Lyr Req: Irish Eyes (The Fureys)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Fureys 'Irish Eyes'
From: GUEST,Hoges in WA
Date: 22 Sep 05 - 09:52 AM

Brilliant effort!   Off I go to match the two up. Back soon

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Fureys 'Irish Eyes'
From: Brakn
Date: 22 Sep 05 - 09:06 AM

This is what I made of it..... I think it's awful.


Girl o'mine, girl o'mine, you've got Irish eyes
Girl o'mine, girl o'mine, you've got Irish eyes
Don't go giving me dirty looks, you know it hurts me so
You're only using that scornful look, just to get around me now

Girl o'mine, Girl o'mine, you've got Irish eyes
Girl o'mine, Girl o'mine, you've got Irish eyes
You can make me do anything (any ting) I'm under your thumb
Tell me go and I stay on, look my way and I'm come??????

Hear the sound move your feet, no you can't sit down
Hear the sound feel the beat, no you can't sit down
I keep them making them same mistakes, and you keep making me ???
I don't know what it takes but I know you've got enough

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Fureys 'Irish Eyes'
From: GUEST,Hoges in WA
Date: 22 Sep 05 - 07:40 AM

Well, that's extremely interesting - I'd not considered provenance before, just assumed it was a Furey's track. You're a champeen, Jim but you've just given me hundreds more pages to search. Google is not forthcoming on string searches - I've even gone further into the track to the line "don't go giving me no dirty looks now" but no luck. This is driving me mad. I wish I could find a snippet from the Acting on Impulse cd. On, On... I'll find it one day I hope.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Fureys 'Irish Eyes'
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 21 Sep 05 - 11:28 PM

allmusic has a sound sample. I listened, but I found the words just too unintelligible.

Normally a good searching technique is to listen to a sound sample, transcribe what you can, and then Google with a phrase or two, but I'm stuck at the transcription step. Can anyone help?

By the way, it's attributed to "Lyle, McGuiness."

Hey, this page says there's a band called The Lyle McGuinness Band, that recorded IRISH EYES on an album called "Acting on Impulse," originally released in 1983, re-released as a CD in 2002. I couldn't find a sound sample, though.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Fureys 'Irish Eyes'
From: GUEST,Hoges in WA
Date: 18 Sep 05 - 07:53 PM

The track is called simply "Irish Eyes". It's on the album The Best of The Fureys & Davy Arthur (not the one subtitled Celtic Dreams, the one where they are sitting in the lounge room). It's track 18. It starts off (I think) Girl of Mine, Girl of Mine you've got Irish Eyes, Irish Eyes...

I can't make out any more.

Hope this helps someone out there.
Thanks
Hoges in WA

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Fureys 'Irish Eyes'
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 18 Sep 05 - 03:38 PM

Irish Eyes by Anthony John Clarke? That one is *here*

Cheers

DtG

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Fureys 'Irish Eyes'
From: Peace
Date: 18 Sep 05 - 03:29 PM

What is the exact song title you are listening to, and could you post the CD or album it is from?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Fureys 'Irish Eyes'
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 18 Sep 05 - 03:23 PM

Possibly Through The Eyes of an Irishman linked at the top of this thread by Joe or a mud-elf

CHEERS
Nigel

Subject: Lyr Req: Fureys 'Irish Eyes'
From: GUEST,Hoges in WA
Date: 17 Sep 05 - 10:56 PM

Hi. Can anyone here decipher the lyrics to the Fureys song Irish Eyes - it'snot the same as Irish Eyes are Smiling, it's a completely different song. I have run it over and over again and can get very little that I understand. Would appreciate better ears having a listen. Thanks.