The Marquee In Drumlish Lyrics By Declan Nerney
This was one of the biggest hits for Country singer Declan. The sheet music with tin whistle notes are included. It tells the story of how he started out with his first guitar to becoming one of Ireland's greatest country music performers. No chords at the moment. Also included are the lyrics for Stop The World And Let Me Off which is one of the shortest songs ever written. It only has one verse and one chorus that gets repeated over and over which is handy when you've a few pints on you and can't remember the words of a song. Back to the Irish country song lyrics . Other songs her by Declan Nerney include ''Give Me One More Kiss'' and Back In Roscommon.
When I was just a little boy my one and only wish
Was to get to see the showbands at the marquee in Drumlish.
I'd watch them all arrive in big wagons and fine cars
And I wondered what it would be like to be a country star.
My father used to tell me that I was far too small
And I had no change to go to the dance to see the bands all
But my mother would get 'round him and I would get my wish
And we'd go to see the Mainliners in the marquee in Drumlish.
I'd watch Seamus McManus as he played his lead guitar
And I wondered how he got that sound,,,,,,,
When Big Tom sang ''Gentle Mother'' sure I can tell you this,
That everyone would sing along in the marquee in Drumlish.
Larry And The Mighty Avons were among my favourites too
How I envied Micky Brady with his Fender coloured blue
When Larry sang he had them all, no notes he ever missed
You could hear that fence and echo around the marquee in drumlish.
Philamena Country favour would take the old band stand
And I'd watch when Dan O'Hara pick and play my ramblin man
And later on when I got home I'd check the old jam jar.
To see if I had saved enough to buy my first guitar.
So next morning with my mother we went to Longford Town
And she bought me that first guitar, I think it was twelve pounds
With radio and records I practised all alone
Soo I had the job with The Hilos and Gene Stuard from Tyrone
And then one Friday Evening came that biggest break of all
I was asked to join The Brian Coll and the mighty Buckaroos
We played all over Ireland, England and The U.S.A
And I owe a lot to Brian for what I am today
And now the people tell me that I could go far
We play all over Ireland from Cork to Castlebar
The carnival is over but I still got my wish
For I got my inspiration, at the marquee in Drumlish.
No I wont forget marquee in my native town Drublish.
Was to get to see the showbands at the marquee in Drumlish.
I'd watch them all arrive in big wagons and fine cars
And I wondered what it would be like to be a country star.
My father used to tell me that I was far too small
And I had no change to go to the dance to see the bands all
But my mother would get 'round him and I would get my wish
And we'd go to see the Mainliners in the marquee in Drumlish.
I'd watch Seamus McManus as he played his lead guitar
And I wondered how he got that sound,,,,,,,
When Big Tom sang ''Gentle Mother'' sure I can tell you this,
That everyone would sing along in the marquee in Drumlish.
Larry And The Mighty Avons were among my favourites too
How I envied Micky Brady with his Fender coloured blue
When Larry sang he had them all, no notes he ever missed
You could hear that fence and echo around the marquee in drumlish.
Philamena Country favour would take the old band stand
And I'd watch when Dan O'Hara pick and play my ramblin man
And later on when I got home I'd check the old jam jar.
To see if I had saved enough to buy my first guitar.
So next morning with my mother we went to Longford Town
And she bought me that first guitar, I think it was twelve pounds
With radio and records I practised all alone
Soo I had the job with The Hilos and Gene Stuard from Tyrone
And then one Friday Evening came that biggest break of all
I was asked to join The Brian Coll and the mighty Buckaroos
We played all over Ireland, England and The U.S.A
And I owe a lot to Brian for what I am today
And now the people tell me that I could go far
We play all over Ireland from Cork to Castlebar
The carnival is over but I still got my wish
For I got my inspiration, at the marquee in Drumlish.
No I wont forget marquee in my native town Drublish.
Declan Nerney
Declan Nerney - Back In Roscommon lyrics
Well I got my luggage in the boot, soon I'll be free-wheeling
Heading down that road to a county in the west
I'm all alive and to tell the truth I've got this lovely feeling
For tomorrow I'll awaking in the place I love the best.
I'm gonna meet my friends tonight in the county of Roscommon
To see our aincient abbey Forrest Park and Lough Key
To watch the boats below the bridge as I cross the River Shannon
I'm at home amoung The Rossies their the Heart and Soul of me.
I'll call to see my relatives'''
Ah we meet old friends in Strockstown, Lisacul and Castlerea
In ''' where an Angel lives, that's my aunty Mary
She's a gentle hearted lady and she means the world to me.
I'm gonna meet my friends tonight in the county of Roscommon
To see our aincient abbey Forrest Park and Lough Key
To watch the boats below the bridge as I cross the River Shannon
I'm at home amoung The Rossies their the Heart and Soul of me.
Hear again the haunting tunes of Percy and O'Carroll
And catch a game in Hyde Park on a sunny afternoon
Through Knockvicar we'll walk hand in hand and thank God for our blessings
With my baby I'll propose to her beneath an August moon.
Well I'm gonna meet my friends tonight in the county of Roscommon
To see our aincient abbey Forrest Park and Lough Key
To watch the boats below the bridge as I cross the River Shannon
I'm at home amoung The Rossies their the Heart and Soul of me.
