Chords Req: Rock On, Rockall (Brian Warfield)

Subject: Music Req: Rockall
From: R. Driscoll
Date: 26 Feb 99 - 08:29 PM

Looking for chords for Irish song called Rockall or Rock-On Rockall. Opening line: "Oh the empire is finished, no foreign lands to seize..." Anyone know it? Thanks.

Subject: RE: Music Req: Rockall
From: Philippa
Date: 27 Feb 99 - 04:58 PM

a Wolfe Tone song? (the 20th c.ballad group, not the 18th century man) - just a nudge to help someone else get the words. 'Rockall' is a disputed bit of rock between Ireland and Britain.

Subject: RE: Music Req: Rockall
From: Penny
Date: 28 Feb 99 - 03:54 PM

I seem to remember having heard something in this line, the joke of which was that "Rock all" sounds rude, and it was used as a sort of punctuation at the end of lines. That, taken with the first line R. Driscoll remembers makes me wonder if this isn't another Flanders and Swan piece. The rock is much further out in the Atlantic than between Ireland and Britain would suggest, and is also disputed by Iceland and possibly whoever owns the Faroes). It is tiny, regularly washed over by storm waves, and incapable of supporting habitation. Greenpeace did occupy it a while back. The arguments do seem ridiculous, hence the attitude of the song, but the rock is all that can be seen of what is actually a piece of submerged continental crust, home to quantities of fish, and, the crux of the matter, oil.

Best wishes, Penny

Subject: RE: Music Req: Rockall
From: MudGuard
Date: 01 Mar 99 - 03:04 AM

The Faroes are owned by Denmark - if my memory does not lie to me! But on the other hand, the Faroes send their own team to the European soccer championship (at least to the qualifications)
Andreas