All your strenght you gave to bring her to the world
You smiled and then I heard you softly speak
Give her all your love and kiss my baby girl
Then you closed your eyes and went to sleep
And baby I will I promise I will
Every day that I'll live all the love I can give baby I will
I can see your eyes and touch your golden hair
And kiss you when I hold her on my knees
And as the years go by I'll always see you there
For there's a part of you still here with me
And baby I will I promise I will
Every day that I'll live all the love I can give baby I will
Baby I will I will
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Every day the hurt grows bigger than before
But I'll pretend that I don't know this if I can hold you one day more
You've got the look of someone who is going
You're gonna leave me and it's showing
A little tear I can feel starts to flowing
It ain't no big thing oh but it's showing
It ain't no big thing oh but it's growing
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Her empty chair or the pillow where she would lay her head
Brings to my mind the happy times before goodbyes were said
She's on my mind each morning it just stays the long day through
And I miss her say I love you
In every room of this house she left her memory
In every dream that I dream she walks and talks with me
So how can I forget her and say that I don't care
When she's all around me she's everywhere
Oh how can I forget her and say that I don't care
When she's all around me all the time she's everywhere
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Arms that reach and seem to know when I need to be held close
Caring when her cares I need that's a portrait of my woman
Faith in me that gives me strenght pouring love for me to drink
Sharing life with a smile that's a portrait of my woman
I've stumbled with the dreams and fell and her dreams were shattered
She kissed my lips and said my love was all that really mattered
So I'll try everyday to hand her love's happy bouquet
She means more than life to me that's a portrait of my woman
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But most of all I miss a girl in Tipperary town
And most of all I miss her lips as soft as eiderdown
Again I want to see and do the things we've done and seen
Where the breeze is sweet as Shalimar there's forty shades of green [ strings ]
I wish that I could spend an hour at Dublin's churning surf
I'd love to watch the farmers drain the bogs and spade the turf
To see again the thatching of the straw the women glean
I'd walk from Cork to Larne to see the forty shades of green
Sometimes you've hurt me deep inside
And you're so careless with my pride
But when you touch me the world is new
I was born to love you so what can I do
Sometimes you're distant and you're cold
And it's a stranger that I hold
But when you want me my dreams come true
I was born to love you so what can I do
No matter what I do I think about you
Those lonely hours when you're away
If I try to live my life without you
I couldn't make it for a day
Right or wrong my destiny is you dear my whole life through
I was born to love you and though how I do
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So always make me wonder always make me guess
And even if I ask you darling don't confess
Just let it remain me your secret but darling I love you so
No wonder no wonder I wonder no I really don't want to know
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