The Waterboys Lyrics

Dublin, 23 January 1986

• Stranger to Me

  

• Girl of the North Country

  

  +1

• I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry

• Fisherman’s Blues (piano version)

  

  +2

• Fisherman’s Blues

  

  +2

• Meet Me at the Station

• I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight

• Born to Be Together

• The Wayward Wind

• World Party (1st version)

• World Party / A Golden Age

• Sleek White Schooner

• Drunken Head Ghost of Rimbaud Blues

• Sweet Thing

  

• Sweet Thing (conclusion)

• Saints and Angels

Dublin, March 22 to September 13 1986

• We Will Not Be Lovers

• One Step Closer

• My Beautiful Baby

• She Could Have Had Me Step by Step

• When the Ship Comes In

• The Ladder

• Will You Ever Be My Friend?

• Too Close to Heaven (rolling piano)

• Higherbound (prototype)

• Happy Birthday BP Fallon

• The Prettiest Girl in Church

• You Don’t Have to Be in the Army to Fight in the War

• Dee Jay Way

• Lonesome and a Long Way From Home

• Thistlethwaite’s Declaration

• Strange Boat (first play)

• Lost Highway

• Higherbound Blues

• Let Us Be Drinking and Kissing the Women

• Will the Circle Be Unbroken

  

  +2

• Tenderfootin’

• Too Close to Heaven

• Space Out There, Trevor

Berkeley, California, 2–7 December 1986

• Steve and Anto’s Overture

• Ain’t Leavin, I’m Gone

• When Will We Be Married (1st version)

  

  +2

• When I First Said I Loved Only You, Maggie

• Love Is Letting Go

• On My Way to Heaven (1st version)

• You in the Sky (1st version)

• The Secret Place of the Most High

• Too Hot for Cleanhead

• Wickham’s Proclamation

• Blues for Your Baby

• Lonesome Old Wind

• If Jimi Was Here

• Soon as I Get Home

  

  +2

• Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band

Dublin, 20 December 1986 to 28 February 1987

• Billy the Kid

• Tonight the Bottle Let Me Down

• Come Live With Me

• I Miss the Road

• Higher in Time (two pianos)

• Too Hot for Cleanhead (fast version)

• Higher in Time (Scottish)

• Higherbound (3rd tune)

• A Golden Age

  

  +2

• You in the Sky

• I Will Meet You in Heaven Again

• Nobody ’Cept You

• (He Hasn’t Been the Same Since) Jimmy Shand

• Rattle My Bones and Shiver My Soul

• The Scotsman’s Delight

• Killing My Heart

• Industrial Mr Brown

• Custer’s Blues

• Shall We Gather by the River

• Higher in Time Symphony

Dublin, 7 March to 18 November 1987

• Higherbound (3rd version)

• The Grief of Pan

• World Party

• Working on a Building

• If I Can’t Have You

• Killing My Heart (2nd version)

• Trunk Call

• Headphone Mix Song

• Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (reprise)

• When Will We Be Married (2nd version)

  

  +2

• BP’s Bathtub Boogie

• We Will Not Be Lovers (sax solo)

  

  +2

• Heading Down the Highway

• Strange Boat

  

  +2

• Fisherman’s Blues (2nd version)

  

  +2

• Has Anybody Here Seen Hank? (Bridgeman version)

• On My Way to Heaven

• Let Me Feel Holy Again

• A Home in the Meadow

• Strange Boat (3rd version) / The Good Ship Sirius

  

• The Stolen Child (prototype)

Dublin & Spiddal, 30 March to 2 June 1988

• On My Way to Tara

• Twa Recruitin’ Sergeants

• Incident at Puck Fair

• And a Bang on the Ear

  

• Mr Customs Man

• Strange Boat (acoustic)

  

  +2

• Spring Comes to Spiddal

• In Search of a Rose (band)

• The Stolen Child (piano demo)

• When Will We Be Married

  

  +2

• In Search of a Rose (duo)

• The Good Ship Sirius (set of jigs)

• This Land Is Your Land

• Jimmy Hickey’s Waltz

• Live Aid and After

• Carolan’s Welcome

• When Ye Go Away

  

• When Ye Go Away (Frankie’s fiddle)

• Has Anybody Here Seen Hank?

• The Stolen Child (vocal demo)

• Dunford’s Fancy

• The Stolen Child

  

• Pictish National Anthem (Comati)

• Bo Diddley Was a Caveman

• The Last Jam

• Buckets of Rain

• Winter Blows

• The Girl in the Swing

• Siochain Iona

• Killing My Heart

• Barbara Allen

• Vigilante

• The Serpent’s Head

• The Seven Woods

• Silent Fellowship

• Straight With the Medicine

• The Passing of the Shee

• Mr Wickham Composes

• Seek the Light

• Vampire’s Head

• Savage Earth Heart

• The Hosting of the Shee

• Song of Wandering Aengus

• News for the Delphic Oracle

• A Full Moon in March

• Sweet Dancer

• White Birds

• The Lake Isle of Innisfree

• Mad as the Mist and Snow

• Before the World Was Made

  

• September 1913

• An Irish Airman Foresees His Death

• Politics

• Let the Earth Bear Witness

• The Faery's Last Long

• A Faery Song (We Who Are Old) (demo) (2022 Remaster)

• The Four Ages of Man (demo) (2022 Remaster)

• Our Father Rosy-Cross (demo) (2022 Remaster)

• Do Not Love Too Long (demo) (2022 Remaster)

• The Traveling Man and the Tree (demo) (2022 Remaster)

• News for the Delphic Oracle (demo) (2022 Remaster)