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Colum Sands
	Year:	1996
	Album:	ALL MY WINDING JOURNEYS
	Song:	Buskers
Words & Music Colum Sands, Elm Grove Music Colum Sands: vocals, guitar, tin wistle, James Blenner Hasset: Double Bass Lisa Gutkin: Fiddle Rod McVey: Harmonium Ben Sands: Mandoline, Backing Vocals Vedran Smailovic: Cello
I saw them on the streets of Clones At a Fleadh Cheoil long ago A white heared man with a fiddle His brother had an old banjo - They're blind - said the woman beside us, - But by God them boys can play! - - That's the Swallow's Tail - said my father And the music took us all away Chorus: And if you stop to listen, They're playing for you and I. and their music sings along the strings. Between the earth and the sky, between the eart and the sky Maggie was a traveling singer You never heard a voice so strong When she sang in Newry market The whole town heard her song And her voice was known from London To the streets of Baltimore For she sang her songs along a road That was often walked before. Chorus Beside Cologne Cathedral A crowd had gathered round There was singing, there was laughing And we hurried towards the sound You said - That's Klaus the Fiddler He plays here every day Left the orchestra behind him So that everyone could hear him play - Chorus On the streets of Sarajevo Where death walks every day Smailovic takes his cello And he slowly starts to play And the people gather roud him In the spirit of the market place His music brings both tears and smiles But it changes every face Chorus And the music echoes all around No matter where I stray Like the pan pipes from the Andes On Grafton Street today And some will give them money And some will ask them why As the music fills the lonesome place Between the street and the sky Chorus