Re: What's the song that you've tried the hardest to stay away from?
Got to be "The Green Fields Of France". I loved the song when I first heard a recording of Tony Callanan and Stocktons Wing away back (you figure out the year) but subsequent renditions at fleadhanna and sessions from every wannabe singer put me off the song for life. Anybody got the lyrics ?
Re: What's the song that you've tried the hardest to stay away from?
That would be Hell Awaits by Slayer. Like you, Strathfoyle, if I hear one more crappy rendition of this song at a fleadh or festival I will lose it.
Incidentally, Slayer play in E flat, which is were I believe Tommy Peoples got the idea....
I should go now.
Re: What's the song that you've tried the hardest to stay away from?
here we go, Strathfoyle:
oh how do you do, young willy mcbride
do you mind if i sit here down by your graveside
and rest for a while in the warm summer sun
i've been walking all day, and im nearly done
and i see by your gravestone you were only nineteen
when you joined the great falling in 1916
well i hope you died quick
and i hope you died clean
oh willy mcbride, was is it slow and obscene
[Chorus]
did they beat the drums slowly
did the play the fife lowly
did they sound the death march as they lowered you down
did the band play the last post and chorus
did the pipes play the flowers of the forest
and did you leave a wife or a sweetheart behind
in some loyal heart is your memory enshrined
and though you died back in 1916
to that loyal heart you're forever nineteen
or are you a stranger without even a name
forever enshrined behind some old glass pane
in an old photograph torn, tattered, and stained
and faded to yellow in a brown leather frame
[Chorus]
the sun shining down on these green fields of france
the warm wind blows gently and the red poppies dance
the trenches have vanished long under the plow
no gas, no barbed wire, no guns firing down
but here in this graveyard that's still no mans land
the countless white crosses in mute witness stand
till' man's blind indifference to his fellow man
and a whole generation were butchered and damned
[Chorus]
and i can't help but wonder oh willy mcbride
do all those who lie here know why they died
did you really believe them when they told you the cause
did you really believe that this war would end wars
well the suffering, the sorrow, the glory, the shame
the killing and dying it was all done in vain
oh willy mcbride it all happened again
and again, and again, and again, and again
Re: What's the song that you've tried the hardest to stay away from?
A minor point.The song isn't called "The Green Fields Of France" The title is "No Man's Land" and everybody gets the chorus wrong too.They don't play the Dead March as they lower you down,they play that on the way to the ceremony.The rifles fire o'er you as they lower you down.Stockton's Wing got it wrong.,I don't know why,the vocals on Eric Bogle's album are clear enough.According to them Willie's death may have been "slow and serene"Obscene is the mot juste.Does Eric get a royalty every time someone groans it out in a pub?
P.S. I've just discovered that Eric himself says that the words were changed by some character called Hannes Wader.Listen to the correct version sung by the composer herehttp://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/parton/2/noman.html
Re: What's the song that you've tried the hardest to stay away from?
Oh dear,I've just discovered the Hannes Wader is one of Eric's little jokes.The question remains,where did Stockton's Wing get their version from?Not from June Tabor,because she recorded the correct words.
Hannes Wader actually exists -- whether he is "a little joke" or not depends on your opinion of him. A pretty well-known (in Germany anyway) German "folk" / trad singer. I have a vague memory of playing at some festival in Germany where he was top-billing. Wouldn't surprise me at all if Wader has recorded a German language version of "No Man's Land".
I never ever get tired of "Green Fields". Still can't get thru it without being choaked up. Comes from being a veteran, perhaps. "Christmas in the Trenches" gets me, too.
Re: What's the song that you've tried the hardest to stay away from?
Think you might have got the year wrong there ;) It' s not about 1916...hence its fame as a "blue shirts" song...much prefer this version though...
Well you go to the bar of a Saturday night
For a pint and a song, everything seems all right
Til some drunken punter flops down by your side
And asks you to sing about Willie McBride
Well you say you don't know it, but this will not do
For now he's determined to sing it to you.
Arm round your shoulder, for now he's your friend
And he's going to sing the damn thing til the end
Well you go to the gents for a quarter of an hour
And you watch TV in the old public bar
And when you return, thinking that he has tired
Christ he's still going on about gas and barbed wire
And ten minutes later your still in a trance
For he's up to his ochsters in the Green Fields of France
And searching around now you won't hear a peep
For the punters by now, Christ, they've all gone to sleep.
