One of the better things my mother did for me was listen to music like this. She was into folk in general. Dated Tommy Makem a few times. I was also from greater Boston, and Irish/Scottish/English folk songs were typical during school talent shows and lame Sunday morning TV shows. Even in bars, when I was young, the Gloucester fisherman singing seafaring songs. All of it could have a great beauty, or hardiness, the meaningful gunk of living in it.
The finest folk singer I've ever heard. Better than Liam Clancy, and maybe Dick Gaughan and Luke Kelly. His pop stuff is very good but he was born to sing folk, even though he doesn't know it!
I love the way Irvine's harmonica break is in between the two verses of leaving and arriving, It's an apt fill to the passage of time. Brady is some musician-I'll listen to this gladly until I know the words.
So true. He created that genre and he hasn’t been equalled. Just like Django Reinhardt or Joan Armatrading. I was so disappointed when he transitioned to rock music with hard station etc.
When you said that he is seventy, I started counting on my fingers. Where does the time go? He was born in 1947, that makes him 75. Of course, I'm that much older too,I first saw the light of day in 1940 in Holles Street Maternity Hospital, Dublin. Once we get into our 60's and 70's, five years here or there does'nt make much difference. I'm just glad for each day now. Cheers!
From Derry Quay we sailed away on the 23rd of May We were boarded by a pleasant crew bound for Americay Fresh water there we did take on, five thousand gallons or more In case we’d run short going to New York far away from the Shamrock Shore So fare thee well sweet Liza dear and likewise to Derry town, And twice farewell to me comrade boys who dwell on that sainted ground If fortune it ever should favour me or I to have money in store I’ll come back and I’ll wed the wee lassie I left on Paddy’s Green Shamrock Shore Well we sailed three days and we were all seasick, not a man on board was free We were all confined unto our bunks with no one to pity poor me No father dear nor mother kind to hold up me head when t’was sore, Which made me think more on the lassie I left on Paddy’s Green Shamrock Shore Well we safely reached the other side in three and twenty days We were taken as passengers by a man and led round in six different ways, We each of us drank a parting glass in case we might never meet more, And we drank a health to Old Ireland and Paddy’s Green Shamrock Shore So fare thee well sweet Liza dear and likewise to Derry town And twice farewell to me comrade boys who dwell on that sainted ground If fortune it ever should favour me or I to have money in store I’ll come back and I’ll wed the wee lassie I left on Paddy’s Green Shamrock Shore
I couldn't agree more with Gearoid O'Laoi who four years ago on this site observed that Paul was born to sing folk music, even though he may not have realized it--or wanted to. I love him and Andy, who were born to make many albums; pity they didn't. But their one--I believe they only made one--is a classic.
+sickofamericanidol Somewhere along the line, Paul decided he's a songwriter, & while he has written some great songs, I still much prefer him singing the traditional stuff- hands down. Nobody does (did) it better.
Isn't life odd... In my mind, he's so unbelievably good at interpreting the Irish folk idiom that how could he help but revel in it? I mean, NO ONE does it better, in my opinion. Then again, my teachers wanted me to sing opera, and I couldn't bear the thought of it. If it wasn't by Springsteen or U2, I didn't want to know it, so I can relate to not falling in line with the expectations of others, no matter how obvious it seems to them.
Got to love ❤️ the immigrant songs! An Irishman sailed to North America sometime in the 19th Century, he settled in AZ. He was my several-great grandfathers on my mother's side.
Fantastic version of the song, and one I listen to again and again. Paul's vocal and guitar work is so suited to the song. I've been trying to play the song like this version (DADF#AD) and there's so many little nuances. I'll keep practicing though :D
This is greatness ,,, I mean as great as a duo of Jimmy Page on acoustic guitar and John Paul Jones on mandolin ... there is no doubt in mind they'd agree ... more likely, they've been friends forever
i love this song it actualy cheered me up. i hope u all got the same reaction. its a really well done song and sounds really happy even though the lyrics really arnt
a minute ago I was starting to get pretty weepy at the lyrics, this is a sad and beautiful song--so I had to laugh --just saw sarah marshall movie last week...
Sportymike,"Gleanntáin Ghlas Ghaoth Dobhair" sounds similar, but is a different song. The English title is "The Green Glens of Gaoth Dobhair". Brady sings it very well, check out the video.
in reply to Maclink 1, Guitar tuning DADGHE? never heard of that one? is it similar to ADHD or 'Attention deficit Hyperactivity Disorder tuning' as it's generally known?
@gerrywm20 Yep, as far as I can tell from the video it is, and it works for me when playing. I've not found a tab for it, just worked it out. It uses similar chords to Lkes of Ponchartrain.
Ah remember these guys singing in UCD around 1966/67....another life and set of memories!
Two best Irish guitarists ❤ of all time
One of the better things my mother did for me was listen to music like this. She was into folk in general. Dated Tommy Makem a few times. I was also from greater Boston, and Irish/Scottish/English folk songs were typical during school talent shows and lame Sunday morning TV shows. Even in bars, when I was young, the Gloucester fisherman singing seafaring songs. All of it could have a great beauty, or hardiness, the meaningful gunk of living in it.
