is the return of the hard boarder in the north....and that will no doubt cause alot of the paras to return whove been on vacation since '98.
@@emmamccallum551 then you know it will never end...just like it will never end in Glasgow either.
What a powerful song. Great voice
My family is from bessbrook, this happened and the whole world cried.
First heard this song in 2005 after the death of Mickey Bow McIlwee.
I learned it word for word and it became my party piece. No matter where I sing it you can hear a pin drop as it resonates trough generations.
I love you & your voice! Thanks for making my life so much more wonderful Miss Cara
Beautiful. ♥️. Wish she'd sung all the verses.
Beautiful song exquisitely sung
Let it be, let it be
I love her voice and her song soooooo much! They are beautiful and impressing😘
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
Isaac he was Protestant and Sean was Catholic born
But 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 will always be as one
There were roses, roses
There were roses
And the tears of a people ran together
It was on a Sunday morning when the awful news came round
Another killing had been done just outside Newry Town
We knew that Isaac danced up there, we knew he liked the band
But when we heard that he was dead we just could not understand
Now fear it filled the countryside there was fear in every home
When late at night a car came prowling round the Ryan Road
A Catholic would be killed tonight to even up the score
Oh Christ it's young McDonald they have taken from the door
There were roses, roses
There were roses
And the tears of a people ran together
Isac was my friend he cried as he begged them with his tears
but century years of hatred have ears that do not hear
an eye for an eye it was all that felled there minds
and another eye for another eye till everyone is blind
I don't know where the moral is or where this song should end
But I wonder just how many wars are fought between good friends
And those who give the orders are not the ones to die
It's Scott and young McDonald and the likes of you and I
There were roses, roses
There were roses
And the tears of a people ran together
There were roses, roses
roses
And the tears of a people ran together
Songwriters: Thomas Sands
For years I had thought she sang troubled Northern Ire until I seen these lyrics
You have to give Tommy Sands full credit for this song initially. Cara Dillon puts her own unique haunting twist to this song. Full credit to her for that.
And the troubles arise again
If God is our Father we are all brothers and sisters in His name.
brothers and sisters fight each other often, sometimes gentle, sometimes brutal
All need to personally decide between the God of unity or that of division (extremism) - Life need not mimic the chaos of a dying material universe (2nd Law of Thermodynamics)
My son said why does that man have blood on his head. I said he was looking for God and found religion instead.
Says it all thanks
Loveing it
Très belle version, jolie voix
beautiful
This song really reveals the emotion for our wee country during the troubles
Which country is that, since you seem to be unable to spell Britain?
loved her for year about least over ten beautiful song and voice love her
I am Irish & was injured in an IRA bomb blast for the first time aged four. My mother lost hold of my hand as my tiny body was lifted into the air with the blast & I was left with damaged hearing & other injuries. Most Irish people want to live in peace. We have a beautiful island & the continual bombing just damaged the infrastructure in both "sides" of the community & it made no sense at all. I chose this presentation of this song as there was something I wanted to make clear. We all knew that there wasn't enough money around to pay for the supply of all the explosives & weapons which once made our lives a living hell. Before I go further, I want to state that we spent half of our lives in the U.S.A. & love the friends we made there like family but chose to leave & come home. Some of our family still lives in Boston. However, guess where they traced the origin of the bulk of the funds that ruined our lives? The good old U.S. of A. If you gave to "the cause" you were NOT funding "freedom fighters" but thugs & murderers who didn't "liberate" the Irish but made their lives miserable. I also know that, should any other country poke it's nose into America's business, as America has done to other countries, there would be hell to pay. We wish you would clean up the many troubles in your own back yard, instead of funding terrorists out of a mostly inaccurate take on a country not yours to help destroy.
So sorry to hear of your suffering. Being from the West of Ireland, my parents kept us in a "bubble" and if any documentary on the troubles came on, it was turned off as they wanted to shield us. Many of us in the South, feel immense guilt for our apathy but I was just a child in the 80s. It was the Warrington bombings in '93, I think were the last straw as just children were the fatalities. Not to make their lives more important than any other lives lost in the troubles but it made most people stop and say "Enough is Enough"
I don't "celebrate" the death of soldiers on "Australia Day" who were forced to give their lives for those who arranged their deaths on purpose. It disgusts me.
