The Boys Of Fair Hill lyrics and guitar chords
An Irish folk song about Fairhill in Co. Cork. The sheet music in the key of G is included, the time signature is 2/4.A traditional Irish folk song from Co.Cork.Made Famous by Jimmy Crowley. The Wolfe Tones also recorded it but with different lyrics, The song is very popular around the Cork area. The sheet music and tin whistle notes are included. Other well known Cork songs include Dear Old City By The Lee Song .
[G]Come, boys, and you'll see[Am] lads and lassies[D] full of glee.
[G]Famous for[D] all they will[C] make your heart[D] thrill.
The[G] boys they won't harm you and the[Am] girls they will[D] charm you.
[G]Here's up 'em[D] all, says the[C] boys[D] of Fair[G] Hill.
Come, boys, spend a day with our Harrier Club today.
The cry of the hounds it will make your heart thrill.
And when you hear Conny Doyle say "the Armoured Car has won the day,"
Here's up 'em all say the boys of Fair Hill.
First you go to Fahy's well for a drink of pure spring water:
The finest spot on earth, sure the angels do say,
Where thousands came across the foam just to view the Blarney stone,
Which can be seen from the groves of Fair Hill.
Next you go to Quinlan's pub. That is where you join our club,
Where round us in gallons the porter does flow.
First they tap a half-tierce and drink a health to Dashwodd's race.
That's the stuff to give them, says the boys of Fair Hill.
Come, boys, and spend a day with our hurling club so gay.
The clash of the ash it will make your heart thrill.
The Rockies thought that they were stars till they met the Saint Finbarre's
Here's up ‘em.....
Guitar Chords For The Key Of D.
[D]Come, boys, and you'll see[Em] lads and lassies[A] full of glee.
[D]Famous for[A] all they will[G] make your heart[A] thrill.
The[D] boys they won't harm you and the[Em] girls they will[A] charm you.
[D]Here's up 'em[A] all, says the[G] boys[A] of Fair[D] Hill.
[D]Come, boys, and you'll see[Em] lads and lassies[A] full of glee.
[D]Famous for[A] all they will[G] make your heart[A] thrill.
The[D] boys they won't harm you and the[Em] girls they will[A] charm you.
[D]Here's up 'em[A] all, says the[G] boys[A] of Fair[D] Hill.
The boys of fairhill tin whistle sheet music
The Boys Of Fairhill Sheet Music In The Key Of G Major
The River Lee Cork with red sky
Interview with Cork singer Jimmy Crowley .
I've been speaking to many in entertainment and music uh particularly sits at lockdown and I'm delighted to have a gentleman who has uh been around in music since uh a central figure indeed on Irish folk music since uh the latter part of the 1970s he's established himself as a tradition bearer indeed and also ethnographer and Gaelic language enthusiast and also a stylish songwriter he's a performer musician he's made it into the charts on not one but uh two occasions uh with the song called the boys of fair hill and uh I'm delighted to say a big hello to uh the one and only jimmy Crowley Jimmy how are you joey I'm not too bad at all overgrown was just where people would say indeed indeed you're more than that jimmy you're still going you're still going you're still going
strong after after all these years and uh you've uh i mean it all started off well they sort of national prominence was when it was jimmy Crowley and stoker's lodge with the boys of fair hill back in the i think that was late 1970s that's right 77 onwards so yeah yeah i mean that was a huge huge success well it was beyond our imagination at the time jury really and we were very lucky to have you know the mongol record music labels who are very inventive and and very altruistic and are you know sort of led by people like donald and me hallelujah and James O'Neill and they just saw something in what i was doing and the work i was doing was covering the old balance you know so they gave us a break and got three the contract for three albums and like it's really really fantastic you know having
good producers and good studios and engineers you know it was really a great start you know indeed so mandy so uh but uh you know you wouldn't have got that like without uh you know having the talent you've got to have the material to be able to uh record as well uh you you also went on and i believe was of the 1980s uh you had an electric experiment whereby it was uh Jimmy Crowley and the electric band you actually did a a sort of a reggae style recording of the boys of fair hill then yeah like we didn't need we made a lovely little band for oil just simply called the electric electric band and I was kind of listening i was um a little bit restless like i'm and the fourth thing was changing and i was changing internally to and then I always wanted to you know to
re-show them a little bit a bit more and do different kind of things and i didn't see any reason why you couldn't sing maybe you know kind of a song like Chinese wheel or something like that and see it you know an accident you know and like it was still kind of forklift so we didn't saw that stuff and uh but by chance we did the regular version of the bodyville which was lovely and went into the chats and it was just you know it could have went a lot it could have did that but that's as much as it did interesting so we were very grateful for us and you see I do that playing like uh gigging my own the following night and that's that was a confusing element you see I'd be saying like on accompanied songs and Irish like and fully songs like the pools from that and then maybe it her doing he could bend so i think people can have to say like who who is he what
