The Irish Volunteer - David Kincaid (Cover) by Seth Staton Watkins

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  • The Irish Volunteer - David Kincaid (Cover) by Seth Staton Watkins
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    The Irish Volunteer is part of David Kincaid's album on which it is the titular track, originally written by Joe English and set to the tune of "The Irish Jaunting Car" by Kincaid. For the album, Kincaid assembled a collection of songs written during the Civil War era about Irish American soldiers fighting for the Union. Most of the songs only came with lyrics so Kincaid had to find traditional Irish music to set the lyrics to. Kincaid was devoted to historical accuracy in performing the songs, the pieces are performed only with instruments that would have been available to the people of the period.
    The songs tell the story of the Irish immigrant volunteers who fought for the Union, most of the songs mention Thomas Francis Meagher, Michael Corcoran, and the famous Irish Brigade.
    Lyrics:
    My name is Tim McDonald, I'm a native of the Isle
    I was born among old Erin's bogs when I was but a child
    My father fought in 'Ninety-Eight, for liberty so dear;
    He fell upon old Vinegar Hill, like an Irish volunteer
    Then raise the harp of Erin, boys, the flag we all revere
    We'll fight and fall beneath its folds, like Irish volunteers!
    Then raise the harp of Erin, boys, the flag we all revere
    We'll fight and fall beneath its folds, like Irish volunteers!
    When I was driven form my home by an oppressor's hand
    I cut my sticks and greasеd my brogues, and came o'er to this land
    I found a homе an many friends, and some that I love dear;
    Be jabbers! I'll stick to them like bricks and an Irish volunteer
    Then fill your glasses up, my boys, and drink a hearty cheer
    To the land of our adoption and the Irish volunteer!
    Then fill your glasses up, my boys, and drink a hearty cheer
    To the land of our adoption and the Irish volunteer!
    Now when the traitors in the south commenced a warlike raid
    I quickly then laid down my hod, to the devil went my spade!
    To a recruiting office then I went, that happened to be near
    And joined the good old Sixty-Ninth, like an Irish volunteer
    Then fill the ranks and march away!--no traitors do we fear;
    We'll drive them all to blazes, says the Irish volunteer
    Then fill the ranks and march away!--no traitors do we fear;
    We'll drive them all to blazes, says the Irish volunteer
    Now when the Prince of Wales came over here, and made a hubbaboo
    Oh, everybody turned out, you know, in gold and tinsel too;
    But then the good old Sixty-Ninth didn't like these lords or peers
    They wouldn't give a damn for kings, the Irish volunteers!
    We love the land of Liberty, its laws we will revere
    "But the devil take the nobility!" says the Irish volunteer!
    We love the land of Liberty, its laws we will revere
    "But the devil take the nobility!" says the Irish volunteer!
    Now if the traitors in the South should ever cross our roads
    We'll drive them to the devil, as Saint Patrick did the toads;
    We'll give them all short nooses that come just below the ears
    Made strong and good of Irish hemp by Irish volunteers
    Then here's to brave McClennan whom the army now reveres
    He'll lead us on to victory, the Irish volunteers
    Then here's to brave McClellan, whom the army now reveres
    He'll lead us on to victory, the Irish volunteers
    Now fill your glasses up, my boys, a toast come drink with me
    May Erin's Harp and the Starry Flag united ever be;
    May traitors quake, and rebels shake, and tremble in their fears
    When next they meet the Yankee boys and Irish volunteers!
    God bless the name of Washington! that name this land reveres;
    Success to Meagher and Nugent, and their Irish volunteers!
    God bless the name of Washington! that name this land reveres;
    Success to Meagher and Nugent, and their Irish volunteers!

Комментарии • 145

  • @edletts2219
    @edletts2219 5 месяцев назад +10

    I had a distant uncle who was an Irish Volunteer, recruited on the dock after landing in Philadelphia. His younger sister at the time was 14 years old. She got informed that he had been wounded at Gettysburg. So, she went down to the train station in Philadelphia where the wounded were coming in. The place was totally covered in wounded soldiers suffering from all sorts of terrible wounds. She never heard from her brother again. The sight so traumatized her that she refused to speak English for the next 90 years of her life and only spoke Irish, except when being introduced to my older sister, who in the early 1940's was a toddler at the time. "The child's a Daugherty."

