Contemporary folk song in the Celtic style, written in 1973 by Allister MacGillivray. Its lyrics speak of a longing for, and eventual return to, the serenity of the Mira River region of Cape...

Aug 20, 2025 · On a rainy night, alone and homesick, he sat down and composed “A Song for the Mira” about the river that traverses that Cape Breton area and the people who lived along its …

May 3, 2011 · “Song for the Mira” is a contemporary folk song in the Celtic style, written in 1973 by Allister MacGillivray. Its lyrics speak of a longing for, and eventual return to, the serenity of …

The melody of Song For the Mira is based on a six-note (hexatonic) Celtic gapped scale, perfectly fitting the lyrics in which a homesick singer remembers his Cape Breton hometown of Marion …

Song For The Mira Lyrics: Out on the Mira, on warm afternoons / Old men go fishing with black line and spoons / And if they catch nothing, they never complain / I wish I was with them again...

Song for the Mira Lyrics by Anne Murray. Celtic Woman, Anne Murray Out on the Mira one warm afternoon, Old men go fishing with black line and spoon And if they catch nothing they never c...

The song "Song For The Mira" by John McDermott describes a serene scene on the Mira River, where old men go fishing with traditional fishing gear, and courting begins in the evenings as …

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Aug 21, 2025 · “Song for the Mira” has become the anthem of Cape Breton in Canada, but Ireland loved it too, sending two versions of the song to the top of the charts in the 80s.

Music video by Celtic Thunder performing Song For The Mira (Live From Ontario, 2015) (Official).© 2016 Green Hill Productions