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Lyr Req: Does Your Mother Come from Kimmage

jim troy 27 Sep 24 - 06:05 AM
Hrothgar 27 Sep 24 - 11:38 PM
Joe Offer 27 Sep 24 - 11:52 PM
John MacKenzie 28 Sep 24 - 04:25 AM
Thompson 28 Sep 24 - 06:03 AM
John MacKenzie 29 Sep 24 - 03:43 AM
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Subject: Lyr Req: Does Your Mother Come from Kimmage
From: jim troy
Date: 27 Sep 24 - 06:05 AM

Weekend of singing, in Killeen's, Luker's, Shannonbridge.
This one came up, no further lyrics other than these.
Our Deirdre remembers this much, from her Mother's singing, 60's.

( Do look in at Luker's, fine Distressed Décór, a treat to behold)

Does your mother come from Kimmage?
Did she bring you up on spinach?
There is a slow boat off to China dig me Jack.
On a sunny day in Galway
you can see right down the hallway
if it wasn’t for the plumbing at the back.

Thanks, Jimmy


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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Does Your Mother Come from Kimmage
From: Hrothgar
Date: 27 Sep 24 - 11:38 PM

Where the three lovely lassies came from?


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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Does Your Mother Come from Kimmage
From: Joe Offer
Date: 27 Sep 24 - 11:52 PM

One and the same, Hrothgar. It's a suburb, just southwest of Dublin. I remember singing a rollicking rendition of "Three Lovely Lasses" with three lovely octogenarian Irish nuns. They were so much fun, but they're all dead now.

I swear I've heard "Does Your Mother Come from Kimmage," but I haven't been able to find it again. I was with thirty Irish Mercy nuns this evening. I wish had thought to ask them. They love it when I ask about old Irish songs.

-Joe-


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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Does Your Mother Come from Kimmage
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 28 Sep 24 - 04:25 AM

The original source (of three lovely lassies)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uP_bDWJxdx4&list=RDuP_bDWJxdx4&start_radio=1


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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Does Your Mother Come from Kimmage
From: Thompson
Date: 28 Sep 24 - 06:03 AM

To Hell or to Kimmage, as Brendan Behan's father said when they were granted a nice Dublin Corporation house there after years in a tenement in the city centre.
Kimmage (just 15 minutes by bicycle from the GPO, generally considered the dead centre of Dublin) is now getting awfully gentrified.


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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Does Your Mother Come from Kimmage
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 29 Sep 24 - 03:43 AM

Kimmage

          Tune....Galway Bay

Oh the wind that blows from Gardner St to Kimmage
Is perfumed by the knackers as it blows
And the women on the pitheap picking cinders
Speak a language that the clergy do not know

If your ould man pays the rent for two weeks running
The garda will have questions without fail
And if he can't tell them where he got that money
They'll cart your poor old fella off to jail

Well some day I will go back again to Kimmage
Even if it's only at the closing of my mind
Just to watch the children beating up their grannies
And tripping up the crippled and the blind.


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