Craigavon: song on the founding of the city.

Subject: Craigavon: song on the founding of the city.
From: Roddy
Date: 07 May 99 - 05:04 PM

Does anybody have the lyrics for this song. I heard it many years ago in Belfast, but it seems to have disappeared. The tune as I remember it was "As I was Going to Ballynure" Roddy

Subject: RE: Craigavon: song on the founding of the city.
From: Colm
Date: 07 May 99 - 09:46 PM

I remember this one. it had a chorus going - with a maringadoo aday - something. it was very pointed in its content at the time.I often wondered why it never got a wider listening. Colm

Subject: Craigavon
From: Roddy
Date: 09 May 99 - 09:31 AM

Does anyone have the lyrics and tune of this song ? Roddy

Subject: RE: Craigavon
From: Colm
Date: 09 May 99 - 10:05 PM

I remember that song, or one vey like it, being sung aroun=d the club circuit in Belfast many moons ago. Tony Mc Auley and another singer who specialised in close harmony with a black-haired girl - Maguire, I think - used to sing it. This duo were quite something in the 1960's, T.V., Radio, big gigs, the whole shebang. I wonder what hapened to them ? Colm

Subject: RE: Craigavon: song on the founding of the city.
From: Tony
Date: 10 May 99 - 09:13 PM

This was written by an Armagh teacher who regretted having done so. A mild man, an uncharacteristic fit of bitterness overtook him. Those who heard it and who knew him sang it without mentioning his name as author as it would have displeased him. Nonetheless, it's a most pointed - and accurate - commentary on the situation in Northern Ireland. As true now as it was thirty odd years ago. But, who has the words today ? Tony