Subject: RE: St Patrick's Day Songs ? From: JohnnyBeezer Date: 03 Mar 03 - 11:48 AM Re-Hi Becky I've just read what I have written. Sorry to be a PEDANTIC TWAT!!! All the best Johnny N |
Subject: RE: St Patrick's Day Songs ? From: JohnnyBeezer Date: 03 Mar 03 - 11:40 AM Hi Becky It's SCOTS-IRISH! Scotch is a very nice drink Best regards Johnny N |
Subject: RE: St Patrick's Day Songs ? From: Declan Date: 03 Mar 03 - 10:06 AM Allen, You beat me to it. The lyrics are on this thread attributed to William Maginn. I was under the impression (based on the sleeve notes from the Prosperous album) that Christy had written the words himself. He certainly claims to have set the lyrics to the tune of "The night before Larry was stretched". I don't know what the album credits have to say about authorship. This is about the only song that I do around Paddy's Day that I don't normally sing at other times of the year. |
Subject: RE: St Patrick's Day Songs ? From: GUEST,allen woodpecker Date: 03 Mar 03 - 08:12 AM Don't forget "Patrick's Arrival" by Christy Moore, I think. a.w. |
Subject: RE: St Patrick's Day Songs ? From: Mark Cohen Date: 03 Mar 03 - 05:20 AM Well, my sort-of-becoming-an-Irish-band-despite-a-dearth-of-good-musicians Irish band will be playing at Kelley O'Neill's in Waikiki, and I have a question. And I don't feel quite so bad about asking it now, after reading Mary's post. Does anyone have a good set of guitar chords to "Danny Boy"? We're sure we're going to be asked to do it, and need to be prepared. I have an arrangement that's OK, but I think it could sound better, and I'm not a good enough musician (see above) to find the chords. One thing that's kind of interesting is that they throw in a VIb chord (i.e., in D it would be Bb) on the last note, before resolving to the tonic. I don't remember having heard that before, though it sounds like it would have been a common Tin Pan Alley trick. So, any suggestions? Aloha, Mark M. Cohan |
Subject: RE: St Patrick's Day Songs ? From: Nigel Parsons Date: 03 Mar 03 - 04:41 AM Singing in British pubs this year, watch out for an invasion of cheap plastic bodhrani(Plural?). They are being given away by Guinness if you buy 5 pints in a participating outlet. There is no restriction about issuing them only to those with a sense of rhythm! Nigel |
Subject: Lyr Add: SAINT PATRICK WAS A GENTLEMAN From: GUEST,Donal Date: 03 Mar 03 - 12:22 AM As regards actual songs ABOUT St. Pat, there's this. Don. SAINT PATRICK WAS A GENTLEMAN
Saint Patrick was a gentleman and came of decent people
CHORUS: Success attend Saint Patrick's fist, for he's a decent saint O
The Wicklow hills are very high, and so's the hill of Howth O
No wonder that we Irish boys should be so gay and frisky,
Then should I be so fortunate as to go back to Munster, (1) My love, my treasure.
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Subject: RE: St Patrick's Day Songs ? From: Genie Date: 03 Mar 03 - 12:19 AM Well, my paid St. Pat's gigs are in retirement communities in the US, so my list of possible songs to play includes a lot of the 'Irish songs they want to hear, e.g.: The Same Old Shillelagh The Wearin' O' The Green MacNamara's Band Danny Boy Galway Bay My Wild Irish Rose Cockles and Mussels Peg O' My Heart Mother Machree When Irish Eyes Are Smiling Harrigan A Little Bit Of Heaven Fell Peggy O'Neill The Rose of Tralee Sweet Rosie O'Grady The Kerry Dance Where The River Shannon Flows Who Threw The Overalls In Mistress Murphy's Chowder? It's A Great Day For The Irish How Are Things In Glocca Morra? I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen Gilgarra Mountain Maggie Then I have my other list - songs that may be a little less known to my audiences but which I like to sing and from which I always throw in a few: The Mountains O' Mourne Come Back, Paddy Reilly Roddy McCorley Gilgarra Mountain Johnny Lad Star Of The County Down My Isle Of Innisfree No Irish Need Apply Black Velvet Band Mick McGuire Buttermilk Hill Finnegan's Wake If I Knock The "L" Out Of Kelly The Minstrel Boy, Molly Malone The Devil and the Farmer's Wife Blow The Candles Out I'll Tell Me Ma Bridget O'Malley Slievenamon Drill Ye Tarriers Black Jack Davey Hares On The Mountain Shool Aroon The Recruitin' Sergeant Mary Mack The Wild Rover In jam sessions in March, I usually sing songs from this latter list. |
Subject: RE: St Patrick's Day Songs ? From: GUEST,Crazy Little Woman Date: 02 Mar 03 - 09:52 PM Banish Misfortune Battle of Aughrim The Basket of Turf Red-haired Boy The Green Mountain (Maid Behind the Bar) The Old Horned Sheep Kitty McGee The Wee Lass on the Brae The Kesh Jig Irish Washerwoman and for our American number, The Devil's Dream Catch our act at the St Regis fish fry in Raytown, Missouri, Friday (of course it's a Friday)March 14th. |
