Lyr Req: Sing an Irish Song

08 May 01 - 04:00 AM (#457661)
Subject: Sing an Irish Song
From: GUEST,kai

Hello all,

Please help me to find lyrics to "Sing an Irish Song". I heard it on The Merry Ploughboys CD "Live in Liffey" and understood only some words. In third (?) verse they sing about 1916 (something about GPO) and there are words like "...uniform we worn, a nation was reborn". In the chorus: "Sing an Irish song, and raise your glass to praise these days of old.." or something like it.

//kai

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14 May 01 - 09:08 PM (#462448)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sing an Irish Song
From: Jim Dixon

I found a song called "Sing an Old Irish Song," recorded by Daniel O'Donnell on the CD "Irish Collection," 1997. Other souces say it was written by Brendan Graham. I was unable to find the lyrics, but there are sound samples available at CDNOW.

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15 May 01 - 08:39 PM (#463246)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sing an Irish Song
From: Jim Dixon

Here's some interesting but possibly useless information:

This site, this site and this site mention a song called, "You Will Have to Sing an Irish Song (Where the Little Shamrock Grows)," sung by Nora Bayes in "Follies of 1908," which was the second of Florenz Ziegfeld's Follies.

This site and this site mention a song called "It Takes a Great Big Irish Heart To Sing an Irish Song," by Al Herman & Jack Glogau, 1915.

This site mentions a song called "Sing an Irish Song," recorded by The Barleycorn on "My Last Farewell."

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16 May 01 - 07:29 PM (#464247)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sing an Irish Song
From: wysiwyg

Good info for later searchers too.

(refresh)

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29 Apr 02 - 12:30 AM (#700180)
Subject: Lyr Add: SING AN IRISH SONG (Donal Cawley)
From: Jim Dixon

The Merry Ploughboys' album was called "Live by the Liffey."
I don't think the following web site existed when I first searched for this song nearly a year ago.
Copied from http://www.merryploughboys.com/ballad/2_01SIS.html

SING AN IRISH SONG
(Donal Cawley)

CHORUS: Sing an Irish song
And raise your glass to praise those days of old.
It's where our hearts belong.
So gather round as our songs and stories [unfold?]

There's couples dancing 'round
To the fiddle's merry sound.
She tingled just as she caught his eye,
And across the evening fields,
As darkness slowly steals,
The stars can hear a lover's sigh. CHORUS

The Gaels are on the seas.
There's hardship in the breeze.
Dan Lynch he's lying cold below.
I've left the county Clare.
The landlord paid my fare.
An exile from famine force to go. CHORUS

A man stood proud and bold
Outside the GPO.
The foreigner his gallant lads did tame.
His uniform we've worn.
A nation was reborn.
This man he set the fire aflame. CHORUS X2

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