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Thread #127007   Message #3634276
Posted By: GUEST,henryp
18-Jun-14 - 09:31 AM
Thread Name: Songs within songs
Subject: RE: Songs within songs
O'Donoghue's by Andy Irvine records his life in Dublin from 1962 to 1968. There's a song in almost every verse.

Well, Paddy and Maureen, very, very sound though she liked to camp on the moral high ground
You had long hair, you were outward bound, Go down you blood red roses
Ronnie Drew in his fine suit of blue and a voice like gravel that'd cut you in two
We thought he was Dublin through and through, but he blew in from Dun Laoghaire