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The Cliffs Of Dooneen   
Trad. Christy Moore

The Cliffs Of Moher                  
Dermot Kelly / P.J. Murrihy

Cooraclare Song                             
Annmarie O'Riordan

Cathal Brugha
Rebel song, / Declan Hunt

The Curragh Of Kildare                  
The Juhnstons / Christy Moore

Crooked Jack                                   
Dominic Behan

Come By The Hills                                           
     
Connolly Would Cry
Marc Fahrbach

Courtin' In The Kitchen

Christmas 1915                               

Cormac MacConnell / Jerry Lynch

Christmas In The Trenches             

John McCutcheon

Connolly Was There                        
Rebel song / Wolfhound

Connolly's Message 2010               

Seadog

Catch Me If You Can                       
Brendan Shine

Connemara Cradle Song               

Steeleye Span / Maria McCool

Clare's Dragoons                            
Thomas Davis / Na Casaidigh

Come All Ye Faithful                  
Christian Hymn

The Chemical Workers Song        
Ron Angel / Great Big Sea

Cynthia Rides Again                  
Conal Gallen

Carry Me Up To Galway              

Padraig Grimes

Down At The Old Bull And Bush      
Florrie Ford

Danny Farrell                                 
Pete St. John

Dear Old Donegal
Dermot Heggarty

Delaney's Donkey                         
Bill Hargreaves / Val Doonican

Dublin Jack Of All Trades            
The Johnstons

 Do You Hear The People Sing
Les Miserables                      

Dirty Old Town                             
Ewan McColl / The Dubliners / Pogues

Don't Come Again                          
Paul Brady

Dan O'Hara                                     
Delia Murphy / Blackthorn

Down By The Liffeyside                 
Pedar Kearney / The Dubliners

Dollymount Strand                         
Shay Healy

The Dutchman                                
Michael Smith / Liam Clancy

The Dying Soldier                          

Rev. P. MacThomas

 Dirt Track To The Sky
Stocktons Wing

The Dublin Saunter                      
Paddy Reilly

A Few Good Men                          
The Dropkick Murphys

Farewell To The Rhonda               
Frank Hennessy / The Barleycorn

Farewell Ye Banks Of Sicily            
Hamish Henderson / Ryans Fancy

Farewell My Green Valleys          
Glen Reid / Susan McCann

The Flight Of The Earls                  
Liam Reilly / The Wolf Tones

Follow Me Up To Carlow             
Patrick Joseph McCall / Paddy Reilly

Far Away In Australia                        
The Wolfe Tones

Flowers Are Red                            
Harry Chapin

Farewell To Dublin                    
Brian Warfield / Paddy Reilly

Fisherman's Blues                      
The Waterboys
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From Clare To Here             
Ralph McTell / The Fureys And Davie Arthur

Forever Young
Pete Seeger

Freedom's Walk                           
Paddy McGuigan / The Barleycorn

From An Island To An Island
Loyola Hearn / Kevin Collins

The Flickering Candle                

The Emigrants Letter                   
Percy French / Daniel O'Donnell

Evelyn Marie                                 
Conal Gallen

The Easter Rising                         
Loscan Collins

Erin's Lovely Home                      
Karan Casey & Kris Drever

Edentubber Co. Louth                     

Flower Of Magherally                   
Trad. Brian Kenneddy

Fields Of Glory                          
The High Kings

Flowers Of The Forrest
Jean Elliot / Dick Gaughan
​The Worker's Song Is Included
Irish Songs And Guitar Chords
 Come Back Paddy Reilly To Ballyjamesduff
Percy French / The Dubliners

