Lyr Req: The Seven Irish Boys

Subject: Lyr Req: The Seven Irish Boys
From: GUEST,essteess
Date: 19 Mar 07 - 08:16 AM

Anyone have, or know where one can get, the lyrics to "The Seven Irish Boys," as sung by Tony Small with the trio Aengus?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Seven Irish Boys
From: GUEST
Date: 19 Mar 07 - 03:05 PM

Don't know Tony Small ot Aengus.
Do you mean 'Seven Irishmen'?Group of Irish immigrants in New York are made drunk by an officer recruiting soldiers - possibly fror the Spanish American war.
Starts
All you who love the shamrock green attend both young and old,
I feel it is my duty these lines for to unfold
Concerning those brave emigrants who lately sailed away
To join their friends and relatives all in Americay.
If it is' I'll post it.
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Seven Irish Boys
From: GUEST,essteess
Date: 19 Mar 07 - 03:33 PM

Thanks for the reply, Jim. I believe the plot/theme is the same to both songs, but the version I was looking for starts out very differently than what you posted, I'm afraid.
I reckon I can hunker down and try to transcribe the words off of the album, but although Tony Small has a fine voice his phrasing and articulation aren't the clearest to my ears.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Seven Irish Boys
From: Peace
Date: 19 Mar 07 - 03:56 PM

There is mention of "Seven Irish Boys"


Go to Download Liner Notes and see page 3 of 8. Just a paragraph about it. It's a pdf and I don't know how to copy that stuff.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Seven Irish Boys
From: GUEST,essteess
Date: 19 Mar 07 - 05:08 PM

Hey that's it! Tony Small uses a different tune (which I prefer to the one on the recording you linked me to), but those are the lyrics, dead one.
Many thanks!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Seven Irish Boys
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 24 Mar 07 - 01:48 AM

THE SEVEN IRISH BOYS appears on Dick Cameron's album "Irish Folk Songs and Ballads," Smithsonian Folkways #FW-03516_109. You can hear a sound sample on this page, from which I transcribed this much:

As seven of our Irish boys walked down through George's Street,
One of those damn Yankee dogs they happened for to meet.
He promised them employment in a brickyard near the town,
And then he did induce them all their names for to give down.

He brought them to an alehouse where they got drinks galore....

Nearly the same lyrics are already posted in another thread titled Lyr Add: interp of 'seven Irishmen'