Easter

1. A ghost of a mist was on the field

the grey and the green together

The noise of a distant farm machine

out of the first light came

2. A tattered necklace of hedge and trees

on the southern side of the hill

Betrays where the border runs between

where Mary Dunoon's boy fell

R: Easter, here again,

a time for the blind to see

Easter, surely now,

can all of your hearts be free

3. Out of the port of Liverpool

bound for the north of Ireland

The wash of the spray and horsetail waves

the roll of the sea below

R:

What will you do?

Make a stone of your heart?

Am

Will you set things right?

When you tear them apart?

Will you sleep at night?

With the plough and the stars alight?

What will you do?

With the wire & the gun?

Am

That'll set things right

When it's said and done?

Will you sleep at night?

Is there so much love to hide?