Well I got my luggage in the boot, soon I'll be free-wheeling
Heading down that road to a county in the west
I'm all alive and to tell the truth I've got this lovely feeling
For tomorrow I'll awaking in the place I love the best.
I'm gonna meet my friends tonight in the county of Roscommon
To see our aincient abbey Forrest Park and Lough Key
To watch the boats below the bridge as I cross the River Shannon
I'm at home amoung The Rossies their the Heart and Soul of me.
I'll call to see my relatives'''
Ah we meet old friends in Strockstown, Lisacul and Castlerea
In ''' where an Angel lives, that's my aunty Mary
She's a gentle hearted lady and she means the world to me.
I'm gonna meet my friends tonight in the county of Roscommon
To see our aincient abbey Forrest Park and Lough Key
To watch the boats below the bridge as I cross the River Shannon
I'm at home amoung The Rossies their the Heart and Soul of me.
Hear again the haunting tunes of Percy and O'Carroll
And catch a game in Hyde Park on a sunny afternoon
Through Knockvicar we'll walk hand in hand and thank God for our blessings
With my baby I'll propose to her beneath an August moon.
Well I'm gonna meet my friends tonight in the county of Roscommon
To see our aincient abbey Forrest Park and Lough Key
To watch the boats below the bridge as I cross the River Shannon
I'm at home amoung The Rossies their the Heart and Soul of me.
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Stop the world and let me off lyrics
Stop the world and let me off sheet music and tin whistle notes
Declan Nerney Irish Singer
Give Me One More Kiss Lyrics By Declan Nerney
Give me one more kiss our happiness I'll miss
When I turn and walk away we'll never kiss again
Let me gaze upon you tenderly the way you used to look at me
When we were happy and I thought our love will never end.
In Limerick Cork and old Tralee, I love them all they're calling me
I want to see that open road again.
And I'm leaving just the way I came, best that you forget my name
So darling give me one more kiss and I'll be on my way.
Give me one more kiss a moment more of bliss
Before I turn my back on love and break your heart that's true.
For a pretty girl a lovely song it's all the happiness I've known
I could never settle down as you would have me do.
Oh Foxford Kells and Tiffany I love them all they're calling me
I want to see that open road again.
And I'm leaving just the way I came, it's best that you forget my name
So darling give me one more kiss and I'll be on my way
Give me one more kiss and please remember this I'm not the kind to take your heart
and break it just for fun.
And I know I'll miss your smiling face, I want to feel your warm embrace
The wonder it is in my Soul I must be moving on.
In Milford Clougher Doonaree, I love them all they're calling me
I want to see that open road again.
And I'm leaving just the way I came, it's best that you forget my name
So darling give me one more kiss and I'll be on my way
So darling give me one more kiss and I'll be on my way
Give me one more kiss our happiness I'll miss
When I turn and walk away we'll never kiss again
Let me gaze upon you tenderly the way you used to look at me
When we were happy and I thought our love will never end.
In Limerick Cork and old Tralee, I love them all they're calling me
I want to see that open road again.
And I'm leaving just the way I came, best that you forget my name
So darling give me one more kiss and I'll be on my way.
Give me one more kiss a moment more of bliss
Before I turn my back on love and break your heart that's true.
For a pretty girl a lovely song it's all the happiness I've known
I could never settle down as you would have me do.
Oh Foxford Kells and Tiffany I love them all they're calling me
I want to see that open road again.
And I'm leaving just the way I came, it's best that you forget my name
So darling give me one more kiss and I'll be on my way
Give me one more kiss and please remember this I'm not the kind to take your heart
and break it just for fun.
And I know I'll miss your smiling face, I want to feel your warm embrace
The wonder it is in my Soul I must be moving on.
In Milford Clougher Doonaree, I love them all they're calling me
I want to see that open road again.