Oh Willie McBride, why the hell did you die?
The trouble you'da saved if you'd come back to life
If you'd got a good job or joined the dole queue
We'd not have to listen to songs about you
But, och, I don't know now, I'm glad that you're dead
With the Green Fields of France plied up over your head
For the trouble that you caused since the day that you died
Shootin's too good for you, Willie McBride
And tell me McBride, what the hell was your game
With a photograph stuck in a mouldy old frame
You can buy them at Smithfield's for ten p a throw
So what's all the fuss about, I'd like to know
And what's all this talk about barbed wire and smoke
You shouldn't have joined if you can't take a joke
Sure we don't care where the red poppies dance
Oh Willie McBride, will you give us a chance
Do they drink the pints slowly or do they lower them down
Do the barmen join in with the punters
Sayin' we're glad that's all over?
Re: What's the song that you've tried the hardest to stay away from?
No song - but there's one or two singers I've done my best to avoid.
There's a big scary perfumed painted lass with dyed black hair and a false oirish accent comes in our session about once in every 5 years and breaks into song uninvited, then bitches at people who don't go quiet for her.
Re: What's the song that you've tried the hardest to stay away from?
LMAO showaddy. Your session must be well established. Every well founded session has one or two of "them". Part and parcel of the game and they do add a little je ne sais quoi ?
Re: What's the song that you've tried the hardest to stay away from?
Try this for a parody of "No Man's Land":
Have you heard of that song about Willie McBride?
If I hear it again, it'll turn me inside,
For it's sung in the springtime and sung in the fall,
But mostly by people who shouldn't sing at all.
You go down to the pub on a Saturday night
For a pint and some tunes and things are all right,
Till some drunken bowsey comes up by your side
Saying, 'Shing ush that shong about Willie McBride.'
CHORUS
Did they sing the song badly? Did they guzzle pints madly?
Did the drunks fall asleep as they lowered them down?
Did the barmen shout 'Last drinks!' in chorus,
And did the punters thank Christ it was over?
Well, you say you don't know it but that will not do,
For now he's determined to sing it to you.
Then he spills half your drink and starts off in a key
That was never invented on land or on sea.
And as time goes on, sure the whole thing gets worse,
For now you realise that he knows every verse.
With his arm round your shoulder, 'cos now he's your friend,
He's determined to sing the damned thing to the end.
Did they sing the song badly? etc,
Well you go to the loo for a quarter of an hour
And you watch the TV in the old public bar.
Then you come back, thinking it’s he that must tire,
But he's still going on about gas and barbed wire.
Then ten minutes later, you're still in a trance
While he's up to his armpits in the green fields of France.
The punters are quiet. You'll not hear a peep,
For now you realise that they've all gone to sleep.
Did they sing the song badly? etc.,
O Willie McBride, why the hell did you die?
The trouble you'd saved had you come back alive,
And got a good job or signed on the brew,
So we'd not have to listen to songs about you!
Now it's the last verse, and I'm glad that you're dead,
With the green fields of France piled up over your head,
For the trouble you've caused since the day that you died,
Oh, shooting's too good for you, Willie McBride.
Did they sing the song badly? etc.,
Most of the "Plastic Paddy" stuff annoys the living sh*t out of me, especially when given the "irish tenor" treatment (shudder). Strangely enough I don't mind Danny Boy as a solo air on the pipes, that kind of treatment without some singer's histrionics restores a LOT of dignity to the tune.
The Black Velvet Band and Fields of Athenry have to be the songs I really strain to avoid more than any others. Both make me want to pick up a chair and smash it over someone's head, preferably the singer.
Re: What's the song that you've tried the hardest to stay away from?
As you may know from my previous posts, I am not averse to singing the old chestnuts upon request, and even take pleasure in doing so in most cases But I must agree with cthuilleanpiper about Black Velvet Band and the old Fields of A. We sing them because they are asked for, but don't really enjoy them. The gals in the group have developed little hand gestures and theatrics that they throw in as they sing, and it is hard not to collapse in laughter as a result.
Re: What's the song that you've tried the hardest to stay away from?
I used to go to a pub in Dublin that had a group of paid musicians up front to entertain the tourists. There was definitely a piper and I think there was a fiddler and a guy who sang and played guitar as well. They did some dance tunes (usually to demonstrate the coolness of the uilleann pipes playing dance tunes), and sang a lot of the aforesaid sh*te.
