Here is a new song from my forthcoming album
“Wake the Blue Sleeper.” Due out in early 2025.
THE BOATYARD.
By Randall Stephen Hall ©
A poem and song.
https://soundcloud.com/
I’m building this boat cause it’s raining.
I’m building this boat cause i’m mad.
At least that’s what they’d love to call me
It’s the best job that i’ve ever had.
I’m working with friends and relations.
All nations are working down here.
It’s the strangest old boatyard that you’ve ever seen
For the boats we are building
Are so bloody weird.
There’s many a colour around me.
There’s many a language i’ve heard.
They hammer and bang, they saw and they weld
But there’s nothing they make that’s absurd.
For no one is grabbing for money.
No one is grabbing for power.
For the boats we are building are so strange and new
Have you seen the time it’s nearly the hour?
And no one’s a slave in this boatyard
For no one is purchasing fear.
Protection can run for the shadows.
We’ve a new manifesto this year.
All women and men are equal.
All islanders under one sun.
The S.S. Sectarian broke on these rocks
And their crew, well their race
Is so nearly run.
I’m building this boat cause it’s raining.
I’m building this boat cause i’m mad.
At least that’s what they’d love to call me.
It’s the best job that i’ve ever had.
www.randallstephenhallsongs.
Stephen Stiofán is a northern Irish artist
Photo. Gleno Waterfall, near larne, Co. Antrim.
By Randall Stephen Hall ©
A poem and song.
https://soundcloud.com/
I’m building this boat cause it’s raining.
I’m building this boat cause i’m mad.
At least that’s what they’d love to call me
It’s the best job that i’ve ever had.
I’m working with friends and relations.
All nations are working down here.
It’s the strangest old boatyard that you’ve ever seen
For the boats we are building
Are so bloody weird.
There’s many a colour around me.
There’s many a language i’ve heard.
They hammer and bang, they saw and they weld
But there’s nothing they make that’s absurd.
For no one is grabbing for money.
No one is grabbing for power.
For the boats we are building are so strange and new
Have you seen the time it’s nearly the hour?
And no one’s a slave in this boatyard
For no one is purchasing fear.
Protection can run for the shadows.
We’ve a new manifesto this year.
All women and men are equal.
All islanders under one sun.
The S.S. Sectarian broke on these rocks
And their crew, well their race
Is so nearly run.
I’m building this boat cause it’s raining.
I’m building this boat cause i’m mad.
At least that’s what they’d love to call me.
It’s the best job that i’ve ever had.
www.randallstephenhallsongs.
Stephen Stiofán is a northern Irish artist
Photo. Gleno Waterfall, near larne, Co. Antrim.
FOR PITY SAKE, PLEASE SHOOT THE “POET” FOR HE’S CLEARLY DOING HIS BEST.
As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man
There are only four things certain since Social Progress began.
That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire,
And the burnt Fool’s bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire;
Rudyard Kipling
Jonathan Swift wrote under a .pseudonym. It was his only protection from a vengeful English
Government which was damaging Irish trade and subjecting the poor to famine.
Swift was not ethnically Irish nor did he speak Irish but Wolfe Tone, who had a similar background
to him, counted him, together with the author*of “The Case For Ireland Stated” which was burned, on
the orders of the Westminster Parliament by England’s chief hangman, as Ireland’s best champions.
*Thomas Molyneux.
Nobody today threatens “Minimifidian” whose only excuses for his Pseuds’ Corner Boy bolt-hole can
be shame or cowardice
OOPS, SORRY
“The Case for Ireland………” was written by WILIAM (not Thomas) MOLYNEUX
Name-calling in adults may be a sign of low emotional intelligence and emotional immaturity…
Stemming from a deep rooted inferiority complex