And I'm leaving just the way I came, it's best that you forget my name
So darling give me one more kiss and I'll be on my way
So darling give me one more kiss and I'll be on my way
Declan Nerney Songs
The marquee in Drumleash, now Declan Nerney was bound to make a welcome return to the uk appearing in the warcraft theater in Shrewsbury tomorrow night and there's also big nights in the becca theatre and haze on this Thursday night and on the haverhill art center on this Friday this Saturday night's venue is the beckles public holes on the popular princess theater han stanton on this uh Sunday the 19th and we say hello and a very good afternoon Declan how are you doing hello jerry and hello to all your listeners today Declan this is lovely lovely to speak to you from Drumlish county Longford now at Declan you're you're steeped in music you started out uh as we mentioned before at the early age of just 16 and then the local band the high lows which toured all over Ireland at the time and you've never looked back and now in addition to vocals you're also a an accomplished instrumentalist and an indeed songwriter uh and uh do you do you think that the all-around musical ability is contributing to your ongoing success and they give a lot of control of your your own musical outpost uh it was something it was something i set out to just enjoy and i still enjoy it jerry it's it's not something that you you'd say right I need to do this and i need to press that button it's just it just all happened as it was that's the way i seen that i was so interested in music and so interested in guitars and all of that there that i just sat down and decided that that's the way i was go you know that's what was going to lead me on whatever that led me to uh so that
was it there was no big plan in it or planning or nothing it just all happened and I was quite an amount of years uh you know performing in bands and being a member of bands which is very very useful I have to say like on hindsight it has been very useful the experience of that but it wasn't for most of my mind to become a a superstar or anything like that there which i'm not and i i enjoy doing what we do and that's the way it is yes yes I mean it's it's uh it listen it must be great for for the likes of yourself uh to be back touring once again you know after uh the covered lockdowns and everything else I mean that that uh you know that must have been a difficult time for yourself indeed everybody else in the in the music business oh actually there's a different it was a difficult time for everybody never mind in their own music business but the music business seemed to have got hit that little bit harder uh i suppose it was the first to go at the last to resume and it will take quite a bit of time before uh before it does you know get back into its full swing uh mind you it's surprising everybody at the moment that it's it's picking up quite well at the moment now there's uh there's a there is a good uh lift in in attendances uh all over the place so we're probably with the summer in and oil and festivals and one thing another it's giving people a little bit more confidence to go out and be out and live their lives being honest indeed indeed so yes i i know of having numerous events you've appeared at and they you
know they've been very well attended by you know the likes of uh festivals and fair days and all the uh the rest of it that's it that's probably across Ireland now you appear wherever the biggest names and uh in Irish music appear on the late late show also you're an award when you're here in London and uh the the golden stars such as yourself Susan McCann Philamina Begley Margo and many others but uh the most interesting thing about it all is in recent years is the appeal of uh your style of music and Irish countries to younger people with the Nathan Carter Derek Ryan etc uh coming on scene yeah well hopefully that will continue now and that there'll be more even more new acts out there there is quite an amount of new artists on uh you know all the time there it's just that i i i i worry that there isn't enough of a platform for them you know like back in the day you had you know all the famous ballrooms and you had all the famous concerts halls and there was every every second pub lounge along the streets of every city had music going on in them which doesn't occur anymore so the the amount of the out while there's there's a great platform we'd say from a media point of view like your own radio station there to the spotlight tvs and all of that the venues the venues just doesn't seem to be uh there as plentiful and as as uh lucrative uh supposed for in a way as
they were for for young acts to get up and get going and get known and get seen indeed indeed uh that's you know that that is one of the things things in as regards the venues and all that have uh have changed even though they that the music is still incredibly popular uh it's incredibly popular but but what has happened is people have retreated to their own sitting room and says ah sure look at freaking i can see this fella here now on my own screen but it was a glass of wine and and and and a bag of chips here and and i have a grand evening uh you know that's that type of thing but you know it's it's um it's strange the way that things turn around and turn about you know indeed indeed so it is it's uh it's it's incredible i mean uh but but the you like the the likes of your music has has uh you know has never more popular i mean i know like for example on youtube i mean your your videos i mean are are viewed like you know hundreds i mean you you've got millions of views on on your videos yes on the on the last count uh stop the world between all of the spotifys and all it has something in excess of 4. 8 million views that's quite a lot of views it sure is if you were if you're getting about if you get the phone for every time they were viewed you'd be you'd be a wealthy man uh jerry indeed Declan you would you would the most listen there must be
something the jeans of your family Una Healy uh who enjoyed huge success with the girl group the Saturdays who had a massive hits just as uh just can't get enough uh she actually credits you with inspiring her to uh follow a musical career Una is culturally saying that you you've been very supportive she's a your niece well i would have been very supportive i don't know how how much i contributed to her because she has her own talent and and her own interests at heart you know and her own genre of music uh and all of that there and she she is um she knows she's a great writer now i have to say she writes some beautiful songs and she continues to do it all you know on a continual basis there so one of these days someone one of these songs he could just hit the jackpot you know that's the way it is you know indeed listen the vintage tractor fair is a popular event uh here in London also there's a it was recently a tractor drive from the cluttering pub in north London to Kong and County Mayo to raise up money to build the children's hospice uh res uh respite center uh anything to do with tractors as a mass appeal I believe that that uh you know vintage tractors has been a passion of yours for years well fun enough I actually supported that particular thing and I went to to visit them and support them when they came down so long for because they came down they came down to the north of Ireland and and on down and it was something to behold it was a serious spectacle and uh one of the guys that was telling me
