Subject: RE: Lyr add: Delirium Tremens (with RealAudio) From: Paddy Date: 27 Nov 98 - 03:22 PM Mudcatters
BB - Harpic is definitely a toilet cleaner.
Smithwick (Smithick) is a beer brewed in Kilkenny, Ireland. Alision - I enjoy explaining Christy's songs, its just my quirky sense of humour. Glad to be able to contribute. Paddy |
Subject: RE: Lyr add: Delirium Tremens (with RealAudio) From: Brian Hoskin Date: 27 Nov 98 - 10:47 AM Smithwick is an Irish beer, It is a bitter, which I believe is brewed by either Guinness or Murphys. I think the confusion here comes from the fact that it is pronounced smeth-ick - or, when sung with an Irish accent, schmiddick. |
Subject: RE: Lyr add: Delirium Tremens (with RealAudio) From: Benjamin Bodhra/nai/ Date: 27 Nov 98 - 08:35 AM During Christy's visit to Australia last year, he changed the Child of Prague reference to Michael Flatley. We also in the spirit of political upto dated-ness(?) rewrote his last verse from an Australian point of view (please forgive us!!!!) I dreamt of Timmy Fisher, and Johnny Howard too, and the things that we got up to, but I'm not gonna tell you. Then I dreamt I was in a jacuzzi with that Hanson woman again, and then I knew I'd never ever ever drink again. Tim Fisher is the leader of the National Party, very conservative. He is Deputy Prime Minister in the Conservative Coalition currently in power. John Howard is the leader of the Liberal Party, the other part of the conservative Coalition. He is also PM. Hanson is Pauline Hanson, leader of the One Nation Party, ultra conservatives, who came to prominecne during the recent federal elections and did not fare very well, but who have managed to create a massive amount of publicity around the concepts of racism, single mothers, jobs etc. Back to the original words, Schmiddick is a beer in Ireland, and I have always thought that the Harpic refers to Harp Lager, for reasons of rhyming and taste. Smithwick could either be a mistranscription or I have a nagging feeling it's an English beer. Stag is yet another beer. BB |
Subject: RE: Lyr add: Delirium Tremens (with RealAudio) From: skw@ Date: 27 Nov 98 - 02:52 AM Thanks a lot, Paddy! What's wrong with explaining a Christy Moore poem? It's certainly helped me. - Susanne |
Subject: RE: Lyr add: Delirium Tremens (with RealAudio) From: Paddy Date: 26 Nov 98 - 04:29 PM Skw@,
Most homes in Ireland had some or all of the following items of decoration during the sixties:
Portrait photo of JFK (along with Jackie, usually)
Picture of the Sacred Heart usually with a small red lamp lighting in front of it
Statue of the Child of Prague (a religious icon)
Frank Patterson is a serious Irish tenor who would not normally be associated with any version of Spancil Hill.
Harpic is a trade name for a toilet cleaner (!). Surely the last refuge of the drinker . . . I see Alice Glenn has been replaced by Maggie Thatcher in this version. I feel like a Latin scholar explaining the classical references in a John Donne poem... Paddy |
Subject: Lyr Add: DELIRIUM TREMENS (Christy Moore) From: skw@ Date: 26 Nov 98 - 03:11 AM Here's a later version Christy sang on 'Live at the Point'. Quite interesting to compare the two. He seems to have found some new targets ... Why did he change the whole third verse? And who is Frank Patterson, anyway? - Susanne Refrain
I dreamt a dream the other night, Jesus, I couldn't sleep a wink
Well I swore upon the bible that I'd never again touch a drop
I dreamt I was in ecstasy in heaven, and in agony in hell
One last question: Who is the Child of Prague? |
Subject: RE: Lyr add: Delirium Tremens (with RealAudio) From: Paddy Date: 15 Nov 98 - 03:33 PM Joe Delighted to help you out as you helped me recently
Alice Glenn was a Fine Gael* TD** whose reason for inclusion in this song was her opposition to selling contraceptives to the Irish people, except on prescription.
As far as I know she is still alive but not contributing to pubic life.
*Fine Gael (Fin-a Gael) - A right wing political party conceived without artificial intervention) from one side of the Irish Civil war (circa 1922).
See also the reference to "Frenchies... to scuts in Fianna Fail".
The song is a social comment on issues peculiar to Irish society at the time the song was written. Paddy |
Subject: RE: Lyr add: Delirium Tremens (with RealAudio) From: Joe Offer Date: 15 Nov 98 - 03:09 AM So, who's Alice Glenn??? -Joe Offer- |
Subject: Lyr Add: DELIRIUM TREMENS (Christy Moore) From: Ezio Date: 14 Nov 98 - 03:32 AM PLAY CLICK TO LISTEN
DELIRIUM TREMENS(Christy Moore)
I dreamt a dream the other night I couldn't sleep a wink Chorus Goodbye to the Port and Brandy, to the Vodka and the Stag, Well I swore upon the bible I'd never touch a drop. Chorus I dreamt that Mr. Haughey had recaptured Crossmaglen Chorus I dreamt of Nell McCafferty and Mary Kenny too Chorus Sung by Christie Moore (Album: Ordinary Man)
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