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Most miserable trad song ever.

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  • #62
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,720 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Any of the mother songs.
    Gentle mother.
    Mother Machree.
    A mothers loves a blessing.

    Any doomed young rebel ones.
    Kevin Barry.
    Shanagolden.etc


  • #63
    foxy farmer
    Registered Users Posts: 3,194 ✭✭✭foxy farmer


    The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Penned by Gordon Lightfoot about a Great Lakes freighter that sunk in a storm on Lake Superior in November 1975 with the loss of all 29 crew.
    This version by Brian Burns is more poignant as he lists the names of the crew at the end.


    "And the church bell chimed till it rang 29 times for each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald."

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dC18ej6gIcE


  • #64
    Cerveza
    Closed Accounts Posts: 424 ✭✭Cerveza


    That went right over you there.


  • #65
    NickNickleby
    Registered Users Posts: 1,813 ✭✭✭NickNickleby


    fryup wrote: »
    the spuds aren't looking the best

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVlb1i0x0ew
    :pac::pac::pac:
    Sorry, I only got as far as "I'm known as young Flynner" before I cracked up.

    what rhymes with 'blight' ?


  • #66
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users Posts: 12,351 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    foxy farmer wrote: »
    The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Penned by Gordon Lightfoot about a Great Lakes freighter that sunk in a storm on Lake Superior in November 1975 with the loss of all 29 crew.
    This version by Brian Burns is more poignant as he lists the names of the crew at the end.


    "And the church bell chimed till it rang 29 times for each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald."

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dC18ej6gIcE

    Christy Moore borrowed the main melody for his Back Home in Derry song.

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



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  • #67
    chosen1
    Registered Users Posts: 412 ✭✭chosen1


    bodhrandude wrote: »
    Christy Moore borrowed the main melody for his Back Home in Derry song.

    That was written by Bobby Sands in the H blocks.

    Understandable to have some miserable qualities with that setting. Good song though.


  • #68
    IAMAMORON
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,078 ✭✭✭IAMAMORON


    chosen1 wrote: »
    That was written by Bobby Sands in the H blocks.

    Understandable to have some miserable qualities with that setting. Good song though.

    He wrote Mclhatton as well, not as miserable - a celebration of Irelands' enduring battle with ..... alcohol withdrawal.


  • #69
    Blazer
    Registered Users Posts: 17,414 ✭✭✭✭Blazer


    All of those songs are depressing ****e. My mother took up guitar a few years back and is always onto me to go their music sessions even though its Iron Maiden and rock I play.
    I'd much rather eat glass and **** it out than listen to that depressing ****e " mary went walking one day , and then she died., and her children died, and their father died" and then I ****in died thank christ from listening to that rubbish.


  • #70
    IAMAMORON
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,078 ✭✭✭IAMAMORON


    Blazer wrote: »
    All of those songs are depressing ****e. My mother took up guitar a few years back and is always onto me to go their music sessions even though its Iron Maiden and rock I play.
    I'd much rather eat glass and **** it out than listen to that depressing ****e " mary went walking one day , and then she died., and her children died, and their father died" and then I ****in died thank christ from listening to that rubbish.

    You are just a walking expletive aren't you?

    Wash out your mouth.


  • #71
    bnt
    Registered Users Posts: 12,956 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    It’s got to be the “Death, Death, Death” song from Cheers:


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsMUqK4mLjc

    From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch’.

    — Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 Astronaut



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  • #72
    sligojoek
    Registered Users Posts: 25,420 ✭✭✭✭sligojoek


    Not quite trad but Irish and miserable



  • #73
    Edgware
    Registered Users Posts: 5,875 ✭✭✭Edgware


    The fields of Athenry, especially when sung by the " best supporters in the world"


  • #74
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users Posts: 40,102 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    Edgware wrote: »
    The fields of Athenry, especially when sung by the " best supporters in the world"

    Munster rugby supporters?


  • #75
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,720 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Edgware wrote: »
    The fields of Athenry, especially when sung by the " best supporters in the world"

    Unbearable when sung/shouted out by people without a note in their heads.


  • #76
    fryup
    Registered Users Posts: 18,069 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    ohnonotgmail wrote: »
    Munster rugby supporters?

    no sell'thick


  • #77
    NSAman
    Registered Users Posts: 3,386 ✭✭✭NSAman


    "Nobodies Child"..;)


  • #78
    FixdePitchmark
    Registered Users Posts: 20,736 ✭✭✭✭FixdePitchmark


    Stunning song - but as opening lines go.

    Sorrow and sadness.
    bitterness grief.
    Memories I have of you.
    wont leave me in peace.


    It also has a personal impact - as I spent time with both my mum and dad in the West Coast of Clare - so fairly personally impactful.

    What a song. Haven't listened to it in years.



  • #79
    dd973
    Registered Users Posts: 625 ✭✭✭dd973


    What's that one that Celtic fans hum, there's no words, but God it's dreary.


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