there that he actually changed the clutch in the tractor along the road along in the car park you know and there was all sorts of activity went on and there were you know hats off to them fellas and girls as well there was quite an amount of ladies involved in that tractor run as well and hats off to them because it's a big it was a big commitment but it was something really worthwhile doing and a memory for life and an achievement for life for those people and congratulations to them and and all of that indeed indeed I know you yourself you've got you've got a passion for uh for tractors you've got a number of them yourself yeah yeah i have elected no I wouldn't have as many as they used to have but I have still a few good fewer in the shed there but and I give the occasion a little wrong there's something just about the old tractors that there was and the sound of them and uh you know the particularly the tractors they didn't have a cab because you were just in the free air and you were exposed to the elements and all of that there the way it would have been back in the day and it is a lovely it is it's it's you can spend a lovely afternoon just on it now it wasn't just as as handsome and pretty at the time because you had to be out in all sorts of inclement weather uh work on those tractors but that's the way it is and and uh i just that's a a little passion i have a simple little thing but um it can be put to very fruitful use like the lads done there for that threat to run indeed indeed so yeah you're bringing me back to the days of my youth and out on uh the tractors and all the rest of it and the the tractors in those days as you say you're
out and they you work totally out in the open i mean it sounds like the uh the modern tractors of today with uh which have uh air conditioning and stereo systems I'm sure that you could press the button and it will make a cup of coffee for you you have you have you have the world there show you i see young chaps here particularly this time of the year when they're at a and have phones go on and i'm sure they're they're they're they're on holidays like driving these tractors you wouldn't even hear you wouldn't even hear the thing going on it's a big monster machine under them and uh they can do a powerful amount of work in a very short space of time indeed indeed listen on the on the 1st of July looking ahead you're you're the headline act at the most groundworks annual dinner dance now it's going to be a great night it's all in good charitable calls shaping up to be a really good event they're uh starting off with the drinks reception where guests can mingle followed by a three-course dinner and then uh the dancing begins with uh you with yourself sure to be a big night there uh that'll be a huge night I'm very very looking forward to that with Alicia and all our our friends and uh they have connections here with our uh uh our county here as well and uh I'm really honored that that Alicia came on to me and involved me in this particular event and um looking very very much forward to that no that's on the first of july yeah that the last so the area centered in in in in in Wembley there were that's on and Saturday nights that's right and then in
Wimbledon that's on the the Saturday by the way they they the the most from groundworks event it's uh there's also an Irish dancing display there by the kd academy uh it's uh in the prestigious rygate manor hotel now the proceeds are going towards the uh the samaritans tickets are just 50 pounds includes dinner at the dancing all of the event you can email uh admin at monstrum. most or im dot uk uh and uh sheila jasper uh was uh she actually met you on the cruise in America there from that the south London irish troops i did yeah she did she was on on the cruise and she came to me one of the days and Sheila says would you be interested in coming to play in our irish center and um i just forgot that's but that's the business I'm in i says hey if if if you have a night for us we have at the time to come and and uh definitely perform there and look forward to that little event as well indeed indeed so these so it should be here should be another that's on the second that's on the second of of july yeah you can get uh tickets from uh contacting the uh the the club on that uh you've declared all over the years I mean it's a it's way over 30 years ago longer than maybe both of us would like to remember when i actually got your first uh four track cassette
picture of my world was the leading track on that it was yeah the picture of my world was recorded in 1988 uh actually and uh it was recorded on the second of February 1988 released and it started just taking off around now this time of the year and um it launched me the of course at the local stations here at the time you had star radio which was you were involved with yourself jerry uh you had the brephne and you had all these ones in Donegal and cork and all over the place Erin said um they were a huge they opened up you know they're talking about Ireland becoming their day the day they came in the sun and they talked about the Celtic tiger and all i actually think that a lot of it is down to a particular thing when when those stations uh cropped up and arrived upon the scene because they give the ordinary man a voice and they give the ordinary man a little platform to be able to express and see what was happening and you know to converse in the world and I think that it was a huge it was a a huge boost and boom to particularly the music trade as well and to other uh elements of of uh Irish life indeed indeed so it is you said Declan McCabe uh back in the in in the day like it it gave a voice to the uh to the to the normal person it gave also the normal person had a listening ear where besides before that they they really didn't it was a very exclusive sort of club as regards uh radio in Ireland well it was well well it did they give the ordinary man a choice in
what he wanted to hear and what he wanted listen what his interests were really about what what he had at heart and sometimes the facility cases radio stations missed that point you know and um it's it's it's fine to to uh you know I'm not just saying that being enough of radio stations in general because we're we're indebted to them all uh but sometimes it be it is important that that the ornery man's ear gets a hearing as well indeed indeed so and so on and under people are able to uh you know at that stage i think back in the in the 1980s with all those radio stations which I was involved in back in those days indeed it was a it was important that that uh you know the likes of artists like yourself could be heard i mean you know could be heard for the first time and people were you know in around that time there were people like uh john hogan mick flavin and Paddy O'Brien and yourself I mean you you were the new young guns back in those days uh coming on you know well i i would wonder even go back to the to to the main man has to say to Daniel like if Daniel didn't get that here you know at that time from the radio stations that were going like it it made Daniel as well you know that was a sort of disturbance but that was the pinnacle of it you know indeed it was yes dang it was just a couple of years before yourself and uh you know i mean Daniel O'Donnell had never been heard of i mean sort of the initial introduction was this is the the young brother of