I fear for the Irish above every nation. The slavery they endured (who's value was least amongst every sort of slave, such as Christian or African), the constant attacks, the violent and forceful eradication of their beautiful culture. I know that the reason for such attacks is because the Irish were a nation of high value; kind, positive, loving, loyal, brave, good people, and thus seen as an extreme danger to wanted future ideals by evil people.
The U.S. is only a pawn. The old woman "in charge" of England is also a pawn.
What would you say if I said that a fair while back she arranged and paid some to fly over to Ireland, for the purpose of eradicating random victims? Women... children...
The only people who are aloud high standing positions in this world, are those who conform to this logic. Every high standing person is an enemy.
@@deannatroy8113 Deluded people like you sadden me.
Well said!
Who paid for the weaponry used by the uvf lvf red hand commands uda . Two sides to the story but one side is always ignored 🙁
This song is beautiful... 🥰 Your voice is just amazing
billy connolly used this song in his world tour of ireland absolutely brilliant
Yes, it was so poignant.
the feeling this song imparts is from an older time, but is more relevant than ever in other places where capitalism has left its refuse
Beautiful song. And hard to sing; I can get through the first verse. Takes practice. Look for Masterless Men. They do this well
So proud I am related long distance you touch hearts then souls
I love youse/Tha gaol oribhse. I'm Scottish and went to a 'non-dom' school ; we had a priest do the Easter prayers then a minister do Christmas and vice-versa, the year after. We all grew up, united as people - Dundee Utd, Dundee, Arbroath, Celtic, Hibs, Aberdeen, Rangers, even Stranraer! We all grew up Scottish and as pals. Most of us are from "mixed-marriages/cross-community'' e.g I was never baptised/christened but my brother was , and we all know people like us. I'm not trying to say I am better or preach about it all, we have many issues here ; but we all have aunties, uncles, girlfriends, brothers, sisters, fathers, mothers who are protestant/catholic. And we all voted Yes to Scottish Independence :)
respect the 55% then and realize that Scotland said no.
Unfortunately I also went to "non-dom" schools. Was constantly harassed for being a "fenian".
First time I heard this song was in China on the radio believe it or not
Cara is a lovely singer & Roses show just how horrific Hatred is & Cara I think is a Derry girl like my dear Mother Mary ( RIP) & moved to Fanad Co Donegal when she Married my dad Anthony known to his friends as Tony (RIP) Mam's Mam Kathleen Grant was a Portsalon girl until she married a Fahan Man Johnny Quigley & moved to Derry City.
Well done Cara you are Great.
Very good song & songs Cara.
Sad but true
I lost a good friend that was killed because he was catholic Thomas Devlin and he was stabbed to death years ago. There was a video about him made with this song in the background.
And this country still can't get it together. Whatever side of the border you live on there's something wrong if this doesn't make you think about the suffering. The song describes exactly how it is here, the younger generation want to live in peace but the old sectarian people don't
87cherrytart the old secterian people don't? Tell that to the people of Derry who've been tormented by petrol bombs etc constantly for the past week, all by these young people who you claim want to live in peace!! I admit it's a powerful song, but you can't place all the blame on the older generation, when the hatred has seeped into the younger ones, this is sadly the state of the country we live in
Michelle Leonard and what does peace mean? Half of the people want to live in Ireland, half want to live in Britain. There won’t be peace until everyone is happy, and that is an impossible dream. You talk of “peace”, and yes we’re not living in the 80s now, but it could blow up at any time, the tension and hatred is still there by old AND young.
