The Sun Won't Shine Today

No wind soughing in the bare trees the sky is overcast and gray It has been raining for many hours the sun won't shine today Not untypical of the time of year it would seem fair to say Reminds me of where i used to live from here long miles away When the bracken clad Boggeragh Mountains wore their Winter hats of snow And the cold wind from the northlands across the countryside did blow And Finnow to the Blackwater in flood waters of brown Flowed bank high in the bare old fields just west of Millstreet Town How come this rainy weather brings back memories of afar Of places one could not drive to from here by truck, bus or motor car? It cannot be nostalgia for i have never liked the rain Though memories of Winters i have lived through it brings back to me again An overcast and dreary afternoon the the winter sky is gray It has been raining for many hours the sun won't shine today.