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04 Jul 13 - 11:57 AM (#3533754) Subject: Lyr Req: Irish song From: Leadbelly Hi, very long time ago I listened to folk song of which I only can remember the beginning of the refrain. It goes like this: The sea, oh (?) the sea is (a ?) good guarantee, long it may roll between England and me... Seemed to be a patriotic song performed by a group with a lady singer. Anybody out there who knows about it? Thanks. |
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04 Jul 13 - 12:05 PM (#3533761) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Irish song From: MartinRyan The Sea Around Us by Dominic Behan. Regards |
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04 Jul 13 - 01:04 PM (#3533777) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Irish song From: Leadbelly Thank you very much, Martin. Seems to be very popular.Heard of Behan, but-sorry-I'm from Germany. Is anybody aware of this special group, singing this song? There was a male lead singer.And the refrain were done by more singers with characteristic clear voice of a lady singer. Sounded a little bit "hysterical".(This is not meant pejorative). |
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04 Jul 13 - 01:28 PM (#3533789) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Irish song From: GUEST,kenny I think it may have been "The Ludlows". I had a recording of them singing it on a compilation CD a year or so ago. I think "The Johnstons" may have recorded it too. The tune is often played as a waltz, with the title "Thank God We're Surrounded By Water". |
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04 Jul 13 - 01:33 PM (#3533791) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Irish song From: zozimus Hi Leadbelly, You must be listening to The Ludlow Trio,a Folk Group from the 60s. When the record was made in 1966, Jim McCann was in the group, along with Margaret O' Brien and Sean Loughran .Their recording of "The Sea Around Us" by Dominic Behan became the first Folk record to get to number one in the Irish charts. It is interesting to note that the Dubliners, which Jim McCann later joined at some time, also released the song as a single at the same time, but the clean-shaven image of the Folk Group aws what people wanted at the time. It took a long time for our Beardy Bousies to get into the charts. |
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04 Jul 13 - 01:36 PM (#3533793) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Irish song From: GUEST,kenny "The Ludlows" version is on iTunes, [ in among a total of 29 versions ] - you can play an excerpt using the "preview" feature, and that should help you decide whether or not that's the version you're looking for. |
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04 Jul 13 - 01:57 PM (#3533796) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Irish song From: Leadbelly Hi, kenny and zozimus. Kenny, you made it. By reading the name "The Johnstons" memory comes back to me! I heard this group long time ago on german radio about folk music. Spontaneously, I liked the tune and lively performance. Now, I'm going to listen to them and "The Ludlows" |
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04 Jul 13 - 02:37 PM (#3533811) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Irish song From: Leadbelly Oh my dear, For some seconds I just listened to the version of "The Ludlows". And indeed, they are the group I was looking for! Obviously, "The Johnstons" presented another song within the programme I was listening to many years ago. In so far, 10 point to both Mudcaters kenny and zozimus. Thank you so much, Manfred from Germany |
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04 Jul 13 - 04:15 PM (#3533842) Subject: Lyr Add: THE SEA AROUND US (Dominic Behan) From: Jim McLean THE SEA AROUND US (Dominic Behan) They say that the lakes of Killarney are fair That no stream like the Liffey can ever compare If it's water you want you'll find nothing more rare Than the stuff they make down by the ocean The sea, oh the sea is the gradh geal mo croide Long may it stay between England and me It's a sure guarantee that some hour we'll be free Oh! thank God we're surrounded by water Tom Moore made his waters meet fame and renown A great lover of anything dressed in a crown In brandy the bandy old Saxon he'd drown But throw ne'er a one into the ocean The sea, oh the sea is the gradh geal mo croide Long may it stay between England and me It's a sure guarantee that some hour we'll be free Oh! thank God we're surrounded by water The Scots have their whisky, the Welsh have their speech And their poets are paid about ten pence a week Provided no hard words on England they speak Oh Lord! What a price for devotion! The sea, oh the sea is the gradh geal mo croide Long may it stay between England and me It's a sure guarantee that some hour we'll be free Oh! thank God we're surrounded by water The Danes came to Ireland with nothing to do But dream of the plundered old Irish they slew "Yeh will in your Vikings", said Brian Boru And threw them back in the ocean The sea, oh the sea is the gradh geal mo croide Long may it stay between England and me It's a sure guarantee that some hour we'll be free Oh! thank God we're surrounded by water Two foreign old monarchs in battle did join Each wanting their head on the back of a coin If the Irish had sense they'd drown both in the Boyne And Partition throw into the ocean The sea, oh the sea is the gradh geal mo croide Long may it stay between England and me It's a sure guarantee that some hour we'll be free Oh! thank God we're surrounded by water |
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04 Jul 13 - 05:18 PM (#3533866) Subject: Lyr Add: DOLLYMOUNT STRAND (Shay Healy) From: Noreen Thanks for this, Manfred- not thought of heard this for many's the year. What did spring to mind is a 'version' of it which I can hear being sung by the Dubliners- Google tells me it was recorded by Paddy Reilly, written by Shay Healy: DOLLYMOUNT STRAND On Dollymount Strand on a cold Winter's night I put on the handbrake and switched out the light. I looked at me bird and says I "Are you right?" Meself and the Architect's daughter... Chorus' But the sea, oh the sea, it crept up on me, And the water was rising up quite rapidly. Says I to the mot "Get your hand off me knee Can't you see we're surrounded by water?" I turned on the ignition and put it in gear: Could I get it moving? Not so, that I fear, Not if I was there for the next bloody year. There was sand in the old carburettor... With water the car was so filled to the brim, I said to the mot there "The chances are slim So let's get them off, sure we'll both have to swim!" So I leapt out the window and started... So if ever you go down to Dollymount Strand Make sure that the tide's out and everything's grand, For a bird in the bush is worth two in the sand Regardless of what you are after!... :) |
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03 Jan 24 - 06:55 PM (#4194840) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Sea Around Us (Dominic Behan) From: GUEST I have not heard the song, but part of it was in "Borstal Boy" by Brendan Behan |