Margot that was a sort of at that stage his biggest claim to fame and uh the song my Donegal shore was the the huge one which uh started to start it all off for him it did yeah that got the whole ball rolling and it got the ball rolling on that tall scene and got an interest in it and got a little bit of a euphoria being honest about going through the whole country at that time and that's what really has got us to this present day indeed indeed so did so it's sort of a it was it was it was a time when uh it sort of became uh it became popular to uh to to like Irish country music once again rather than you know where that the whole leaning before that had gone to uh sort of a an international kind of pop music scene well it had you see what you have to remember that would say tom Larry and Margo and Philamina Begley and all these great people that we had that got that put that put this whole thing you know from the shore band here it puts it put it up on a level that has not been seen since it has it has you know for for the where it aspired to it it never really got back to that to that huge day where there was all these great ballrooms packed and jammed the people six thousand people in the galaxy more to see Larry Cunningham and all you know like it had everything has his time and has his
day in the sun and it and then it needs a little boost again and that's where we suppose that where the Daniel thing came in but the radio stations did help that did had a huge expression way of expressing all of that you know so that's we have to commend them and give them their their fair share of of a claim for what they've done indeed now speaking of the song you've got the uh that they it's become sort of uh famous at this stage the hooli in the sun yeah well it's something we started back 20 years ago and um it took it it took off because we had a succession of bad summers here in Ireland we were just out on holidays one time and i was saying jiminy imagine if you could bring people out here and uh you know and we just started talking and wanting in another and we decided we'd look for a hotel and see what would that would there be a market for it would people be interested in coming to it and bringing out the bands and it was quite expensive to to to to get involved in and a big risk case was in a way but it just worked and it took off and it has been going since from strength to strength all the time the holy and the sun and either i mean it's going in absolute uh an absolute storm the huli in the sun uh can you uh tell us listen if somebody wants to go to the hooli in the sun how can they book well it spoke out this year now it's unfortunately that's it's this year but next year it uh info Declan Nerney
com is the simplest way because all the information will be all there is Cassidy's travel in Dublin that does all the the groundwork i suppose for it you know they do all the booking and Cassidy travel but uh when when the new brush will be opened the new holiday for 2023 it will be um you can just go in on the declanery. com uh webpage and all i'll be there and then you'll be able to get the information the full information the book and the hooli and the sun right now you've got a huge i mean you've got an absolutely huge uh stack of artists appear at it i mean uh the top range of Irish artists appear at the hooli in the sun well there is there's a we have a great array and then we do all these three to involve a couple of new conversions and and try and uh introduce new young people to the audience as well and use that because i i am always aware and at all times that it's very important to to keep to keep uh re-blood and new acts in it the same as we say that the football thing does you know you that's why you can't let it all die down you have to have something new coming on something new encouraging and uh something interesting and so that's why we keep uh new upper common acts on there as
well indeed indeed uh very very important because uh uh you know from from back in the day i mean you are one of those uh young young acts coming along and it's very important that you know that the young acts get you know get to get to showcase their talents that's it that's it cherry in a nutshell go right listen I've got a couple of fans huge fans of yours uh Liz Duggan yesterday she celebrated her birthday and uh they're from Derry they live in Bedford and that they they love traveling to see all the garish bands and they're huge huge fans of yours uh Michelle or Liz's sister send me a little request uh for uh for Liz for the birthday uh for the birthday uh yesterday well happy birthday out of anybody who's celebrating their birthday around now a very happy birthday to you all have a great day and Declan so once again you you're over in in in the U.K. or just a little reminder once again you're in the walker theater in Shrewsbury tomorrow night uh there's a big night in the back theatre and haze on this Thursday and on the haverhill arts center on Friday Saturday's venue is the Beckel's public halls and then it's the the popular princess theater in han stanton on Sunday uh there's no stopping you you're you're appearing all over the place all over the sport I'm like I'm like clouds upon the sky i i eventually get around to them all around the boat so we're looking for forward as as always I look forward to
coming to the uk to meet and seeing our friends in it and see how they're getting on and it's a couple of years since we have seen a lot of them now and so there's great interest in it i have to say there's great interest in anybody who wants to book one of them nicely there's still a few tickets left and they can look them up in in the theaters and maybe hopefully come along on the night indeed so whatever you know what it said it's a great chance i think uh you know they're saying uh you know people coming uh coming out and uh uh it's a great chance for people to uh you know to to once again see yourself because as you say it's a couple of years i mean since uh people have seen you and it's uh you know it's it's great to be able to uh you know to have the freedom to connect up again that's it that's exactly it jerian hopefully we'll have a go down the night strike with them all jacqueline listen has been lovely lovely to speak to you uh listen continued success and listen have a great uh theater tour and uh then on uh back again on uh first and second of july in the U.K. Declan listen lovely to catch up with you again thank you very much jerry and and to all your listeners out there today i wish you all all very good health and happiness and i hope it's a good summer and the weather is going to get good roundabouts so we're looking forward to that and hopefully maybe you'll be able to join us upon the venue's various venues that we are performing at and the support is always greatly appreciated
[Music] stop the world and let me off they stopped the world and let me off my dreams have shattered don't you see [ that you no longer care for me i miss to wander off your kiss how could you leave me here like this [Music] he stopped the world and let me up I'm tired of going round and round I've played a game of love and lost [Music] hey stop the world and let me [Music] off uh [Music] my dreams have shattered don't you see that you no longer care for me [Music] how could you leave me here like this he stopped the world and let me I've played a game of love and losthey stop the world
