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20 Jun 07 - 11:38 AM (#2082248) Subject: Lyr Req: Dunnes Stores From: GUEST,Matt Kavanah Achairde, Does anyone have the lyrics to the song Dunnes Stores? Slan, Matt Also see https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?ThreadID=170216 |
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20 Jun 07 - 02:45 PM (#2082436) Subject: Lyr Add: TEN YOUNG WOMEN AND ONE YOUNG MAN From: GUEST,Jim Carroll Enjoy, TEN YOUNG WOMEN AND ONE YOUNG MAN By Ewan MacColl Now pause awhile, my friends, and listen to what I'm going to tell to you About the events in Dublin City and the girls of the I.D.A.T.U. Dunnes Store, the branch in Henry Street, is where the trouble all began That led to the strike, the famous strike, of ten young women and one young man. That year at the union conference they said we should not compromise With apartheid and they voted to boycott all South African merchandise; When Karen Gearon, the Dunnes shop-steward, told her mates about the ban, They said, "We'll stand by the resolution." Ten young women and one young man. Now Mary Manning of Kilmainham, a twenty-one-year-old cashier, Was put to the test the very next morning when she spoke up loud and clear: "No, I'm afraid I cannot serve you, that grapefruit's South African! And some of us here are opposed to apartheid." Ten young women and one young man. Well, what a hell of a hullabaloo, the threats and groans and the angry cries, The management foaming at the mouth and the suits buzzing round like blue-arse flies; "You'll sell those goods or be suspended, we'll tolerate no union ban!" Little did they understand the will of ten young women and one young man So Mary Manning got the push, this lass of independent mind, And ten of her workmates came out and joined her there on the picket line. For days and weeks and months they stood there, persevered and stood their ground, Proclaiming the will and determination often young women and one young man. Then here's to the girls of Dublin City who stretched their hands across the sea, Their action surely is a lesson in workers' solidarity. And here's to the folk who heeded the boycott, who won't buy Cape and spurn Outspan, And also the lad who joined the lasses—ten young women and one young man. Music note: This is the same tune as "The Day of the Fight." Jim Carroll |
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20 Jun 07 - 02:52 PM (#2082444) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dunnes Stores From: MartinRyan Jim "Day of the Fight"? Wozzat? Not "Spanish Lady"? Mind you - Matt may be thinking of Fintan Vallely's song based on "Young Dunne, Old Dunne..." etc. Regards |
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20 Jun 07 - 04:52 PM (#2082546) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dunnes Stores From: GUEST,Matt "close your eyes and come with me back to 1984 we'll take a walk down henry st to dunnes department store the supermarket's busy, the registers make a din' the groceries go rolling out and the cash comes rolling in." |
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20 Jun 07 - 05:01 PM (#2082553) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dunnes Stores From: MartinRyan Matt Verrrrry interesting! Do you have a tune? Where did you hear the song? Regards |
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20 Jun 07 - 05:19 PM (#2082568) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dunnes Stores From: GUEST,Matt Sorry folks...thanks for the replies...I posted the first verse of the version I'm after...I heard Christy Moore sing it on his Box Set... |
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21 Jun 07 - 02:27 AM (#2082819) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dunnes Stores From: GUEST,Jim Carroll Martin Adaptation - but not quite the same as Spanish Lady. 'Day of the Fight' was a song written for the Radio Ballad on boxing, 'The Fight Game'. Matt, Dunno that one! Jim Carroll |
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21 Jun 07 - 05:01 AM (#2082885) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dunnes Stores From: MartinRyan Found this much online: CHRISTY MOORE DUNNES STORES LYRICS close your eyes and come with me back to 1984 we'll take a walk down henry st to dunnes department store the supermarket's busy, the registers make a din' the groceries go rolling out and the cash comes rolling in. Mary Manning is at the checkout and she's trying to keep warm, When a customer comes up to her with a basket on her arm The contents of the basket Mary I can't check out your oranges mrs now won't you bring them back For they come from South Africa chorus Dunnes Stores Dunnes Stores Dunnes Stores with StBernard better value beats them all Am....GAm Am....GAm Dm.Am.Dm.Am. Am..C...E. CHORUS F...Am... Am.G.F.FGAm Source Regards |
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21 Jun 07 - 10:18 AM (#2083071) Subject: Lyr Add: DUNNES STORES (Christy Moore) From: GUEST Close your eyes and come with me back to 1984. We'll take a walk down Henry Street to Dunnes Department Store. The supermarket's busy. The registers make a din. The groceries go rolling out and the cash comes rolling in. Mary Manning is at the checkout and she's trying to keep warm When a customer comes up to her with a basket on her arm. The contents of the basket Mary's future was to shape, For the label clearly stated "Produce of the Cape". "I can't check out your oranges, missus. Now, won't you bring them back? For they come from South Africa where white oppresses black. I'd have it on my conscience and I couldn't sleep at night If I helped support a system that denies black peoples' rights. "Our union says don't handle them. It's the least that we can do. We fought oppression here for centuries; we'll help them fight it, too." The managers descended in an avalanche of suits, And Mary was suspended cos she wouldn't touch the fruits. CHORUS: Dunnes Stores, Dunnes Stores, Dunnes Stores, In St Bernard better value beats them all. Her friends were all behind her and the union gave support, And they called a strike and their pickets brought all Dunnes stores to a halt. No one was going to tell the boss what he bought or sold. These women are only workers. They must do as they are told. Isn't that just typical of apartheid's cruel law? It's not just in South Africa the rich trample on the poor. He wouldn't have a boycott. He couldn't give a tinker's curse. Doesn't matter how he fills the shelves so long as he lines his purse. CHORUS The messages came rolling in from all around the world For such concern and sacrifice and for courage brave and bold. When fourteen months were over, ten women and a man Had helped to raise black consciousness all around the land. Cleary's in O'Connell Street wouldn't sell South African shoes. Bestman sent all their clothes back. Roche's stores sent back their booze. Until all South African goods were taken off the shelves in Dunnes, Mary Manning was down in Henry Street sticking to her guns. CHORUS |
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21 Jun 07 - 10:58 AM (#2083110) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dunnes Stores From: MartinRyan Thnks for that, Guest. Regards |
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21 Jun 07 - 11:06 AM (#2083124) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dunnes Stores From: GUEST,Matt Aye...answered my own question so I did...that anonymous post was me...I dug out my Christy Moore autobiography One Voice: My Life In Song and sure enough there were the lyrics! Enjoy one and all |
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21 Jun 07 - 11:21 AM (#2083134) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dunnes Stores From: MartinRyan Curiously, I didn't even look in the book - I don't remember noticing the song at the time. Which is odd - given that I recorded the McColl one! Regards |
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05 Jan 18 - 09:37 PM (#3897662) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dunnes Stores (Christy Moore) From: GUEST,christy moore this song was written by Sandra Kerr.... |
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06 Jan 18 - 04:02 AM (#3897678) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dunnes Stores (Christy Moore) From: GUEST,Martin Ryan Thanks for that. Regards |