And I ask you, friend, what's a fella to do

Capt'n Midnight

And she asked me up to her flat downtown
...
When I woke up I was all alone
With a broken heart and a ticket home

He wakes up in her flat, so why did he leave if she meant so much ?

leninbenjamin

because he was hungry?

MizzLolly

I dunno but everytime that song comes on in a pub/club, people point and sing to me!! Even the bar men!!!!

It is now my song!

Pherekydes

And she asked me up to her flat downtown
...
When I woke up I was all alone
With a broken heart and a ticket home




...and minus a kidney.

biko

He was/is emo?

Miss Fluff

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

And she asked me up to her flat downtown
...
When I woke up I was all alone
With a broken heart and a ticket home

He wakes up in her flat, so why did he leave if she meant so much ?

Well its pretty self-explanatory, he went to her flat downtown but woke up all alone. She had a cheeky feel when they were getting down to it, realised it was tiny and f8cked off to the spare room in disgust I should imagine.

MizzLolly

Miss Fluff wrote: »

Well its pretty self-explanatory, he went to her flat downtown but woke up all alone. She had a cheeky feel when they were getting down to it, realised it was tiny and f8cked off to the spare room in disgust I should imagine.

hehehe...

super_furry

I hope he nicked her jewelery.

Gordon

She was a ladyboy?

Sherifu

She was a Galway Hooker.

Red Hand

Hate that bloody song. May the songwriter drown in the Corrib.

Overheal

Post the full lyrics? I have no idea what song youre on about.

Red Hand

Are you kidding? It's that rubbish Galway Girl song that has been saturating the airwaves for the last few months.

life_is_music

Overheal wrote: »

Post the full lyrics? I have no idea what song youre on about.

have you been in a pub/club anytime recently??

I think the Irish version is waaaaaaaay better!

Dudess

I like Steve Earle and while I'm not insane about his version of Galway Girl (which is the original) I think it's not without its charms... but the Mundy version? /makes extremely aggressive stabbing motions

Kimbot

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFlfSeh-Ts8

I keep humming it th whole time and its doing my head in.

Sherifu

Overheal wrote: »

Post the full lyrics? I have no idea what song youre on about.

:eek:

Bard

ah sure why not...

Steve Earle - The Galway Girl

Well, I took a stroll on the old long walk
Of a day -I-ay-I-ay
I met a little girl and we stopped to talk
Of a fine soft day -I-ay-I-ay
And I ask you, friend, what's a fella to do
'Cause her hair was black and her eyes were blue
And I knew right then I'd be takin' a whirl
'Round the Salthill Prom with a Galway girl

We were halfway there when the rain came down
Of a day -I-ay-I-ay
And she asked me up to her flat downtown
Of a fine soft day -I-ay-I-ay
And I ask you, friend, what's a fella to do
'Cause her hair was black and her eyes were blue
So I took her hand and I gave her a twirl
And I lost my heart to a Galway girl

When I woke up I was all alone
With a broken heart and a ticket home
And I ask you now, tell me what would you do
If her hair was black and her eyes were blue
I've traveled around I've been all over this world
Boys I ain't never seen nothin' like a Galway girl

JavaBear

I'll own up and admit I have no idea what song this is.

*searchs youtube*

.. seems familiar I guess.

Davidius

Never heard of it!

Witcher

ahem>>> http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=_Nt_TirDyKU


Mundy version


:cool::cool::cool:

Bard

JavaBear wrote:

I'll own up and admit I have no idea what song this is.

"Mundy & Sharon Shannon - Galway Girl".

Originally written by American Steve Earle, it's featured in the movie of that "P.S. I Love You" book by Cecilia Ahern and in the current Bulmers television advert. It's No. 1 right now in the Irish singles chart and is unsurprisingly getting quite a lot of airplay on various Irish radio stations at the moment.

Now does it ring any bells?

Black Swan

Jeremiah 16:1 wrote: »

Hate that bloody song. May the songwriter drown in the Corrib.