Great song and singing 💯☝️
I've been coming back to this video several times a year since it was posted. Simply amazing.
He's 70 years old now and still touring and recording. I saw him perform a solo show in New York City in September. Still superb, and such a nice man.
The finest folk singer I've ever heard. Better than Liam Clancy, and maybe Dick Gaughan and Luke Kelly. His pop stuff is very good but he was born to sing folk, even though he doesn't know it!
I love the way Irvine's harmonica break is in between the two verses of leaving and arriving, It's an apt fill to the passage of time.
Brady is some musician-I'll listen to this gladly until I know the words.
What a voice
Brady's guitar work always supercedes his contemporaries, and those who followed...I really haven't seen any to play and sing with such ease!!!
Beautifully said.
So true. He created that genre and he hasn’t been equalled. Just like Django Reinhardt or Joan Armatrading. I was so disappointed when he transitioned to rock music with hard station etc.
a breath of irish air,a dieng breed of irish music stand up and sing boys and be proud of a great nation and never forget,why we sing
Love the way Andy transitions from harp to mandolin at the end of the break. Seamless!
Never tire of the lovely version of this song
I would love to go back in time and witness these beautiful performances.
+Kitty Meekins Amen!
They are both still as good and fresh as they were here!
Bought tickets to hear them but have been deferred till this covid shit is over
I just love everything Brady was doing at this time... inspiring!
The most underrated singer songwriter in the world.
I'm wiping the tears from my eyes.. two giant musicians. Brilliant.
❤
Reminds me of my mum this song, much loved and sadly missed.
RIP Mamie.
Thanks Paul
RIP to your Mamie also 🙏
Mamies are the best 🤝❤
Beautiful comment 🤝
Sung and performed with heart and soul! Awesome!!!
Two of the best artists of all time.
deff
Brady is superb as usual but what about Andy Irvine....as good as you could ask for playing beside you.
Absolutely stunning performance.
When you said that he is seventy, I started counting on my fingers. Where does the time go? He was born in 1947, that makes him 75. Of course, I'm that much older too,I first saw the light of day in 1940 in Holles Street Maternity Hospital, Dublin. Once we get into our 60's and 70's, five years here or there does'nt make much difference. I'm just glad for each day now. Cheers!
you failed maths at school then?
I think that is the basis of a sound policy which we would all do well to aspire to.lol.
@@porterhall27
You really gonna verbally attack an old man in RUclips comments? Wtf
Ya sounds like a young man to me
Thankyou Paul Brady, what a song what avoice . God Bless you
Beautiful 🌹
Wonderfull. I could listen to this all day. In fact I just did.
I played this tune every week at local celidhi band night around south manchester, what memories, the o'carolan and st malachys bands christine kelly
a masterfull performance
Anybody paying attention to the guitar skills of this man he is feckin genius.....poet,scholar,musician.Ant
I never knew he was an ant 🐜
What about the mandolin skills of Andy Irvine next to him? ❤
❤no auto-tune or souless A.I.❤❤❤
❤no auto-tune or souless A.I.❤❤❤
Played at me das funeral, he sang it all his life , parting glass to him rip
This one never fails to lift me up! Legendary
Alot of heart & soul in that singing brilliant
I was born in 1947 ...remember Paul from the Dublin ballad scene 1960s (Aula Max UCD...all bad lighting , smoke ,great hopes and now lost friends!)
It's funny and sad that, but really, really honest.
beautiful lyrics and voice. check out 2 other great songs of his from the same era. (1) Arthur McBride and (2) Lakes of Ponchartrain.
Such a lovely song so irish :D
So beautiful! 💚
stunning, elegant and powerful
a far superior version of this song than any of the others.
this is amazing
Yes, it's on Paul Brady's 1978 album "Welcome Here, Kind Stranger".
From Derry Quay we sailed away on the 23rd of May
We were boarded by a pleasant crew bound for Americay
Fresh water there we did take on, five thousand gallons or more
In case we’d run short going to New York far away from the Shamrock Shore
So fare thee well sweet Liza dear and likewise to Derry town,
And twice farewell to me comrade boys who dwell on that sainted ground
If fortune it ever should favour me or I to have money in store
I’ll come back and I’ll wed the wee lassie I left on Paddy’s Green Shamrock Shore
Well we sailed three days and we were all seasick, not a man on board was free
We were all confined unto our bunks with no one to pity poor me
No father dear nor mother kind to hold up me head when t’was sore,
Which made me think more on the lassie I left on Paddy’s Green Shamrock Shore
Well we safely reached the other side in three and twenty days
We were taken as passengers by a man and led round in six different ways,
We each of us drank a parting glass in case we might never meet more,
And we drank a health to Old Ireland and Paddy’s Green Shamrock Shore
So fare thee well sweet Liza dear and likewise to Derry town
And twice farewell to me comrade boys who dwell on that sainted ground
If fortune it ever should favour me or I to have money in store
I’ll come back and I’ll wed the wee lassie I left on Paddy’s Green Shamrock Shore
Two musical geniuses
It's half four in the morning and I'm waiting for a taxi to carry meself , Paul and Andy
Pure perfection!!!!
