The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #103544   Message #2115738
Posted By: gnu
31-Jul-07 - 01:29 PM
Thread Name: Obit: Tommy Makem has Passed Away (1932-2007)
Subject: RE: Tommy [Makem] is bad off
Kendall. That's a hoot! Minds me of the intro to the song "God Bless England" on, my memory can't be trusted, but, the album "Hearty and Hellish", which sites an instance of a lad throwing a drink... well, at least an empty glass. ;-) (And, no, don't anyone bother to get pissy about me slurring the Irish... it's a joke.)

Similarly, I saw Tommy and Liam one night in North Sydney (pretty sure, again memory fails), Nova Scotia, when a fellow called out from the back of the audience for that song. Liam saved the fellow's life when he bellowed out for the three or four lads bearing down on this poor fellow to stop and listen. The song was palyed. Later, I heard that the fellow drank for the rest of the night for free, courtesy of the lads that nearly beat him up!