  • @tommytom4893
    @tommytom4893 Год назад +147

    As a American, this was always one of my favorite songs. Just truly American and thanks to the Irish Volunteers of long ago.

    • @truenorthgames
      @truenorthgames Год назад

      Damn right boyo irish Catholics will fight like he'll to defend freedom of man 🇨🇮

    • @dutchvanderbilt9969
      @dutchvanderbilt9969 Год назад +4

      Amen brother!

    • @GhilieDawg
      @GhilieDawg Год назад +8

      Irish in america have always been the ones from the early 1800s to 1960s where'd you see often Irish guys working along with Scottish volunteers working in coal mines factories and all the dangerous jobs nobody wanted to be in.

    • @IrishContra
      @IrishContra 9 месяцев назад +3

      Google Saint Patrick's Battalion

    • @kristalange6824
      @kristalange6824 2 месяца назад +1

      The Irish play a big role in the war.

  • @kincaiddalton
    @kincaiddalton Год назад +63

    As a marine and of Irish and Scottish heritage I take heart in being considered an Irish volunteer!!!!!❤

    • @ddjay1363
      @ddjay1363 Год назад +8

      Nice.
      Bear in mind that the Scots who arrived in Ireland from 1604 onward weren't exactly welcome.
      ;-)

    • @desktopgrenadiers4321
      @desktopgrenadiers4321 Год назад +5

      Alba agus Èirinn gu bràth

    • @joshuamckenna2981
      @joshuamckenna2981 Год назад +3

      Eagna agua foighne

    • @lewiswhite95
      @lewiswhite95 Год назад +3

      Rrr.
      Fmr Sgt White (I got my first name back!)
      4th MLG H&S MP.
      Oif (made a shirt "for unit cohesion, 😖)
      Oef twice. NO MOTTO SHIRTS!

  • @DariusOfPersia
    @DariusOfPersia Год назад +25

    My name is Tim McDonald, I'm a native of the isle
    I was born among old Erin's bogs and left when but a child
    My father fought in '98 for liberty so dear
    And fell upon old Vinegar Hill as an Irish volunteer
    So, raise the harp of Erin, boys, the flag we all revere!
    We'll fight and fall beneath its folds like Irish volunteers!
    So, raise the harp of Erin, boys, the flag we all revere!
    We'll fight and fall beneath its folds like Irish volunteers!
    When I was driven from my home by an oppressor's hand
    I cut my sticks and greased my brogues and came o'er to this land
    I found a home and many friends and some that I love dear
    Bejabbers, I'll stick to them like bricks as an Irish volunteer!
    So, fill your glasses up, my boys, and drink a hearty cheer!
    To the land of our adoption and the Irish volunteers!
    So, fill your glasses up, my boys, and drink a hearty cheer!
    To the land of our adoption and the Irish volunteers!
    Now, when the traitors in the South commenced a warlike raid
    I quickly then laid down my hod, to the Devil went my spade!
    To a recruiting office then I went, that happened to be near
    And joined the good old 69th as an Irish volunteer!
    "So, fill the ranks and march away, no traitors do we fear!
    We'll drive them all to blazes!" says the Irish volunteer!
    "So, fill the ranks and march away, no traitors do we fear!
    We'll drive them all to blazes!" says the Irish volunteer!
    When the Prince of Wales came over here and made a hubbaboo
    And everyone turned out you know, in gold and tinsel too
    But then, the good old 69th didn't like these lords or peers
    They wouldn't give a damn for kings as the Irish volunteers!
    "We love the land of liberty, its laws we will revere
    But the Devil take nobility!" says the Irish volunteers!
    "We love the land of liberty, its laws we will revere
    But the Devil take nobility!" says the Irish volunteer!
    Now, if the traitors in the South should ever cross our roads
    We'll drive them to the Devil as Saint Patrick did the toads!
    We'll give them all short nooses that come just below the ears
    Made good and strong from Irish hemp by the Irish volunteers!
    So, here's to brave McClellan, whom the army now reveres!
    He'll lead us on to victory, the Irish volunteers!
    So, here's to brave McClellan, whom the army now reveres!
    He'll lead us on to victory, the Irish volunteers!
    Now, fill your glasses up, my boys, a toast come drink with me
    May Erin's harp and the starry flag united ever be!
    May traitors quake and rebels shake and tremble in their fears
    When next they meet the Yankee boys and the Irish volunteers!
    God bless the name of Washington, that name this land reveres!
    Success to Meagher, Nugent, and the Irish volunteers!
    God bless the name of Washington, that name this land reveres!
    Success to Meagher, Nugent, and the Irish volunteers!

