Where the River Shannon Flows pendants

I got some studio time in recently and decided to add more musical pendants to my inventory (they keep selling out).

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I’ve just about used up the Irish Rose music sheet I received from a friend.  The song is really called: Where the River Shannon Flows.

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There’s a pretty spot in Ireland
I always claim for my land
Where the fairies and the blarney will never, never die

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It’s the land of the shillalah
My heart goes back there daily
To the girl I left behind me when we kissed and said goodbye

I cut some steel wire and hammered it out.

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CHORUS: Where dear old Shannon’s flowing
Where the three-leaved shamrock’s grows
Where my heart is I am going to my little Irish rose

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And the moment that I meet her
With a hug and kiss I’ll greet her
For there’s not a colleen sweeter where the River Shannon flows.

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Then I sized and bent the steel around words I wanted to highlight. This (sold) heart moved around a bit.

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I cut the paper with an allowance.

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Waxing the paper came next.

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Then I adhered the waxed paper to the bent wire.

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Trimming the pendant came next, along with an extra round of encaustic medium to keep it all together.

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It’s nice to realize the three pendants I made from this sheet before have all sold. The round hug is up on Etsy now.

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You’ll see the final four appear on Etsy in September and at local pop-up shows.

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Sure no letter I’ll be mailing
For soon will I be sailing
And I’ll bless the ship that takes me to my dear old Erin’s shore

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There I’ll settle down forever
I’ll leave the old sod never
And I’ll whisper to my sweetheart “Come and take my name Asthore.”

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I Googled the snippets of lyrics and found the full song on YouTube:

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