+ The Message
I'm gonna dance you round the floor
Gonna drink you under the tables
Gonna take that last flight home
To Balivanich in the month of June
Go racing up the south ford
Turning midnight in the cars
Waiting up late with the Greenock girls
And singing every song that made us

[You take your message to the waters
And you watch the ripples flow
Now somewhere out on that ocean
It says Mary please don't go]

We're gonna lie down on the grass
Your lipstick in the clover
Gonna marry Mary in the summertime
The Atlantic round our shoulders
Skies are dawning round the Langass Barpa
Stopped off at the white bridge waters
It's all crossroads lined with telegraph poles
A rise of larksong fills the morning

[Refrain]

And when we've wasted all our young years
Who's to say we never tried
To live fast and honour our pledges
Here we vowed to stay young till we die
We drank the life from the last of the bottle
We wrote our message out like a prayer
Then we threw away the message with all our hearts
Then we watched our lives disappear

You take your message to the waters
And you watch the ripples flow
Now somewhere out on that great beyond
Lies our fear should we grow old

[Refrain]

+ The Water Is Wide (live)
Chanson traditionnelle Canadienne

[The water is wide, I can't cross o'er
And neither I, the wings to fly
Build me a boat that can carry two
And we shall row, my love and I]

There is a ship that sails the sea
She's loaded deep as deep can be
But not as deep as the love I miss
And I know not if I'll sink or swim

[Refrain]

Now love is gentle and love is kind
The sweetest flower, when first it blooms
But love grows old and waxes cold
And fades away like the morning dew

I leaned my back against an oak
Thinking it was a trusty tree
But first it bent, and then it broke
And so my false love did onto me

The water is wide, I can't swim o'er
And neither I, the wings to fly
Build me a boat that can carry two
And we shall row, my love and I

Build me a boat that can carry two
And we shall row, my love and I

+ Feasgar An Là
Instrumental

+ The Message (radio edit)
I'm gonna dance you round the floor
Gonna drink you under the tables
Gonna take that last flight home
To Balivanich in the month of June
Go racing up the south ford
Turning midnight in the cars
Waiting up late with the Greenock girls
And singing every song that made us

[You take your message to the waters
And you watch the ripples flow
Now somewhere out on that ocean
It says Mary please don't go]

We're gonna lie down on the grass
Your lipstick in the clover
Gonna marry Mary in the summertime
The Atlantic round our shoulders
Skies are dawning round the Langass Barpa
Stopped off at the white bridge waters
It's all crossroads lined with telegraph poles
A rise of larksong fills the morning

[Refrain]

And when we've wasted all our young years
Who's to say we never tried
To live fast and honour our pledges
Here we vowed to stay young till we die
We drank the life from the last of the bottle
We wrote our message out like a prayer
Then we threw away the message with all our hearts
Then we watched our lives disappear

You take your message to the waters
And you watch the ripples flow
Now somewhere out on that great beyond
Lies our fear should we grow old

[Refrain]