Re: What songs WILL you happily sing on St Pat's ?
A little ditty of my own composition. The chorus goes like this:
Hallelujah, I'm not in the bar
Hallelujah, I'm not in the bar
There are no losers here, drinking too much booze
There are no frat boys here, puking on my shoes
Hallelujah, I'm not in the bar.
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Ah God Bless 'Em all - Tis a grand selection from the days before we knew about those horrible things that we read about nowadays, or should I say we heard whispers, but kept them to ourselves.
Re: What songs WILL you happily sing on St Pat's ?
I quite like John Martyn's Over the Rainbow. Nice bass line too. But you can't beat Judy Garland's version in the film, her phrasing is absolutly imaculate. Very delicate and so mature for such a young girl. I can't belive that MGM wanted to cut it.
Re: What songs WILL you happily sing on St Pat's ?
Actually the nice man on Radio2 this morning played Don MacLean's recording of that well-known Percy French song "The Mountains of Mourne", sung and accompanied very simply and well, and if you leave out the more commonly-found overdone emotionalism it's a very fine and witty song.
Re: What songs WILL you happily sing on St Pat's ?
Pete, I always get a chuckle when I sing Mourne. How can anyone melancholy that up? It's so wry, what with the ladies not wearing tops to their dresses and having shapes nature never designed. What a riot.
Re: What songs WILL you happily sing on St Pat's ?
See, now that I'll sing happily anytime.
...but nobody wants to hear that today. Today, it's all Vaudeville pre-paid. I'm like a cell phone at a convenience store. Pre-paid green jazz hands and schmaltz, sold by the minute.
Re: What songs WILL you happily sing on St Pat's ?
Shame on you, Pure Drop. Don't you know that the Lapps are called "Sami" now? So your ditty now goes (a little more respectfully)
Give Ireland back to the Irish
Give Samiland back to the Sami
Give China back to the Chinese
And Yoko back to the avant garde art community from whence she came all these many years ago
Okay, the meter gets a little distorted, I'll admit, but I was never much of a poet.
Re: What songs WILL you happily sing on St Pat's ?
But then again, GP asked for a list, and no one has given him one. So here is a list of what I sang (or someone else in the group sang) tonight:
I’ll Tell Me Ma
I’ll Take You Home Again Kathleen
City of Chicago
Nancy Spain
Green Grow the Rashes-O
Streets of London
When Irish Eyes are Smiling
Wild Mountain Thyme
Galway Girl
Whiskey in the Jar
Danny Boy
Star of the County Down
The Fields of Athenry
Four Green Fields
Killkelly
Clare to Here
Black is the Color
Molly Malone
Ride On
The Wild Rover
The Black Velvet Band
Re: What songs WILL you happily sing on St Pat's ?
Ah, Clare to Here......
....reminds me of a gig I did many years ago, St Pat's Night, down in Kent. The band, put together for the night was 2 Scots, a 2nd generation Hungarian immigrant, and myself; 2 fiddles, guitar and bass.
We didn't have an Irish frontman, the big mistake, the two fiddlers had played a lot of ITM between them and sounded pretty good, I thought, but somewhere along the line we just didn't fit the required quotiant for the first generation immigrants we were playing for, we weren't the music from the old country that they thought they remembered; my electric bass, particularly, seemed to them R'n'R and not whatever they wanted or expected.
And then one of the Scots sang "Clare to Here"; that was just about the icing on the cake. The audience didn't get McTell's sympathetic take on the tale of a young lad far from home, certainly not in that accent.
And then we came out of the gig and it had been snowing hard, and we had to drive back to London.
Engraved on my memory it is.
Oh, I did sing "Wild Rover" last night, not the Dubliners version, the old one where the first line melody is much like "If I were a Blackbird" and there's a little catch on the "No" of "No, nay, never," and no thumping bass and handclapping - caught a few people out, they're not used to it being a sad contemplative song.
Re: What songs WILL you happily sing on St Pat's ?
I sang The Jug Of Punch to the gentlefolk in a care home, and furthermore sang The Blarney Stone, assisted by the amiable flute player who brandished wee signs on cue: Kerry, Clare, Wicklow, etc. to assist the crowd in remembering the chorus. Others in the band sang some from Al Brown's list, and indeed we're all quite proud of ourselves.
What songs WILL you happily sing on St Pat's ?
What songs WILL you happily sing on St Pat's ?
Come on now, give us a list.....
