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Year 1990 An Irish Dream Over The Years Peter Ratzenbeck Lyrics Wanted! 1991 Rude Awakening Rude Awakening Andy Irvine Lyrics Wanted! 1991 The Whole Damn Thing Rude Awakening Andy Irvine Lyrics Wanted! 1992 Kadana EastWind Andy Irvine & Davy Spillane Lyrics Wanted! 1992 The Bear’s Rock EastWind Andy Irvine & Davy Spillane Lyrics Wanted! 1993 Lawrence Common All In Good Time Patrick Street Lyrics Wanted! 1995 Forgotten Hero The Best of Patrick Street Patrick Street Lyrics Wanted! 1996 Merrily Tripping O’er The Plain Cornerboys Patrick Street Lyrics Wanted! 1996 On Yonder Hill Cornerboys Patrick Street Lyrics Wanted! 1996 Pity The Poor Hare Cornerboys Patrick Street Lyrics Wanted! 1997 Spanking Maggie From The Ross Made In Cork Patrick Street Lyrics Wanted! 1997 When Adam Was In Paradise Made In Cork Patrick Street Lyrics Wanted! 1999 Wild Rover No More Live From Patrick Street Patrick Street Lyrics Wanted! 2002 Down in Matewan Street Life Patrick Street Lyrics Wanted! 2007 The Rich Irish Lady On The Fly Patrick Street Lyrics Wanted! 2010 James Magee/Isambard’s Lament Abocurragh Andy Irvine Lyrics Wanted! 2010 Oslo/Norwegian Mazurka Abocurragh Andy Irvine Lyrics Wanted! 2010 The Demon Lover Abocurragh Andy Irvine Lyrics Wanted! 2010 In The Garden Undiscovered Country Lindsey Horner Lyrics Wanted! 2015 I Wish I Was in Dublin Town LIVE AT FOXROCK FOLK CLUB 1970-72 Andy Irvine Lyrics Wanted! Recording Wanted 2015 Noddy’s Little Red Car LIVE AT FOXROCK FOLK CLUB 1970-73 Andy Irvine Lyrics Wanted! Recording Wanted 2015 Talking Dust Bowl Blues LIVE AT FOXROCK FOLK CLUB 1970-74 Andy Irvine Lyrics Wanted! Recording Wanted 2018 Champion at Keeping Them Rollin’ Precious Heroes Andy Irvine & Luke Plumb Lyrics Wanted! 2018 Dunlavin Green Precious Heroes Andy Irvine & Luke Plumb Lyrics Wanted! 2018 Erin’s Green Shore Precious Heroes Andy Irvine & Luke Plumb Lyrics Wanted! 2018 Frank Ryan Precious Heroes Andy Irvine & Luke Plumb Lyrics Wanted! 2018 Hard Times in ‘Comer’s Mines Precious Heroes Andy Irvine & Luke Plumb Lyrics Wanted! 2018 Here’s a Health to Every Miner Lad Precious Heroes Andy Irvine & Luke Plumb Lyrics Wanted! 2018 Niamh and Oisín Precious Heroes Andy Irvine & Luke Plumb Lyrics Wanted! 2018 The Death of Ben Hall Precious Heroes Andy Irvine & Luke Plumb Lyrics Wanted! 2019 The Coast Of Peru The Long And The Short Of It Mozaik Lyrics Wanted! 2019 Houdini The Long And The Short Of It Mozaik Lyrics Wanted! – I Thought That It Was Raining Rare or Unreleased Andy Irvine Lyrics Wanted! Recording Wanted – Lawrence 1912 Rare or Unreleased Andy Irvine Lyrics Wanted! Recording Wanted – Shining Star Rare or Unreleased Andy Irvine Lyrics Wanted! Recording Wanted – Victor Hara of Chile Rare or Unreleased Andy Irvine Lyrics Wanted! Recording Wanted – You and I in One Bed Lie Rare or Unreleased Andy Irvine Lyrics Wanted! Recording Wanted
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Hi,
Here are the lyrics for (The Ballad Of Harry …) Houdini
As far as I can figure them!
(As recorded Belfast BlackBox 15/10/2015)
Harry Houdini the Hang up king
He could escape from nearly anything
The world’s admiration Harry Houdini won it
For if it could be done Houdini done it…
[Lyrics Removed]
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Thank you for this! As this is a new song which has not yet been recorded (and therefore copyright protected), i will hold off on publishing these lyrics. I will however keep them on record & when the right time comes i will include them. Thank you for the submission!
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“Harry Houdini the handcuff king.”
What’s the point in putting up lyrics that are f…..g wrong?
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Just an immediate reaction to Kenny’s take on the lyrics: surely it’s “Harry Houdini the handcuff king”?.
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Yes, you are right it is “Handcuff”
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Hi mate !
Just wanted you to know that John Barlow was recorded on a Lp, called “Patris” (Homeland) by the Greek band, “Apodimi Compania”, on Brunswick Recordings 0010, 1990, Melbourne, Australia. Andy plays Bouzouki and sings.Manoli Galiatsos plays the Oud and George Galiatsos plays the Guitar.
