hello

i have just had a quick scan through this thread and really enjoyed it. i live in derbyshire england and my parents (now in their eighties) are both from county galway. i play guitar and sing a little and was looking for lyrics and chords for spancil hill and this thread is great.

i used to go to ireland every year in the 60s and work on my uncles farm and for play mates i had the keanes of caheristrane who were just across a couple of fields, so we used to have a few barn dances and ceilis where all the keanes would play and sing and that got me into mixing irish music with the beatles and stones when i got my first cheap guitar at 15 in 1963. i was over there again last month but for a sad occasion that was my uncles funeral

well i am going to have a bit more of a browse round this website

cheers

mikey walsh