In a field by a river my love and I did lie On my naked shoulder she too proud to cry She said that I must leave her, an icy tear she froze How could I melt the heart, of a Wild Irish Rose
Well, a gypsy she has made of me, a servant of the streets From bed to bed I've travelled to taste a love as sweet Well the heart it knows no reasons, and reason never knows As I lie with them I am thinking of a Wild Irish Rose
We all fall, ran down, slow down [skip] -and all's love was stale But with all that I found on C street, I thought I'd found my grave All night and day she is, and I dance under the glows And all that time of dancing from a Wild Irish Rose
Well I saw the city of angels it brought a devil out of me In Hell's hotel on Sunset, showed a whore no mercy As the orange sky was screaming, from the roof I let her go These are the dizzy heights that brought me my Wild Irish Rose
Now, wild is the rose that she laid on my grave A life was all she wanted and a life I surely gave Like a hundred men before me they lay lying here in rows Young men, bloody, as a Wild Irish Rose
Alison Stewart 23 March 1961 (1961-03-23)(age 49) Dublin
Residence
Killiney, County Dublin, Ireland
Nationality
Irish
Other names
Ali Hewson
Education
B.A. in Sociology & Politics
Alma mater
University College Dublin
Occupation
Activist
Religion
Church of Ireland (Anglican)
Spouse
Bono (Paul Hewson)
Children
4
Parents
Terry and Joy Stewart
Alison Hewson (née Stewart; 23 March 1961), better known as Ali Hewson, is an activist and the wife of U2's lead singer Bono.
Contents
1Biography
2Career
2.1Activism
3Hewson and U2
4References
4.1Further reading
Biography
Ali is the daughter of Terry and Joy Stewart, and a granddaughter of Hector Grey, a well known Dublin trader and shop owner. Alison grew up in Raheny, a suburb located on Dublin's Northside, and she studied at Mount Temple Comprehensive School where she met Bono. They began dating in November 1975. Soon after the death of Bono's mother, Stewart took care of Bono, cleaning his clothes, going to school with him, and cooking for him.She married Bono on 21 August 1982 in a Church of Ireland (Anglican) ceremony at All Saints Church, Raheny.Together they have four children: daughters Jordan (b. 10 May 1989) and Memphis Eve (b. 7 July 1991), and sons Elijah Bob Patricus Guggi Q (b. 18 August 1999) and John Abraham (b. 21 May 2001). The family now lives in Killiney, in south County Dublin, Ireland. They also have a villa in Èze in the Alpes-Maritimes in the south of France with U2 bandmate The Edge, as well as an apartment at The San Remo in Manhattan.
Career
Although she wanted to become a nurse, Hewson gave up her career ambitions to foster her relationship with her new husband. She received a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology and Political Science from University College Dublin (UCD) in 1989, shortly after giving birth to her first daughter, Jordan. Before that, Hewson worked in a motor insurance company, and with her father, in his electrical business. Hewson is a founder of the EDUN fashion label, which encourages fair trade with third world nations and the abolition of sweatshops and child labour. She is also co-founder of Nude skincare with Bryan Meehan, a luxury, natural skincare company.
Activism
Hewson is a patron of Chernobyl Children's Project International, an organization accredited by the United Nations that works with children, families and communities who continue to be affected by the Chernobyl nuclear disaster of 1986. She participated in Greenpeace protests against the Sellafield reprocessing plant and narrated Black Wind White Land, an Irish film which highlighted the plight of victims of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. She also participated in the film "Chernobyl Heart" with Adi Roche. In addition to her own work, she has travelled and appeared with Bono extensively when participating in activist events such as campaigning against third world poverty.
Hewson and U2
The U2 song "The Sweetest Thing" was given to Hewson as a gift because Bono forgot her birthday while writing and recording with the band during The Joshua Tree sessions. She appears in the song's music video and received income from its sales. She gave all proceeds to Chernobyl Children's Project International.Furthermore, Bono dedicated U2's song "All I Want Is You" to her.
References
Further reading
Flanagan, B. (1996) U2: At the End of the World. New York: Delta.
Stokes, N. (2001). Into the Heart: The Stories Behind Every U2 Song. New York: Thunder's Mouth Press.
Sweetest Thing
U2
My love, she throws me like a rubber ball (Oh, the sweetest thing.) But she won't catch me or break my fall. (Oh, the sweetest thing.) Baby's got blue skies up ahead But in this, I'm a raincloud You know she wants a dry kind of love. (Oh, the sweetest thing.) I'm losin' you, I'm losin' you Ain't love the sweetest thing? I wanted to run, but she made me crawl (Oh, the sweetest thing.) Eternal fire, she turned me to straw. (Oh, the sweetest thing.) I know I got black eyes But they burn so brightly for her I guess it's a blind kind of love. (Oh, the sweetest thing.) I'm losin' you, I'm losin' you Ain't love the sweetest thing? Ain't love the sweetest thing? Blue-eyed boy meets a brown-eyed girl. (Oh, the sweetest thing.) You can sew it up, but you still see the tear. (Oh, the sweetest thing.) Baby's got blue skies up ahead But in this, I'm a rain-cloud, Ours is a stormy kind of love. (Oh, the sweetest thing.)
