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Lyr Req: Three years ago this very day I left the DigiTrad: DEAR OLD DONEGAL SHAKE HANDS WITH YOUR UNCLE MAX Related threads: Lyr Req: Dear Old Donegal (Irish-American) (29) Req: Sean-Dún na nGall (Gaelige)/My Old Donegal (8) Lyr Req: Irish Name Song? / Dear Old Donegal (13) Lyr Req: Home to Donegal (Patsy Cavanagh) (8) Lyr Req: When We Danced in Donegal (Conor Makem) (10) Lyr Req: Old Donegal? / Emigrant's Letter (French) (2) Lyr Req: Dear Old Donegal (19) 'Twas 50 years ago this very day I left the port.. (8) (closed) Lyr Req: say hello to your Uncle Mike my boy (3) Lyr Req:Irish grandpa born about 1878 sang a ditty (6)
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Subject: Three years ago this very day I left the From: GUEST,fictionmom@hotmail.com Date: 15 Jul 02 - 01:25 AM It starts out like a story, "Threee years ago this very day I left the Port of Cork. And on a ship from Ole Erin's Isle I landed in New York..." Am trying to find all the lyrics for this Irish tune passed down through my family for generations. It ends with a snappy list of names like this, "There came, Brannigan, Flannigan, Milligan, Gilligan, Duffy, McLuffy, Malarkey, Malone, Rafferty, Lafferty, Donnolly, Connolly, Dooley, O'Hooley, Mahoney, Mahone. Hagen, O'Flagan, McGinnnis, McGinn and Pat O'Brien was late! Anyone who has the lyrics, I would be so happy to have them all. Am going to sing some version of this at an Irish wake for my old uncle. Thanks, An Irish Colleen |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Three years ago this very day I left the From: masato sakurai Date: 15 Jul 02 - 02:17 AM See these previous threads:
Dear Old Donegal (Irish-American): lyrics?
LYR:?Dear Old Donegal/Song of the Clyde
Irish grandpa born about 1878 sang a ditty
Lyr Req: say hello to your Uncle Mike my boy ~Masato |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Three years ago this very day I left the From: masato sakurai Date: 15 Jul 02 - 02:56 AM Searching for obscure Irish song |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Three years ago this very day I left the From: GUEST Date: 10 Jul 09 - 06:15 AM landed in New York....With not a soul to greet me there, a stranger on the shore, but Irish luck was with me and..gained riches galore. And now I'm going back again to dear old Erin's Isle the folk will meet me on the pier and greet me with a smile. There's lots of faces I sure forgot, I've been so long away, but me Mother will introduce them all and this to me she'll say Shake hands with your uncle Mike me boy And here's your sister Kate And here's the girl who used to swing Down by the garden gate Shake hands with all of the neighbours and kiss the coleens all You're as welcome as a flower in may to dear old Donegal There was flanagan,hanagan, etc... |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Three years ago this very day I left the From: GUEST,Lighter Date: 10 Jul 09 - 10:00 AM What staggers me is that it wasn't written till 1942. Since then the stanza melody has been slowed down and altered slightly to become the standard tune for "Seven Nights Drunk," as popularized by the Dubliners from about 1964. |
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