Who’s This? I agree with you, what annoyed me here was Cherrytart saying that it was the older generation who were to blame for secterianism etc, it's not just them!! One of the most famous (and sadly true) quotes are "There'll never be a United Ireland," it's sad but it's true :-/
Michelle Leonard yes sorry I was replying to her comment not yours! It’s definitely still alive, peace held together because neither side want to revisit the old times, but the hatred still festers, the communities still divided, kids don’t go to school together, one thing changes and it will blow up again. I fear for Ireland if a United Ireland ever happens, and Britain if there’s a feeling of betrayal, as the violence will rise again and all that changes is which group is seen as the terrorism organisation and which is the paramilitary.
the enemy are the globalists the oil the pharmas
this song was used by billy connolly in his world tour of ireland perfect song
First time i heard the song as well, great episode especially his tour of the murals.
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This should be the National Anthem for Northern Ireland instead of God Save The King. Im a Protestant and would love that song for our football team.
2:12 me when I’m out livin it up on the 12th
I listen to this every day since Brexit and pray for a miracle.
#2019Anyone?
I like how the title is 'There Were Roses' and in the album picture she's standing in daisies.
Shut the fuck up you smelly Bastard
Idiot
That's the album cover,
those who give the orders are not the ones who die......pretty much says it all.
😢
They may have guns but we have roses.
Bessbrook newry 🍀
Till there is a 32 county Ireland the war will not be over
I live in Northern Ireland and there should be no religion just love God!
Alex Mckinstry is it really about religion? Does anyone know the difference between the two denominations of Christianity?
It’s more tribalism I’d say, passed down from generation to generation.
Sad.
“Always respect your elders, but remember, stupid people grow old too”
@@garyodriscoll7988 yeah I suppose it’s more national identity. Like a Catholic for the North isn’t going to have a problem with an American Protestant, or an Ulster Protestant with an American Catholic
@@taylormcgrath Agreed. The more I, a Catholic, read up on Protestantism, the more sense that religion made, lol.
Who wrote this song?
Tommy Sands - great singer, songwriter, activist from Co. Down (I believe) - good friend of the late Tommy Makem. www.tommysands.com/
Tommy Sands, way back in the 70's. I saw the Sands family play in Stuttgart about 1982
Who the hell disliked this?
The queen
LOVE 💞🦋ヽ♡｀♪
my son cian and my other son liam are from ireland
If brexit does happen this all might happen... hopefully not
They started it 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
What a pathetic comment were all the same
@@lizzicrawford1595 They did. There was no need to burn innocent Catholics out of there homes and there was no need for the Shankhill Butchers either. They hate us and dont want us anywhere, even in foreign countries like Scotland.
Just as there was no need to murder innocent ppl like the IRA all the same ,o have nothing against Catholics it's the terrorists I despise xx
@@SonderTelly So the Offical IRA was innocent during the border conflict? What about the Protestants genocided in Co. Cork by the IRA during the Irish Civil War? The Protestants murdered in border areas just after Partition? What about the United Irishmen burning protestants alive? Shall I continue? Irish republicanism is a cancer that needs removed
@@lizzicrawford1595 oh Lizzi shut up
People need to listen to Tommy Sands original not this truncated trash.
You are trash
@Patricia knowlea trash??what kinda goul are you at all !!!!
This is an incredible haunting twist on the original. Both have merit.
Not even close to trash, but I do miss the removed parts
U talk shite
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
Isaac he was Protestant and Sean was Catholic born
But 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 will always be as one
There were roses, roses
There were roses
And the tears of a people ran together
It was on a Sunday morning when the awful news came round
Another killing had been done just outside Newry Town
We knew that Isaac danced up there, we knew he liked the band
But when we heard that he was dead we just could not understand
Now fear it filled the countryside there was fear in every home
When late at night a car came prowling round the Ryan Road
A Catholic would be killed tonight to even up the score
Oh Christ it's young McDonald they have taken from the door
There were roses, roses
There were roses
And the tears of a people ran together
I don't know where the moral is or where this song should end
But I wonder just how many wars are fought between good friends
And those who give the orders are not the ones to die
It's Scott and young McDonald and the likes of you and I
There were roses, roses
There were roses
And the tears of a people ran together
There were roses, roses
There were roses
And the tears of a people ran together
wojanwoj well done you copied and pasted the description you spastic