Irish Song Lyrics And Chords From C To F In Titles
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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 Cattle Low And Angels Croon R L Snideman Catch Me If You Can Brendan Shine Connemara Cradle Song Steeleye Span / Maria McCool Clondalkin Callin' Paddy Kelly Clare's Dragoons Thomas Davis / Na Casaidigh Come All Ye Faithful Christian Hymn Come all ye bold Geographers Derek Warfield 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 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 |
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 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 Drink It Up Men 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 Drunk Paddy Kelly 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 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 Exchange Song Mike Pennington Eg A Lif The First Cork Brigade Rebel song |
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.
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.