does he do and see folk or rock or you know so i i didn't say i mean i i looked at people like you know and said well you know he's always like into everything like isn't everything that's good like text mix and going to jazz and country and folk and overall a great respect for all kinds of music and respect for the you know the people the music makers and the players and all that and the older folks haven't done before and you do something new you want a bit of risk you know indeed now you've got some great admirers i mean the late Liam Clancy said i have jimmy Crowley's music in my car at all times late Ronnie Drew said jimmy Crowley embodies the spirit of cork and uh Christy Moore says my journey is always shortened when I meet jimmy Crowley well that's that's
lovely I mean I'm very moved by those comments you know and what I'm very sad about jerry is that all those men that you wish and you said really like i mean it seems to me like just like a few few weeks ago that we were having the crack together like i was meeting running in Dublin or eating land on them going in the ring and having the cracker without hearing but it's just strange that they're all past you know those kind of icons you know indeed so indeed so uh sad it is too but jimmy listen after all these years you know you're still going strong you're still making music you're writing music and you've just released a double album well I just couldn't i couldn't imagine stopping every single i will be dead I'd say in two months like if i stopped
like looking for songs writing songs praying in a new direction for another room or a book or something like that you know so it's I keep going anywhere you know jerry I mean I can hold on my last but I'm probably like they're like i put it down the saddle you know I'm going to keep it going with her because there's still a lot to do and i could feel myself changing and as a musician as an artist and especially the kind of um capacity for to play music and to me like i should be really nervous in the studio and my timing was bad it wasn't very hard to put tracks down in time but all that has come together and it's just a pleasure now of walking over this in the studio and arrangements and production ideas so that that just took just years and years and very slow but what i guess is like
you know it could have absorbed it and so I feel really upwards like and it's uh even the locks i don't think even myself we were walking on another chinese balance you know Francis child was an old he was a collector of four songs and the songs became kind of lexical in the forecast you know there were many of them persons were collected in America later on by we've come across a you know glorious garland of those songs you know and uh we're gonna just see how Irish versions of the chinese balance like and and my sweetheart my parents don't even she's a great singer and she's she's she's very passionate about sounds and she's bringing great newness to it you know so that's what we're doing and we're you know doing a bit of Boston and like I'm into something nothing shameful about busking it's just
fantastic doing some of the flowers markets i mean there's nothing else going on iIdon't want to go online like and they can zoom with that i just can't do that indeed so if you go to a farmer's market and chat up to people and take only through banjos if you want someone to you can make you can be good you can sing night Maggie valley songs and songs that the traveling people gave us you know and it feels like you're not clearly you know let me send a few cd,s and make a few books and before the geek starts again you know date and date that's the day indeed now do this this particular your latest album here is a it's a it's a double one and uh it's got a lot of track 27 tracks featured on it like you do the uh the I see the album is actually done in a true sort of presentation style with some words in it
about yourself and some lovely designers called songs from the beautiful city well well well thanks for saying naturally i i am i i said to my i had a big chat with myself one morning and they said look like I'm not going to be carrying this are you able to carry this like you know they already want to fly for much longer and I actually don't want to do that because so i said i like i do one last album i put everything i could into it like and I said to myself I got somehow so i have to do that songs well because i had a book last year which was very successful called songs from the beautiful city and it was kind of in ethnography and generic chapters like like children's songs immigration the comic views all the sporting balance
you know the political balance and all that so it's kind of could regardless of the history of the urban history of calculus so the album the double album is more less based on luxury good standards but sadly it's that stained for me that this is my last car calvin and I want to do another one and i think i think i did me this i did like 1977 I've seen the armored car and poolsong and and it's brilliant to represent your people and to be when people see you and say uh they're plenty of are you a good lad another but here's a song that big I'm used to singing people follow me up all the time you know and it's just lovely like but i just it's like the reasons i did electric band there was another different things you know before before i go to the big forklift in the skyline