  • @Jackaboy1476
    @Jackaboy1476 Год назад +20

    As a 2nd generation Irish-American who served in the Army this song holds a very special place in my soul. It’s our peoples history of how they fled pain and suffering just to turn around and fight so others wouldn’t have to go through the same anymore.

  • @anasexualdragonwithinterne2912
    @anasexualdragonwithinterne2912 6 месяцев назад +5

    Born and raised in america, not much in our history to be proud of. These songs give me some heritage and history i can be proud of. A history of blessed rebellion and fight against oppression. God bless ireland and all its people. ERIN GO BRAGH!!!🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪

  • @russby3554
    @russby3554 Год назад +10

    I'll be visiting the memorial to the Irish Brigade at Gettysburg, Pa soon. Cheers mate

  • @connorjack-232
    @connorjack-232 11 месяцев назад +9

    I love this song I am a big historic lover and the 69th Irish volunteers is one of my favorite regimens of the Civil War

  • @magnisturktgull8770
    @magnisturktgull8770 Год назад +28

    YES YES YES! Amazing job!! 😁🍻 TO THE LAND OF OUR ADOPTION AND THE IRISH VOLUNTEERS

  • @secondaryadjunctofu0
    @secondaryadjunctofu0 Год назад +4

    Well drag them all to blazes! Says the Irish volunteer!

  • @chadsmith8966
    @chadsmith8966 Год назад +10

    Whelp, guess we’ll have “the Fighting 69” and “Irish Brigade” on Seth’s list as well.

  • @NaraClanGaming
    @NaraClanGaming Год назад +15

    Youre covers are the reason i started learning about irish history. Proud and glad to have to have that history in my blood!

  • @Al3xM3ndoza
    @Al3xM3ndoza Год назад +4

    May Erin's Harp and the Starry Flag united ever be!

  • @ManBehindThePencil
    @ManBehindThePencil Год назад +5

    Truly the Irish volunteer has more patriotism than any man I’ve ever known. I salute to you sir 🫡

  • @todbrown7597
    @todbrown7597 Год назад +4

    This song strums my ancestral bones. AND it sums up my attitude towards the current crop of traitors and insurrectionists, treason and corruption of our American Ideals need to be punished more severely, in my opinion.

  • @DylanSarmaki
    @DylanSarmaki 4 месяца назад +1

    Finnaly a folk song to relate to. My 5x grandfather from Limerick Ireland came to NY and fought 3 battles winning the medal of honor for capturing the confederate flag in opequon.

  • @Frog_Man_
    @Frog_Man_ Год назад +29

    Not only are you a great singer who constantly pumps out so many great songs, but your songs also teach me, or at least encourage me to learn about Irish history, thank you

  • @wanderingsoul4104
    @wanderingsoul4104 5 месяцев назад +1

    A proper song for a debt we cannot repay

  • @hugemusiclover1837
    @hugemusiclover1837 Год назад +12

    Now I'm sad I'm not Irish.. You guys have a lot to be proud of🤗

  • @caper2x
    @caper2x Год назад +4

    The perfect tunes to watch the Irish Brigade segments in the movies "Gettysburg" and "God and Generals".

  • @kylecasey7010
    @kylecasey7010 11 месяцев назад +4

    Kincaid had a ton of amazing songs in this genre. I’d love to hear your version of a few more.

  • @disconnected7737
    @disconnected7737 Год назад +5

    Up with the stars!

  • @ryanking2936
    @ryanking2936 Год назад +21

    Please do “Song of the Irish Brigade” -David Kincaid next. As always the song was amazing and I love listening to it.