Candlelight And Wine
Dermot O'Reilly and Ryan's Fancy/ Fiddlers Green

 The Croppy Boys
Eamonn Reilly / The Dubliners

The Cappamore Song

 Cryers Paradise 
Ron Hynes

Christmas Eve 1914                       
Mike Harding

Counting The Miles To Laois

Christmas In The Trenches             
John McCutcheon

 Clonglee Girl

 Come Down From The Mountain Katie Daly
Dessie O'Halloran

Coming Back To Miltown
Collette O Sullivan / Kilfenora Ceili Band 

Carrickfergus
Trad. Jim McCann

Courting In The Kitchen
Trad. The Dubliners

Count Your Blessings
Ann Williamson

 Canadian Soldier
Ron Rackley

 Carrighdoun Song
 Denny Lane / Cherish The Ladies

The Cuckoo's Nest
Trad. Martin Carthy

 The Cottage By The Lee
Bridie Gallagher / Larry Conningham

 The Catalpa
The Real McKenzies

 The Colours
The Men They Couldn't Hang

 The Children Are Running Away
The McCalmans

  Down By The Sally Gardens
W.B. Yeats / Orla Fallon

 Dublin Town In 1962
Dermot O'Brien

Deportees

Dearg Doom

 Dear Old Skibbereen
Rebel Song / The Irish Brigade

 Dear Old City By The Lee
A Co. Cork song

 Dingle Bay 2
Paddy Day

 Danny Boy
Frederic Weatherly / Celtic Fusion

 Down By The Glenside
Peadar Kearney / The Dubliners

 The Dear Little Shamrock
Andrew Cherry / John McCormack

Thank You For The Days
The Kinks / Luke Kelly

 The Dying Rebel
Trad. Rebel

 The Dawning Of The Day

The Dream

Tommy Jenkinson / The Jolly Beggarmen

Doonaree
Ruby Murray

Eugene's Song
Marc Fahrbach

   Farewell Johnny Miner
Ed Pickford / The Battlefield Band

​Farewell to Bellaghy

 Fiddlers Green
John Conolly

Finbar Magee Song Lyrics
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The Face Behind The Window
Alex Latimer

 The Fields Of Athenry
Pete St. John / Paddy Reilly

 The Famine Song
The Praties

 The First Tuesday
Martin Dardis

 For Ireland I'll Not Tell Her Name
The Wolfe Tones

 The Foggy Dew      
Charles O'Neill / Luke Kelly

 Flower Of Kilkenny
Masterless Men

 Fergal O'Hanlon

Maitiu O Cinneide

The Flower Of Sweet Strabane
Trad. Paddy Reilly

 The Flag Of Na Fianna

 Freemantle Bay
Justice

The Forgotten Children
Aidan Doyle

Erin's Flag
Trad. Rebel / Wolfhound

 The Enniskellen Dragoons
George Sigerson

  Erin Go Bragh

Peadar Kearney / The Wolf Tones

  Eg A Lif

The First Cork Brigade
Rebel song

Irish Lyrics And Chords

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Irish Drinking Songs.
One of the most popular themes that give inspiration to songwriters is  Ireland's love affaire with drink. While placing the lyrics and chords to on this site it never really struck me how many songs actually deal  with the subject. There must be a couple of hundred so called Drinking Songs here. Generally the Irish people call these songs ''Ballads'' as opposed to other countries who use the term Drinking Songs. Generally these songs start out as love songs but with the love of drink being second nature to the Irish, whiskey or beer will enter the song at some stage.

These songs don't represent all of the people of Ireland but they certainly  represented a large proportion. These kind of songs also provide an outlet for people to discuss some sensitive  subjects in times past, it's like dealing with reality and masking the subject at the same time. Perhaps it's to do with our Catholic upbringing that certain subjects never got an airing unless it was through song. And lets not forget that like the poets of old who used opium for inspiration, the same goes for songwriters who have written some of the greatest songs while under the influence of alcohol. Well one does think outside the box when drunk. The writing of these drinking songs has not diminished in any way, Seamus Moore has based his singing career out of mostly songs about gargle. Music and drinking have always gone hand in hand for the Irish as we celebrate our national pastime.

There have hundreds of songs that acquired  the label as drinking songs but are in fact simple folk songs like Spancil Hill, She Moved Through The Fair, Old Maid In The Garret to name a few.  I have seen them placed in song books and record albums for the simple reason of selling their products. Then over time people assume that ''All'' folk songs are drinking songs.

