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This song highlights the binding and enduring strength of a love that can grow between two people even in the hardest and darkest of times. A beautiful love story that from the outset revolves around two young lovers sharing their timeless rites of passage ( no pun intended) but ultimately a love song for a winsome wonderful port town on the west bank of Cork harbour and the home of the song's composer John Spillane. Pasáiste Thiar. Passage West ,County Cork, Ireland.

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I met my love in Passage west
The sun was sinking down to rest
The river to the stars confessed
"Twas the dark haired woman I loved best
We wandered down by the Chapel Square
And there was magic in the air
And Mother Nature gently pressed
The burning river to her breast

I offered her a golden ring
My hand, my heart and everything
I offered her a sweet love nest
By the flowing banks of Passage West

Chorus; Oh love will you go, will you go, will you go?
Or love will you stay, will you stay, will you stay? x2


We watched the ferry come and go
We watched the river ebb and flow
The tide breathe in, the tide breathe out
We watched the Passage flowers grow

The ghostly forms of the hungry years
In sad procession did appear
With hope and sorrow made their way
For their passage west to Amerikay
Chorus

The famine queen stood tall and proud
On either bank the people bowed
From Passage West came a Fenian yell
Rule Brittania, rule in hell!

Chorus

The grass grows green on the other side
And mighty ships sail out the tide
To far flung harbours across the sea
Far away from Passage, my love and me

Chorus

I met my love in Passage west
The sun was sinking down to rest
The river to the stars confessed
"Twas the dark haired woman I loved best

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from The Femme Fatale of Maine, released July 8, 2021

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The Jeremiahs is an Irish folk band that comprises four musicians who have come together with the common goal of writing, composing and performing folk songs and music.

From Dublin is singer Joe Gibney on vocals. On fiddle, viola and vocals is County Cork’s Niamh Varian-Barry (formerly of Solas). On flutes is the French born Julien Bruneteau and on Guitar is Dublin born James Ryan. ... more

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