As much as I cannot stand those songs, I want that job, man. My morals aren't that inflexible.
I admit, the first time I heard Black Velvet Band and Fields of Athenry, I liked them. I've only learned to hate them after the last 723891273829 times I've heard them. But the people who wrote Wild Rover, Whiskey in the Jar, Molly Malone, and a few other gems should serving life terms in a super-max. It's music terrorism.
Re: What's the song that you've tried the hardest to stay away from?
Ah, but it's not the gun that kills people, its people who kill people.
Accordingly, its not the songwriter that kills people, its the singer who is repeating the song for the 723891273829th time.
Re: What's the song that you've tried the hardest to stay away from?
i saw eric sing "green field of france" last night!!! he also has a new song about willie, you'd all be thrilled to know, lol
but i like them -when HE sings them, anyway!
Re: What's the song that you've tried the hardest to stay away from?
As to Hannes Wader - he did not really translate NML but gave it a political meaning which is not contained in the original, turning it into an accusation of today's war-preparing politicians (OK, those of 30 years ago). Which you may agree with or not, but I would have preferred a plain translation. As he is about the only well-known German folk-singer/songwriter he made the song popular over here.
The worst song to avoid is Bold O'Donoghue which my band want to do as a joke. I think I'll top it by playing the Irish Washerwoman afterwards and inviting the washboard to join.
Re: What's the song that you've tried the hardest to stay away from?
Hurleystick, I always kinda liked Hell Awaits, Epidemic as well. That would be a hilarious thing to see an ITM of any Slayer song...you were joking right?
Re: What's the song that you've tried the hardest to stay away from?
The Canadian equivalent of the "bar Irish" song: "Song For The Mira" by Allister MacGillivray, and "Sonny's Dream" by Ron Hynes.
I can tolerate "The Black Velvet Band", but only last Sunday I flatly refused to sing "The Fields of Athenry", even though a really nice person requested it. I just couldn't bring myself to do it.
What's the song that you've tried the hardest to stay away from?
What's the song that you've tried the hardest to stay away from?
For me it's "Seven Old Ladies"
# Posted on February 16th 2006 by Jmbu
Re: What's the song that you've tried the hardest to stay away from?
Got to be "The Green Fields Of France". I loved the song when I first heard a recording of Tony Callanan and Stocktons Wing away back (you figure out the year) but subsequent renditions at fleadhanna and sessions from every wannabe singer put me off the song for life. Anybody got the lyrics ?
# Posted on February 16th 2006 by Strathfoyle
Re: What's the song that you've tried the hardest to stay away from?
That would be Hell Awaits by Slayer. Like you, Strathfoyle, if I hear one more crappy rendition of this song at a fleadh or festival I will lose it.
Incidentally, Slayer play in E flat, which is were I believe Tommy Peoples got the idea....
I should go now.
# Posted on February 16th 2006 by hurleystick
Re: What's the song that you've tried the hardest to stay away from?
here we go, Strathfoyle:
oh how do you do, young willy mcbride
do you mind if i sit here down by your graveside
and rest for a while in the warm summer sun
i've been walking all day, and im nearly done
and i see by your gravestone you were only nineteen
when you joined the great falling in 1916
well i hope you died quick
and i hope you died clean
oh willy mcbride, was is it slow and obscene
[Chorus]
did they beat the drums slowly
did the play the fife lowly
did they sound the death march as they lowered you down
did the band play the last post and chorus
did the pipes play the flowers of the forest
and did you leave a wife or a sweetheart behind
in some loyal heart is your memory enshrined
and though you died back in 1916
to that loyal heart you're forever nineteen
or are you a stranger without even a name
forever enshrined behind some old glass pane
in an old photograph torn, tattered, and stained
and faded to yellow in a brown leather frame
[Chorus]
the sun shining down on these green fields of france
the warm wind blows gently and the red poppies dance
the trenches have vanished long under the plow
no gas, no barbed wire, no guns firing down
but here in this graveyard that's still no mans land
the countless white crosses in mute witness stand
till' man's blind indifference to his fellow man
and a whole generation were butchered and damned
[Chorus]
and i can't help but wonder oh willy mcbride
do all those who lie here know why they died
did you really believe them when they told you the cause
did you really believe that this war would end wars
well the suffering, the sorrow, the glory, the shame
the killing and dying it was all done in vain
oh willy mcbride it all happened again
and again, and again, and again, and again
# Posted on February 16th 2006 by mairie
Re: What's the song that you've tried the hardest to stay away from?