I couldn't agree more with Gearoid O'Laoi who four years ago on this site observed that Paul was born to sing folk music, even though he may not have realized it--or wanted to. I love him and Andy, who were born to make many albums; pity they didn't. But their one--I believe they only made one--is a classic.
+sickofamericanidol Somewhere along the line, Paul decided he's a songwriter, & while he has written some great songs, I still much prefer him singing the traditional stuff- hands down. Nobody does (did) it better.
Isn't life odd... In my mind, he's so unbelievably good at interpreting the Irish folk idiom that how could he help but revel in it? I mean, NO ONE does it better, in my opinion. Then again, my teachers wanted me to sing opera, and I couldn't bear the thought of it. If it wasn't by Springsteen or U2, I didn't want to know it, so I can relate to not falling in line with the expectations of others, no matter how obvious it seems to them.
Just lovely!
Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful
Got to love ❤️ the immigrant songs! An Irishman sailed to North America sometime in the 19th Century, he settled in AZ. He was my several-great grandfathers on my mother's side.
G O A T
Fantastic version of the song, and one I listen to again and again. Paul's vocal and guitar work is so suited to the song. I've been trying to play the song like this version (DADF#AD) and there's so many little nuances. I'll keep practicing though :D
Almost looks like he is in drop D tuning here
Yeah this is just drop D, you can see him fingering D and C chords normally.
Superb... Is all I can say about this one!
paul brady is superb
lovely song well performed
@Pwecko I remember listening to these two in Dublin when a student 1964/68...not so many of us around now who remember the hair!
Very, Very well done.
G O A T❤
Great performance. Thanks for posting this.
This is greatness ,,, I mean as great as a duo of Jimmy Page on acoustic guitar and John Paul Jones on mandolin ... there is no doubt in mind they'd agree ... more likely, they've been friends forever
i love this song it actualy cheered me up. i hope u all got the same reaction. its a really well done song and sounds really happy even though the lyrics really arnt
Andy is “ thee” most underrated genius I’ve ever heard!!
irish rovers are full of Love
Great performance, and so long ago now
Wonderful.
Wonderful Song
he's unreal he doesnt get the credit he deserves!!!!!
Incredible
@jrs1675 I have to agree. His singing seems effortless. Just brilliant.
I just love this man, even if he is ginger! Sometimes it just hits u how fantasic it is to be Irish, even if we do say so ourselves;)
I could not have put it better myself.
Another GREAT video and song...well done (again) Bilko :)
Strabane GOAT❤
R.i.p da ❤
Pure class.
so so so love
perfect
Five number people need a 'hard clout' - Great version of a great song
Emotiva canción :')
@inchwormgreen
no he is not dead, seen him in concert last night, still an amazing singer!
Does anyone know the key of that harmonica? I love this version
Tim Callinan Bb, played in cross harp position I believe
Is it just the video delay or does Andy play his harmonica upside down...with the low notes to his right side?
absolutely beautiful Paul! Im from Strabane too, now living in California.
home sick after 40 years prey for me , ps not suacildie
Ay home sick!
a minute ago I was starting to get pretty weepy at the lyrics, this is a sad and beautiful song--so I had to laugh --just saw sarah marshall movie last week...
Loch Erin Shore by the Corrs
Sportymike,"Gleanntáin Ghlas Ghaoth Dobhair" sounds similar, but is a different song. The English title is "The Green Glens of Gaoth Dobhair". Brady sings it very well, check out the video.
Shut it Brady ya little grass
The original version of this is of course that of the Johnstons - a previous home of the amazing Paul Brady...
@donalb23 is that definatly the tuning? trying to learn it myself
what about andy irvine? what became of him? he was superb
I heard Cathal McConnell sign this in 1977 solo without instruments
@cardigan181 Happy days indeed ..the thoughts of youth!
Well done
@gerrywm20 I'm pretty certain that Paul most oftenly used open G tuning. DGDGBD.
And I believe it was Andy Irvine strummin it.
Just put this on the bagpipes sounds great
in reply to Maclink 1, Guitar tuning DADGHE? never heard of that one? is it similar to ADHD or 'Attention deficit Hyperactivity Disorder tuning' as it's generally known?
In Scandinavia they use the letter"H" instead of "B" and is the same note.
One for Mickey Cassidy!
@gerrywm20
Yep, as far as I can tell from the video it is, and it works for me when playing. I've not found a tab for it, just worked it out. It uses similar chords to Lkes of Ponchartrain.
That makes him 65!
I think he use to tune down his highest string a whole step down to a D. Not sure if he did that here, though.
@gplynch66 Im torn between the two! Love the video with the horslips version on youtube though! :)