Some great Irish music (piping) with Sean Potts (a namesake, no relation).
More (air and reels)
The Chieftains, Morning Dew
The Chieftains, Pub Music
Tommy Potts, Irish fiddler
A Dublin Song, An Ruirthech 1966
Easter 1966
It’s Easter once again
and I’ve got Ireland
on my brain
And the memory of you
as I was leaving on the train
Brings little my love
but bewilderment and pain.
For your love ebbed like the Liffey water,
So, Barman, please, mine’s another pint of
porter.
Fifty years ago today,
all Dublin Town was torn
And Nelson’s Pillar
nearly crumbled
At the beauty that was
born.
But your love fled like the Liffey water
So, Barman, please, mine’s another pint of
porter.
A year ago today in O’Connell Street at
dawn
Nelson’s Pillar nearly
crumbled
When he saw our love
was born.
But your love flowed like the Liffey
water,
So, barman, please, mine’s another pint of
porter.
In Trafalgar Square I wait, with no one
there to meet,
Like me, Lord Nelson
trembles, from stony heart to stony feet,
And monuments have
crumbled, down in O’Connell Street .
For your love ebbed like the Liffey Water
So, Barman, please, mine’s another pint
of porter.
1966-1967, Dublin-London
1966-1967, Dublin-London
On Nelson's Pillar, 1966
Up Went Nelson, The Go Lucky Four (YouTube) - A somewhat different sort of song.
Easter 1916, by W B Yeats
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