# Posted on March 17th 2010 by Guernsey Pete
Re: What songs WILL you happily sing on St Pat's ?
A little ditty of my own composition. The chorus goes like this:
Hallelujah, I'm not in the bar
Hallelujah, I'm not in the bar
There are no losers here, drinking too much booze
There are no frat boys here, puking on my shoes
Hallelujah, I'm not in the bar.
# Posted on March 17th 2010 by Jon Kiparsky
Re: What songs WILL you happily sing on St Pat's ?
I only sing at weddings.
# Posted on March 17th 2010 by Gringo
Re: What songs WILL you happily sing on St Pat's ?
I'll sing HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my wife.
# Posted on March 17th 2010 by shanty
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I'm singing what Jon's singing.
# Posted on March 17th 2010 by Hup
Re: What songs WILL you happily sing on St Pat's ?
Jack Judge & Harry Williams 1912 classic :
'It's a long, long way to Tipperary'
# Posted on March 17th 2010 by lisaniska
Re: What songs WILL you happily sing on St Pat's ?
Somewhere Over the Rainbow and Fats Waller's Blue Eyes.
# Posted on March 17th 2010 by llig leahcim
Re: What songs WILL you happily sing on St Pat's ?
I only sing in the shower.
# Posted on March 17th 2010 by fiddlerdan
Re: What songs WILL you happily sing on St Pat's ?
I gather you do not intend to take a shower today.
# Posted on March 17th 2010 by Janek
Re: What songs WILL you happily sing on St Pat's ?
I have one word for you gilly
BOLLARDS!
# Posted on March 17th 2010 by mcknowall
Re: What songs WILL you happily sing on St Pat's ?
"You should learn not to make personal remarks," Alice said with some severity; "it's very rude."
# Posted on March 17th 2010 by llig leahcim
Re: What songs WILL you happily sing on St Pat's ?
I hope that's the John Martyn version, llig.
# Posted on March 17th 2010 by strayaway
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Ah God Bless 'Em all - Tis a grand selection from the days before we knew about those horrible things that we read about nowadays, or should I say we heard whispers, but kept them to ourselves.
# Posted on March 17th 2010 by Free Reed
Re: What songs WILL you happily sing on St Pat's ?
I quite like John Martyn's Over the Rainbow. Nice bass line too. But you can't beat Judy Garland's version in the film, her phrasing is absolutly imaculate. Very delicate and so mature for such a young girl. I can't belive that MGM wanted to cut it.
# Posted on March 17th 2010 by llig leahcim
Re: What songs WILL you happily sing on St Pat's ?
What's so personal about a short post on a quay or a ship for securing a rope?
# Posted on March 17th 2010 by Jon Kiparsky
Re: What songs WILL you happily sing on St Pat's ?
I was brushing up Ain't Misbehavin', love the Crosby version.
# Posted on March 17th 2010 by john knoss
Re: What songs WILL you happily sing on St Pat's ?
Actually the nice man on Radio2 this morning played Don MacLean's recording of that well-known Percy French song "The Mountains of Mourne", sung and accompanied very simply and well, and if you leave out the more commonly-found overdone emotionalism it's a very fine and witty song.
# Posted on March 17th 2010 by Guernsey Pete
Re: What songs WILL you happily sing on St Pat's ?
I will be singing whatever they pay me enough to sing.
Molly Maloon: $5
Danny Bye: $6
Irish Eyes: $5
Tora Tora Tora!: $5
And so on. You get the idea.
# Posted on March 17th 2010 by Piece
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Tora Tora Tora?!? "Over in Hawaii, many years ago..."
# Posted on March 17th 2010 by SWFL Fiddler
Re: What songs WILL you happily sing on St Pat's ?
Pete, I always get a chuckle when I sing Mourne. How can anyone melancholy that up? It's so wry, what with the ladies not wearing tops to their dresses and having shapes nature never designed. What a riot.
# Posted on March 17th 2010 by SWFL Fiddler
Re: What songs WILL you happily sing on St Pat's ?
See, now that I'll sing happily anytime.
...but nobody wants to hear that today. Today, it's all Vaudeville pre-paid. I'm like a cell phone at a convenience store. Pre-paid green jazz hands and schmaltz, sold by the minute.
# Posted on March 17th 2010 by SWFL Fiddler
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I only "sing" when the gaffer wants the pub cleared.