Andy told me that he had learnt the song from Robert Cinnamond of Co, Antrim, who would not recognise it if he heard it now !!!!!!!
The lyrics are :
There was a lady lived in the West
And she was dressed in green
And she’s leaned over her father’s castle wall
To watch the ships sail in.
What is wrong with you her father he did say
You look so pale and wan
O have you any sore sickness
Or yet been sleeping with a man.
I have not had any sore sickness
But I’m in love with a young man
And the only thing that breaks my heart
Is what keeps my darling so long?
Is he a Lord or a Squire or a Duke
Or a man of noted fame
Or is he one of my serving men
That’s lately come out of Spain?
He is not a Lord, or a Squire or a Duke
Nor a man of noted fame
But he is young John from the isle of Man
And I think he is a fine young man.
O, send him down, the saucy clown
O, send him down onto me
For if he is thinking to gain my daughter’s hand
He must leave this country.
O father dear now don’t be severe
And don’t be cruel onto me
For if you banish young John Barlow
You will get no good of me.
But the King he has sent for his merry, merry men
And his merry men thirty and three
And instead of young John been the very first one
The very last one came he.
He entered the room young John Barlow
And the clothes that he wore were of silk
And his two blue eyes like the morning sky
And his skin was as white as milk.
It’s no wonder the King he did say
My daughter’s in love with thee
For had I been a woman as I am a man
My bedfellow you would have been.
Will you wed my daughter he said
Will you take her by the hand
And will you wed my daughter he said
And be Lord over all my land?
O, I will wed your daughter he said
But she’s no match for me
For every pound she can count down
I can count thirty and three.
He’s mounted her on a milk white steed
Himself on a dapple grey
And he’s made her a Lady of as much land
As she could ride in a long summer’s day.
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Many thanks i will add these to the collection!
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My pleasure !!
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west coast of claire
Sorrow and sadness, bitterness, grief
Memories I have of you won’t leave me in peace
My mind is running back to the West coast of Clare
Thinking of you and the times we spent there
I walked the Spanise point I knew I’d find you there
I stood on the white strand and you were everywhere
Vivid memories fade but the mood still remains
I wish I could go back and be with you again
In Milltown there is a pub it’s there that I sat down
I see you everywhere your face is all around
The search of times past contains such sweet pain
I’ll banish lonesome thoughts but they’ll return again
I walk along the shore the rain in my face
My mind is numb with grief of you there is no trace
I’ll think of this again when in far off gleng I rove
Walking with you by this cold Atlantic flow
Sorrow and sadness, bitterness, grief
Memories I have of you won’t leave me in peace
My mind is running back to the West coast of Clare
Thinking of you and the times we spent there
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Here are the lyrics of ‘ Thousands are Sailing’
{t:THOUSANDS ARE SAILING}
{c:Planxty – Traditional Irish – G – 03:30}
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{start_of_chorus}
So good luck to those people and safe may they land
They are leaving their country for a far distant strand
They are leaving old Ireland, no longer can stay
And thousands are sailing to America
{end_of_chorus}
—-
You brave Irish heroes wherever you be
I pray stand a moment and listen to me
Your sons and fair daughters are now going away
And thousands are sailing to America
—-
The night before leaving they are bidding goodbye
And it’s early next morning their heart gives a sigh
They do kiss their mothers and then they do say
Fare thee well, dearest father, we must now go away
{start_of_chorus}
So good luck to those people and safe may they land
They are leaving their country for a far distant strand
They are leaving old Ireland, no longer can stay
And thousands are sailing to America
{end_of_chorus}
—-
Their friends and relations, their neighbours also
When the trunks they are packed up all ready to go
The tears form their eyes they fall down like the rain
And the horses are prancing going off for the train
—-
When they do reach the station you will hear their last cry
With handkerchiefs waving and bidding goodbye
Their hearts will be breaking on leaving the shore
Fare thee well, dear old Ireland, we will ne’er see you more
{start_of_chorus}
So good luck to those people and safe may they land
They are leaving their country for a far distant strand
They are leaving old Ireland, no longer can stay
And thousands are sailing to America
{end_of_chorus}
—-
So I pity the mother that rears up the child
And likewise the father who labours and toils
To try to support them he will work night and day
And when they are reared up they will go away
{start_of_chorus}
So good luck to those people and safe may they land
They are leaving their country for a far distant strand
They are leaving old Ireland, no longer can stay
And thousands are sailing to America
{end_of_chorus}
Hope you like it.
Cheers
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And here’s another one you are looking for – Moorlough Shore. It’s including some guitar chords which I hope you don’t mind.
