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Colum Sands
	Year:	2003
	Album:	THE NOTE THAT LINGERS ON
	Song:	The donegall Road
Words & Music Colum Sands, Elm Grove Music Colum Sands: Vocals, guitar, tin wistle, Ben Sands: Backing vocals Siobhan Skates: Backing vocals Karen Tweed: Accordion Berndan Monaghan: Whistle
The fields run right beside me all along the motorway Til a row of red brick houses draws a line that seems to say You've reached the city boundary and a choice you'll have to make At the roundabout where history turns upon which road you take Chorus: On this sunny April morning, on this sunny April morning Sunny April morning on the Donegall Road. This road is old, this road is new, it's history bitter sweet And some of that is painted on the walls along the street Battles won and battles lost, the entertainment scene Van the man is coming soon King Billy has just been Chorus Lecale, Benburb, Tavanagh, I pass them on the right There's a shop with mops and brushes to challenge every mite From Rockview street and Ebor to where Nubia meets Maldon A red haired girl brings milk and bread towards the morning sun A man with time lights up his pipe takes pleasure in the chore Across the street a woman cleans the step before her door And Euterpe Street is musing, as a working man perspires He's digging up Pandora Street near a box of coloured wires Chorus A guide dog with a tennis ball enjoys a bit of fun A blind man walks behind it, smiling at the sun, And Eureka there's the library, we'll return that book at last That stopped us all from seeing any further than the past Chorus Near the hospital of heroes there's a tourist from Japan She puzzles round a burnt out bar, a camera in her hand And I'm thinking of the gift her distance brings to you and me She's focussing her lens on something that I cannot see Chorus And here's tomorrow coming, children laughing hand in hand Their skins are different colours, may they help us understand If we're teaching culture here - it's a thing we often do It's time that we were learning to count higher up than two The city centre lies ahead, my journey's near complete The rear view mirror's giving me a last look up the street But those faces stay before me to lighten history's load As they look towards tomorrow in the Donegall Road. Chorus