Thursday 14 March 2013

Good Irish Music (Potts the piper, Potts the fiddler)


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


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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