  • @byutube4360
    @byutube4360 Год назад +1

    A tenth generation South Carolinian descended from planters and I love this 🤣

    • @maxhalsted5381
      @maxhalsted5381 Год назад

      Francis Marion AKA the Swamp Fox a planter himself drove the Rad Coats that King Geeoge III sent

  • @cathanmccann1769
    @cathanmccann1769 Год назад +17

    A great cover you could do would be the patriot game. A great song about the brave Feargal O'Hanlon 🇮🇪

  • @ShannanRyan
    @ShannanRyan Год назад +2

    All likes all round 🎉

  • @pintoffanta2510
    @pintoffanta2510 Год назад +5

    Do Irish brigade next!

  • @dutchvanderbilt9969
    @dutchvanderbilt9969 Год назад +2

    David Kincaid would be proud of ya lad

  • @gallantcavalier3306
    @gallantcavalier3306 Год назад +17

    YESSS!!!!! A LEGEND SINGS LYRICS BY A LEGEND!! Fantastic work, spectacular work!!! I hope to hear more of David Kincaid’s wonderful Irish Civil War songs in the future, this has been amazing!!!

    • @sethstatonwatkins
      @sethstatonwatkins  Год назад +3

      Thank you! Glad you like it!

    • @mr_h831
      @mr_h831 Год назад +1

      This confused me for a second because the irish had their own civil war. Haha.

  • @memine510
    @memine510 Год назад +5

    I love listening to David Kincaid. Thank you for this cover Seth.

  • @chriscormack7539
    @chriscormack7539 Год назад +1

    More Davin Kincaid covers

  • @andreaskruenert8833
    @andreaskruenert8833 Год назад

    Die Konzerte der"Brandos " mit David Kincaid im "Logo" in Hamburg waren der Hammer!!!

  • @daltonvaughn3911
    @daltonvaughn3911 11 месяцев назад +2

    America was built by the backs of the Irish Erin go brahg

  • @alexdokonaly2778
    @alexdokonaly2778 Год назад +3

    Pretty damn good music

  • @stormlord1177
    @stormlord1177 Год назад +4

    ive been waiting for this one, thanks (:

  • @leeholcombe9533
    @leeholcombe9533 Год назад +4

    I wondered how long it would take him to do this song, David Kincaid has many great ones!

    • @memine510
      @memine510 Год назад

      I agree,. I'd say which song of his is my favorite, but it's hard to choose which one.

  • @lewiswhite95
    @lewiswhite95 Год назад

    Clean start and then Harmonize ... Simple stings used to rythm.
    Clear work and Power with a grace of sorrows. 😢
    Great work. 🎉 thank you.

  • @L33tBrisket
    @L33tBrisket Год назад +2

    Can you please please do "The Parting Glass"? Especially the Wellerman version would suit you perfectly in my opinion. Greetings from Germany

  • @theemries4766
    @theemries4766 Год назад

    This song makes Uncle Billy happy.

  • @injusticewarrior241
    @injusticewarrior241 Год назад +5

    Hey I found out i have Scottish and Irish ancestry

  • @persianprince6213
    @persianprince6213 Год назад +10

    As always Beautiful rendition Seth! What a lovely range of vocals!

  • @demonlordfluffles1275
    @demonlordfluffles1275 Год назад +2

    Can you do kelly's irish Brigade ?

  • @georgemorris5089
    @georgemorris5089 Год назад +2

    As always keep up the great work bud 👍

  • @The_Republic_of_Ireland
    @The_Republic_of_Ireland Год назад +6

    Any chance of a cover of The Valley of Knockanure lad?

  • @skelly6706
    @skelly6706 Год назад +1

    Hell yah great job

  • @nitsedskysenrabshivi6633
    @nitsedskysenrabshivi6633 Год назад +2

    I want to here Song for the Irish Brigade please 🙏🇮🇪.

