Ladies and gentlemen. The organisers have asked me to point out that they've secured sponsorship for the Drumcree MegaSession ©, which means that its future is secure for the next five years!
(Huge cheer from the assembled crowds.)
The event is due to be called The Buckfast Session from this point onwards.
(Huge cheer.)
I've written this wee number in their honour. You might recognise the "tune" such as it is!
How's it goin' there everybody
From Lurgan, Kilvergan, Maghery, Muckery and Magheralin
Here we are in North Armagh
Havin' ourselves a helluva fleadh
There's the twin cathedrals and Oxford Island
Or jump in the car for a race to Rathfriland
AE Russell and Eamonn Holmes
Gloria Hunniford and the boul' Wolfe Tones
(The football team, not the band
Whose stuff I find a little bland)
Oh Buckfast Session
Buckfast Buckfast Buckfast Buckfast Session
Everybody needs a break
It's better than a bat up the bake
Some head off to exotic places
Others go to the Galway Races
Eamonn goes to the nearest chippy
He likes his fish all greasy-drippy
A cousin of mine goes on safari
But he says he's seen nothin' as big as Lupari
Summer comes around each year
We go there … they come here
Some like to March in the July procession
But I always go to the Buckfast Session
Oh Buckfast Session
Buckfast Buckfast Buckfast Buckfast Session
I always leave on a Thursday night
With me tent and me groundsheet rolled up tight
I like to hit the Buckfast sesh
With a bloody big lump of home-grown hesh
Last year I went through all kinds of hell
After I bought a deal from Derek Bell
I don't know what he cut it with
But it really rolled a lethal spliff
I spent ages chattin' up one of the Corrs
Before I realised it was the ugly brawr
And I ended up singing with Enya Clannad
Who comes from a spot not far from Fanad
In the background there was synthesisers, atomisers, pints of cider
Oh Buckfast Session
Buckfast Buckfast Buckfast Buckfast Session
The multitudes they flock and throng
To hear the music and the songs
Brian Downey, Dan O'Donnell
Snowy White and Maur' O'Connell
Spider blowing, Ringo drumming
Sinead's singing, Brush Shiels strumming
Luv Bug, Clancies, Lizzy, Ash
Oul Rock Stewart singin' The Sash
And me, of course, I never learn
Always get up and do a turn
Keeps me mind active, I s'pose!
Oh Buckfast Session
Buckfast Buckfast Buckfast Buckfast Session
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