This beautiful Celtic song will bring you to tears and have you missing your own hometown.

This YouTube video is a clip of Celtic Thunder performing ‘Song For the Mira.’ This performance took place in Kansas City in 2011.

Celtic Thunder is a group of men from Ireland and Scotland ages 21-42 who feature songs that celebrate a common Celtic heritage. The first ever Celtic Thunder show occurred in Dublin, Ireland, in 2007, with the first CD released in 2008.

As we can see with this performance, the men can create some magical music together with their amazing sets. As the men perform, we see an outline of a ship. It is almost as if they are singing on a ship or a deck near a ship. They also have a younger boy singing with them for this performance.

The song they perform, ‘Song For the Mira,’ was written in 1973 by Allister MacGillivray. The lyrics talk about missing and longing for the Mira River region of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.

“Out on the Mira on warm afternoons

Old men go fishin’ with black line and spoons

And if they catch nothin’, they’ve never complain

I wish I was with them again”

The lyrics talk about how wonderful and magical a place it is and how they hope to be back there again soon. When listening to the song, even if you have never been to the area, you can picture what a place like the Mira is like. The song may also remind you of times when you have missed your own home and yearn to be able to return to it someday.

The song has been covered more than 300 times and gained popularity when Anne Murray released it in 1982.

“A man’s heart devises his way: but the LORD directs his steps.” – Proverbs 16:9