Have you ever bought an album that says The Best Irish Drinking Songs Ever. Well there are 100's of albums around that suggest that, but the reality is that when you bring it home and play it you soon discover that the contents of the album are not what the front cover says. I have been buying so called ''Irish Drinking Song'' vinyl records then tapes, then compact discs for over 40 years. A good catchy title on any product will sell that product and putting a title like Best Ever Drinking Songs will increase sales of that album especially if it has a picture of Guinness or some other drink. Here are the sleeve notes of an album that was brought out in 1969 by Hallmark Records and features 12 so called Drink Songs, but only 6 are related to booze while the other 6 are general folk songs.


Drinking songs from Ireland was an album by Joe Lynch and The
Hibernians. Here's what the sleeve notes say. Here in one glorious
collection are the famous drinking songs of Ireland, sung by master
entertainer Joe Lynch. Through them all you'll feel the real magic, the
true friendly spirit of the Irish scene, from the boisterous
outrageous Finnegan's Wake to the gentle sadness of Whiskey On A
Sunday. From the universal appeal of Little Brown Jug to the rare
collector's item Cruiskeen Lawn, which in English means 'The Full
Little Jug'.

As you listen to The Jug Of Punch it will conjure up for you the
atmosphere of evenings long ago, round the friendly warmth of an
alehouse fire. A beautiful rarity is the centuries-old Irish drinking
poem Preab San Ol which is sung here in the original language of
Irish. The title defies exact translation but it tells of the little
kick one gets from drinking.

Two happy rollicking songs The Moonshiner and Wild Rover No More,
although they both have a different to drink, are each given a fair
hearing. For good measure, Joe Lynch leads the company in two songs
which are not directly related to drinking, The Old Rustic Bridge and
The Rose Of Tralee, but they evoke the gentle nostalgia of the best of
Irish pub singing.

To a pleasant evening, the singers relax and the instrumentalists take
over in two traditional Irish dances, The Temperance Reel and The
Slainte Jig Selection. All in all, as happy, as lively a collection of
drinking songs as you'll ever hear. Enjoy yourself . End Of Sleeve Notes.


While the album above is a fine selection of songs and I was fond of listening to Joe Lynch And The Hibernians, it's the title the record companies place on the albums that get on my wick.

There have be many more albums that were brought out from the early 1960's up until the present day that state they have the finest Irish Drinking songs. Most of the early Dubliner's albums used drink to sell their songs. Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against gargle, in fact to prove the point I have drank over 4 lorry loads of Smithwicks in the last 40 years [ Yes I Calculated it one night with my barman ].


 If you are looking to get your hands on a couple of albums then there are 2 I suggest. The first is called  40 Irish Drinking Songs An Irish Pub Singalong by The Jolly Beggarmen which is a live recording in a pub. It's the finest live recording of any of my 100's of albums I bought over the last number of years. If you never heard of The Jolly Beggarmen then you'll have to take my word that they were one of the top ballad groups doing the rounds in Dublin for many's a year, alas most of them are now in Heaven having a mighty session with The Dubliners and The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem.

The second album that I recommend is 60 Greatest Ever Irish Ballads by Dolphin Records. All the top names in the Irish folk scene over the last 50 years are on this album singing the best 60 songs ever to come out of Ireland.
So why am I recommending these couple of albums ? A few years ago I was left over 20 compact discs by a relative. On each of her visits to Ireland she bought a few albums thinking they were great Irish songs and they turned out to be all ''Traditional Music'' which she's not into. All the covers of the albums had nice pictures of bands preforming on stage which looked like they were having a great time singing songs. They were in fact playing trad. music. So she had spent a couple of hundred pounds buying records that were of no use to her as she really wanted was old folk songs. I blame the record companies for falsely labelling c.d'  as The Best Irish Music and the like. Below is the second Compact Disc I recommend.


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