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Belfast Written by the Belfast band Barnbrack, and sung on Peter's CD by Kathleen (Kate) Donaghy, from Andersontown, Belfast.

Of all the places I have been, There's only one to fill my dreams. For the place that lingers in my mind, Is the town I left behind. I've been away now, for too many years, I've read all the papers, how they told of your tears. And though I left you, with a heart that's been torn, I'm going home now, to the place I was born. That's Belfast, for you call to me, When I am far away, how I think of thee. With your Black Mountains, Cavehill, City Hall, Shaw's Bridge, River Lagan, I'm coming home to them all. To my friends and relations, each one I'll embrace, We'll pass 'round the pictures, that time can't erase. And though it's been long now, since I've seen them all, We'll walk 'round the old streets, and good times I'll recall.

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