Hey, cut Galvia a little slack! The river is already too polluted!

Alessandra

It's been on the radio recurrently for the last two years.. How come some people haven't heard it when I spend my nights trying to avoid it! Pretty mean feat to avoid hearing it on a night out down here in the Wesht though:mad:

Red Hand

Blue_Lagoon wrote: »

Hey, cut Galvia a little slack! The river is already too polluted!

Well, throw him into the Atlantic so!

Black Swan

I don't want him bobbing in my Atlantic, spoiling the view! Not only that, those lyrics could poison the food chain!

Red Hand

Blue_Lagoon wrote: »

I don't want him bobbing in my Atlantic, spoiling the view! Not only that, those lyrics could poison the food chain!

Well, then, cremate him, mix the ashes with a few litres of water and use him as a herbicide. Any objections?

xsiborg

as long as he doesnt come back and start singing that damn song to the plants!!

Voodu Child

Bard wrote: »

Originally written by American Steve Earle, it's featured in the movie of that "P.S. I Love You" book by Cecilia Ahern and in the current Bulmers television advert. It's No. 1 right now in the Irish singles chart and is unsurprisingly getting quite a lot of airplay on various Irish radio stations at the moment.

Now does it ring any bells?

Nope. Don't watch TV or listen to the charts, sure as fcuk havent seen any Cecilia Ahern films...This thread was the first i heard of it, doubt im missing much :rolleyes:

leninbenjamin

Steve Earl's isn't a bad song, and he plays it well (much better than that useless Mundy f*cker) but it's just been played to death. then played again. and then run over by an articulated truck. then played again... etc.

Black Swan

xsiborg wrote: »

as long as he doesnt come back and start singing that damn song to the plants!!

xsiborg... Maybe we should report Jeremiah to the tree huggers as a preventative measure? All we need now is toxic lyrics covering our plants!:eek:

JC 2K3

Oh, is it in some ad?

Never heard it on the radio or in a club, but then again, I wouldn't.

EDIT: Rofl:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EMOv-38M6A

Bard

Bard wrote: »

ah sure why not...

Steve Earle - The Galway Girl

Well, I took a stroll on the old long walk
Of a day -I-ay-I-ay
I met a little girl and we stopped to talk
Of a fine soft day -I-ay-I-ay
And I ask you, friend, what's a fella to do
'Cause her hair was black and her eyes were blue
And I knew right then I'd be takin' a whirl
'Round the Salthill Prom with a Galway girl

We were halfway there when the rain came down
Of a day -I-ay-I-ay
And she asked me up to her flat downtown
Of a fine soft day -I-ay-I-ay
And I ask you, friend, what's a fella to do
'Cause her hair was black and her eyes were blue
So I took her hand and I gave her a twirl
And I lost my heart to a Galway girl

When I woke up I was all alone
With a broken heart and a ticket home
And I ask you now, tell me what would you do
If her hair was black and her eyes were blue
I've traveled around I've been all over this world
Boys I ain't never seen nothin' like a Galway girl

Its funny.This song started off in the hole in the wall pub summer 2005.(well first time I heard,long before CP's started playing it.)

Very much a first year NUIG song though.

The song pisses me off though.

Overheal

Jeremiah 16:1 wrote: »

Are you kidding? It's that rubbish Galway Girl song that has been saturating the airwaves for the last few months.

life_is_music wrote: »

have you been in a pub/club anytime recently??

I think the Irish version is waaaaaaaay better!

Sherifu wrote: »

:eek:

Bard wrote: »

ah sure why not...

