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Thread #128254   Message #4204720
Posted By: GUEST,henryp
30-Jun-24 - 06:30 AM
Thread Name: Andy Irvine: You Rambling Boys of Pleasure (Yeats)
Subject: RE: Andy Irvine: You Rambling Boys of Pleasure (Yeats)
We used to wake up on Sunday morning to Ciarán Mac Mathúna on RTE's Mo Cheol Thú. He would often play Planxty's languorous performance of You Rambling Boys Of Pleasure - all 7'45" of it!

From Collins Dictionary; languorous - If you describe an activity as languorous, you mean that it is lazy, relaxed, and not energetic, usually in a pleasant way.

Paddy Tunney sang The Rambling Boys of Pleasure on his 1966 Topic album The Irish Edge. Sean O’Boyle commented in the original album’s liner notes: "I first heard this song in 1954 from Robert Cinnamond of Aghadalgan on the shores of Lough Neagh in County Antrim." From Mainly Norfolk, which contains much more information.