you know what i mean so so I said I've lingered long enough now you know when you don't love us so much and so proud of it and so grateful for the nursery that gave me like the cultural thing you know but I just that's it it's safe for some other flow i say do one more and do put everything i have so there's 26 songs to there is the classic uh you know the likes of the bells of Shandon uh which uh you know so many people will uh will know and also uh there's some songs on which you know people outside of cork would not be familiar with but there's also like the the cork regatta almost well-known as well and uh of course the uh classic beautiful city on it well there's there's a good a good cross section of all the things that motivate from sports to the political thing you know and
to the comic views which is a bit different this goes in our case and you know a couple of little occasional songs will be song and maybe based on the music called tradition you know like like the place to be shot which is probably an international summary you know what the royals or the ladies of the race who who spot kind of innocency announcement procedure judges so they will win all that because um it's kind of real and the other thing that i loved about cherry about doing this walking was that we had a sound effect for last like maybe just a just a chorus you know maybe the first verse and we missed them back together you know we kind of used a bit of a balanced anatomy and kind of put flesh on the bones that we
took off you know and I walked away quite contented and he's he's a wonderful man for okay digging up songs and for writing songs he's a great writer as well but forgiving old friends you know I think this was supposed to make him turkey too yes he had the record and he said what do you think was happening like in the first person like about this obviously you know twenty girl who was arrested late and she was held and she had to go to the jail and suddenly as well for two weeks why was she in it so I couldn't work lately around that when he could across songs of course we put on facebook readers and everybody got the the second verse of uh the old version of beautiful city or whatever and you know sergeant Hillary used to do that you know joey when he when he collected the songs of the
people he was an organ collector and he he had a column too like they had a newspaper and he he put out feelers to his readers and he done it every week in the social context in the history so he he got new songs like from the column you know and suddenly excellent doesn't mean extension journey too you know indeed you're mentioning pat daily pat as a gentleman I've actually also interviewed on the program of fine fine talent indeed he is uh also jimmy this is uh this is the last uh cork album where to uh where to next well the next handle is an album called life you know and it's just colonies and it's just echoing us it just clears all our faculties said that beyond um the uncelebrated life is not living you know it doesn't have earthquakes
and I'm just paraphrasing you know but he said that love allows you for reason like it's not just to get through and pay the bills and live like them but it's you're supposed to you know absorb us because and being afflicted about your life and say i think well there's a reason why stuff happened so there's a lot of songs about my name like who lives in Florida for a few years you know and that was exciting and i came back again and so thanks from both sides and it's a very wide range of subjects like you know um there's a song my cat charge when he died and sometimes just simply called George there's a song called feel like a king i thought my son James really scrambled the age of 21 when there's several love songs and
unrequited kind of things and regrets and there's a song about Obama like this one thing there's a book a novel called high brazil which is a kind of a Celtic utopia that's why I've been walking on for years too and there's a sign though with eve my partner called like the child project you know doing Irish versions mostly learning from the traveling people of the scholars in English now it's rebellions you know so that's slightly academic and I'd love to know another Irish language you certainly are jimmy there's definitely no holding you no holding your back sounds uh sounds good I'll have to say for further details on you you've got the website jimmy Crowley. com or you're also on facebook Jimmy Crowley for anybody who wants details or in order to get the album you
can get the album I assume Jimmy on your website well it's because things have changed completely uh johnny and you know we we spoke about about the demise of the album like i still set a good funeral attitude you know a good view and enough to make me keep wanting to because then i believe in in the cd but I know that it's great it could be doomed it could be doomed and people are choosing to listen in a different way i don't know what kind of surprise that people have because the sound the with the sonic width is not the same and you will get a better sound from the npo cd like you can just just sit down and show off the shoes indeed indeed yeah time will still tell but no matter what you still keep going still keep