Steve Earle - The Galway Girl

Well, I took a stroll on the old long walk
Of a day -I-ay-I-ay
I met a little girl and we stopped to talk
Of a fine soft day -I-ay-I-ay
And I ask you, friend, what's a fella to do
'Cause her hair was black and her eyes were blue
And I knew right then I'd be takin' a whirl
'Round the Salthill Prom with a Galway girl

We were halfway there when the rain came down
Of a day -I-ay-I-ay
And she asked me up to her flat downtown
Of a fine soft day -I-ay-I-ay
And I ask you, friend, what's a fella to do
'Cause her hair was black and her eyes were blue
So I took her hand and I gave her a twirl
And I lost my heart to a Galway girl

When I woke up I was all alone
With a broken heart and a ticket home
And I ask you now, tell me what would you do
If her hair was black and her eyes were blue
I've traveled around I've been all over this world
Boys I ain't never seen nothin' like a Galway girl

Lmao. Ive been in a cave for the last 6 months so no I havent spent money on going out drinking

electric69

see a shrink

Overheal

oh that song - thanks for posting the vid. I never gave a thought to the words. I was working in a nightvlub when that crap came out first I make a point of ignoring noise like that.

life_is_music

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDfrYmUTJ_o

Irish version is class

Funkstard

Did not know this song existed before I went to UL for college. It'd played at least seventeen times a day in the bar here. Also approximately the same each night in the nightclud just off campus. I hate it. Hate.

Bard

Jeez, it's not THAT bad - it's a pretty run-of-the-mill cheeky trad Irish "hooley" kind of song and it's been around for ages. There are FAR worse songs in the charts than this.

Slutmonkey57b

Bard wrote: »

it's a pretty run-of-the-mill cheeky trad Irish "hooley" kind of song ... There are FAR worse songs in the charts than this.

Those statements are mutually exclusive sir. There's never anything worse than cheeky trad songs.

voodoo_child wrote: »

Nope. Don't watch TV or listen to the charts, sure as fcuk havent seen any Cecilia Ahern films...This thread was the first i heard of it, doubt im missing much :rolleyes:

Things like this are a good working proof of the necessity to insulate yourself from mass TV, radio, and pop culture generally.

Dragan

Because she had left him a note saying if he sang that ****ing song once more she would cut him a new one.

Toto Wolfcastle

Because he was so repulsive that, rather than ask him to leave, she signed her apartment over to him in an act of desperation?

I like the Irish version but I've had it stuck in my head for about a month and it's getting annoying.

Thrill

So I took her hand and I gave her a twirl

See, that was his mistake right there. He should have given her a Mars bar instead.

She also left cos he cant sing worth a f**k.

old boy

and here am i thinking a galway hooker is a boat, ah well times change

Gran Hermano

Never heard any version of this song before I found this thread.
Must be a country/west coast thing.

Cunny-Funt

voodoo_child wrote: »

Nope. Don't watch TV or listen to the charts, sure as fcuk havent seen any Cecilia Ahern films...This thread was the first i heard of it, doubt im missing much :rolleyes:

What this guy said.

1st time I heard that song was this thread. No.1 in Ireland? Damn how do so many people have such a **** taste in music yet at the same time it's always rare to find anyone that actually likes the ****e that makes it to no.1.

Its a damn conspiracy.

Toto Wolfcastle

old boy wrote: »

and here am i thinking a galway hooker is a boat, ah well times change

LOL

A girl in college wanted to do a project on Galway hookers. I nearly died laughing when she asked the lecturer if it was ok. I was so disappointed to find out it was a boat.

Jesus Wept

Is Steve Earle a pseudoname of Ronan Keeting?

Rob_l

Galway forum or some other forum such as the Cr ap music forum(there should be one) :mad:

JohnCleary

Dudess wrote: »

I like Steve Earle and while I'm not insane about his version of Galway Girl (which is the original) I think it's not without its charms... but the Mundy version? /makes extremely aggressive stabbing motions

lol handin out free handjobs are ya?

JohnCleary

Blue_Lagoon wrote: »

Hey, cut Galvia a little slack! The river is already too polluted!

The freshwater portion of the Corrib is not polluted

The tidal saltwater portion has improved lots in the past few years, but there is still a bit of sh1t getting in there down around the Spanish Arch alright... probably purposly left a few pipes there to stop teh crusties swimming there during the summer