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Mary Muldoon |
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Joe Crow Member
since 2007-12-18
Posts 66Indiana |
I wrote this after watching the Chieftans jamming on PBS one night and the name Mary Muldoon came to my mind. Why Mary Muldoon? Who knows but that's the name I thought of and the rest just poured out. I think people forget that the story of Joseph and Mary is really the story of Man and his Woman and they got so caught up in the child of the union that they miss the main points of the Bible as a whole work. Anyway it goes like this... Mary Muldoon Long, long ago in a land far away there’s a story that’s told of love’s special day. It was early in April or the first day of Spring and the lovers would gather to dance and to sing. From all over the Earth the people would come to the sound of the pipers, the fiddles and drum. They’d all come together drawn by the band to hear the sweet song of Woman and Man. Now Mary’s a beauty with crystal blue eyes. She’s the fairest, she’s Woman, she’s a Lady says I, and Joseph a just man he’s gentle and kind. His promise to Mary; One day you’ll be mine. But before he could wed her and give her his hand God sent him away to find the New Land. He said, “ if I am the sun then my Mary’s the moon and I’ll never forget ya, My sweet Mary Muldoon.” So each year at the festival the fire still burns and Mary would go to await Joseph’s return. She’d call to the fiddlers to play her a song and they’d say, “Mary, sweet Mary, your Joseph’s still gone.” But Mary is faithful, she’s loyal, she’s true. They didn’t have to tell her what she already knew. For in the year of our Lord when the bells had rang ten, she called to the band to ask them again: Sweet little Mary, Mary Muldoon she called to the fiddlers, will you play me a tune? The sweetest of love songs, pure and divine would you play me a song for this True Love of mine? O Mary, O Mary, we’d love to we would we’d play you that song if only we could but the drummers and pipers have left us you see to play a true love song for Joseph and thee. Mary says, “Joseph? You’ve seen my Joe? When he left this green isle it was ten summers ago he sailed across the ocean to find the New Land Now you say that he’s come back to give me his hand?” Sweet little Mary, Mary Muldoon sang the birds and the bees, the sun and the moon he went to the river and it’s there that you’ll see the Lord’s gonna bless you, Joseph and Thee. So Mary went to the river with pretty flowers in her hair and the drummers and the pipers and the fiddlers were there. Now when Joseph saw Mary he started to cry and said, “Mary, sweet Mary, a fool has been I.. I should never have went and left you all alone for it’s now that I see, with you is my home.” Then Mary said, “Joseph, with all your fear and your doubt is there any other way you could have found out?” Joseph said, “Mary, will you give me your hand?” Mary said, “Joseph, beside you always I’ll stand, there is no other for whom my heart beats true.” And they said to each other, “I love you, I do.” Then the people all cheered and started to sing they said,”kiss her now Joseph and give her your ring.” So Joseph and Mary forever would stay because God blessed the Irish to show them the way. Sweet little Mary, O Mary Muldoon Over the ocean I dream of you wherever I go, I hum a tune for my sweet little Mary, My Mary Muldoon Now I'm sure most won't see it the way I do but that's alright, they can believe what they want. I can only follow the path that is set before me and so I do. Joe Crow "May the things I know be limited only by my imagination" |
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Joyce Johnson
since 2001-03-10
Posts 9912Washington State |
This is a sweet and different story about mary and Joseph. Joyce |
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Kheya New Member
since 2007-12-26
Posts 9Florida |
This was a fun read. It's always nice to get a different perspective on an old tale. Kheya |
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