Hi Folks
This week for Three Tune Tuesday Im going with the theme of songs that tell stories.
I guess in a way most songs tell stories but the 3 I have picked this week are 3 which paint vivid images in my minds eye. The lyrics kind of create a movie which plays in my mind.
I've always felt that's what a good folk song should do, take the listener on a journey to far of times and places and tell the stories of the characters who lived there.
The first song is "Drill Ye Tarries,Drill" which is a song from 1888.A Tarrier was the name for the Irish labourers who drilled the holes for the dynamite to go in to create railroad tunnels.
I first heard this song played by Donal Clancy ,the eldest son of Liam Clancy. There is an older version from a Liam Clancy and Tommy Makem album so I guess Donal got this one from his father.
Song 2 is "The Islands" by Ralph McTell.I heard this one on a Bill Connelly video which was filmed in 1991.In the video Billy is heading up to do a show in Orkney , one of Scotland's Northern islands. As he is on the ferry the first verse of this song plays. I thought the lyrics were powerful and did paint a very vivid image of Island life. I couldn't find the chords for this one so I came up with my own progression which goes Am/G/Em/Am Am/C/G.
The last song of this set is called "Kilkelly" I heard this one on a Clancy Brothers concert from 1995 which is on youtube.
Robbie O'Connell ,The Clancys nephew plays this one ,he sings it beautifully and his guitar acompanment really suits the song.Agian I couldnt find the chords for this one so I came up with my own progression.
This one tells the story of a father writing to his eldest son who has emigrated to America in 1860.Back then it was rare than people who emigrated to America would ever make it back to Ireland.It likely cost a fortune and would take weeks at sea to make the return journey.Only around 1 out of 10 people who emigrated ever made it back.
The story goes that the song writer Peter Jones found letters in an attic in Washington from his great grandfather and based the song on those letters.
Get the handkerchiefs out, this one is a bit of a tear jerker.
Thats all from me until next week folks.
Take care and stay safe!
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Hello @celticheartbeat 😊 Hope to find you well and vibing in that guitar 🎸 !LUV ed to see you playing once again! My favorite was definitely Drill Ye Terrier Drill. Very catchy melody and really plays a little movie in one's mind 🤗
That last one was sooo sad 😭😭.... Today I'm feeling uplifted and in a good mood so I think I didn't feel that last song today as I usually would feel. I really like sad and melacolic songs! Anyways, it was so beautifull and it spoke from the heart, a hurted and crushed one. I feel the need to hug someone right now 🙌
Also, I'm putting together the next spotify playlist but I couldn't find the second one at all 😫 The first one I only found Cisco Houston's version of the song. Would that be ok for you that I add that version instead?
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Genius, what a class tune, it's one I'd like to learn myself, I like any song with a bit of humour thrown in there...
"The Islands" is powerful and does indeed paint a vivid picture of Island life, this is another song that's new to me.
Kilkelly - Wow tear jerker is right. The famine was so tragic, millions dead and emigrated never to return. The photos capture the emotions well. Terrible that they couldn't get back to bury their mother.