I admit it. I'm a whore. I sing songs for money. It's my living and a damn good one. Pay me enough and I'll sing anything you want.
Mary, I agree about the Irish wedding Song. If the bride and groom want it, it's their big day, so I'll sing it.
One awful experience about 20 or so years ago....a young bride to be hired me to sing a Dan Fogelberg song at her wedding as she danced with her new husband. If I remember correctly, the song was along the lines of "Higher than there are birds up in the sky" or some such drivel. So I bought the album and learned the song.

The problem arose because Dan Fogelberg is a high tenor, and I'm a baritone, and the bride wanted me to sing it in a high tenor "just like Dan," as she informed me moments before I was about to sing it.

Obviously, I couldn't do it in his key without having my scrotum end up around my Adam's apple. So I did it in my key.

Well, as she and her new husband danced around, she made a point of gliding past the stage, glaring at me and hissing: "Higher! Higher! Like Dan!"

After the dance, she sought me out and told me that I had ruined her wedding by not singing it like Dan.

Her father came up later, handed me the cheque and said "You were great! Thanks!"


Seamus