you gotta get up in the she knows she must be quiet she had a little booze so she takes off her shoes she don't have to deny it when her mom can't sleep she hears her crepes into the bedroom yawning as she jumps out of bed she shakes her head you want to see him dancing when he sees us you're scared he's a fear I'll flirt he still does a bit of romancing i asked him once how he was so fit i never seen him yawning he said porridge punches for your lunch but you gotta get up in the morning when the day goes bad i wish i had never got up in the morning oh we gotta get up in the morning and up and down
was it there was no big plan in it or planning or nothing it just all happened and I was quite an amount of years uh you know performing in bands and being a member of bands which is very very useful I have to say like on hindsight it has been very useful the experience of that but it wasn't for most of my mind to become a a superstar or anything like that there which i'm not and i i enjoy doing what we do and that's the way it is yes yes I mean it's it's uh it listen it must be great for for the likes of yourself uh to be back touring once again you know after uh the covered lockdowns and everything else I mean that that uh you know that must have been a difficult time for yourself indeed everybody else in the in the music business oh actually there's a different it was a difficult time for everybody never mind in their own music business but the music business seemed to have got hit that little bit harder uh i suppose it was the first to go at the last to resume and it will take quite a bit of time before uh before it does you know get back into its full swing uh mind you it's surprising everybody at the moment that it's it's picking up quite well at the moment now there's uh there's a there is a good uh lift in in attendances uh all over the place so we're probably with the summer in and oil and festivals and one thing another it's giving people a little bit more confidence to go out and be out and live their lives being honest indeed indeed so yes i i know of having numerous events you've appeared at and they you
know they've been very well attended by you know the likes of uh festivals and fair days and all the uh the rest of it that's it that's probably across Ireland now you appear wherever the biggest names and uh in Irish music appear on the late late show also you're an award when you're here in London and uh the the golden stars such as yourself Susan McCann Philamina Begley Margo and many others but uh the most interesting thing about it all is in recent years is the appeal of uh your style of music and Irish countries to younger people with the Nathan Carter Derek Ryan etc uh coming on scene yeah well hopefully that will continue now and that there'll be more even more new acts out there there is quite an amount of new artists on uh you know all the time there it's just that i i i i worry that there isn't enough of a platform for them you know like back in the day you had you know all the famous ballrooms and you had all the famous concerts halls and there was every every second pub lounge along the streets of every city had music going on in them which doesn't occur anymore so the the amount of the out while there's there's a great platform we'd say from a media point of view like your own radio station there to the spotlight tvs and all of that the venues the venues just doesn't seem to be uh there as plentiful and as as uh lucrative uh supposed for in a way as
they were for for young acts to get up and get going and get known and get seen indeed indeed uh that's you know that that is one of the things things in as regards the venues and all that have uh have changed even though they that the music is still incredibly popular uh it's incredibly popular but but what has happened is people have retreated to their own sitting room and says ah sure look at freaking i can see this fella here now on my own screen but it was a glass of wine and and and and a bag of chips here and and i have a grand evening uh you know that's that type of thing but you know it's it's um it's strange the way that things turn around and turn about you know indeed indeed so it is it's uh it's it's incredible i mean uh but but the you like the the likes of your music has has uh you know has never more popular i mean i know like for example on youtube i mean your your videos i mean are are viewed like you know hundreds i mean you you've got millions of views on on your videos yes on the on the last count uh stop the world between all of the spotifys and all it has something in excess of 4. 8 million views that's quite a lot of views it sure is if you were if you're getting about if you get the phone for every time they were viewed you'd be you'd be a wealthy man uh jerry indeed Declan you would you would the most listen there must be
something the jeans of your family Una Healy uh who enjoyed huge success with the girl group the Saturdays who had a massive hits just as uh just can't get enough uh she actually credits you with inspiring her to uh follow a musical career Una is culturally saying that you you've been very supportive she's a your niece well i would have been very supportive i don't know how how much i contributed to her because she has her own talent and and her own interests at heart you know and her own genre of music uh and all of that there and she she is um she knows she's a great writer now i have to say she writes some beautiful songs and she continues to do it all you know on a continual basis there so one of these days someone one of these songs he could just hit the jackpot you know that's the way it is you know indeed listen the vintage tractor fair is a popular event uh here in London also there's a it was recently a tractor drive from the cluttering pub in north London to Kong and County Mayo to raise up money to build the children's hospice uh res uh respite center uh anything to do with tractors as a mass appeal I believe that that uh you know vintage tractors has been a passion of yours for years well fun enough I actually supported that particular thing and I went to to visit them and support them when they came down so long for because they came down they came down to the north of Ireland and and on down and it was something to behold it was a serious spectacle and uh one of the guys that was telling me
