# In Time For Paddy's Day, What's Your Favourite Irish Song? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 16, 2007, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-time-for-paddys-day-whats-your-favourite-irish-song/396124 "2007-03-16T01:36:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![2pelo\_honey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/ecb155/32.png) [@2pelo\_honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2pelo_honey)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2007, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-time-for-paddys-day-whats-your-favourite-irish-song/396124/61 "2007-03-16T20:19:23Z")
[QUOTE=Annie-Xmas] The Irish Rover’s cover of Tom Paxton’s “Bottle of Wine” is great. [/QUOTE] Wow, I haven’t heard THAT in a long long time!!! In looking in Amazon for it, came across a couple more Rover tunes I liked…“Goodbye Mrs Durkin”, and “Wasn’t That a Party.” There was a local Irish/Folk band that played where I was bartending years ago, and they used to play “Seven Drunken Nights”…now, that was a fun song!!! [http://www.jonathanramsey.com/songs/SevenDrunkenNights.shtml](http://www.jonathanramsey.com/songs/SevenDrunkenNights.shtml) I think I found it on a cassette several years ago, but not a very good version. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Tracy\_Lord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@Tracy\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tracy_Lord)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2007, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-time-for-paddys-day-whats-your-favourite-irish-song/396124/62 "2007-03-16T22:30:25Z")
“Back Home in Derry” and “The Fields of Athenry” for ballads; “Come out ye Black and Tans” and “Follow me up to Carlow” for singing along in a pub. 🙂 (I _love_ the last verse on “Carlow”!) > [@](#): > > White is sick and Grey has fled > And as for Black Fitzwilliam’s head > We’ll send it over dripping red > To Queen Liza and her ladies! Ben and Jerry’s has a “Black and Tan” flavor ice cream, and for the week it was in my freezer I’d be humming “…come out and fight me like a man” every time I went for ice. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2007, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-time-for-paddys-day-whats-your-favourite-irish-song/396124/63 "2007-03-16T23:05:13Z")
I think they discontinued that particular brand of B & J’s 'cos they offended someone or others sensibilities. ---
**Author:** ![LifeOnWry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/96bed5/32.png) [@LifeOnWry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LifeOnWry)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2007, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-time-for-paddys-day-whats-your-favourite-irish-song/396124/64 "2007-03-16T23:49:20Z")
[QUOTE=Balance] The Shantyman (Greg Csikos) does a version of “The Minstrel Boy” that he came up with while he was with the [Corsairs](http://corsairs.com/PB%20CDs.htm#The_WHITE) that I really like. The first part is the traditional song, then he bridges into a take on it from the minstrel’s perspective. It’s something of an emotional roller coaster, and I really like it. [/QUOTE] The second song in that piece is also called Minstrel Boy, and was written by Ty Billings of the Minstrels of Mayhem, and originally recorded by them. ---
**Author:** ![Full\_Metal\_Lotus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df705f/32.png) [@Full\_Metal\_Lotus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Full_Metal_Lotus)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2007, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-time-for-paddys-day-whats-your-favourite-irish-song/396124/65 "2007-03-17T00:14:35Z")
Galway Bay -( Not sure of spelling on “Galway”, but that’s what it sounds like) Once, in a “Irish” pub, here in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, this young man got up at his table of Irish Expats, and with a little prodding sang this song. It was a noisey, bustling night, but the young man’s clear soprano soon made the whole bar so quiet that you could have heard a pin(t) drop… A round of thunderous applause followed, and I don’t think that lad bought another drink that night… It was haunting and beautiful, and really sent shivers down my back… Regards FML ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2007, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-time-for-paddys-day-whats-your-favourite-irish-song/396124/66 "2007-03-17T00:19:48Z")
[QUOTE=yojimbo] She died of a fever 😉 [/QUOTE] And she smelled of fish. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2007, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-time-for-paddys-day-whats-your-favourite-irish-song/396124/67 "2007-03-17T00:23:58Z")
[QUOTE=Daylight Saving] I’m the first to say Give Ireland back To The Irish? irish smilies :rolleyes: 😛😃 [/QUOTE] Well hell, if that counts, how about “Sunday, Bloody Sunday”? ---
**Author:** ![Tracy\_Lord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@Tracy\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tracy_Lord)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2007, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-time-for-paddys-day-whats-your-favourite-irish-song/396124/68 "2007-03-17T02:16:38Z")
[QUOTE=An Gadaí] I think they discontinued that particular brand of B & J’s 'cos they offended someone or others sensibilities. [/QUOTE] It must have been pretty recently, because I bought it at Safeway about a week and a half ago… ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2007, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-time-for-paddys-day-whats-your-favourite-irish-song/396124/69 "2007-03-17T02:57:13Z")
Finnegan’s Wake Red Haired Mary Óró, Sé Do Bheatha ‘Bhaile Nell Flaherty’s Drake (has the best curses ever! [Nell Flaherty's Drake](http://www.contemplator.com/ireland/neldrake.html) ) ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2007, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-time-for-paddys-day-whats-your-favourite-irish-song/396124/70 "2007-03-17T05:27:10Z")
[QUOTE=Tracy Lord] It must have been pretty recently, because I bought it at Safeway about a week and a half ago… [/QUOTE] Ah cool then I’m wrong. Political correctness has not gone mad yet. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Boulter\_s\_Canary](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Boulter\_s\_Canary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boulter_s_Canary)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2007, 9:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-time-for-paddys-day-whats-your-favourite-irish-song/396124/71 "2007-03-17T09:31:58Z")
[QUOTE=Spavined Gelding] _The Parting Glass_. The Clancy Bros and T. Makem have a lovely version but there are any number. I hope to have it sung at my funeral – as my moldering corpse is rolled out. Oh, all the money that e’er I spent I spent it in good company, And all the friends that e’er I had Are sorry for to see me go, And all the girls that e’re I had Would wish me one more day to stay. And so it’s fall’n Unto to my lot That I must rise And you should not, I’ll quietly rise and softly go. Good night and joy be with you all. Or something like that, more or less. I don’t think my widow wold stand for it, however. [/QUOTE] I want the first verse on my tombstone: Oh, all the money that e’er I spent I spent it in good company, And all the harm that e’er I’ve done, Alas, it was to none but me, And all I’ve done for want of wit, To memory now I can’t recall, So fill to me the parting glass, Goodnight and joy be with you all. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2007, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-time-for-paddys-day-whats-your-favourite-irish-song/396124/72 "2007-03-17T09:56:06Z")
[QUOTE=Cunctator] Be Thou my Vision [/QUOTE] And we got it at mass this morning too. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-time-for-paddys-day-whats-your-favourite-irish-song/396124.md?page=3)