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Thread #108475   Message #2257958
Posted By: Gulliver
09-Feb-08 - 04:54 PM
Thread Name: Folk clubs - what is being sung
Subject: RE: Folk clubs - what is being sung
OK, it's not a folk club per se, but we have at least six "resident" singers and on average about eight floor singers at our Sunday afternoon session in the Liberties. All kinds of stuff gets done, depending on who turns up (last week we had a ton of Italian songs from visiting rugby fans), but the following have been cropping up on a regular basis over the past few months:

Ain't misbehavin' (Fats Waller)
All for me grog
Around the World (?)
As I roved out (Planxty version)
Bella Ciao or another Italian song
Country Roads or another John Denver song
Dublin in the Rare Old Times (Pete St. John)
Dicey Riley or I'll tell me ma
Dublin Ramble (Leo Maguire?)
Easy and slow
Eileen Oge (Percy French)
The finding of Moses (Zozimus)
Grace (Pete St. John)
Hand me down me bible (?)
High Noon (?)
Irish Molly (Cohen?)
Joe Hill (?)
Maggie (O'Casey version)
Maids when you're young
The Moonshiner (Delia Murphy?)
Morningtown Ride (Malvina Reynolds)
Night visiting song
Old Triangle (Brendan Behan)
Only our rivers run free (McConnell?)
Óró 'sé do bheatha abhaile (Pádraig Pearse)
Punch and Judy Man (Connell)
Raglan Road (Patrick Kavanagh)
Schooldays Over (Ewan McColl)
She likes a little bit in the morning
Some/any song about whiskey
Spancil Hill
Spanish Lady
Sullivan's John (Pecker Dunne)
The Galtee Mountain Boys or Girls of Mayo
Town I loved so well (Phil Coulter)
When You're Smiling
Wild Colonial Boy
Will You Go Lassie Go (McPeake family)
You Are My Sunshine or similar old-time

Don

ps, listening to great music on RTE tonight: South Wind, and then Ceilidh Night (senior ceilidh band competition from last year)