there that he actually changed the clutch in the tractor along the road along in the car park you know and there was all sorts of activity went on and there were you know hats off to them fellas and girls as well there was quite an amount of ladies involved in that tractor run as well and hats off to them because it's a big it was a big commitment but it was something really worthwhile doing and a memory for life and an achievement for life for those people and congratulations to them and and all of that indeed indeed I know you yourself you've got you've got a passion for uh for tractors you've got a number of them yourself yeah yeah i have elected no I wouldn't have as many as they used to have but I have still a few good fewer in the shed there but and I give the occasion a little wrong there's something just about the old tractors that there was and the sound of them and uh you know the particularly the tractors they didn't have a cab because you were just in the free air and you were exposed to the elements and all of that there the way it would have been back in the day and it is a lovely it is it's it's you can spend a lovely afternoon just on it now it wasn't just as as handsome and pretty at the time because you had to be out in all sorts of inclement weather uh work on those tractors but that's the way it is and and uh i just that's a a little passion i have a simple little thing but um it can be put to very fruitful use like the lads done there for that threat to run indeed indeed so yeah you're bringing me back to the days of my youth and out on uh the tractors and all the rest of it and the the tractors in those days as you say you're
out and they you work totally out in the open i mean it sounds like the uh the modern tractors of today with uh which have uh air conditioning and stereo systems I'm sure that you could press the button and it will make a cup of coffee for you you have you have you have the world there show you i see young chaps here particularly this time of the year when they're at a and have phones go on and i'm sure they're they're they're they're on holidays like driving these tractors you wouldn't even hear you wouldn't even hear the thing going on it's a big monster machine under them and uh they can do a powerful amount of work in a very short space of time indeed indeed listen on the on the 1st of July looking ahead you're you're the headline act at the most groundworks annual dinner dance now it's going to be a great night it's all in good charitable calls shaping up to be a really good event they're uh starting off with the drinks reception where guests can mingle followed by a three-course dinner and then uh the dancing begins with uh you with yourself sure to be a big night there uh that'll be a huge night I'm very very looking forward to that with Alicia and all our our friends and uh they have connections here with our uh uh our county here as well and uh I'm really honored that that Alicia came on to me and involved me in this particular event and um looking very very much forward to that no that's on the first of july yeah that the last so the area centered in in in in in Wembley there were that's on and Saturday nights that's right and then in
Wimbledon that's on the the Saturday by the way they they the the most from groundworks event it's uh there's also an Irish dancing display there by the kd academy uh it's uh in the prestigious rygate manor hotel now the proceeds are going towards the uh the samaritans tickets are just 50 pounds includes dinner at the dancing all of the event you can email uh admin at monstrum. most or im dot uk uh and uh sheila jasper uh was uh she actually met you on the cruise in America there from that the south London irish troops i did yeah she did she was on on the cruise and she came to me one of the days and Sheila says would you be interested in coming to play in our irish center and um i just forgot that's but that's the business I'm in i says hey if if if you have a night for us we have at the time to come and and uh definitely perform there and look forward to that little event as well indeed indeed so these so it should be here should be another that's on the second that's on the second of of july yeah you can get uh tickets from uh contacting the uh the the club on that uh you've declared all over the years I mean it's a it's way over 30 years ago longer than maybe both of us would like to remember when i actually got your first uh four track cassette
picture of my world was the leading track on that it was yeah the picture of my world was recorded in 1988 uh actually and uh it was recorded on the second of February 1988 released and it started just taking off around now this time of the year and um it launched me the of course at the local stations here at the time you had star radio which was you were involved with yourself jerry uh you had the brephne and you had all these ones in Donegal and cork and all over the place Erin said um they were a huge they opened up you know they're talking about Ireland becoming their day the day they came in the sun and they talked about the Celtic tiger and all i actually think that a lot of it is down to a particular thing when when those stations uh cropped up and arrived upon the scene because they give the ordinary man a voice and they give the ordinary man a little platform to be able to express and see what was happening and you know to converse in the world and I think that it was a huge it was a a huge boost and boom to particularly the music trade as well and to other uh elements of of uh Irish life indeed indeed so it is you said Declan McCabe uh back in the in in the day like it it gave a voice to the uh to the to the normal person it gave also the normal person had a listening ear where besides before that they they really didn't it was a very exclusive sort of club as regards uh radio in Ireland well it was well well it did they give the ordinary man a choice in
what he wanted to hear and what he wanted listen what his interests were really about what what he had at heart and sometimes the facility cases radio stations missed that point you know and um it's it's it's fine to to uh you know I'm not just saying that being enough of radio stations in general because we're we're indebted to them all uh but sometimes it be it is important that that the ornery man's ear gets a hearing as well indeed indeed so and so on and under people are able to uh you know at that stage i think back in the in the 1980s with all those radio stations which I was involved in back in those days indeed it was a it was important that that uh you know the likes of artists like yourself could be heard i mean you know could be heard for the first time and people were you know in around that time there were people like uh john hogan mick flavin and Paddy O'Brien and yourself I mean you you were the new young guns back in those days uh coming on you know well i i would wonder even go back to the to to the main man has to say to Daniel like if Daniel didn't get that here you know at that time from the radio stations that were going like it it made Daniel as well you know that was a sort of disturbance but that was the pinnacle of it you know indeed it was yes dang it was just a couple of years before yourself and uh you know i mean Daniel O'Donnell had never been heard of i mean sort of the initial introduction was this is the the young brother of
Margot that was a sort of at that stage his biggest claim to fame and uh the song my Donegal shore was the the huge one which uh started to start it all off for him it did yeah that got the whole ball rolling and it got the ball rolling on that tall scene and got an interest in it and got a little bit of a euphoria being honest about going through the whole country at that time and that's what really has got us to this present day indeed indeed so did so it's sort of a it was it was it was a time when uh it sort of became uh it became popular to uh to to like Irish country music once again rather than you know where that the whole leaning before that had gone to uh sort of a an international kind of pop music scene well it had you see what you have to remember that would say tom Larry and Margo and Philamina Begley and all these great people that we had that got that put that put this whole thing you know from the shore band here it puts it put it up on a level that has not been seen since it has it has you know for for the where it aspired to it it never really got back to that to that huge day where there was all these great ballrooms packed and jammed the people six thousand people in the galaxy more to see Larry Cunningham and all you know like it had everything has his time and has his