Now I can't get it out of my head!
Wait, ah, Oh dear, what can the matter be, seve old ladies stuck in the lavit'ry..
That's better
# Posted on February 16th 2006 by Jmbu
Re: What's the song that you've tried the hardest to stay away from?
Anything they blast in any tourist place in Ireland.
# Posted on February 16th 2006 by TheSilverSpear
Re: What's the song that you've tried the hardest to stay away from?
A minor point.The song isn't called "The Green Fields Of France" The title is "No Man's Land" and everybody gets the chorus wrong too.They don't play the Dead March as they lower you down,they play that on the way to the ceremony.The rifles fire o'er you as they lower you down.Stockton's Wing got it wrong.,I don't know why,the vocals on Eric Bogle's album are clear enough.According to them Willie's death may have been "slow and serene"Obscene is the mot juste.Does Eric get a royalty every time someone groans it out in a pub?
P.S. I've just discovered that Eric himself says that the words were changed by some character called Hannes Wader.Listen to the correct version sung by the composer herehttp://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/parton/2/noman.html
# Posted on February 16th 2006 by dafydd
Re: What's the song that you've tried the hardest to stay away from?
Oh dear,I've just discovered the Hannes Wader is one of Eric's little jokes.The question remains,where did Stockton's Wing get their version from?Not from June Tabor,because she recorded the correct words.
# Posted on February 16th 2006 by dafydd
Re: What's the song that you've tried the hardest to stay away from?
hehe...
silverspear - could you list some?
# Posted on February 16th 2006 by mairie
Re: What's the song that you've tried the hardest to stay away from?
dafydd - tried out your link but unfortunatly it doesn't work..............
# Posted on February 16th 2006 by mairie
Re: What's the song that you've tried the hardest to stay away from?
Louie, Louie.
# Posted on February 16th 2006 by Bob himself
Hannes Wader
Hannes Wader actually exists -- whether he is "a little joke" or not depends on your opinion of him. A pretty well-known (in Germany anyway) German "folk" / trad singer. I have a vague memory of playing at some festival in Germany where he was top-billing. Wouldn't surprise me at all if Wader has recorded a German language version of "No Man's Land".
# Posted on February 17th 2006 by LongNote
Re: What's the song that you've tried the hardest to stay away from?
In my opinion, after June Tabor did the song, everyone else's version, including Mr. Bogle's version as composer, paled in comparison.
# Posted on February 17th 2006 by AlBrown
Re: What's the song that you've tried the hardest to stay away from?
Wild Rover, Fields of Athenry, Dirty Old Man Dirty Old Town (whatever it's called), Molly Malone, etc. etc.
# Posted on February 17th 2006 by TheSilverSpear
Re: What's the song that you've tried the hardest to stay away from?
Poor old Danny Boy, who got mauled by a set of pipes.
# Posted on February 17th 2006 by treecipitation
Re: What's the song that you've tried the hardest to stay away from?
(You're) Having My Baby
# Posted on February 17th 2006 by joesmith
Re: What's the song that you've tried the hardest to stay away from?
it's not, "slow and obscene" neither is it, "slow and serene". It's, "slow and unseen" . Isn't it?
# Posted on February 17th 2006 by westcoastfluter
Re: What's the song that you've tried the hardest to stay away from?
Kilgarry Mountain; though Jackie and Bridie did a rewrite called the Swedish Driving Song I treasure in my memory.
# Posted on February 17th 2006 by Guernsey Pete
Re: What's the song that you've tried the hardest to stay away from?
Irish washerwoman. I have heard it all my life. Never did like it.
# Posted on February 17th 2006 by feardearg
By the way...
I never ever get tired of "Green Fields". Still can't get thru it without being choaked up. Comes from being a veteran, perhaps. "Christmas in the Trenches" gets me, too.
# Posted on February 17th 2006 by feardearg
Re: What's the song that you've tried the hardest to stay away from?
Think you might have got the year wrong there ;) It' s not about 1916...hence its fame as a "blue shirts" song...much prefer this version though...
