WHat's your favorite IRISH song?

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Posted by tourist

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Posted by BMD'sPeanut

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Posted by Johnny&Maur

Wow other people know Black 47? My friends look at me like im crazy when i say i go to see them...i have their cd's, i just think they're really fun..

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I've seen them play too!

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They played at my school.

Dh & I had a tape of funny Irish drinking songs, but I can't think of any of them now. There was one about a wake, that was kind of amusing. . .

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They played at my school too about 4 years ago now. They were good!

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Posted by OSCARtheGROOM

Wild Rover by far.

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finally! someone else with good taste

Basically anything by the Wolfetones or The Clancy Brothers.

I love Carrickfergus.
Finnegan's Wake
When I was a kid, my favorite one was Nancy Whiskey for some reason.

The Clancy Brothers are great.

I love Finnegans Wake
I do love She Moved Through the Fair too, even though its a sad song.
Toora Loora reminds me of my mom.

Green Fields of France
Fields of Anthenry
Some Say the Devil is Dead
Fairytale of New York
Whiskey in the Jar
Whole of the Moon

I love Irish music so I can go on for hours!!

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Posted by smm2675

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Posted by OSCARtheGROOM

Wild Rover by far.

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finally! someone else with good taste

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Totally agree!

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Posted by soon2bmrsp06

Toora Loora Looral
my mom used to sing this to me to put me to sleep lol

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i loooove this song and hope to sing it to my babies, too.

and danny boy...man, if ever there was a song to make me cry, it is this one!

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Posted by MonkeyLuv

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Posted by usuk2004

The UNICORN SONG!!!!

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Farah! That's a Shel Silverstein poem!

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I know!! But I have heard it sung by quite a few Irish folk bands! One at college and then again in a pub in Manhattan called Finnegan's Wake!

I HEART THE UNICORN SONG!!!!!!

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Posted by cocoa

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Posted by soon2bmrsp06

Toora Loora Looral
my mom used to sing this to me to put me to sleep lol

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i loooove this song and hope to sing it to my babies, too.

and danny boy...man, if ever there was a song to make me cry, it is this one!

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yessssss
I love that song too

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Posted by usuk2004

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Posted by MonkeyLuv

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Posted by usuk2004

The UNICORN SONG!!!!

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Farah! That's a Shel Silverstein poem!

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I know!! But I have heard it sung by quite a few Irish folk bands! One at college and then again in a pub in Manhattan called Finnegan's Wake!

I HEART THE UNICORN SONG!!!!!!

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I think that's the first Irish song I knew by heart!!!

the streets of newyork
big strong man
wild rover
man behind the wire
to name a few
the 1st of may

here is the words to streets of ny my favorite irsih song it always makes mStreets Of New York

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I was eighteen years old when I went down to Dublin

With a fistfull of money and a cartload of dreams

Take your time said me father stop rushing like hell

And remember all's not what it seems to be.

For there's fellas would cut ye for the coat on yer back

Or the watch that ye got from yer mother

So take care me young buck-o and mind yourself well

And will you give this wee note to me brother.



At the time Uncle Benjy was a policeman in Brooklyn

And me father the youngest, looked after the farm

When a phone call from America said send the lad over

And the oul fella said 'sure it wouldnt do any harm'

For I've spent my life working this dirty old ground

For a few pints of porter and the smell of a pound

And sure maybe there's something you learn loyalty

And you can bring it back home

Make a duty on me.



So I landed at Kennedy and a big yellow taxi

Carried me and me bags through the streets and the rain

Well me poor heart was thumpin' around with excitement

And I hardly ever heard what the driver was saying

We came in the Shore Parkway to the Flatlands in Brooklyn

To me Uncle's apartment on East 53rd

I was feeling so happy 1 was humming a song

And I sang 'You're as free as a bird.'



Well to shorten the story what I found out that day

Was that Benjy got shot down in an uptown foray

And while I was flying my way to New York

Poor Benjy was lying in a cold city morgue.

Well I phoned up the ould fella told him the news

I could tell he could hardly stand up in his shoes

And he wept as he told me Go ahead with the plans

And not to forget be a proud Irish man.



So I went up to Nellies beside Fordham Road

And I started to learn about lifting the load

But the heaviest thing that I carried that year

Was the bittersweet thoughts of my hometown so dear

I went home that December 'cause the oul fella died

Had to borrow the money from Phil on the side

And all the bright flowers and brass couldn't hide

The poor wasted face of me father.



I sold up the oul farmyard for what it was worth

And into my bag stuck a handful of earth

Then I boarded a train and I caught me a plane

And I found meself back in the U.S. again

It's been twenty two years since I've set foot in Dublin

Me kids know to use the correct knife and fork

But I'll never forget the green grass and rivers

As I keep law and order in the streets of New York

Da da da etc. fades

Fairytale of New York
Fields of Athenry (the best rebel song ever!)

When NY was Irish