Love Death and Whiskey: 40 Songs

By Patrick O'Sullivan

40 song lyrics by Patrick O'Sullivan, selected from the long back catalogue. New songs that measure themselves against tradition, folk, chanson, stage song and the crafted form of the literary lyric. A book for musicians looking for worthwhile words, performers looking for a new text - he writes good songs for women singers. A book for lovers of real verse who respect traditional skills.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Patrick O'Sullivan
• Release date: Dec 29, 2010
• ISBN: 9780956782410

Patrick O'Sullivan

PATRICK O'SULLIVAN was the OHL and CHL rookie of the year in 2002 and the AHL rookie of the year in 2005. He remains the all-time leader in games, goals, assists and points for the Mississauga/Niagara franchise in the OHL. He played 334 games over eight seasons with the Los Angeles Kings, Edmonton Oilers, Carolina Hurricanes, Minnesota Wild and Phoenix Coyotes in the NHL. He played in three World Junior Championships and is all-time second in games played for the USA in tournament history. He scored the gold-medal winning goal for the United States team at the world junior championships in 2004, the first gold medal in the team's history. The 30-year-old now lives in southwest Florida with his wife and two sons. GARE JOYCE is a senior writer for Sportsnet Magazine. A former writer for ESPN: The Magazine and The Globe and Mail, Joyce has won four Canadian national magazine awards and been a finalist 21 times. He is author of seven books of sports non-fiction, including When the Lights Went Out, Future Greats and Heartbreaks and The Devil and Bobby Hull. Under the nom de plume G.B. Joyce, he has written two mystery novels, The Code and The Black Ace.

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Love Death and Whiskey

40 Songs

Patrick O’Sullivan

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Published by Patrick Pinder Publisher at Smashwords

Bradford 2010

Copyright Patrick O’Sullivan 2010

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Cover Photograph Copyright Zuleika Henry 2010

The 1987 production of the stage play Irish Night: the cast sing the title song.

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Love Death and Whiskey

40 Songs

Patrick O’Sullivan

Table of Contents

Introduction

The Songs

Assignations

Clover the kitten

Love, only hold me

Safe harbour

The gauntlet

Deserve my love

The Plains of Mayo

The last train

Irish night

Just irrigation

In my heart

Back to him

Midnight telephoner

The finest town in Lancashire is Bolton

Angel in the gallery

If you left him

Irontown

Kissed on the meridian

The longest night

To be Irish

Weary angel

I dreamt you came to me

The flowers of the forest

The green hills of Australia

That old song again

The Prince of Clouds

Who lost the most

Young men in winter, old men in spring

Autobiography of a navvy

You taught me to cry

The crumble song

They have closed the border

I met my love in Baltimore

Shabby dress

Sunflowers

Tooting Bec

In Madrid

The mermaid and the drunks

Barbara, remember

Pierre

And Finally…

Introduction

A song is like a three legged stool. I am the lyricist, I write the words, and this is my book. So, I will speak first. The song lyric is the first leg of the stool. I am told that there are some people out there who believe that there can be a song without words. Tut.

The second leg of the stool is the music. Writing is mostly