Garden Valley lyrics
Cara DillonMusic Video
This is really not my home
  Oh where are you my lovely Johnny?
  I'm afraid and all alone
  There's no peace for me
I'm sitting in the stranger's room
  Playing at the stranger's table
  Shining empty like the moon
  There's no peace for me
But in the darkness struggle cold
  I think about a garden valley
  Gentle as the leaves unfold
  Singing out across the bay
  Distant and so far away
  There's no peace for me
I'm blinded by your city lights
  I wander through these fearful places
  Colours fade to black and white
  There's no peace for me
And these are not the friends I know
  These are not their smiling faces
  In a desert that no-one should know
  There's no peace for me
But in the darkness struggle cold
  I think about a garden valley
  Gentle as the leaves unfold
  Singing out across the bay
  Distant and so far away
  There's no peace for me
[Instrumental]
Now I know and feel it well
  Poor immigrants deep sunken feeling
  Standing at the gates of Hell
  There's no peace for me
Burned out by their master's greed
  Cruel exile transportation
  Robbed of every love and need
  There's no peace for me
But in the darkness struggle cold
  I think about the garden valley
  Gentle as the leaves unfold
  Singing out across the bay
  Distant and so far away
  There's no peace for me
There's no peace for me
Song Details

Songwriter: Dougie MacLean - Scottish singer, songwriter, composer, and musician.
Brief: The song tells the story of an Irish immigrant who is longing for her homeland and her lover Johnny. She feels lonely, afraid, and hopeless in a strange and hostile land. She dreams of a garden valley, a symbol of peace and beauty, that is far away from her. The song expresses the pain and suffering of the Irish people who were forced to leave their country due to famine, oppression, and poverty.
Genre: Folk music
Featured Artist: Cara Dillon - Irish folk singer from Dungiven, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland.
Album: After The Morning (September 12, 2006)
Released: 27 February, 2006
Country: Great Britain
Format: CD
Label: 	Rough Trade
