A Cork girl singing a Kerry lament by Sigerson Clifford about lost love, rebellion, freedom, emigration and a return to better times. Brilliantly.
A Sad Song for Sunday
03 Sunday Mar 2013
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Well done on 70,000+ hits BangorDub.
Many Thanks!!!!
I should buy a pint I think? Feck, I’m amazed by the readers here, even the ones who give off to me, did you like the song?
No nor do I agree with the lyrics, how many return, but well done anyway.
Pippakin,
I love how she sings the song. I also understand the lyrics as they resonate with stories my grandmother told me from tipperary in the 1920′s. I didn’t live those times but how the song is sung takes me back to my grandmother and my auntie ellie who did. Perhaps it is good to remember what others went through?
In Ireland? You’re kidding we live what others went through every day to the extent that people talk about the hardship as if it were yesterday when in fact they have no idea of deprivation or hardship.
I certainly have no idea or understanding of what people went through in that time. Should we not, at least, try to understand, in order not to relive those times?
No, we should not be so arrogant or presumptuous. Terrible, hideous things happened. I think the worst was that people starved in these islands such a thing seems and should be impossible, but the person who says that, me, is also the person who considering going on a diet. I don’t pretend to have the least understanding of what it was like..
Fair enough Pippakin.
I think, at least, we should not forget those events or times?
No never they are of the things that make us.
Has somebody called a ceasefire on the thumb wars? It seems to have gone quiet on the thumbs down front?
The thumb genie has returned…
One of my mother’s favourites, even though she is a Cork woman. Grow up with it being sung in the house along with a dozen others, as Gaeilge agus as Béarla.
Séamus,
She would undoubtedly have loved the fact of it being sung by a Cork woman so well.
Lovely song and one I can identify with in spite of comming from a different era and the other end of the island
i had 4 thumbs up on a comment on an earlier thread and the bangordub reply was getting the thumbs down then all of a sudden all thumbs everywhere disappeared ! Go on bangordub bring back the thumbs
Alphadale,
The great thumbs mystery continues……
I haven’t removed the feature at any point since I added it to the site! Nor have I edited the numbers of up or down thumbs in anyway ??????
Excellent song.