Lyr ADD: Lambeg Drummer (Mickey MacConnell)

Subject: mickey McConnell's Lambeg Drummer
From: GUEST,jim
Date: 11 Sep 02 - 12:21 AM

Does anyone know the words to the Lambeg Drummer by Mickey McConnell? Does anyone have an address or Email for him, or for Frank Harte for that matter? (Frank is the only person I've heard sing the song)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: mickey McConnell's Lambeg Drummer
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 11 Sep 02 - 03:19 AM

Mickey has been known to post here from time to time, his Mudcat name is "chordstrangler".

I don't have his email address but you can contact his brother at [e-mail] Murray

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: mickey McConnell's Lambeg Drummer
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 13 Sep 02 - 01:47 PM

I found out that the correct spelling is "MacConnell" and that "The Lambeg Drummer" appears on his album "Joined Up Writing" which is described here. The notes also explain what a Lambeg drum is. No lyrics, though.

Murray: Are you sure we're talking about the same person?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: mickey McConnell's Lambeg Drummer
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 13 Sep 02 - 03:02 PM

Jim,we are certainly talking about the same Mickey. He has two brothers, Cormac, a journalist, and Cathal, a flautist, singer and bon viveur.

Maybe the email I gave was for a different Cormac. Try [e-mail] No idea if it is still a current address, but it certainly is (or was) for Mickey's brother Cormac.

Murray

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: mickey McConnell's Lambeg Drummer
From: chordstrangler
Date: 13 Sep 02 - 05:35 PM

Dear Jim,

Mickey MacConnell aka "chordstrangler" here. My e-mail address is [e-mail] and if you send me your e-mail address I would be delighted to send the lyrics on to you.

Best wishes,

Mickey

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: mickey McConnell's Lambeg Drummer
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 14 Sep 02 - 04:05 AM

Mickey, would you mind posting the lyrics here, for all of us? I gather, by the way, this isn't the same song as 'The Little Drummer Boy' (which starts "I'm the minister for justice in this sad divided land")? I've only ever heard it sung by Iain MacKintosh, and he never recorded it.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: mickey McConnell's Lambeg Drummer
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 16 Sep 02 - 07:10 PM

Refresh

Subject: Lyr Add: LAMBEG DRUMMER (Mickey MacConnell)
From: Stewie
Date: 14 Jun 09 - 09:33 PM

LAMBEG DRUMMER
(Mickey MacConnell)

I met her on a far Greek isle,
Our accents Irish, a glance, a smile
This girl I could not love at home,
I loved in Greece and later, Rome
On through France and the dust of Spain,
Christ, I'll never love like that again
All through that long grape-picking summer
Now she's the wife of a Lambeg drummer

And she touched my cheek in Brittany
'What a shame you're Mick, not Sam', said she
'Or Stewart, Cecil, Ian, Rob,
'Or Billy, Ivan, Jack or Bob
'You're locked inside some Fenian dream
'You long for things that might have been
'But let's not waste what's left of summer
'Before I wed my Lambeg drummer'

Sometimes I'd watch her while she'd sleep
From firelight soft to shadow deep
And I'd wonder why Cupid's dart
Must miss the head to wound the heart
And I knew it all too soon would end
Two hearts not lost, just out on lend.
And one day I'd reclaim mine from her
And set hers free, for her Lambeg drummer

And we wandered a deserted beach
Though I held her hand she was out of reach
Side by side, but both alone
As we thought about the news from home
And I knew 'twas time for letting go
Of this sweet and most beloved foe
For her ears were tuned to a tribal thunder
That called her home to her Lambeg drummer

In a drab Dutch town, we said goodbye
I had to hitch, she chose to fly
'Twas only as she turned to go
That I told her what she had to know
That had she been Mary, Breege or Kate
We'd have walked together out the airport gate
And I'd never more be parted from her
By time or tide or a Lambeg drummer.

Well I watched the Orange Twelfth parade
I was half impressed and half dismayed
And there I saw the girl I loved
All hatted, sashed, bemedalled, gloved
More lovely than she'd ever been
And she was Orange and I was Green
Her love outblazed a Spanish summer
That's squandered now on a Lambeg drummer

And had she been Mary, Breege or Kate
We'd have walked together out the airport gate
And I'd never more be parted from her
By time or tide or a Lambeg drummer

Source: transcription from Mickey MacConnell 'Joined Up Writing'

--Stewie.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lambeg Drummer (Mickey MacConnell)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 29 Apr 20 - 11:40 PM

refresh - needs research

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lambeg Drummer (Mickey MacConnell)
From: GUEST,Martin Ryan
Date: 01 May 20 - 05:34 AM

Hi Joe - what did you want to know?

Regards

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lambeg Drummer (Mickey MacConnell)
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 01 May 20 - 07:44 AM

This may explain some of it, Joe!
Lambeg Drum

I would take Mickey's song to be satirical. (He who wrote the Aldi and Lidl song too!)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lambeg Drummer (Mickey MacConnell)
From: Stewie
Date: 02 May 20 - 11:25 PM

I can't see anything satirical about it. It is a straightforward tale of unrequited love and a homeland divided by religious bigotry. She let him know where he stood, but he gave his heart regardless.

--Stewie.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lambeg Drummer (Mickey MacConnell)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 03 May 20 - 01:49 AM

Now I gotta remember what question I had...

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lambeg Drummer (Mickey MacConnell)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 22 Jun 20 - 06:31 PM

Here are lyrics to lots of Mickey MacConnell songs:

http://www.mickeymacconnell.com/Page%2012.htm