Subject: RE: St Patrick's Day Songs ? From: Desert Dancer Date: 02 Mar 03 - 03:42 PM My mostly old-time band is performing at a festival associated with the local parade. There'll be two bands who play very Irish stuff and probably none of the chestnuts (except that one has a trained tenor who'll undoubtedly do Danny Boy), so we're doing just American Irish (and not quite Irish) stuff, for something different, including the stuff my parents (who weren't very Irish) loved: Molly Malone When Leaving Dear Old Ireland (The Three Leaved Shamrock) Old Lady & the Devil Acres of Clams Drill Ye Tarriers Black Jack Davey Sailor's Prayer (to cover the sea song and drinking song requirement in one) Last Winter Was a Hard One Green Grow the Lilacs Coleraine jig Sheebeg & Sheemore waltz Southwind waltz My great grandfather was Scotch-Irish from county Tyrone, but that doesn't mean I need to get nasty about national wear-green day. ~ Becky in Tucson |
Subject: RE: St Patrick's Day Songs ? From: GUEST,Patriotmissile Date: 02 Mar 03 - 03:08 PM What's wrong with singing American songs? They are better than Irish songs. |
Subject: RE: St Patrick's Day Songs ? From: GUEST Date: 02 Mar 03 - 02:28 PM house of orange |
Subject: RE: St Patrick's Day Songs ? From: mg Date: 02 Mar 03 - 02:03 PM I should add they don't just want to hear them..they want to sing them. And we have such a short unbroken tradition of songs that we as Americans, or Irish-Americans in particular on St. Patrick's Day, know and sing, that we shouldn't kill a single one of them as long as anyone wants to sing them. Naturally, this is because most immigrants to America did not speak English..so most songs of most cultures have either been lost entirely due to the vigorous and often abusive efforts to get people to speak English and also deny their heritages. Plus of course there was great intermarriage among groups. Lots of factors..world wars, radio, t.v....who knows. But we have a few common threads and we shouldn't lose them ..or lose them personally if we find them beneath our dignity, but we shouldn't impose our views on others as long as no one gets hurt by anything. How can a few choruses of My Father's Old Shilleleigh actually hurt anyone? mg |
Subject: RE: St Patrick's Day Songs ? From: leprechaun Date: 02 Mar 03 - 12:49 PM What mary garvey said. |
Subject: RE: St Patrick's Day Songs ? From: GUEST,WillyMcBoyne Date: 02 Mar 03 - 07:54 AM I can't remember the title, but me and my freinds use to sing this song on St Paddy's Day. "I saw this mick, He made me feel sick So I hit him with a brick Ahh, the poor f*****g mick." |
Subject: RE: St Patrick's Day Songs ? From: GUEST,WillyMcBoyne Date: 02 Mar 03 - 04:55 AM Come St Mick's Day I always sing 'I wear the orange sash that my grandfather wore.' There is also a lot of good marching songs celebrating the victory of King William at the Battle of the Boyne. |
Subject: RE: St Patrick's Day Songs ? From: winterchild Date: 02 Mar 03 - 04:48 AM Are there any songs about _ST PATRICK_?? Even irreverant ones? If not, maybe someone should write it; like those infrequent new X-mas songs, it's sure to be a hit, year after year after year, if only one day a year! ;) WinterC |
Subject: RE: St Patrick's Day Songs ? From: Keith A of Hertford Date: 02 Mar 03 - 04:13 AM The Bantry Girl's Lament is lovely, and underperformed. Along with other patriots, Keith. |
Subject: RE: St Patrick's Day Songs ? From: Hrothgar Date: 01 Mar 03 - 10:09 PM Isn't there a British military march called "St Patrick's Day?" |
Subject: RE: St Patrick's Day Songs ? From: GUEST,.gargoyle Date: 01 Mar 03 - 08:20 PM Any of the good old rebel songs that set the scene by enumerating the nefarious deeds of the cowardly-moustach-twirling Englishmen against the Irish peasantry.
Sincerely, |
Subject: RE: St Patrick's Day Songs ? From: mg Date: 01 Mar 03 - 08:16 PM Whatever you do, don't sneer at the songs people want to hear. They want to hear them because they love them. If you don't love the particular genre of Irish-American songs, commonly hauled out on St. Patrick's Day, then find a group of people on that day that doesn't want to hear them. You (generic you) do not need to say that's not what they sing in Ireland, that there are far more respectable Irish (or Irish-American songs) to sing that are more socially acceptable, that many were written by German Americans or whatever, that they are derived from (gasp) music hall songs, that they are maudlin, mawkish, contribute to Irish stereotyping, and that you don't know the words to Irish Eyes if in fact you do. Here is my number: 360-665-4999. If you want to hear one of them and I happen to know it I will gladly sing it to you. Pass them on. It's part of a proud tradition that unfortunately got broken by nasty things like famines etc. so we don't have the old old songs with us passed down in our families. The only two songs my father ever sang were MacNamara's Band and Jim O'Shea. Make fun of them if you will. mg |
Subject: RE: St Patrick's Day Songs ? From: GUEST Date: 01 Mar 03 - 08:15 PM The usual: The Minstrel Boy, Black 47 Paddy Dear - Shamrock is Forbid Kevin Barry Sing of Ireland Danny Boy Beer, Beer, Beer Irish Free State Last Night I Had a Happy Dream Blood Red Roses Galway Bay My Wild Irish Rose Sing Irishman Sing Wild Colonial Boy |
Subject: St Patrick's Day Songs ? From: Murray MacLeod Date: 01 Mar 03 - 07:34 PM Just thought I would maintain the tradition of starting a new thread each year asking for St Patrick's Day songs . So, what songs will YOU be singing this coming St Patrick's Day.? Be prepared for LOADS of links to previous threads .... Murray |
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