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Posted By: Irish / Celtic Wedding Songs The Grand Compilation
21-Nov-98 - 07:10 PM
Thread Name: Top 10 Irish Wedding Songs please....
Subject: RE: Top 10 Irish Wedding Songs please......
Greetings and thanks! I boiled down the submissions and this is the result- quite a mixture. I would add that Sean O' Riada wrote a few Gaelic Masses and his son Peadar has at least one Cd. out with some other good tunes as well. Conrad

I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say, (tune: Star of County Down)
Be Thou My Vision,
Danny Boy and various lyrics to the tune of Danny Boy
The Celtic Alleluia (not very traditionally Celtic-Oregon Catholic Press)
Celtic Mass, (Oregon Catholic Press)
Anything written by Fr. Liam Lawton, especially a CD called Sacred Story.
The Spinning Wheel Song
The Rose of Tralee
The Darlin' Girl From Clare
The Snowy-Breasted Pearl
I Know My Love (by his way of walkin')
The Sally Gardens
Raglan Road
Old Maid in the Garret
Easy and Slow
Let Him Go, Let him Tarry
My Singing Bird
The Limerick Rake
My Bonny Boy is Young But He's Growing
Maids When You're Young (never wed an old man)
The Old Woman From Wexford.
My Lovely Rose of Clare
The Wild Rover
Mary From Dungloe
Carraickfergus
The German Clockwinder
Bunch of Thyme
Go Lassie Go
If I Was A Blackbird
On the Banks of the Roses
Spancilhill
She Moved Through The Fair
The Lark in the Clear Air
The Mountains of Mourne
McBreens Heffer
Red Haired Mary
The Zoological Gardens
I Courted Biddy Magee
The Queen of Connemara (in a cot in Connemara there's a wife and wee one praying)

I had Be Thou my vision.
I heard the voice of Jesus say,
She moved through the fair
Give me your hand (Tamhair dom do lamb),
Carrickfergus,
....any slow Irish airs.
Aifreann Baile Nua (The Newtown Mass O’Brien)
Donal Agus Morag
Dark Inniseoghan