writing uh and still keep performing I'm sorry i didn't say this very well very precisely yeah kind of sexy but people can get to see the best way to get to is just www. jimmycrowley.com well there might say there's a little record store and everything I've ever recorded and a lot of people stopping at mistakes stuff that people may not be aware of it's available on that site and we've posted those in no time at all without blessing the other thing is catch me at a gate or if you're in Dublin you'll get you'll get stuff and uh records you want to get they're distributing from me lovely jimmy list has been great to have a chat with you great to catch up with you i wish you all the success in the
future in the world and uh hopefully when it's safe to do so you'll be back doing you uh doing your live gigs jimmy listen it's been lovely to talk to you joey it's my casual grace and thanks for giving me your time and my life and thanks for the interesting
I've been speaking to many in entertainment and music uh particularly sits at lockdown and I'm delighted to have a gentleman who has uh been around in music since uh a central figure indeed on Irish folk music since uh the latter part of the 1970s he's established himself as a tradition bearer indeed and also ethnographer and Gaelic language enthusiast and also a stylish songwriter he's a performer musician he's made it into the charts on not one but uh two occasions uh with the song called the boys of fair hill and uh I'm delighted to say a big hello to uh the one and only jimmy Crowley Jimmy how are you joey I'm not too bad at all overgrown was just where people would say indeed indeed you're more than that jimmy you're still going you're still going you're still going
strong after after all these years and uh you've uh i mean it all started off well they sort of national prominence was when it was jimmy Crowley and stoker's lodge with the boys of fair hill back in the i think that was late 1970s that's right 77 onwards so yeah yeah i mean that was a huge huge success well it was beyond our imagination at the time jury really and we were very lucky to have you know the mongol record music labels who are very inventive and and very altruistic and are you know sort of led by people like donald and me hallelujah and James O'Neill and they just saw something in what i was doing and the work i was doing was covering the old balance you know so they gave us a break and got three the contract for three albums and like it's really really fantastic you know having
good producers and good studios and engineers you know it was really a great start you know indeed so mandy so uh but uh you know you wouldn't have got that like without uh you know having the talent you've got to have the material to be able to uh record as well uh you you also went on and i believe was of the 1980s uh you had an electric experiment whereby it was uh Jimmy Crowley and the electric band you actually did a a sort of a reggae style recording of the boys of fair hill then yeah like we didn't need we made a lovely little band for oil just simply called the electric electric band and I was kind of listening i was um a little bit restless like i'm and the fourth thing was changing and i was changing internally to and then I always wanted to you know to
re-show them a little bit a bit more and do different kind of things and i didn't see any reason why you couldn't sing maybe you know kind of a song like Chinese wheel or something like that and see it you know an accident you know and like it was still kind of forklift so we didn't saw that stuff and uh but by chance we did the regular version of the bodyville which was lovely and went into the chats and it was just you know it could have went a lot it could have did that but that's as much as it did interesting so we were very grateful for us and you see I do that playing like uh gigging my own the following night and that's that was a confusing element you see I'd be saying like on accompanied songs and Irish like and fully songs like the pools from that and then maybe it her doing he could bend so i think people can have to say like who who is he what
does he do and see folk or rock or you know so i i didn't say i mean i i looked at people like you know and said well you know he's always like into everything like isn't everything that's good like text mix and going to jazz and country and folk and overall a great respect for all kinds of music and respect for the you know the people the music makers and the players and all that and the older folks haven't done before and you do something new you want a bit of risk you know indeed now you've got some great admirers i mean the late Liam Clancy said i have jimmy Crowley's music in my car at all times late Ronnie Drew said jimmy Crowley embodies the spirit of cork and uh Christy Moore says my journey is always shortened when I meet jimmy Crowley well that's that's