  • @kincaiddalton
    @kincaiddalton Год назад +1

    Seth I love all your music and covers! I can’t help but listen to them everyday while working

  • @rebel4314
    @rebel4314 Год назад +1

    I would love to hear you sing Kelly's Irish brigade

  • @everrettbreezewood3665
    @everrettbreezewood3665 Год назад +1

    Great song. Great performer.
    I love how you portray the Irishman deriding traitors here... so accurate to the general historic consistency. :)

  • @REDBULLWINGZ991
    @REDBULLWINGZ991 Год назад +1

    Absolutely Beautiful man !

  • @abuhamza8022
    @abuhamza8022 9 месяцев назад

    ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

  • @nothamel1467
    @nothamel1467 Год назад +1

    I love this rendition! :D

  • @maxfieldstanton4541
    @maxfieldstanton4541 Год назад +1

    Anyone else feel like this song is totally appropriate for America right now?

  • @interistaRomano2004
    @interistaRomano2004 Год назад +1

    You should sing we all fight for uncle Sam😉❤️

  • @chanelleboudreau5286
    @chanelleboudreau5286 Год назад +1

    Ah!!! Finally!!! I've been waiting for you to do this song :) Well done.

  • @Lukewebbharpist
    @Lukewebbharpist Год назад +1

    Class cover! Fair play Seth👏🏻

  • @davidekstrand8544
    @davidekstrand8544 Год назад +1

    Could you do Streets of New York?

  • @Acekatt
    @Acekatt Год назад +2

    I actually have two relatives who fought in the 1798 rebellion.

    • @menyou1443
      @menyou1443 Год назад +2

      I have one! Henry Joy… he led and died for this rebellion in the North…

    • @Genedide
      @Genedide 2 месяца назад

      ✊✊✊

  • @emregungor1248
    @emregungor1248 Год назад +1

    Wow that’s amazing been waiting a long time for this one!!

  • @gallantcavalier3306
    @gallantcavalier3306 Год назад +4

    HURRAH FOR CORCORAN!! HURRAH FOR MEAGHER!! HURRAH FOR NUGENT!! AND HURRAH FOR SETH FOR THIS AMAZING RENDITION!!!!

  • @Vasari12
    @Vasari12 Год назад +1

    I'd love to see a rendition of Song for the Irish Brigade, despite it being a Rebel Irish Volunteers song

  • @ihabziyad8611
    @ihabziyad8611 3 месяца назад +1

    I watch you from gaza despite the war

  • @mr_h831
    @mr_h831 Год назад

    You do a pretty good cover of this seth.
    I found this song a few months ago and occasionally I listen to it again.
    Did you know the 69th was in over a dozen engagements in the American civil war?
    They fought long and hard, typical of irishmen.
    David Kincaid has alot these songs, they're all pretty good, but this one is the best If you ask me.

  • @laysonalves
    @laysonalves Год назад +1

    Song of Rebel's 🍀

    • @conangaming2156
      @conangaming2156 Год назад +2

      Arguably, the first part about his father is about a rebellion, rebelling in the 1798 rebellion.
      The second part is literally the opposite, a soldier in the union army, putting down a rebellion.

  • @maynardzack4587
    @maynardzack4587 Год назад +1

    please sing the 'Song of the irish brigade' it is also made by David kincaid.

  • @kratosboy5557
    @kratosboy5557 Год назад

    To me ma a Scottish woman of Irish ancestry and my dad a proud scotsmen

  • @calebh9710
    @calebh9710 Год назад +1

    This is awesome! Do you think you could do “free and green” as well?

  • @theadventuresofcomeup
    @theadventuresofcomeup Год назад +1

    I really want him to do Warren Zeiders ride the lightning. It's out of his element but I think his voice would kill it.

  • @Xalimata
    @Xalimata Год назад +2

    As much as I love this song (and cover great job) its weird that a 60 year old man is fighting in the war right? His dad died in 1798 and the American Civil War started in 1861. Ol Tim McDonald is in his 60s at the least.

    • @sethstatonwatkins
      @sethstatonwatkins  Год назад +2

      Yeah it is strange, some people change the lyrics to 'grandfather'.

  • @D94Ultras
    @D94Ultras Год назад +2

    😃😃

  • @maxfieldstanton4541
    @maxfieldstanton4541 Год назад

    You should totally do Battlecry of Freedom.

