Cross Your Heart

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"Cross Your Heart"

Eurovision Song Contest 1974 entry
Country	Ireland
Artist(s)	Philomena Reynolds
As	Tina
Language	English
Composer(s)	Ted O'Neill (a.k.a. Paul Lyttle)
Lyricist(s)	Ted O'Neill (a.k.a. Paul Lyttle)
Conductor	Colman Pearce
Finals performance
Final result	7th
Final points	11
Entry chronology
◄ "Do I Dream" (1973)
"That's What Friends Are For" (1975) ►

"Cross Your Heart" was the Irish entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1974, performed in English by Tina and written by Paul Lyttle.^[1]

Tina performed all eight songs in the Irish national heats on RTÉ's Saturday evening entertainment series The Likes of Mike, where she sang four songs in English and four in Irish. The result was decided, for the first time since 1967, by a public postal vote in which "Cross Your Heart" won by a landslide with 16,686 votes, 11,000 clear of the runner-up "Is Liom É".

The song is moderately up-tempo, with Reynolds using a number of childhood rhymes ("cross your heart and hope to die" and "sticks and stones wouldn't break my bones") to communicate to a would-be lover how serious she is about a potential relationship, with the contrast between the serious intention and the playful nature of the rhymes being drawn out throughout the lyrics. She sings that, although her heart has been broken before, she has no intention of giving up on love now. She also reminds her lover that "so many hearts are broken by one little lie".

The song was performed thirteenth on the night (following the Netherlands' Mouth & MacNeal with "I See A Star" and preceding Germany's Cindy & Bert with "Die Sommermelodie"). At the close of voting, it had received 11 points, placing 7th in a field of 17.^[2]

A German version of her song is called "Hand Auf's Herz".^[3]

It was succeeded as Irish representative at the 1975 contest by The Swarbriggs with "That's What Friends Are For".

Chart[]

Chart (1974)	Peak position
Ireland (IRMA)^[4]	1

References[]

^ "RTE.ie archive, Paul Lyttle in National Song Contest publicity shot (1973)". Raidió Teilifís Éireann. 5 July 2012.
^ "Eurovision Song Contest 1974". eurovision.tv. European Broadcasting Union. Archived from the original on 5 June 2011.
^ "Tina [Tina Reynolds] - Hand Auf's Herz (Cross Your Heart)". 45cat.com. Retrieved 19 October 2021.
^ "Irish Singles Charts 1973-1975". UKMIX Forums. Retrieved 19 October 2021.

Ireland in the Eurovision Song Contest

Participation
1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 ~~1983~~ 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 ~~2002~~ 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 ~~2020~~ 2021 2022

Artists

1960s	Butch Moore Dickie Rock Sean Dunphy Pat McGeegan Muriel Day
1970s	Dana Angela Farrell Sandie Jones Maxi Tina Reynolds The Swarbriggs Red Hurley The Swarbriggs Plus Two Colm 'C.T.' Wilkinson Cathal Dunne
1980s	Johnny Logan Sheeba The Duskeys Linda Martin Maria Christian Luv Bug Johnny Logan Jump the Gun Kiev Connolly and
1990s	Liam Reilly Kim Jackson Linda Martin Niamh Kavanagh Paul Harrington and Charlie McGettigan Eddie Friel Eimear Quinn Marc Roberts Dawn Martin The Mullans
2000s	Eamonn Toal Gary O'Shaughnessy Mickey Harte Chris Doran Donna and Joe Brian Kennedy Dervish Dustin the Turkey Sinéad Mulvey and Black Daisy
2010s	Niamh Kavanagh Jedward Jedward Ryan Dolan Can-linn feat. Kasey Smith Molly Sterling Nicky Byrne Brendan Murray Ryan O'Shaughnessy Sarah McTernan
2020s	~~Lesley Roy~~ Lesley Roy

Songs

1960s	"Walking the Streets in the Rain" "Come Back to Stay" "If I Could Choose" "Chance of a Lifetime" "The Wages of Love"
1970s	"All Kinds of Everything" "One Day Love" "Ceol an Ghrá" "Do I Dream" "Cross Your Heart" "That's What Friends Are For" "When" "It's Nice to Be in Love Again" "Born to Sing" "Happy Man"
1980s	"What's Another Year" "Horoscopes" "Here Today Gone Tomorrow" "Terminal 3" "Wait Until the Weekend Comes" "You Can Count On Me" "Hold Me Now" "Take Him Home" "The Real Me"
1990s	"Somewhere in Europe" "Could It Be That I'm in Love" "Why Me?" "In Your Eyes" "Rock 'n' Roll Kids" "Dreamin'" "The Voice" "Mysterious Woman" "Is Always Over Now?" "When You Need Me"
2000s	"Millennium of Love" "Without Your Love" "We've Got the World" "If My World Stopped Turning" "Love?" "Every Song Is a Cry for Love" "They Can't Stop the Spring" "Irelande Douze Pointe" "Et Cetera"
2010s	"It's for You" "Lipstick" "Waterline" "Only Love Survives" "Heartbeat" "Playing with Numbers" "Sunlight" "Dying to Try" "Together" "22"
2020s	~~"Story of My Life"~~ "Maps"

Note: Entries scored out are when Ireland did not compete

Eurovision Song Contest 1974

Countries

Final (by final results)	Sweden (winner) Italy Netherlands United Kingdom Luxembourg Monaco Israel Ireland Spain Belgium Greece Yugoslavia Finland Norway Germany Switzerland Portugal
Withdrawn	France

Artists

Final (by final results)	ABBA Gigliola Cinquetti Mouth & MacNeal Olivia Newton-John Ireen Sheer Romuald Kaveret Tina Reynolds Peret Jacques Hustin Marinella Korni Grupa Carita Holmström Anne-Karine Strøm feat. Bendik Singers Cindy & Bert Piera Martell Paulo de Carvalho
Withdrawn	Dani

Songs

Final (by final results)	"Waterloo" "Sì" "I See a Star" "Long Live Love" "Bye Bye I Love You" "Celui qui reste et celui qui s'en va" "Natati La Khayay" "Cross Your Heart" "Canta y sé feliz" "Fleur de liberté" "Krasí, thálassa ke t' agóri mu" "Moja generacija" "Keep Me Warm" "The First Day of Love" "Die Sommermelodie" "Mein Ruf nach dir" "E depois do adeus"
Withdrawn	""

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