Well you go to the bar of a Saturday night
For a pint and a song, everything seems all right
Til some drunken punter flops down by your side
And asks you to sing about Willie McBride
Well you say you don't know it, but this will not do
For now he's determined to sing it to you.
Arm round your shoulder, for now he's your friend
And he's going to sing the damn thing til the end
Well you go to the gents for a quarter of an hour
And you watch TV in the old public bar
And when you return, thinking that he has tired
Christ he's still going on about gas and barbed wire
And ten minutes later your still in a trance
For he's up to his ochsters in the Green Fields of France
And searching around now you won't hear a peep
For the punters by now, Christ, they've all gone to sleep.
Oh Willie McBride, why the hell did you die?
The trouble you'da saved if you'd come back to life
If you'd got a good job or joined the dole queue
We'd not have to listen to songs about you
But, och, I don't know now, I'm glad that you're dead
With the Green Fields of France plied up over your head
For the trouble that you caused since the day that you died
Shootin's too good for you, Willie McBride
And tell me McBride, what the hell was your game
With a photograph stuck in a mouldy old frame
You can buy them at Smithfield's for ten p a throw
So what's all the fuss about, I'd like to know
And what's all this talk about barbed wire and smoke
You shouldn't have joined if you can't take a joke
Sure we don't care where the red poppies dance
Oh Willie McBride, will you give us a chance
Do they drink the pints slowly or do they lower them down
Do the barmen join in with the punters
Sayin' we're glad that's all over?
# Posted on February 17th 2006 by macfion
Re: What's the song that you've tried the hardest to stay away from?
I'd better stay clear of Annie Laurie because I was told my grandfather died whilst singing it
# Posted on February 17th 2006 by RichardB
Re: What's the song that you've tried the hardest to stay away from?
No song - but there's one or two singers I've done my best to avoid.
There's a big scary perfumed painted lass with dyed black hair and a false oirish accent comes in our session about once in every 5 years and breaks into song uninvited, then bitches at people who don't go quiet for her.
I hope she sings Annie Laurie.
# Posted on February 17th 2006 by showaddydadito
Re: What's the song that you've tried the hardest to stay away from?
LMAO showaddy. Your session must be well established. Every well founded session has one or two of "them". Part and parcel of the game and they do add a little je ne sais quoi ?
# Posted on February 17th 2006 by Strathfoyle
Re: What's the song that you've tried the hardest to stay away from?
We've been going about 30 or so years Strath, and we're not averse to a good song now and then. But this woman is something else.
The je ne sais quoi that she adds is a complete pain in the bum.
# Posted on February 17th 2006 by showaddydadito
Re: What's the song that you've tried the hardest to stay away from?
Try this for a parody of "No Man's Land":
Have you heard of that song about Willie McBride?
If I hear it again, it'll turn me inside,
For it's sung in the springtime and sung in the fall,
But mostly by people who shouldn't sing at all.
You go down to the pub on a Saturday night
For a pint and some tunes and things are all right,
Till some drunken bowsey comes up by your side
Saying, 'Shing ush that shong about Willie McBride.'
CHORUS
Did they sing the song badly? Did they guzzle pints madly?
Did the drunks fall asleep as they lowered them down?
Did the barmen shout 'Last drinks!' in chorus,
And did the punters thank Christ it was over?
Well, you say you don't know it but that will not do,
For now he's determined to sing it to you.
Then he spills half your drink and starts off in a key
That was never invented on land or on sea.
And as time goes on, sure the whole thing gets worse,
For now you realise that he knows every verse.
With his arm round your shoulder, 'cos now he's your friend,
He's determined to sing the damned thing to the end.
Did they sing the song badly? etc,
Well you go to the loo for a quarter of an hour
And you watch the TV in the old public bar.
Then you come back, thinking it’s he that must tire,
But he's still going on about gas and barbed wire.
Then ten minutes later, you're still in a trance
While he's up to his armpits in the green fields of France.
The punters are quiet. You'll not hear a peep,
For now you realise that they've all gone to sleep.
Did they sing the song badly? etc.,
O Willie McBride, why the hell did you die?
The trouble you'd saved had you come back alive,
And got a good job or signed on the brew,
So we'd not have to listen to songs about you!
Now it's the last verse, and I'm glad that you're dead,
With the green fields of France piled up over your head,
For the trouble you've caused since the day that you died,
Oh, shooting's too good for you, Willie McBride.
