"Song for Johnny" genre: Folk
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	An American's first impressions of Ireland, and the Irish.
	CD: One Pub Town   Label: H. O. T. Dog, Austin, TX
	Story Behind the Song On my first trip to Ireland in 1990, I stayed with Neville's Mom and Dad in Dublin. Johnny Stewart took me for a drive down into his native Wicklow. This song is about Johnny and the beautiful piece of the World he inroduced me to. I wrote the song over the year or so after returning, and was inspired while going through the photographs I had taken on the trip. Wes Pascoe Lyrics On a grey misty morning, we drove South from Dublin Through the Featherbed Mountains where clouds kiss the turf My first look at Ireland through the eyes of an old man In the green hills of Wicklow, the place of his birth The hills were aglow with the fire of an emerald The breeze was alive with the wildflow'rs' bouquet Not in my life had I seen such great beauty As in Wicklow's dear mountains and valleys that day We travelled the paths that he walked as a young man The valleys and hillsides he roamed long ago His life was the land that his fathers had left him The green hills of Wicklow, the hills of his home In the Vale of Avoca, I wept at the beauty We stood on the bank where the bright waters meet The words of the poet still haunt that day's mem'ry There was ne'er in the wide world a valley so sweet Now in scrapbooks and mem'ries of places I've travelled The images always have seemed so alive But there is one picture I'll keep with me always The green hills of Wicklow, through old Johnny's eyes I still see the places he knew as a young man The valleys and hillsides he roamed long ago His life was the land that his fathers had left him The green hills of Wicklow, the hills of his home Wes Pascoe, 1992

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