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Irish rebel music

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,129 ✭✭✭R P McMurphy


    not quite an Irish rebel song but quite festive and on topic



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,279 ✭✭✭✭A Dub in Glasgo


    'I was born on a Dublin street where the Royal drums do beat
    And the loving English feet they tramped all over us,
    And each and every night when me father'd come home tight
    He'd invite the neighbours outside with this chorus.....'

    Songs that mean something always resonate with me


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,325 ✭✭✭ItsAWindUp


    'I was born on a Dublin street where the Royal drums do beat
    And the loving English feet they tramped all over us,
    And each and every night when me father'd come home tight
    He'd invite the neighbours outside with this chorus.....'

    Songs that mean something always resonate with me

    Why, did you live in Dublin under English occupation?:confused:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,279 ✭✭✭✭A Dub in Glasgo


    ItsAWindUp wrote: »
    Why, did you live in Dublin under English occupation?:confused:

    I did, I am 100 in June


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,370 ✭✭✭✭Son Of A Vidic


    I find rebel songs pretty irrelevant now since the war is over.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,325 ✭✭✭ItsAWindUp


    I did, I am 100 in June

    Get old Boards you old git!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    ItsAWindUp wrote: »
    Well, do you think that its an Irish persons duty to listen to rebel music?

    No, nor have I said so, nor has anybody else on this thread, as far as I'm aware.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,152 ✭✭✭✭Liam Byrne


    .....when me father'd come home tight

    Songs that mean something always resonate with me

    What does that line even mean ? That he was a stingy fecker ?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 56,714 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    The odd English rebel song is good too.

    "Robin Hood, Robin Hood riding through the glen,
    Robin Hood, Robin Hood with his band of men,
    Feared by the bad, loved by the good,
    Robin Hood, Robin Hood, Robin Hood"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,279 ✭✭✭✭A Dub in Glasgo


    Liam Byrne wrote: »
    What does that line even mean ? That he was a stingy fecker ?

    Of course and it also happens to rhyme with night :)


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 53 ✭✭Beir Bua


    ItsAWindUp wrote: »
    Why, did you live in Dublin under English occupation?:confused:

    You know nothing about the song, you should have read all the lyrics then tried to think of something smart to say.


    BB


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,325 ✭✭✭ItsAWindUp


    Beir Bua wrote: »
    You know nothing about the song, you should have read all the lyrics then tried to think of something smart to say.


    BB

    What is it about then, enlighten me.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 592 ✭✭✭kieranfitz


    Liam Byrne wrote: »
    What does that line even mean ? That he was a stingy fecker ?

    That his old fella was pished


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,152 ✭✭✭✭Liam Byrne


    kieranfitz wrote: »
    Liam Byrne wrote: »
    What does that line even mean ? That he was a stingy fecker ?

    That his old fella was pished

    And people can identify with that ?

    Boy am I glad that I never had that type of "family" life!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,069 ✭✭✭✭LordSutch


    He has lord in his username, so yes I would imagine so.

    Yes I suppose that the one drawback with my username is that it may lead people into thinking that I really am a lord :D
    but its just another silly username. Screaming Lord Sutch http://elvispelvis.com/screamingls.jpg

    Screaming Lord Sutch (deceased) former leader of the Monster Raving Loony Party.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,420 ✭✭✭Dionysus


    ItsAWindUp wrote: »
    Rebel songs can f uck right off, as can them morons who think its an Irish persons duty to listen to them.

    those morons.

    It is, of course, an Irish person's filial duty to listen to them. Nothing like: "Here's up the rebels, get back our Teddy's Head!" to rouse an Irishman from his slumber. It should be a matter of pride that the sons of Éire have this tune as their morning alarm.

    PS: Some people will not be able to get this song out of their head for a while!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,325 ✭✭✭ItsAWindUp


    Dionysus wrote: »
    those morons.

