Raglan Road by The Dubliners
Raglan Road by The Dubliners

Raglan Road

The Dubliners * Track #6 On Luke’s Legacy

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Raglan Road by The Dubliners

Performed by
The Dubliners
Produced by
Eamonn Campbell
Writed by
Patrick Kavanagh
About

Raglan Road is a 1949 poem written by Patrick Kavanagh. The girl who inspired the poem was supposedly Hilda Moriarty. At the time, Patrick Kavanagh was 20 years her senior.

Kavanagh saw himself as a peasant poet, writing about turnips and potatoes. She told him that he should write something else a...

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Raglan Road Lyrics

On Raglan Road on an autumn day
I saw her first and knew
That her dark hair would weave a snare
That I might one day rue

I saw the danger, yet I passed
Along the enchanted way
And I said, "Let grief be a falling leaf
At the dawning of the day"

On Grafton Street in November
We tripped lightly along the ledge
Of a deep ravine where can be seen
The worth of passions pledged

The 'Queen of Hearts' still making tarts
And I not making hay
Oh, I loved too much and by such, by such
Is happiness thrown away

I gave her gifts of the mind
I gave her the secret sign
That's known to the artists who have known
The true gods of sound and stone

And word and tint I did not stint
For I gave her poems to say
With her own name there and her own dark hair
Like clouds over fields of May

On a quiet street where old ghosts meet
I see her walking now
Away from me so hurriedly
My reason must allow

That I had loved not as I should
A creature made of clay
When the angel woos the clay
He'll lose his wings at the dawn of day

Raglan Road Q&A

Who wrote Raglan Road's ?

Raglan Road was written by Patrick Kavanagh.

Who produced Raglan Road's ?

Raglan Road was produced by Eamonn Campbell.

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