# Posted on March 17th 2010 by Steve Shaw
Re: What songs WILL you happily sing on St Pat's ?
Anything I would sing on any other day. Or not.
# Posted on March 17th 2010 by Bob himself
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"I'm Bringing Sexy Back" by Justin Timberlake. What else?
# Posted on March 17th 2010 by Jimmy B
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Last time I sung in public, one of the men in the audience collapsed on the floor and we had to call an ambulance....................
# Posted on March 17th 2010 by JosephC
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Whelk Meet Again
# Posted on March 17th 2010 by Sugarfoot Jack
Re: What songs WILL you happily sing on St Pat's ?
The Paul McCartney ditty:
Give Ireland back to the Irish
Give Lapland back to the Laps
Give China back to the Chinese
And Yoko back to
# Posted on March 17th 2010 by NEW Pure Drop® Ear Canal Oil
Re: What songs WILL you happily sing on St Pat's ?
I am not planning to sing any songs today.
# Posted on March 17th 2010 by fauxcelt
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This week I have been mainly singing songs about whiting.
# Posted on March 17th 2010 by MacCruiskeen
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Why? Are you involved in cleaning shoes under the sea? (See llig's comment above, re "Alice").
# Posted on March 17th 2010 by Ebor_fiddler
Re: What songs WILL you happily sing on St Pat's ?
Shame on you, Pure Drop. Don't you know that the Lapps are called "Sami" now? So your ditty now goes (a little more respectfully)
Give Ireland back to the Irish
Give Samiland back to the Sami
Give China back to the Chinese
And Yoko back to the avant garde art community from whence she came all these many years ago
Okay, the meter gets a little distorted, I'll admit, but I was never much of a poet.
# Posted on March 18th 2010 by Jon Kiparsky
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I sing all songs happily on Saint Paddy's Day! It's all good!
# Posted on March 18th 2010 by AlBrown
Re: What songs WILL you happily sing on St Pat's ?
But then again, GP asked for a list, and no one has given him one. So here is a list of what I sang (or someone else in the group sang) tonight:
I’ll Tell Me Ma
I’ll Take You Home Again Kathleen
City of Chicago
Nancy Spain
Green Grow the Rashes-O
Streets of London
When Irish Eyes are Smiling
Wild Mountain Thyme
Galway Girl
Whiskey in the Jar
Danny Boy
Star of the County Down
The Fields of Athenry
Four Green Fields
Killkelly
Clare to Here
Black is the Color
Molly Malone
Ride On
The Wild Rover
The Black Velvet Band
# Posted on March 18th 2010 by AlBrown
Re: What songs WILL you happily sing on St Pat's ?
Ah, Clare to Here......
....reminds me of a gig I did many years ago, St Pat's Night, down in Kent. The band, put together for the night was 2 Scots, a 2nd generation Hungarian immigrant, and myself; 2 fiddles, guitar and bass.
We didn't have an Irish frontman, the big mistake, the two fiddlers had played a lot of ITM between them and sounded pretty good, I thought, but somewhere along the line we just didn't fit the required quotiant for the first generation immigrants we were playing for, we weren't the music from the old country that they thought they remembered; my electric bass, particularly, seemed to them R'n'R and not whatever they wanted or expected.
And then one of the Scots sang "Clare to Here"; that was just about the icing on the cake. The audience didn't get McTell's sympathetic take on the tale of a young lad far from home, certainly not in that accent.
And then we came out of the gig and it had been snowing hard, and we had to drive back to London.
Engraved on my memory it is.
Oh, I did sing "Wild Rover" last night, not the Dubliners version, the old one where the first line melody is much like "If I were a Blackbird" and there's a little catch on the "No" of "No, nay, never," and no thumping bass and handclapping - caught a few people out, they're not used to it being a sad contemplative song.
# Posted on March 18th 2010 by Guernsey Pete
Re: What songs WILL you happily sing on St Pat's ?
I sang She moved through the fair, and made a right pig's ear of it
# Posted on March 20th 2010 by suesinger
Re: What songs WILL you happily sing on St Pat's ?
I sang The Jug Of Punch to the gentlefolk in a care home, and furthermore sang The Blarney Stone, assisted by the amiable flute player who brandished wee signs on cue: Kerry, Clare, Wicklow, etc. to assist the crowd in remembering the chorus. Others in the band sang some from Al Brown's list, and indeed we're all quite proud of ourselves.
# Posted on March 21st 2010 by oldstrings