"Thank Heaven we are living in Rathgar...

In looking for something else I came across some hilarious lyrics of "Thank Heavens We Are Living in Rathgar", by Jimmy O'Dea from what must be at least 75 years ago - which someone dug out of the RTE archive and played on a Saturday morning show a couple of weekends back.

You have to read them pretending to hear a crackly recording of O'Dea speaking it in metre, with a very raa-ther posh vaudevillian WestBrit accent. Genius. And frightening how little some things have changed.

NOTE: 17 November 2006 -- About once a month I get an email asking me to send on these lyrics - and that the above, since removed, link to RTE's website now points to a recipe. If you Google Jimmy O'Dea and Rathgar, bizarrely, I come up on top. How to explain? Sources say that the estate of O'Dea is in some sort of legal wrangle including the IPR for the lyrics and songs. (Why is this not in the public domain at this point?) Kind of pathetic that a guy who's so little-known by people currently alive should be destined to fade into oblivion because of some legal fuckup. But that's just me."

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