Subject: Searching for obscure Irish song From: GUEST,loweagle@msn.com Date: 29 Jun 02 - 11:18 PM Hi if anyone can help ..I'm looking for an Irish( maybe Scotish) song about a guy who comes home and his mom brings all the town to the dock to greet him and she introduces them to him and the song is mostly made up of last names ETC... there is Flannigan, Hannigan, Mannigan, etc...and ends something like and dont forget O'Kelly and O'Rouke |
Subject: RE: Searching for obscure Irish song From: Genie Date: 29 Jun 02 - 11:29 PM loweagle, I know the song you're talking about, I think. It's an Irish-American Tin Pan Alley song, as I recall, and I actually have the lyrics somewhere, but I can't remember the tune. I'll keep looking [unless Masato or someone else beats me to it]. *G* Genie |
Subject: RE: Searching for obscure Irish song From: The Pooka Date: 30 Jun 02 - 12:09 AM Do you mean "Shake Hands with your Uncle Mike, me boy, and here is your sister Kate", etc. etc.? Bing Crosby?? |
Subject: Lyr Add: DEAR OLD DONEGAL (Steve Graham) From: The Pooka Date: 30 Jun 02 - 12:18 AM If so: "Dear Old Donegal" aka Back to Donegal) It seems like only yesterday I sailed from out of Cork. A wanderer from Erin's isle, I landed in New York. There wasn't a soul to greet me there, A stranger on your shore, But Irish luck was with me here, And riches came galore. And now that I'm going back again To dear old Erin's isle, My friends will meet me on the pier And greet me with a smile. Their faces, sure, I've almost forgot, I've been so long away, But me mother will introduce them all And this to me will say: chorus: Shake hands with your Uncle Mike, me boy, And here is your sister, Kate. And there's the girl you used to swing Down by the garden gate. Shake hands with all of the neighbours, And kiss the colleens all; You're as welcome as the flowers in May To dear old Donnegal. They'll give a party when I go home, They'll come from near and far. They'll line the roads for miles and miles With Irish jauntin' cars. The spirits'll flow and we'll be gay, We'll fill your hearts with joy. The piper'll play an Irish reel To greet the Yankee boy. We'll dance and sing the whole night long, Such fun as never seen. The lads'll be decked in corduroy, The colleens wearin' green. There'll be thousands there that I never saw, I've been so long away, But me mother will introduce them all And this to me will say: > (chorus) Meet Branigan, Fannigan, Milligan, Gilligan, Duffy, McCuffy, Malachy, Mahone, Rafferty, Lafferty, Donnelly, Connelly, Dooley, O'Hooley, Muldowney, Malone, Madigan, Cadigan, Lanihan, Flanihan, Fagan, O'Hagan, O'Hoolihan, Flynn, Shanihan, Manihan, Fogarty, Hogarty, Kelly, O'Kelly, McGuinness, McGuinn. (chorus) words & music: Steve Graham Copyright: @1942 Leeds Music Corp. New York (probably an earlier @ somewhere) Published: Leeds 40 Hits of our Time Transcribed: Dilly |
Subject: RE: Searching for obscure Irish song From: masato sakurai Date: 30 Jun 02 - 01:58 AM The lyrics with chords & midi are HERE. ~Masato |
Subject: RE: Searching for obscure Irish song From: Malcolm Douglas Date: 30 Jun 02 - 11:13 AM See also these previous discussions: Lyr Req: say hello to your Uncle Mike my boy |
Subject: RE: Searching for obscure Irish song From: The Pooka Date: 30 Jun 02 - 12:50 PM And, for Allan Sherman's wonderful parody/version, "Shake Hands With Your Uncle Max" (which should maybe be a Mudcat Motto? :) -- in the DT, from his album "My Son, the Folksinger -- Click here |
Subject: RE: Searching for obscure Irish song From: The Pooka Date: 30 Jun 02 - 12:53 PM Oy. Try again: Click here
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Subject: RE: Searching for obscure Irish song From: Genie Date: 30 Jun 02 - 03:56 PM I knew you'd come through, Masato! Pooka, Allan Sherman's parody version is hilarious! Genie |
Subject: RE: Searching for obscure Irish song From: The Pooka Date: 30 Jun 02 - 05:46 PM Genie - yeah, ain't it? Sherman was great. I saw an off-Broadway production reprising (right word?) his songs---entitled, naturally, "Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh"---and actually structuring a *plot* around them! Well, sort of. *Very* very funny. Hey, I like all that highbrow humor, what can I tell youse? My parents had an album entitled "Bing Crosby Sings Irish Songs" or something like that, including the above "Dear Old Donegal", also "Who Threw The Overalls in Mrs. Murphy's Chowder?", & so forth---including that timeless wild-west tune, "Two-Shillaleagh O'Sullivan" :) I figured this was "real" Irish music. / Then I discovered The Clancy Bros. & T. Makem (never got paid fer it, neither:) and decided THAT must be the real thing. / An opinion I still hold to this day, apparently. / (Well, sort of. :) |
Subject: RE: Searching for obscure Irish song From: masato sakurai Date: 30 Jun 02 - 07:45 PM "Dear Old Donegal" is on a Bing Crosby CD I have: Top 'O The Morning (MCA/Decca MCAD11406)(Click here for sound clip). ~Masato |
Subject: RE: Searching for obscure Irish song From: The Pooka Date: 30 Jun 02 - 08:06 PM Thanks, Masato. Ah, nostalgia. |
Subject: RE: Searching for obscure Irish song From: greg stephens Date: 01 Jul 02 - 06:47 PM Judging by some recent threads, I thought this might be someone looking for "Any old iron" |
Subject: RE: Searching for obscure Irish song From: The Pooka Date: 01 Jul 02 - 07:59 PM Hm. Ironic. Izzat *Norn* Iron? |
Subject: RE: Searching for obscure Irish song From: little john cameron Date: 01 Jul 02 - 10:46 PM . Two Shillelagh O'Sullivan,Begorrah and yippy-kio.HAHAHA.Great stuff Bing.Whit dae oor Irish type mudcatters think o' this. ljc |
Subject: RE: Searching for obscure Irish song From: The Pooka Date: 01 Jul 02 - 10:52 PM He'd give any man the back of his hand, the toe of his shoe to boot! / Arrah ljc yer a man of good taste by God. |
Subject: RE: Searching for obscure Irish song From: Alice Date: 01 Jul 02 - 11:29 PM The song was very popular in Butte, Montana. A bit of it was sung by a Butte citizen on the PBS documentary about the Irish in America, Long Journey Home. Definitely an American song to appeal to Irish immigrants and their sons and daughters. |
Subject: RE: Searching for obscure Irish song From: Declan Date: 02 Jul 02 - 01:22 PM Pooka, I did that Norn Iron joke in the original Any Old Iron thread a couple of weeks back! I presume this is where Malcolm Douglas comes in to tell us that the Norn Iron joke was originally found in an ancient Scotish manuscript in 1412 having been transcribed in the margins of an ancient palimpsest by the monks in Iona :-}. |
Subject: RE: Searching for obscure Irish song From: The Pooka Date: 02 Jul 02 - 02:02 PM Declan - Whoops! Sorry. Inadvertently plagiarizing yerself AND the ancient Scottish manuscript. But what's all this about the monks in Iowa? Hmphh? Oh. Nevermind. :) |
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