I'm in the Mood for Ireland

Michele Erdvig · Host

I'm in the Mood for Ireland

CowboyCraic · Guru

Go Raibh Mil Maith Agat, mo chara! I needed that this morning! I just shared teh link on my FB page, as well

Slan Agus Barrogs,

Bit

Monty · Senior Member

Thanks from me as well!

Monty

eileenalana · Veteran Member

Absolutely..... YES!!!!!

Thanks for sharing..... 31 days and counting each and every one!!! biggrin

Eileen

Michele Erdvig · Host

I thought that might get everyone in the mood. I've watched it three times and may do again.

Michele

EngagingKate · Senior Member

Thanks for posting that, Michele! I am going to bring up the You Tube video at work and play it over and over until our trip in June... :)

Kate

CowboyCraic · Guru

To add to Michele's Post:

This song will stick in your head. You will find yourself humming it as you wake up in the morning and just before you go to sleep

Michele Erdvig · Host

Bit,

Can't stop humming!

Michele

murphy · Guru

Bit,

What an outstanding tune! biggrin

I would sure like to have the lyrics! Suppose I could play it umpteen times and get most of them.

Dan

tony2phones · Guru

One of many sites giving the lyrics.

http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/folk-song-lyrics/Blarney_Roses%282%29.htm

murphy · Guru

Tony

Many thanks for sharing the web site to get lyrics for Blarney Roses. You continue to live up to your "guru" status on ireland yes! smile

Dan

Michele Erdvig · Host

Dan,

Tony does indeed merit guru status on the forum!

Michele

Roy · Guru

A new twist to an old song. These brothers are great!

tony2phones · Guru

Complements noted and accepted but just local knowledge this side the water and knowing where to look for bits that's all.

EngagingKate · Senior Member

Playing this for my husband instead of listening to the Black Eyed Peas at Super Bowl halftime! Way more entertaining and better music... :)

Kate

CowboyCraic · Guru

Dan,

Here are the lyrics, with Guitar tabs:

Where the Blarney Roses Grow

[D]Can anybody tell me where the Blarney Roses grow?
It may be down in Limerick town or[G] over in Mayo.
It's some[D]where in the Em'rald Isle, but[G] this I want to know:
Can [D]anybody tell me where the[G] Blarney Roses [D]grow

'Twas over in ould Ireland near the town of Cushendall,
One morn I met a damsel there, the fairest of them all.
'Twas with my young affections and my money did she go,
And she told me she belonged to where the Blarney Roses grow

Her cheeks were like the roses, her hair a raven hue.
Before that she was done with me, she had me raving too.
She left me sorely stranded, not a coin she left, you know,
And she told me she belonged to where the Blarney Roses grow

They've roses in Killarney, and the same in County Clare,
But 'pon my word those roses, boys, I can't find anywhere.
She blarney'd me and, by the powers, she left me broke -- ho, ho! --
Did this damsel that belonged to where the Blarney Roses grow.

Acushla gra-machree, me boys, she murmured soft, did she,
"If you belong to Ireland, it's yourself belongs to me."
Her Donegal come-all-ye brogue, it captured me, you know.
Bad scram to her and that same place, where the Blarney Roses grow

Slan Beo,

Bit

murphy · Guru

Thanks, Bit!

Dan

CowboyCraic · Guru

No problem, Dan... I like the fact that they give you the phonetics in the first line of the last verse...

-- Edited by CowboyCraic on Tuesday 8th of February 2011 10:55:16 AM

Michele Erdvig · Host

Echoes of Ancient Ireland

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