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Post your favourite Ballads

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  • 22-12-2008 2:09pm
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    vibes23
    Registered Users Posts: 149 ✭✭


    Hey all,

    I duno if this has been done already. So sorry if it has.

    Post up your favourite ballad. I mean the tune you like to play, wish you could play or listen to most.

    if you have a few name them all and the instrument you play them on if any.

    Mine are:

    Finnegans Wakes - Great ballad for a party
    Lough Sheelins pride by wolfetones
    Hot Asphalt - Damien Dempsy version
    Rainy night in soho - Damo agaon.

    Also Damien Dempsey new album rocky road i think its song no. 7 at the very end of song from about 3:25 mins in there a jig that lasts about 2 mins long. AMASIN !

    You can here Barney mckenna at the end "That sounds alright boys "

    Quality. Lets here yours!


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    #2
    yomchi
    Registered Users Posts: 4,621 ✭✭✭yomchi


    The Fields of Athenry - Probably the best ballad ever written. The version song by Paddy Reilly and without the add-ons created in the stands of Celtic FC. Ruins it.

    Galtee Mountain Boy - another great one and the Foggy Dew. My Fave 3.


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    brousuka
    Registered Users Posts: 412 ✭✭brousuka


    All of above - great songs. My favourite (played on acoustic guitar) would be:

    Black Velvet Band
    Mc Alpines Fusillieers
    Dirty old Town
    Missing You
    The Cobbler
    Desperado
    Raglan Road
    Johnny Jump Up
    Lakes of Ponchartrain
    The Oul Triangle
    Carrickfergus
    Black is the Colour

    A lot of Dubliners there I agree, but fairly guaranteed to get any session goin!


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    ErinGoBrath
    Registered Users Posts: 2,344 ✭✭✭ErinGoBrath


    I absoloutely LOVE these ones:

    Authur McBride
    Mc Alpines Fusillieers
    Raglan Road
    Lakes of Ponchartrain
    Wrap the Green Flag
    Back Home in Derry
    Streets of New York
    Erin Go Bragh

    I can play the guitar but can't really make anything Irish sound good. Anyone recommend any decent Irish guitar lessons???


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    CSC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 653 ✭✭✭CSC


    Too many to mention and these change on regular basis but at the moment it's Farewell to Dublin, From Clare to Here and Ride On.


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