  • @ghostrider6557
    @ghostrider6557 Год назад +1

    Hey Seth, what's been happening to your older songs? It seems the more I look, they more they keep disappearing. Like green fields of France, the fields of athenry(thank god you reposted a remastered), and a few others. I just want to know as I couldn't show some of my favorites to family recently. At least a pearl like seven seas is there still here. Either way, love everything man.

    • @sethstatonwatkins
      @sethstatonwatkins  Год назад +3

      Apologies friend! I personally feel some of my older stuff isn't very good and I've been trying to release remastered versions or just rerecord some of them. I put Green Fields of France back up but will likely redo it at some point. Any others you were looking for?

    • @ghostrider6557
      @ghostrider6557 Год назад +1

      @@sethstatonwatkins if that's how you feel, I understand. I just had some older family member who had parents in the world wars. As they went to Arlington earlier this year and saw the white crosses, it reminded me of it. If you wanted to wait and put out the remastered versions I wouldn't of cared since it's your passion. Ill show em that song in a moment now thanks. And keep on trudgin my friend.

  • @kincaiddalton
    @kincaiddalton Год назад

    Makes me wonder with the same last name as David if we’re kin

  • @thisisit3737
    @thisisit3737 Год назад +1

    Isn't this the same tune as Bonnie Blue flag?

  • @claudeyaz
    @claudeyaz Год назад

    It wasn't the 1st shot and the 1st death of the war both Irish people on both sides of the war?

  • @Charles37400
    @Charles37400 Год назад +2

    Im curious, after seeing your cover of "the idiot" and the words you put up at the end, would you be opposed to covering the internationale?

  • @LincMinecrafter
    @LincMinecrafter Год назад +1

    Can you please do my old man's a Provo

  • @jamesh8433
    @jamesh8433 Год назад

    Fun fact about Tom, he was 62 when he volunteered

  • @Pixelsoldier5888
    @Pixelsoldier5888 Год назад +1

    If I may suggest a song may I suggest Roddy McCorley sorry if I spelt it wrong.

  • @persianprince6213
    @persianprince6213 Год назад +4

    FIRST!

    • @menyou1443
      @menyou1443 Год назад

      Dammit! I dropped my phone when opening this gorgeous video. Must be it(;

    • @persianprince6213
      @persianprince6213 Год назад +2

      @@menyou1443 must be 😉😁

  • @leopardknowledge.1430
    @leopardknowledge.1430 Год назад +1

    wait does this mean we're getting a civil war album?!

    • @pintoffanta2510
      @pintoffanta2510 Год назад +2

      He has done I wanna be in the cavalry which isn't a historical song but is based on the civil war. I would like him to do some civil war songs though yes!

    • @sethstatonwatkins
      @sethstatonwatkins  Год назад

      Don’t have one planned but might do a few more songs like this one!

  • @McMasher
    @McMasher Год назад

    I wanna go thru these comments and see if any traitors are mad about their grandpappy getting called out lol

  • @kratosboy5557
    @kratosboy5557 Год назад +1

    Alba gu brath

  • @papazach
    @papazach Год назад +4

    Hurrah! Hurrah!
    For Southern rights, hurrah!
    Hurrah for the Bonnie Blue Flag that bears a single star
    Down With The Yankees

    • @conangaming2156
      @conangaming2156 Год назад +3

      I don’t think that’s going to go over so well in this comment section.

    • @UNION_JACK_THE_RIPPER
      @UNION_JACK_THE_RIPPER Год назад +3

      SHERMAN YOU MISSED ONE

    • @debbiestuckey2239
      @debbiestuckey2239 Год назад

      If people would actually study history and what started the civil war opinions would change. It was not over slavery, when the war started less than 5 percent of southerns owned slaves and there were 94 percent of southerners that opposed slavery. The Civil war was a war of northern aggression.

  • @MrEnclaveTasla
    @MrEnclaveTasla Год назад +1

    I'm 1/4 Irish and 2/4 Navajo and 1/4 Iroquois.
    Soo I'm 1/4 white and 3/4 native American and rebellion runs in my blood.

  • @nathancorbett999
    @nathancorbett999 Год назад +3

    Attempt #4: My Old Man's a Provo