Biography:
Cathie Ryan is a singer and bodhrán player from Detroit, Michigan. Her parents came from Ireland and she is generally seen as an Irish or Celtic musician.
She moved to New York City at age seventeen in order to attend Fordham University. After her divorce her music career began and she joined Cherish the Ladies in 1987. She acted as lead singer at times and in 1995 she started her solo career. Most of her albums were released by Shanachie Records.
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- At The Foot Of Knocknarea
- Be Like The Sea
- Carrick
- Daddy
- Dark Moll Of The Glen
- Eveline
- Fare Thee Well
- Follow The Heron
- Garden Valley
- Go From My Window
- Home Sweet Home
- Im Going Back
- In My Tribe
- In The Wishing Well
- Its A Long Road That Has No Turn
- Libertys Sweet Shore
- Love And Freedom
- May The Road Rise To Meet You
- Ned Of The Hill
- Rathlin Island
- Rock Me To Sleep Mother
- Rough And Rocky
- Shades Of Gloria
- So Heres To You
- Somewhere Along The Road
- The 12Th Of July
- The Lights Of San Francisco
- The Wild Flowers
- Understanding Love
- What Will You Do Love
- When Detroit Was Burning
- White Dress
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Cathie Ryan - Liberty's Sweet Shore
Capo 2
[Intro]
C
[Verse 1]
G/B F C
In this fading light the mainland
G/B F G
Lies vague out on the horizon
C G/B F G F
A lighthouse beaming its welcome
Dm G C F G
To Gross Isle and liberty’s sweet shore
[Verse 2]
C G/B F C
For three months and a day we’ve been sailing
G/B F G
Around pinnacles of ice we’ve been steering
C G/B F G F
Storms and Nor’easters a raging
Dm G C F G
To deliver us to liberty’s sweet shore
[Chorus]
F C
Sailing to liberty’s sweet shore
F Dm7 G
Sailing to liberty’s sweet shore
F
We left all we know
Am C
To this new life we’ll go
F G C F
Sailing to liberty’s sweet shore
[Verse 3]
C G/B F C
Two pounds a head for the passage
G/B F G
With ease our landlord surrendered
C G/B F G F
And wiped his hands clean as he tendered
Dm G C F G
From a distance he watched us all go
[Verse 4]
C G/B F C
We sailed the fifth day of September
G/B F G
Two hundred poor souls crammed together
C G/B F G F
From our families and homeland we’re severed
Dm G C F G
The clothes on our backs all we own
[Chorus]
F C
Sailing to liberty’s sweet shore
F Dm7 G
Sailing to liberty’s sweet shore
F
We left all we know
Am C
To this new life we’ll go
F G C F
Sailing to liberty’s sweet shore
[Verse 5]
C G/B F C
We’re bowed down in sickness and hunger
G/B F G
We pray for the hand of our maker
C G/B F G F
My child was lost to a fever
Dm G C F G
A quick prayer, then hauled overboard
[Verse 6]
C G/B F C
Oceans of tears they are falling
G/B F G
In hope and despair both recalling
C G/B F G F
Now the gulls of St Lawrence they are calling
Dm G C F G
Soon Quebec and liberty’s sweet shore
[Chorus]
F C
Sailing to liberty’s sweet shore
F Dm7 G
Sailing to liberty’s sweet shore
F
We left all we know
Am C
To this new life we’ll go
F G C F
Sailing to liberty’s sweet shore
[Chorus]
F C
Sailing to liberty’s sweet shore
F Dm7 G
Sailing to liberty’s sweet shore
F
We left all we know
Am C
To this new life we’ll go
F G C F C
Sailing to liberty’s sweet shore
Capo 2
[Intro]
C
[Verse 1]
G/B F C
In this fading light the mainland
G/B F G
Lies vague out on the horizon
C G/B F G F
A lighthouse beaming its welcome
Dm G C F G
To Gross Isle and liberty’s sweet shore
[Verse 2]
C G/B F C
For three months and a day we’ve been sailing
G/B F G
Around pinnacles of ice we’ve been steering
C G/B F G F
Storms and Nor’easters a raging
Dm G C F G
To deliver us to liberty’s sweet shore
[Chorus]
F C
Sailing to liberty’s sweet shore
F Dm7 G
Sailing to liberty’s sweet shore
F
We left all we know
Am C
To this new life we’ll go
F G C F
Sailing to liberty’s sweet shore
[Verse 3]
C G/B F C
Two pounds a head for the passage
G/B F G
With ease our landlord surrendered
C G/B F G F
And wiped his hands clean as he tendered
Dm G C F G
From a distance he watched us all go
[Verse 4]
C G/B F C
We sailed the fifth day of September
G/B F G
Two hundred poor souls crammed together
C G/B F G F
From our families and homeland we’re severed
Dm G C F G
The clothes on our backs all we own
[Chorus]
F C
Sailing to liberty’s sweet shore
F Dm7 G
Sailing to liberty’s sweet shore
F
We left all we know
Am C
To this new life we’ll go
F G C F
Sailing to liberty’s sweet shore
[Verse 5]
C G/B F C
We’re bowed down in sickness and hunger
G/B F G
We pray for the hand of our maker
C G/B F G F
My child was lost to a fever
Dm G C F G
A quick prayer, then hauled overboard
[Verse 6]
C G/B F C
Oceans of tears they are falling
G/B F G
In hope and despair both recalling
C G/B F G F
Now the gulls of St Lawrence they are calling
Dm G C F G
Soon Quebec and liberty’s sweet shore
[Chorus]
F C
Sailing to liberty’s sweet shore
F Dm7 G
Sailing to liberty’s sweet shore
F
We left all we know
Am C
To this new life we’ll go
F G C F
Sailing to liberty’s sweet shore
[Chorus]
F C
Sailing to liberty’s sweet shore
F Dm7 G
Sailing to liberty’s sweet shore
F
We left all we know
Am C
To this new life we’ll go
F G C F C
Sailing to liberty’s sweet shore
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