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Lyr ADD: Lambeg Drummer (Mickey MacConnell) Related threads: Lyr Add: The Ballad of Lidil and Aldi (MacConnell) (43) Lyr Add: The Politician Song (Mickey MacConnell) (14) Lyr ADD: Follow The Flag by Mickey MacConnell (8) Lyr Add: Supermarket Wine (Mickey MacConnell) (24) Lyr ADD: Peter Pan and Me (Mickey MacConnell) (22) |
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Subject: mickey McConnell's Lambeg Drummer From: GUEST,jim Date: 11 Sep 02 - 12:21 AM Does anyone know the words to the Lambeg Drummer by Mickey McConnell? Does anyone have an address or Email for him, or for Frank Harte for that matter? (Frank is the only person I've heard sing the song) |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: mickey McConnell's Lambeg Drummer From: Murray MacLeod Date: 11 Sep 02 - 03:19 AM Mickey has been known to post here from time to time, his Mudcat name is "chordstrangler". I don't have his email address but you can contact his brother at cormac.mcconnell@ibec.ie Murray |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: mickey McConnell's Lambeg Drummer From: Jim Dixon Date: 13 Sep 02 - 01:47 PM I found out that the correct spelling is "MacConnell" and that "The Lambeg Drummer" appears on his album "Joined Up Writing" which is described here. The notes also explain what a Lambeg drum is. No lyrics, though. Murray: Are you sure we're talking about the same person? |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: mickey McConnell's Lambeg Drummer From: Murray MacLeod Date: 13 Sep 02 - 03:02 PM Jim,we are certainly talking about the same Mickey. He has two brothers, Cormac, a journalist, and Cathal, a flautist, singer and bon viveur. Maybe the email I gave was for a different Cormac. Try cormac@clarefm.ie No idea if it is still a current address, but it certainly is (or was) for Mickey's brother Cormac. Murray |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: mickey McConnell's Lambeg Drummer From: chordstrangler Date: 13 Sep 02 - 05:35 PM Dear Jim, Mickey MacConnell aka "chordstrangler" here. My e-mail address is mmacconnell@eircom.net and if you send me your e-mail address I would be delighted to send the lyrics on to you. Best wishes, Mickey |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: mickey McConnell's Lambeg Drummer From: Susanne (skw) Date: 14 Sep 02 - 04:05 AM Mickey, would you mind posting the lyrics here, for all of us? I gather, by the way, this isn't the same song as 'The Little Drummer Boy' (which starts "I'm the minister for justice in this sad divided land")? I've only ever heard it sung by Iain MacKintosh, and he never recorded it. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: mickey McConnell's Lambeg Drummer From: Susanne (skw) Date: 16 Sep 02 - 07:10 PM Refresh |
Subject: Lyr Add: LAMBEG DRUMMER (Mickey MacConnell) From: Stewie Date: 14 Jun 09 - 09:33 PM LAMBEG DRUMMER (Mickey MacConnell) I met her on a far Greek isle, Our accents Irish, a glance, a smile This girl I could not love at home, I loved in Greece and later, Rome On through France and the dust of Spain, Christ, I'll never love like that again All through that long grape-picking summer Now she's the wife of a Lambeg drummer And she touched my cheek in Brittany 'What a shame you're Mick, not Sam', said she 'Or Stewart, Cecil, Ian, Rob, 'Or Billy, Ivan, Jack or Bob 'You're locked inside some Fenian dream 'You long for things that might have been 'But let's not waste what's left of summer 'Before I wed my Lambeg drummer' Sometimes I'd watch her while she'd sleep From firelight soft to shadow deep And I'd wonder why Cupid's dart Must miss the head to wound the heart And I knew it all too soon would end Two hearts not lost, just out on lend. And one day I'd reclaim mine from her And set hers free, for her Lambeg drummer And we wandered a deserted beach Though I held her hand she was out of reach Side by side, but both alone As we thought about the news from home And I knew 'twas time for letting go Of this sweet and most beloved foe For her ears were tuned to a tribal thunder That called her home to her Lambeg drummer In a drab Dutch town, we said goodbye I had to hitch, she chose to fly 'Twas only as she turned to go That I told her what she had to know That had she been Mary, Breege or Kate We'd have walked together out the airport gate And I'd never more be parted from her By time or tide or a Lambeg drummer. Well I watched the Orange Twelfth parade I was half impressed and half dismayed And there I saw the girl I loved All hatted, sashed, bemedalled, gloved More lovely than she'd ever been And she was Orange and I was Green Her love outblazed a Spanish summer That's squandered now on a Lambeg drummer And had she been Mary, Breege or Kate We'd have walked together out the airport gate And I'd never more be parted from her By time or tide or a Lambeg drummer Source: transcription from Mickey MacConnell 'Joined Up Writing' --Stewie. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lambeg Drummer (Mickey MacConnell) From: Joe Offer Date: 29 Apr 20 - 11:40 PM refresh - needs research |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lambeg Drummer (Mickey MacConnell) From: GUEST,Martin Ryan Date: 01 May 20 - 05:34 AM Hi Joe - what did you want to know? Regards |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lambeg Drummer (Mickey MacConnell) From: Tattie Bogle Date: 01 May 20 - 07:44 AM This may explain some of it, Joe! Lambeg Drum I would take Mickey's song to be satirical. (He who wrote the Aldi and Lidl song too!) |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lambeg Drummer (Mickey MacConnell) From: Stewie Date: 02 May 20 - 11:25 PM I can't see anything satirical about it. It is a straightforward tale of unrequited love and a homeland divided by religious bigotry. She let him know where he stood, but he gave his heart regardless. --Stewie. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lambeg Drummer (Mickey MacConnell) From: Joe Offer Date: 03 May 20 - 01:49 AM Now I gotta remember what question I had... |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lambeg Drummer (Mickey MacConnell) From: Joe Offer Date: 22 Jun 20 - 06:31 PM Here are lyrics to lots of Mickey MacConnell songs: http://www.mickeymacconnell.com/Page%2012.htm |
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