Did they sing the song badly? etc.,
Most of the "Plastic Paddy" stuff annoys the living sh*t out of me, especially when given the "irish tenor" treatment (shudder). Strangely enough I don't mind Danny Boy as a solo air on the pipes, that kind of treatment without some singer's histrionics restores a LOT of dignity to the tune.
The Black Velvet Band and Fields of Athenry have to be the songs I really strain to avoid more than any others. Both make me want to pick up a chair and smash it over someone's head, preferably the singer.
# Posted on February 17th 2006 by Hanley
Re: What's the song that you've tried the hardest to stay away from?
Have you not heard the Grehan Sisters sing Black Velvet Band (qv an earlier discussion)? A true thing of beauty!
# Posted on February 17th 2006 by RichardB
Re: What's the song that you've tried the hardest to stay away from?
As you may know from my previous posts, I am not averse to singing the old chestnuts upon request, and even take pleasure in doing so in most cases But I must agree with cthuilleanpiper about Black Velvet Band and the old Fields of A. We sing them because they are asked for, but don't really enjoy them. The gals in the group have developed little hand gestures and theatrics that they throw in as they sing, and it is hard not to collapse in laughter as a result.
# Posted on February 17th 2006 by AlBrown
Re: What's the song that you've tried the hardest to stay away from?
I used to go to a pub in Dublin that had a group of paid musicians up front to entertain the tourists. There was definitely a piper and I think there was a fiddler and a guy who sang and played guitar as well. They did some dance tunes (usually to demonstrate the coolness of the uilleann pipes playing dance tunes), and sang a lot of the aforesaid sh*te.
As much as I cannot stand those songs, I want that job, man. My morals aren't that inflexible.
I admit, the first time I heard Black Velvet Band and Fields of Athenry, I liked them. I've only learned to hate them after the last 723891273829 times I've heard them. But the people who wrote Wild Rover, Whiskey in the Jar, Molly Malone, and a few other gems should serving life terms in a super-max. It's music terrorism.
# Posted on February 17th 2006 by TheSilverSpear
Re: What's the song that you've tried the hardest to stay away from?
Ah, but it's not the gun that kills people, its people who kill people.
Accordingly, its not the songwriter that kills people, its the singer who is repeating the song for the 723891273829th time.
# Posted on February 17th 2006 by AlBrown
Re: What's the song that you've tried the hardest to stay away from?
Any of the americanized "bar Irish" tunes are highly avoided. That and anything involving the loss of a dog or a woman followed by crying in the beer.
# Posted on February 18th 2006 by newfie percussionist
Re: What's the song that you've tried the hardest to stay away from?
Jeremiah Was A Bullfrog (Joy To The World). I run for the exit every time.
# Posted on February 18th 2006 by Greg the Piano Tuner
Re: What's the song that you've tried the hardest to stay away from?
i saw eric sing "green field of france" last night!!! he also has a new song about willie, you'd all be thrilled to know, lol
but i like them -when HE sings them, anyway!
# Posted on February 18th 2006 by megaleemoo
Re: What's the song that you've tried the hardest to stay away from?
As to Hannes Wader - he did not really translate NML but gave it a political meaning which is not contained in the original, turning it into an accusation of today's war-preparing politicians (OK, those of 30 years ago). Which you may agree with or not, but I would have preferred a plain translation. As he is about the only well-known German folk-singer/songwriter he made the song popular over here.
The worst song to avoid is Bold O'Donoghue which my band want to do as a joke. I think I'll top it by playing the Irish Washerwoman afterwards and inviting the washboard to join.
# Posted on February 18th 2006 by kuec
Re: What's the song that you've tried the hardest to stay away from?
Hurleystick, I always kinda liked Hell Awaits, Epidemic as well. That would be a hilarious thing to see an ITM of any Slayer song...you were joking right?
# Posted on February 20th 2006 by dtb
Re: What's the song that you've tried the hardest to stay away from?
The Canadian equivalent of the "bar Irish" song: "Song For The Mira" by Allister MacGillivray, and "Sonny's Dream" by Ron Hynes.
I can tolerate "The Black Velvet Band", but only last Sunday I flatly refused to sing "The Fields of Athenry", even though a really nice person requested it. I just couldn't bring myself to do it.
# Posted on February 22nd 2006 by Charmion