5 am - 6 am

What wakes you up at 5 A.M.? Toothache? Heartbreak? Or the nervous rush that comes from too much wine the previous evening? You can tell yourself it is still "night" in the hour after four. Once five strikes it is indisputably "morning".
What sound will soothe as the sharp light floods past the ill-fitting curtains of your hired room? You need fine gauze for the senses. Outside, the last taxis with exhausted revelers skulk home as newspaper trucks sling piles that lie in doorways.
Play Joao Gilberto's "Aguas de Marco" (Polygram), a song that has no need to raise its voice. It's either this or John McCormack's Songs Of My Heart: Popular Songs and Irish Ballads (Angel) at a low volume. The circuit of the vanity clock commences. It's just another parlour (or boudoir) game; in the words of Errol Flynn, this is only "for fun and sport".

1. Joao Gilberto - Águas de março
2. John McCormack - Garden Where The Praties Grow
3. John McCormack - The Harp That Through Tara's Halls
4. John McCormack - Jeannie with the Light Brown Hair
5. John McCormack - Kathleen Mavourneen
6. John McCormack - Believe Me If All These Endearing Young Charms
7. John McCormack - Green Isle of Erin
8. John McCormack - Kerry Dance
9. John McCormack - Oh Mary Dear (Londonderry Air)
10. John McCormack - Star Of The County Down
12. John McCormack - Oft In The Stilly Night
13. John McCormack - Meeting Of The Waters
14. John McCormack - Bardh of Armagh
15. John McCormack - Down By The Sally Gardens
16. John McCormack - She Moved Through The Fair
17. John McCormack - Green Bushes
18. John McCormack - Off to Philadelphia

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