    It is, of course, an Irish person's filial duty to listen to them. Nothing like: "Here's up the rebels, get back our Teddy's Head!" to rouse an Irishman from his slumber. It should be a matter of pride that the sons of Éire have this tune as their morning alarm.

    PS: Some people will not be able to get this song out of their head for a while!

    I'm not sure whether or not you're being serious with this


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,420 ✭✭✭Dionysus


    ItsAWindUp wrote: »
    I'm not sure whether or not you're being serious with this

    It depends; I sense that if I answer "I'm serious" you'll go ballistic, so let's go for it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,325 ✭✭✭ItsAWindUp


    Dionysus wrote: »
    It depends; I sense that if I answer "I'm serious" you'll go ballistic, so let's go for it.

    Well, if serious, it was an incredibly moronic thing to say


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,420 ✭✭✭Dionysus


    ItsAWindUp wrote: »
    Well, if serious, it was an incredibly moronic thing to say

    I know. I'm quite proud of it nevertheless. :)


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,325 ✭✭✭ItsAWindUp


    Dionysus wrote: »
    I know. I'm quite proud of it nevertheless. :)

    Fair play


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,304 ✭✭✭✭K-9


    ejmaztec wrote: »
    Most people don't go to gigs to study the audience.

    Some of us had to work at Wolfe Tone Gigs. People think being sober at a a nightclub cattle market is bad, try a Wolfe Tone concert!

    Mad Men's Don Draper : What you call love was invented by guys like me, to sell nylons.



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 53 ✭✭Beir Bua


    It is stuck in my head now. "Here's up the rebels!"


    This is a great song too, written in 1867, it was pretty much a national anthem in the late 19th century.






    Heres another good song, written by the great Dominic Behan, a champion of the working class, who wrote innumerable brilliant songs, plays and books.





    Very apt today still given the state we are in 90 years on from the treaty.

    "For we stand with Enright and Larkin,
    With Daley and Sullivan bold.
    We'll break down the English connection,
    And bring back the nation you sold.
    Take it down from the mast, Irish traitors,
    The flag we Republicans claim.
    It can never belong to Free Staters,
    You brought on in nothing but shame."


    Here's a great version of "Take It Down From the Mast" sung by the late Ciarán Bourke of the Dubliners.





    BB


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,395 ✭✭✭Paparazzo


    UrbanSea wrote: »
    Some great songs. Nothing beats a night in the pub with some trad and the locals singing along.

    My favourite:


    This is officially the worst song I've ever heard.


  • Posts: 5,093 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Paparazzo wrote: »
    This is officially the worst song I've ever heard.

    Have you heard "(It's Time to) Beat Dat Beat" and "friday" or anything by kreayshawn or big sean?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,325 ✭✭✭ItsAWindUp


    UrbanSea wrote: »
    Some great songs. Nothing beats a night in the pub with some trad and the locals singing along.

    My favourite:


    It's hard to believe that in the year 2011 people still sing along, in a pub, to the words "Ooh ah up the RA". Sometimes I really don't believe that we live in an intelligent world.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,219 ✭✭✭PK2008




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,152 ✭✭✭✭Liam Byrne


    ItsAWindUp wrote: »
    UrbanSea wrote: »
    Some great songs. Nothing beats a night in the pub with some trad and the locals singing along.

    My favourite:


    It's hard to believe that in the year 2011 people still sing along, in a pub, to the words "Ooh ah up the RA". Sometimes I really don't believe that we live in an intelligent world.

    It works best if you stick your middle finger in the air while chanting it! ;-)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,681 ✭✭✭ColeTrain


    ItsAWindUp wrote: »
    It's hard to believe that in the year 2011 people still sing along, in a pub, to the words "Ooh ah up the RA". Sometimes I really don't believe that we live in an intelligent world.

    I find it hard to believe that a few words in a song could give you a boost onto a horse that high.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,325 ✭✭✭ItsAWindUp


    PK2008 wrote: »

    Dear God........


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