day in the sun and it and then it needs a little boost again and that's where we suppose that where the Daniel thing came in but the radio stations did help that did had a huge expression way of expressing all of that you know so that's we have to commend them and give them their their fair share of of a claim for what they've done indeed now speaking of the song you've got the uh that they it's become sort of uh famous at this stage the hooli in the sun yeah well it's something we started back 20 years ago and um it took it it took off because we had a succession of bad summers here in Ireland we were just out on holidays one time and i was saying jiminy imagine if you could bring people out here and uh you know and we just started talking and wanting in another and we decided we'd look for a hotel and see what would that would there be a market for it would people be interested in coming to it and bringing out the bands and it was quite expensive to to to to get involved in and a big risk case was in a way but it just worked and it took off and it has been going since from strength to strength all the time the holy and the sun and either i mean it's going in absolute uh an absolute storm the huli in the sun uh can you uh tell us listen if somebody wants to go to the hooli in the sun how can they book well it spoke out this year now it's unfortunately that's it's this year but next year it uh info Declan Nerney
com is the simplest way because all the information will be all there is Cassidy's travel in Dublin that does all the the groundwork i suppose for it you know they do all the booking and Cassidy travel but uh when when the new brush will be opened the new holiday for 2023 it will be um you can just go in on the declanery. com uh webpage and all i'll be there and then you'll be able to get the information the full information the book and the hooli and the sun right now you've got a huge i mean you've got an absolutely huge uh stack of artists appear at it i mean uh the top range of Irish artists appear at the hooli in the sun well there is there's a we have a great array and then we do all these three to involve a couple of new conversions and and try and uh introduce new young people to the audience as well and use that because i i am always aware and at all times that it's very important to to keep to keep uh re-blood and new acts in it the same as we say that the football thing does you know you that's why you can't let it all die down you have to have something new coming on something new encouraging and uh something interesting and so that's why we keep uh new upper common acts on there as
well indeed indeed uh very very important because uh uh you know from from back in the day i mean you are one of those uh young young acts coming along and it's very important that you know that the young acts get you know get to get to showcase their talents that's it that's it cherry in a nutshell go right listen I've got a couple of fans huge fans of yours uh Liz Duggan yesterday she celebrated her birthday and uh they're from Derry they live in Bedford and that they they love traveling to see all the garish bands and they're huge huge fans of yours uh Michelle or Liz's sister send me a little request uh for uh for Liz for the birthday uh for the birthday uh yesterday well happy birthday out of anybody who's celebrating their birthday around now a very happy birthday to you all have a great day and Declan so once again you you're over in in in the U.K. or just a little reminder once again you're in the walker theater in Shrewsbury tomorrow night uh there's a big night in the back theatre and haze on this Thursday and on the haverhill arts center on Friday Saturday's venue is the Beckel's public halls and then it's the the popular princess theater in han stanton on Sunday uh there's no stopping you you're you're appearing all over the place all over the sport I'm like I'm like clouds upon the sky i i eventually get around to them all around the boat so we're looking for forward as as always I look forward to
coming to the uk to meet and seeing our friends in it and see how they're getting on and it's a couple of years since we have seen a lot of them now and so there's great interest in it i have to say there's great interest in anybody who wants to book one of them nicely there's still a few tickets left and they can look them up in in the theaters and maybe hopefully come along on the night indeed so whatever you know what it said it's a great chance i think uh you know they're saying uh you know people coming uh coming out and uh uh it's a great chance for people to uh you know to to once again see yourself because as you say it's a couple of years i mean since uh people have seen you and it's uh you know it's it's great to be able to uh you know to have the freedom to connect up again that's it that's exactly it jerian hopefully we'll have a go down the night strike with them all jacqueline listen has been lovely lovely to speak to you uh listen continued success and listen have a great uh theater tour and uh then on uh back again on uh first and second of july in the U.K. Declan listen lovely to catch up with you again thank you very much jerry and and to all your listeners out there today i wish you all all very good health and happiness and i hope it's a good summer and the weather is going to get good roundabouts so we're looking forward to that and hopefully maybe you'll be able to join us upon the venue's various venues that we are performing at and the support is always greatly appreciated
[Music] stop the world and let me off they stopped the world and let me off my dreams have shattered don't you see [ that you no longer care for me i miss to wander off your kiss how could you leave me here like this [Music] he stopped the world and let me up I'm tired of going round and round I've played a game of love and lost [Music] hey stop the world and let me [Music] off uh [Music] my dreams have shattered don't you see that you no longer care for me [Music] how could you leave me here like this he stopped the world and let me I've played a game of love and losthey stop the world
you gotta get up in the she knows she must be quiet she had a little booze so she takes off her shoes she don't have to deny it when her mom can't sleep she hears her crepes into the bedroom yawning as she jumps out of bed she shakes her head you want to see him dancing when he sees us you're scared he's a fear I'll flirt he still does a bit of romancing i asked him once how he was so fit i never seen him yawning he said porridge punches for your lunch but you gotta get up in the morning when the day goes bad i wish i had never got up in the morning oh we gotta get up in the morning and up and down
