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Most miserable trad song ever.

  • 25-01-2021 4:11pm
    #1
    Registered Users Posts: 12,325 ✭✭✭✭


    Had a bit of a discussion about this a the weekend.

    I will give me my view but throw it open first.

    “The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad,
    For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.”

    ― G.K. Chesterton,


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  • Registered Users Posts: 6,587 ✭✭✭Feisar


    /thread

    First they came for the socialists...



  • Registered Users Posts: 5,301 ✭✭✭Snickers Man


    Feisar wrote: »
    /thread


    And it goes on and on and on........six and a half minutes!!!!

    Total misery!!! MAKE IT STOP!!!!!!!


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    "Scorn Not His Simplicity"

    Sue me.


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,325 ✭✭✭✭mariaalice


    Kilkelly has to win, my children have emigrated, the turf won't burn, the crops are failing, and that just for starters.

    From Clair to here.

    The Fields of Athenry


  • Registered Users Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


    Yeah, if you start a song sitting down at a young man's graveside you know you're on a spiral.


    Erra whisht yourself, I'm trying to get the barman's attention.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 40,060 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    "Scorn Not His Simplicity"

    Sue me.

    if it was a trad song you might have a point.


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,890 ✭✭✭Odhinn


    "The old main drag" by the Pogues. None of your shiny happy people nonsense here.





  • Registered Users Posts: 2,539 ✭✭✭Northernlily


    Not really a trad song but Grace is a miserable auld tune. Lad gets married and then is dragged out to be shot.


  • Registered Users Posts: 13,707 ✭✭✭✭Hello 2D Person Below


    Not really a trad song but Grace is a miserable auld tune. Lad gets married and then is dragged out to be shot.

    Class song.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,539 ✭✭✭Northernlily


    Isle of hope, Isle of tears another one.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 12,325 ✭✭✭✭mariaalice


    The green fields of France.

    I went to see Eric Bogle he wroth the green fields of France and it was a great night despite most of his stuff being on the miserable side. The same with the pogues a great night.


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,565 ✭✭✭CoBo55


    Not really a trad song but Grace is a miserable auld tune. Lad gets married and then is dragged out to be shot.

    Hate that ****ing song quickly followed by that abomination Caledonia, invariably sung by some squaking out of tune pissed woman...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 424 ✭✭Cerveza


    A lot of the stuff out of Sharon’s box don’t be great.


  • Registered Users Posts: 9,630 ✭✭✭hynesie08


    What's the one about a lad on a nixer, who fell into a cement mixer?


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,598 ✭✭✭silliussoddius


    mariaalice wrote: »
    The green fields of France.

    I went to see Eric Bogle he wroth the green fields of France and it was a great night despite most of his stuff being on the miserable side. The same with the pogues a great night.

    Is that really a trad song? More folk.


  • Registered Users Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


    CoBo55 wrote: »
    Hate that ****ing song quickly followed by that abomination Caledonia, invariably sung by some squaking out of tune pissed woman...

    As lamenting songs about Scotland go, it pales in significance to the braw Loch Lomond.
    Love how that builds to a crescendo

    "home ... home ... we're going home"


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,435 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    mariaalice wrote: »
    The green fields of France.

    I went to see Eric Bogle he wroth the green fields of France and it was a great night despite most of his stuff being on the miserable side.

    Was that in Whelan’s, M? Thought his ‘Do You Know Any Dylan’ was a good laugh.

    But, yeah, when you’ve got ‘Green Fields of France’ with ‘And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda’ it’s always going to lean towards the sad side

    The tide is turning…



  • Registered Users Posts: 12,325 ✭✭✭✭mariaalice


    Was that in Whelan’s, M? Thought his ‘Do You Know Any Dylan’ was a good laugh.

    But, yeah, when you’ve got ‘Green Fields of France’ with ‘And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda’ it’s always going to lean towards the sad side

    Yeah in Whelans.


  • Registered Users Posts: 81,223 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Any trad song without actual singing.


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,325 ✭✭✭✭mariaalice


    biko wrote: »
    Any trad song without actual singing.

    Sean nós?


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  • Registered Users Posts: 545 ✭✭✭Crocodile Booze


    Cradle of Filth - Coffin Fodder

    Overplayed, sentimental, diddly-eye claptrap.


  • Moderators, Education Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 12,466 Mod ✭✭✭✭byhookorbycrook


    razorblunt wrote: »
    As lamenting songs about Scotland go, it pales in significance to the braw Loch Lomond.
    Love how that builds to a crescendo

    "home ... home ... we're going home"

    Runrig live version ?


  • Moderators, Education Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 12,466 Mod ✭✭✭✭byhookorbycrook


    Skibbereen for the win . I sat in the Famine plot there and cried as the words ran through my head . “. Name checked in “ Jockser Goes to Stuggart” “ and the last that he was seen was arm in arm with Jackie Charleton singing “ Revenge for Skibbereen.”

    Oh father dear, I oft-times hear you speak of Erin's isle
    Her lofty hills, her valleys green, her mountains rude and wild
    They say she is a lovely land wherein a saint might dwell
    So why did you abandon her, the reason to me tell

    Oh son, I loved my native land with energy and pride
    Till a blight came o'er the praties; my sheep, my cattle died
    My rent and taxes went unpaid, I could not them redeem
    And that's the cruel reason why I left old Skibbereen

    Oh well do I remember that bleak December day
    The landlord and the sheriff came to take us all away
    They set my roof on fire with their cursed English spleen
    I heaved a sigh and bade goodbye to dear old Skibbereen

    Your mother too, God rest her soul, fell on the stony ground
    She fainted in her anguish seeing desolation 'round
    She never rose but passed away from life to immortal dream
    She found a quiet grave, me boy, in dear old Skibbereen

    And you were only two years old and feeble was your frame
    I could not leave you with my friends for you bore your father's name
    I wrapped you in my cóta mór in the dead of night unseen
    I heaved a sigh and bade goodbye to dear old Skibbereen

    Oh father dear, the day will come when in answer to the call
    All Irish men of freedom stern will rally one and all
    I'll be the man to lead the band beneath the flag of green
    And loud and clear we'll raise the cheer, Revenge for Skibbereen!


  • Registered Users Posts: 971 ✭✭✭bob mcbob


    razorblunt wrote: »
    As lamenting songs about Scotland go, it pales in significance to the braw Loch Lomond.
    Love how that builds to a crescendo

    "home ... home ... we're going home"

    If this is the Runrig version of Loch Lomond then what they are singing is

    "Ho mo leannan bhoidheach"

    which according to Google means oh my beautiful sweetheart.

    around 3 minutes in on this

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbb9aRSQpsY


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,402 ✭✭✭McGinniesta


    the band plays waltzing matilda


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,794 ✭✭✭Aongus Von Bismarck


    It's a beautiful piece of music, but I always find the ending of Arthur McBride to be terribly sad.



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,277 ✭✭✭Your Face


    Maniac 2000


  • Registered Users Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


    Runrig live version ?

    Yeah I think that’s the one.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,172 ✭✭✭cannotlogin


    Weela Weela Walya is fair miserable.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


    bob mcbob wrote: »
    If this is the Runrig version of Loch Lomond then what they are singing is

    "Ho mo leannan bhoidheach"

    which according to Google means oh my beautiful sweetheart.

    around 3 minutes in on this

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbb9aRSQpsY

    I based it off every Scottish wedding / Xmas party I’ve been to!


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