lovely I mean I'm very moved by those comments you know and what I'm very sad about jerry is that all those men that you wish and you said really like i mean it seems to me like just like a few few weeks ago that we were having the crack together like i was meeting running in Dublin or eating land on them going in the ring and having the cracker without hearing but it's just strange that they're all past you know those kind of icons you know indeed so indeed so uh sad it is too but jimmy listen after all these years you know you're still going strong you're still making music you're writing music and you've just released a double album well I just couldn't i couldn't imagine stopping every single i will be dead I'd say in two months like if i stopped
like looking for songs writing songs praying in a new direction for another room or a book or something like that you know so it's I keep going anywhere you know jerry I mean I can hold on my last but I'm probably like they're like i put it down the saddle you know I'm going to keep it going with her because there's still a lot to do and i could feel myself changing and as a musician as an artist and especially the kind of um capacity for to play music and to me like i should be really nervous in the studio and my timing was bad it wasn't very hard to put tracks down in time but all that has come together and it's just a pleasure now of walking over this in the studio and arrangements and production ideas so that that just took just years and years and very slow but what i guess is like
you know it could have absorbed it and so I feel really upwards like and it's uh even the locks i don't think even myself we were walking on another chinese balance you know Francis child was an old he was a collector of four songs and the songs became kind of lexical in the forecast you know there were many of them persons were collected in America later on by we've come across a you know glorious garland of those songs you know and uh we're gonna just see how Irish versions of the chinese balance like and and my sweetheart my parents don't even she's a great singer and she's she's she's very passionate about sounds and she's bringing great newness to it you know so that's what we're doing and we're you know doing a bit of Boston and like I'm into something nothing shameful about busking it's just
fantastic doing some of the flowers markets i mean there's nothing else going on iIdon't want to go online like and they can zoom with that i just can't do that indeed so if you go to a farmer's market and chat up to people and take only through banjos if you want someone to you can make you can be good you can sing night Maggie valley songs and songs that the traveling people gave us you know and it feels like you're not clearly you know let me send a few cd,s and make a few books and before the geek starts again you know date and date that's the day indeed now do this this particular your latest album here is a it's a it's a double one and uh it's got a lot of track 27 tracks featured on it like you do the uh the I see the album is actually done in a true sort of presentation style with some words in it
about yourself and some lovely designers called songs from the beautiful city well well well thanks for saying naturally i i am i i said to my i had a big chat with myself one morning and they said look like I'm not going to be carrying this are you able to carry this like you know they already want to fly for much longer and I actually don't want to do that because so i said i like i do one last album i put everything i could into it like and I said to myself I got somehow so i have to do that songs well because i had a book last year which was very successful called songs from the beautiful city and it was kind of in ethnography and generic chapters like like children's songs immigration the comic views all the sporting balance
you know the political balance and all that so it's kind of could regardless of the history of the urban history of calculus so the album the double album is more less based on luxury good standards but sadly it's that stained for me that this is my last car calvin and I want to do another one and i think i think i did me this i did like 1977 I've seen the armored car and poolsong and and it's brilliant to represent your people and to be when people see you and say uh they're plenty of are you a good lad another but here's a song that big I'm used to singing people follow me up all the time you know and it's just lovely like but i just it's like the reasons i did electric band there was another different things you know before before i go to the big forklift in the skyline
you know what i mean so so I said I've lingered long enough now you know when you don't love us so much and so proud of it and so grateful for the nursery that gave me like the cultural thing you know but I just that's it it's safe for some other flow i say do one more and do put everything i have so there's 26 songs to there is the classic uh you know the likes of the bells of Shandon uh which uh you know so many people will uh will know and also uh there's some songs on which you know people outside of cork would not be familiar with but there's also like the the cork regatta almost well-known as well and uh of course the uh classic beautiful city on it well there's there's a good a good cross section of all the things that motivate from sports to the political thing you know and