{t:MOORLOUGH SHORE}
INTRO: 1e 2 regels couplet
Last [C]night I [Gmaj7]went to se[C]e my l[G]ove
To he[Em7]ar what sh[Am]e might sa[C]y [Gmaj7]
To[D5] see if sh[G]e might [Cmaj7]pity [D5] me be[Am7]fore I [B/D] go a[C]way
She say[C]s: I love [G]a [Cmaj7]sailor[D5]boy he is the [Am7]lad I[B/D] do [C]adore
So t[C]ake this [G]for your [Cmaj7]answer [D5]now and t[Em7]rouble m[Am7]e no m[C]ore [G – C -D5]
May[C]be your s[Gmaj7]ailor [C]he is [G]lost while cro[Em7]ssing the wi[Am7]de ma[C]in [Gmaj7]
Or [D5]he has fo[G]und ano[Cmaj7]ther [D5]love and he[Am7]’ll never co[B/D]me back ag[C]ain
Well [C]if my s[G]ailor b[Cmaj7]oy is [D5]lost no o[Am7]ther wi[B/D]ll I t[C]ake
Through [C]lonesome [G]shades and va[Cmaj7]lle[D5]ys I will wo[Em7]nder f[Am7]or his s[C]afe [G]
[Tussenstuk]
Am7, D, Gmaj7, Cmaj7, Gmaj7, Cmaj7, Gmaj7, D5
Am7, D, Cmaj7, – Gmaj7, Am7, C, – G
Our [C]ship she [Gmaj7]lies in [C]water [G]pond all [Em7]ready [Am7]to set [C]sail [Gmaj7]
May [D5]kind provid[G]ence be[Cmaj7] stone on [D5]us and [Am7]finding a [B/D]pleasant [C]gail
O [C]if I [G]had ten [Cmaj7]thousand [D5]pounds or [Am7]that much [B/D]more in [C]store
I would [C]give it [G]all to the [Cmaj7]girl I [D5]love that [Em7]dwells near the [Am7]Moorlough [C]Shore [G – C – D5]]
Fare[C]well on[Gmaj7]to you [Cmaj7]Antrims [G]groves like[Em7]wise to the [Am7]bleaching [C]green [Gmaj7]
Where the [D5]limnin’ [G]web lies [Cmaj7]pure and [D5]white be[Am7]side young [B/D]crystal [C]trees
Where [C]many [G]happy [Cmaj7]hours I have[D5] spend but [Am7]now alas [B/D]they’re all l[C]ost
Since the [C]girl I l[G]ove has [Cmaj7]vanished [D5]me far [Em7]far from the [Am7]Moorlough [C]Shore [G]
[UITTRO]
Am7, D, Gmaj7, Cmaj7, Gmaj7, Cmaj7, Gmaj7, D5
Am7, D, Cmaj7 – Gmaj7, Am7, C – G
Lots of fun,
Jochanai Doffkowitz
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Thank you very much for these! Sorry i took so long to respond!
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You’re welcome. By the way, the guitar chords are with the capo on the 7th fret (but put it where it suits you best).
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And all good things come in three. Here’s BRACKAGH HILL
{t:BRACKAGH HILL}
{st:Andy Irvine / Planxty}
{c:}
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INTRO: C – D – Em – C – D – Em – C – D – Bm – C – D – G – C – D – Bm – C – D
[Em]One night as I [C]lay [Am7]slumbering [D]in- my [C]silent [D]bed al[G]one –
Some [C]rakish [D]thoughts came [Em]in my [D]head – which [Bm]caused me[C] for to [D]roam
To l[C]eave b[D]ehind my [B7]native [Em]town – and the [C]wee [Am7]girl I[C] [D]adore
To [C]take a [D]trip as I [C]I saw [Em]fit – strange c[G]ountries [G/B]to ex[C]plore
The night before I went away – I was walking over Brackagh Hill
I met my love upon the road – and her eyes with tears did fill
O Johnny dear she said stay here – and do not go away
For there’ll be none for to comfort me – when you are o’er the sea
Well I took her by the lily white hand – and I held her long and fast
My darling girl I must away – for our ship lies in Belfast
But if you’ll prove constant I’ll prove true – you know I am well inclined
So we kissed shook hands and parted – and I left my girl behind
INTERMEZZO
And it’s when we landed at Greenock shore – the people all gathered round
They said I was a rakish lad – come to cut their harvest down
They told me to return home – and to never more be seen
So that very night I took my flight – back to Erin’s lovely green
And when Mary heard her Johnny was home – her heart it did leap with joy
She threw herself all in his arms – saying yo’re my darling boy
O Johnny dear I’m glad you’re here – for you I have thought long
So let them all say as they will – our wedding will go on
And Brackagh Hill is a lovely place – with fine wee girls therein
You’d swear they were the nightingale – when they sit down and sing
Where the Salmon Trout do sport about – round Lough Neagh’s verdant shore
So let them all say as they will – you are mine forever more
OUTRO als INTRO
C – D – Em – C – D – Em – C – D – Bm – C – D – G – C – D – Bm – C – Em – Bm7/E
Have fun!
Jochanai Doffkowitz
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Can anyone point me to the song about the porter who struggles to move his load to an upstairs loft. He gets pulled up in to the air and the falls back down several times?
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It’s called “The Sick Note” and you can find the lyrics here:https://www.songlyrics.com/the-dubliners/the-sick-note-murphy-and-the-bricks-lyrics/
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