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memory lane
i swear the woman on kqed just sang, “lost a friend that needed losing”. she’s not repeating the line, so i won’t be able to get a translation; i’m not sure i want one, honestly.
i was watching this same performance of somewhat over dramatically staged irish music at some castle somewhere in ireland when ctg’s friend called and asked if i’d be interested in going to see an irish band at an irish bar. well, i had just been thinking how LONG it had been since i’d been in that crowd (hellos, over seven years).
the one very drunk and unbalanced girl didn’t even mar the evening - she managed to miss our coats every time she spilled her drink. i didn’t talk to her although her also very drunk boyfriend did try to pass the job of holding her up, er, dancing with her to me at one point. i declined.
the band, Culann’s Hounds, played a version of a song that i used to love in high school and college. it got me to thinking and to the web. unfortunately the only page i could find for ceili’s muse seems to be no more recent than 1997! oops. i wonder if i could still write to them and get a copy of one voice on something other than audio tape. i hope to ceili they burned a cd.
i’m still singing to myself: I’ll tell me ma, when I go home,
The boys won’t leave the girls alone.
pulled my hair, stole my comb,
but that’s alright till I go home.
She is handsome, she is pretty,
She’s the belle of Belfast city,
She is courtin’, one, two, three,
Please won’t you tell me who is she?
searching for the lyrics brings up a site that lists a number of artists who recorded this song. one of the albums looked especially promising as it’s called ‘fibb’nacci sequence’. i clicked on the purchasing info and found this:
- List price: $14.99
- Used price: $57.45
maybe it will be a good investment?
but, it’s not the same. that cd won’t have the beautiful, heart wrenching, a capella recording of the tinkerman’s daughter.