Lyr Add: The Ballad Of Ronnie's Mare (CORRECTION)

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The Ballad Of Ronnie's Mare (CORRECTION)
From: Effsee
Date: 20 Mar 06 - 09:23 PM

Aye, know what you mean, but their songs are usually best sung by other people.....The town I loved so well...and my personal fave... Scorn not his simplicity......I'll pass on ... Puppet on a string...tho' I did have a hankering for Sandie Shaw!!!

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The Ballad Of Ronnie's Mare (CORRECTI
From: Joe Offer
Date: 20 Mar 06 - 09:12 PM

Thanks for the information, Effsee - I have to say I'm not particularly familiar with Phil's music. I have 3 CD's in my collection, but haven't spent a lot of time listening. So far in my book, he's OK, but not on my "A list." He has written some wonderful songs, though.
-Joe-

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The Ballad Of Ronnie's Mare (CORRECTION)
From: Effsee
Date: 20 Mar 06 - 08:34 PM

You have got to be kidding Joe: this from Phil's website:-

After a few years, I teamed up with a slightly mad Scot called Bill Martin, and we joined an illustrious band of songwriting duos on the street - Roger Greenaway and Roger Cook, Les Reed and Barry Mason, Mitch Murray and Peter Callander, Albert Hammond and Mike Hazlewood.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The Ballad Of Ronnie's Mare (CORRECTI
From: Joe Offer
Date: 20 Mar 06 - 08:02 PM

I see we don't have attribution in the Digital Tradition. I take it "Coulter" is Phil Coulter. Who's "Martin"?
-Joe Offer-

Subject: Tune Add: The Ballad Of Ronnie's Mare
From: OldPossum
Date: 03 Feb 03 - 04:33 PM

X:1
T:The Ballad Of Ronnie's Mare
C:Martin-Coulter
N:filename[ RONNMARE
M:6/8
L:1/8
K:D
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|B2 B bbb |aba fed|d2d ede|f3 z2 a
|b2 b ba g|a2 a agf|eee d'c'b|a3 z2 a
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Source: Transcribed by ear from the LP mentioned above.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The Ballad Of Ronnie's Mare (CORRECTION)
From: MMario
Date: 03 Feb 03 - 03:13 PM

Thank you! it's one of the "missing tunes"!

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The Ballad Of Ronnie's Mare (CORRECTION)
From: OldPossum
Date: 03 Feb 03 - 03:09 PM

I would also like to suggest adding @humor to the Keywords.
I shall post the tune in the near future.

Subject: Lyr Add: The Ballad Of Ronnie's Mare (CORRECTION)
From: OldPossum
Date: 03 Feb 03 - 02:37 PM

This is a CORRECTION to a song which is already in the DT, filename[ RONNMARE

THE BALLAD OF RONNIE'S MARE
(Martin-Coulter)

You can sing of all your sporting heroes
Like Master McGrath and the rest
But there's a horse in the County of Wicklow
That's beaten all of the best
The slowest hunter, the lowest jumper
But great for a stroll round the park.

CHORUS:
The serving lasses, the upper classes
And daughters of millionaires
They all would appear from far and near
For a ride on Ronnie's mare
For a ride on Ronnie Drew's mare.

In Greystones town on a Sunday morning
A crowd will always appear
To catch a glimpse of the famous mare
They call the horse of the year
She's the best at racing but sees no disgrace in
Pulling a big old milk cart.

chorus

In the Burnaby Bar the boys talked of the horse show
And said she ought to be showed
She was tutored and trained by the two Evans boys
On the grass by the side of the road
Though she won up in Dublin, without any troublin'
Next day she was back in the cart.

chorus

Joe Sweeney the punter suggested one day,
They should enter her in for a race
So all was arranged Billy Fox would be jockey
And Newcastle would be the place
But the boys all agreed it even if she succeeded
She'd go back to delivering milk.

chorus

Well the boys were there to lay out the readies
And cheer the horse past the post
But when Fox had a look at the competition
He turned as white as a ghost
We'll have some hassle to beat Willie Castle,
Says Ronnie "For J's sake!"

chorus

The race it was tough but the mare she was flyin'
They knew that she couldn't lose
But in the midst of the celebration
There arrived some tragic news
In her finest hour all the milk had gone sour
So now she was out of a job.

chorus


(c) 1973 Mews Music

The lyrics were copied from the sleeve notes of the LP "The Dubliners: Plain & Simple", Polydor 2383 235, which as far as I know is where the song first appeared.