Simple Minds:Belfast Child(Original Instrumental Version)

This filtered/instrumental version is the original from the vocal version performed by Simple Minds! Thanks to my friend @Digital Split for his awesome help in doing this! The beautiful music in this track is based on a traditional song called "She Moved Through The Fair," which Jim Kerr(Simple Minds's lead singer) heard for the first time a few days after the bombing in 1987 and he decided to use the melody for this song! One of the longest songs ever written by Simple Minds and one of the saddest ones too! Lyrics: "When my love said to me Meet me down by the gallow tree For it's sad news I bring About this old town and all that it's offering Some say troubles abound Some day soon they're gonna pull the old town down One day we'll return here, When the belfast child sings again Brothers sisters where are you now As I look for you right through the crowd All my life here I've spent With my faith in God the church and the government But there's sadness abound Some day soon they're gonna pull the old town down One day we'll return here, When the belfast child sings again When the belfast child sings again Some come back billy, won't you come on home Come back Mary, you've been away so long The streets are empty, and your mother's gone The girls are crying, it's been oh so long And your father's calling, come on home Won't you come on home, won't you come on home Come back people, you've been gone a while And the war is raging, in the emerald isle That's flesh and blood man, that's flesh and blood All the girls are crying but all's not lost The streets are empty, the streets are cold Won't you come on home, won't you come on home The streets are empty Life goes on One day we'll return here When the belfast child sings again When the belfast child sings again...!" Belfas Child/Jim Kerr/Charlie Burchill/Mick MacNeil/Music Traditional/Virgin Records/@1989