From the recording Banishment

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Vocal: Tom Fairnie
Harmony vocal: Jane Fairnie, Karen Dietz, Inge McIlroy
Guitar: Tom Fairnie,
2nd Guitar: Bernard Brogue
Violin: Emily Peppers
Percussion: Robin Brill
Bass: Ken Kennedy


Lyrics

If I Could Hold Her In My Arms

If I could hold her in my arms
In the bar of my choice
Then sip malt whisky
And sail upon her voice
The crac in the mirror
Becomes a background noise
As she and I together
Sing another song with all the bhoys
The Londonderry Air
As She Moved Through The Fair
She’s all I want to hear
She’s all I want to hear

If life could turn upon its head
And we were back in time
A young man and his fancy
And we were in our prime
Brass buttons shining
And the devil for a rhyme
She and I together
At the first and one last time
Scarborough Fair
Upon A Midnight Clear
She’s all I want to hear
She’s all I want to hear

If I could hold her in my arms


© If I Could Hold Her In My Arms words by Tom Fairnie, music by Tom Fairnie & Jane Fairnie May 21st 2006

I’m fifty-five but feel much older
The grindstone’s knocked hell out of my shoulder
I caught a girl but couldn’t hold her
Now I’m obliged to act my age
Till a woman was the song I sung her
Her taste, to satisfy my hunger
And make bits of me feel so much younger
New words, upon new page.

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