03-21-2018, 03:07 AM
(This post was last modified: 03-24-2018, 11:29 PM by Dekalb_Blues.)
~ ... we've been drinking whisky before breakfast!" -- American lyrics to old Irish fiddle tune
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4JVLu8uEfY
Did just that this past weekend. I also had it for breakfast. Very spiritual experience in the midst
of a three-days' savage craic -- o th' head o' me, 'tis shtill throbbin' fit f'r war-dhr-rums: hence this
belated tribute to St. Patrick's Day.
Forget NASA's show-off astronauts -- this is the Right Stuff. https://whiskeyclub.com/2017/10/28/redbreast-21/
. . .IN MODERATION, of course, you Sterno-crazed hobos. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SI6UuwQtcUE
Proper traditional attire is key if you want to
get into the best low Celtic dives.
As prophesied long ago by the ancient Afro-Celt seers, ya booty shall be brought4th!
And lo! it came to pass. And this is what you get:
(Dee-Lite-Drops-A-Few-Tabs-Of-Lords-of-Acid, a very popular trad-Irish genre)
Meanwhile across the pond on the Emerald Isle, the jig is up, and Damhsa ar an sean nós
(Old-style dancing) runs riot in the streets:
Note: No bawdy jokes premised on the double-entendre use of the word "tap" will be countenanced.
Especially from hoboes under the influence of Sterno -- that's right out.
Beannachtai Na Feile Padraig Oraibh! (St. Patrick’s Day Blessing Upon You!)
Saint Patrick was a gentleman, he came from decent people
He built a church in Dublin town and on it put a steeple
His father was a Gallagher, his mother was a Grady
His aunt was an O'Shaughnessy and his uncle was a Brady
Success to bold Saint Paddy's fist he was a saint so clever
he gave the snakes and toads a twist and banished them forever.
No wonder that them Irish lads should be so gay and frisky
Sure Saint Patrick taught them that as well as making whisky
No wonder that the saint himself should understand distilling
His mother had a shebeen shop in the town of Enniskillen
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
A Chúnla a chroí ná tar níos goire dhom! (3x)
(Cúnnla dear don't come any nearer to me!)
Go deimhin muise tiocfaidh! a deir Cúnla.
("Surely I will!" says Cúnla.)
A recent update on a ca. 14th-c. Irish children's song, Englished from the original Gaeilge:
(. . . that selection from the best album of the best Irish band evarr to grace God's Own Land:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LT81AkyL...yLveg&t=64
Those curlish enough to disagree -- may a grizzly gray cat eat 'em and may th' divil eat th' cat! --
will step outside and I'll take a shillelagh to them and their brother's cabbages --
and may they live to marry wenches that blow wind like stones from a sling!)
A contemporary Irish band with killer chops & spirit in the tradition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67HYCMLJlQo
Vibrant renditions of many Irish tunes as transmuted through the diasporic folk process
in the greenfields of America:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtVFfJGBeEY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrlpFA5BbuU
...A bit later in that process we have the 80% Irish-ancestry singer/songwriter/guitarist Annie Erin Clark
(here with her debut EP, recorded at age 20 as a student project while she was at Berklee -- which she later dropped
out of, the slacker! That's no way to make good!) who took as a performance-name the very Irish Roman Catholic "St. Vincent":
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music...-1.3264655
Fad saol agat, gob fliuch, agus bás in Éirinn!
(Long life to you, a wet mouth, and death in Ireland!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4JVLu8uEfY
Did just that this past weekend. I also had it for breakfast. Very spiritual experience in the midst
of a three-days' savage craic -- o th' head o' me, 'tis shtill throbbin' fit f'r war-dhr-rums: hence this
belated tribute to St. Patrick's Day.
Forget NASA's show-off astronauts -- this is the Right Stuff. https://whiskeyclub.com/2017/10/28/redbreast-21/
. . .IN MODERATION, of course, you Sterno-crazed hobos. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SI6UuwQtcUE
Proper traditional attire is key if you want to
get into the best low Celtic dives.
As prophesied long ago by the ancient Afro-Celt seers, ya booty shall be brought4th!
And lo! it came to pass. And this is what you get:
(Dee-Lite-Drops-A-Few-Tabs-Of-Lords-of-Acid, a very popular trad-Irish genre)
Meanwhile across the pond on the Emerald Isle, the jig is up, and Damhsa ar an sean nós
(Old-style dancing) runs riot in the streets:
Note: No bawdy jokes premised on the double-entendre use of the word "tap" will be countenanced.
Especially from hoboes under the influence of Sterno -- that's right out.
Beannachtai Na Feile Padraig Oraibh! (St. Patrick’s Day Blessing Upon You!)
Saint Patrick was a gentleman, he came from decent people
He built a church in Dublin town and on it put a steeple
His father was a Gallagher, his mother was a Grady
His aunt was an O'Shaughnessy and his uncle was a Brady
Success to bold Saint Paddy's fist he was a saint so clever
he gave the snakes and toads a twist and banished them forever.
No wonder that them Irish lads should be so gay and frisky
Sure Saint Patrick taught them that as well as making whisky
No wonder that the saint himself should understand distilling
His mother had a shebeen shop in the town of Enniskillen
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
A Chúnla a chroí ná tar níos goire dhom! (3x)
(Cúnnla dear don't come any nearer to me!)
Go deimhin muise tiocfaidh! a deir Cúnla.
("Surely I will!" says Cúnla.)
A recent update on a ca. 14th-c. Irish children's song, Englished from the original Gaeilge:
(. . . that selection from the best album of the best Irish band evarr to grace God's Own Land:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LT81AkyL...yLveg&t=64
Those curlish enough to disagree -- may a grizzly gray cat eat 'em and may th' divil eat th' cat! --
will step outside and I'll take a shillelagh to them and their brother's cabbages --
and may they live to marry wenches that blow wind like stones from a sling!)
A contemporary Irish band with killer chops & spirit in the tradition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67HYCMLJlQo
Vibrant renditions of many Irish tunes as transmuted through the diasporic folk process
in the greenfields of America:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtVFfJGBeEY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrlpFA5BbuU
...A bit later in that process we have the 80% Irish-ancestry singer/songwriter/guitarist Annie Erin Clark
(here with her debut EP, recorded at age 20 as a student project while she was at Berklee -- which she later dropped
out of, the slacker! That's no way to make good!) who took as a performance-name the very Irish Roman Catholic "St. Vincent":
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music...-1.3264655
Fad saol agat, gob fliuch, agus bás in Éirinn!
(Long life to you, a wet mouth, and death in Ireland!)