Barefoot in Hell Lyrics

There I rode

A horse across the sea

To the land of youth

On wave, tide and wind

Time runs strange

That's what my father had said

Careful my boy

It'll be gone before you know

My heart now yearns

Cianalas for Eirú so

On storm and sea

From youth to destiny

Now time has passed faster

On this side of the veil

I hear of the slumber of my father and his men

Left Eire for a few years

Has it been centuries

I heed of the warning

Told to me by Niamh

Do not step foot upon the soil

Where once I sowed and where I was born

Let me go I want to see my kin

Take me back to the island of destiny

Can't go back in time

Can't say goodbye

To reunite will I have to die

I came across some strangers moving a giant stone

I fell off my steed and became a thousand years old

They take me to see

Some foreign holy man

He tells me that the fianna

Are now burning in flames

Repent and be saved

Is what he said

I told him I'd rather dance barefoot in Hell

Let me go I want to see my kin

Take me back to the island of destiny

Can't go back in time

Can't say goodbye

To reunite will I have to die

I'd rather dance barefoot in Hell

Than bow before your new world I swear

Theres no prison

That could keep me in

No devil that I could not kill

It is long the clouds hang

Over me this night

The days grow longer

One by one

No friends left in this place and time

The great son Oisín

Old and alone

Let me go I want to see my kin

Take me back to the island of destiny

Can't go back in time

Can't say goodbye

To reunite will I have to die

Long the clouds over me this night