Kathleen (Grieg's Mountain)

from Curse of Los Lunas by Bart Moore

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Inspired by shots of Jameson, old Traffic records, and of course Kathleen herself

lyrics

Golden light all the daytime
Ale & song all night long
Crank the sound system loud
We got the Pogues playing the old songs
Long years chasing her shadow
Up mountains and down
From San Francisco south,
Till I caught her at the border town

CHORUS
So you say you've bedded angels
Made love to the Valkyrie
Say you drank red wine with the Holy See
You say you've heard Beethoven's trumpets
You say you'll live for eternity
You say you saw Grieg's mountain
But you never saw Kathleen

Kathleen lights the fireplace
Shadow dances on the wall
Gray light of six o'clock dawn
Sparks the rooster's call
Like those winter nights in Donegal
Twilight on the haunted land
She's here with me in the Giant's Causeway
And the Bloody Foreland

CHORUS
So you say you've bedded angels
Made love to the Valkyrie
Say you drank red wine with the Holy See
You say you've heard Beethoven's trumpets
You say you'll live for eternity
You say you saw Grieg's mountain
But you never saw Kathleen

When my daydreams turn to night dreams
When I'm drunken with joy
You know I'm thinking about her, and home
And the golden boy

You say you analyzed Ulysses
You saw Yeti in the Pyrenees
You say you liberated lands/you set entire nations free
you say you've bedded angels
Made love to the Valkyrie
You say you saw Grieg's mountain
But you never saw Kathleen

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from Curse of Los Lunas, released November 11, 2018
Violin: David Mosher
Vocals & Other Instruments: Bart Moore

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Bart Moore Grand Ledge, Michigan

Bart Moore weds native influences of the Pogues, Tom Waits &Basement Tapes-era Dylan to a headfull of images singularly his own.

"No one writes like Moore: setting scenes using peculiar lyrical details, tying slipknots in the human timeline; history intertwines with the present, bringing death to life. All that comes into play on Graveyards, Wind, & War." ___ Kevin Curtin, Austin Chronicle ... more

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