to the comic views which is a bit different this goes in our case and you know a couple of little occasional songs will be song and maybe based on the music called tradition you know like like the place to be shot which is probably an international summary you know what the royals or the ladies of the race who who spot kind of innocency announcement procedure judges so they will win all that because um it's kind of real and the other thing that i loved about cherry about doing this walking was that we had a sound effect for last like maybe just a just a chorus you know maybe the first verse and we missed them back together you know we kind of used a bit of a balanced anatomy and kind of put flesh on the bones that we
took off you know and I walked away quite contented and he's he's a wonderful man for okay digging up songs and for writing songs he's a great writer as well but forgiving old friends you know I think this was supposed to make him turkey too yes he had the record and he said what do you think was happening like in the first person like about this obviously you know twenty girl who was arrested late and she was held and she had to go to the jail and suddenly as well for two weeks why was she in it so I couldn't work lately around that when he could across songs of course we put on facebook readers and everybody got the the second verse of uh the old version of beautiful city or whatever and you know sergeant Hillary used to do that you know joey when he when he collected the songs of the
people he was an organ collector and he he had a column too like they had a newspaper and he he put out feelers to his readers and he done it every week in the social context in the history so he he got new songs like from the column you know and suddenly excellent doesn't mean extension journey too you know indeed you're mentioning pat daily pat as a gentleman I've actually also interviewed on the program of fine fine talent indeed he is uh also jimmy this is uh this is the last uh cork album where to uh where to next well the next handle is an album called life you know and it's just colonies and it's just echoing us it just clears all our faculties said that beyond um the uncelebrated life is not living you know it doesn't have earthquakes
and I'm just paraphrasing you know but he said that love allows you for reason like it's not just to get through and pay the bills and live like them but it's you're supposed to you know absorb us because and being afflicted about your life and say i think well there's a reason why stuff happened so there's a lot of songs about my name like who lives in Florida for a few years you know and that was exciting and i came back again and so thanks from both sides and it's a very wide range of subjects like you know um there's a song my cat charge when he died and sometimes just simply called George there's a song called feel like a king i thought my son James really scrambled the age of 21 when there's several love songs and
unrequited kind of things and regrets and there's a song about Obama like this one thing there's a book a novel called high brazil which is a kind of a Celtic utopia that's why I've been walking on for years too and there's a sign though with eve my partner called like the child project you know doing Irish versions mostly learning from the traveling people of the scholars in English now it's rebellions you know so that's slightly academic and I'd love to know another Irish language you certainly are jimmy there's definitely no holding you no holding your back sounds uh sounds good I'll have to say for further details on you you've got the website jimmy Crowley. com or you're also on facebook Jimmy Crowley for anybody who wants details or in order to get the album you
can get the album I assume Jimmy on your website well it's because things have changed completely uh johnny and you know we we spoke about about the demise of the album like i still set a good funeral attitude you know a good view and enough to make me keep wanting to because then i believe in in the cd but I know that it's great it could be doomed it could be doomed and people are choosing to listen in a different way i don't know what kind of surprise that people have because the sound the with the sonic width is not the same and you will get a better sound from the npo cd like you can just just sit down and show off the shoes indeed indeed yeah time will still tell but no matter what you still keep going still keep
writing uh and still keep performing I'm sorry i didn't say this very well very precisely yeah kind of sexy but people can get to see the best way to get to is just www. jimmycrowley.com well there might say there's a little record store and everything I've ever recorded and a lot of people stopping at mistakes stuff that people may not be aware of it's available on that site and we've posted those in no time at all without blessing the other thing is catch me at a gate or if you're in Dublin you'll get you'll get stuff and uh records you want to get they're distributing from me lovely jimmy list has been great to have a chat with you great to catch up with you i wish you all the success in the
future in the world and uh hopefully when it's safe to do so you'll be back doing you uh doing your live gigs jimmy listen it's been lovely to talk to you joey it's my casual grace and thanks for giving me your time and my life and thanks for the interesting
