Information: Following conventional lyric notation practice, words are broken into syllables to interpret the phrasing of the lyrics. Each word syllable in the lyrics below represents a note on the vocal part of this arrangement. A hyphen '-' or trailing hyphens following a word syllable indicates that the word syllable is extended over more than one note. ============================= The Village Of Astee - Tony Stevens ============================= INTRO . . . . . I'm just a plain young I-rish lad and car-ing is my home
I love to ram-ble down the road when my dai-ly chores are done
It hap-pened that one sum-mers eve when fate was kind to me
I spied a young girl walk-ing in the vil-lage of A-stee
So I re-solved to speak to her to hear what she might say
I walked a lit-tle fas--ter un--til I crossed her way
I stat-ed my in-ten-tions - quite plain for her to see Then she took my hand
and kissed my cheek in the vil-lage of A-stee
She said "My hand-some fel-low - I'm glad we chance to meet,
I've of-ten thought a-bout you as I walked a-long the street"
"If you think I'll make you hap-py then I'll glad-ly go your way,
We'll speak to Fath-er Mur-phy and we'll name our wed-ding day"
The priest, he spoke of love and life and blessed our hearts as one
He wished us eve-ry hap-pi-ness un--til lifes race is run
We walked the aisle with loves sweet smile for all the world to see
Then we head-ed out to Kath-leens house in the vil-lage of A-stee
And now we have a lit-tle house and love-ly child-ren too
We'd like to have your com-pa-ny if you're ev-er pas-sing through
We'll sing a song and talk a while and have a cup of tea
For we know you'll like the life we live in the vil-lage of A-stee