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Radio Free Eire
I won't be playing all Irish music on my radio show today, but in honor of St. Patrick's Day I'll be indulging in more of it than usual. To listen, tune in to WCBN-FM from 12 to 3, eastern time.
O\'Taktix®|3.17.09 @ 11:30AM|#
I was born on a Dublin street where the royal drums did
beat
And the loving English feet walked all over us,
And every single night when me father'd come home tight
He'd invite the neighbors outside with this chorus:
(chorus) Oh, come out you black and tans,
Come out and fight me like a man
Show your wife how you won medals down in Flanders
Tell her how the IRA made you run like hell away,
From the green and lovely lanes in Killeshandra.
Come tell us how you slew
Them ol' Arabs two by two
Like the Zulus they had spears and bows and arrows,
How you bravely faced each one
With your sixteen pounder gun
And you frightened them damn natives to their marrow.
[chorus]
Come let us hear you tell
How you slandered great Parnell,
When you thought him well and truly persecuted,
Where are the sneers and jeers
That you bravely let us hear
When our heroes of sixteen were executed.
[chorus]
The day is coming fast
And the time is here at last,
When each shoneen will be cast aside before us,
And if there be a need
Sure my kids wil sing, "Godspeed!"
With a bar or two of Stephen Behan's chorus
TofuSushi w/O\'ganicWasabi|3.17.09 @ 11:34AM|#
Lefiti,
Do you still know how to destroy property without hurting people?
Or are you not of that generation either?
|3.17.09 @ 11:39AM|#
Raivo Pommer
raimo1@hot.ee
MILLIARDEN
Die Pleite hat ungeahnte Ausmaße: Insolvenzverwalter Michael Frege
bezifferte am Dienstag auf der ersten Gläubigerversammlung für die
deutsche Tochter der zusammengebrochenen US-Investmentbank die
Gesamtforderungen auf 38,2 Milliarden Euro.
Fast die Hälfte davon geht allerdings auf Lehman-Gesellschaften
zurück. Ob deren Ansprüche wirtschaftlich und rechtlich angemessen
seien, müsse der Insolvenzverwalter noch prüfen, teilte die Bank
mit. Die Finanzaufsicht BaFin hatte das Institut Mitte September
geschlossen und damals von Verbindlichkeiten gegenüber
institutionellen Kunden von lediglich 14,3 Milliarden Euro
gesprochen.
???|3.17.09 @ 11:42AM|#
"Raivo Pommer
raimo1@hot.ee
MILLIARDEN
Die Pleite hat ungeahnte Ausmaße: Insolvenzverwalter Michael Frege
bezifferte am Dienstag auf der ersten Gläubigerversammlung für die
deutsche Tochter der zusammengebrochenen US-Investmentbank die
Gesamtforderungen auf 38,2 Milliarden Euro.
Fast die Hälfte davon geht allerdings auf Lehman-Gesellschaften
zurück. Ob deren Ansprüche wirtschaftlich und rechtlich angemessen
seien, müsse der Insolvenzverwalter noch prüfen, teilte die Bank
mit. Die Finanzaufsicht BaFin hatte das Institut Mitte September
geschlossen und damals von Verbindlichkeiten gegenüber
institutionellen Kunden von lediglich 14,3 Milliarden Euro
gesprochen."
What is this bullshit???
|3.17.09 @ 11:42AM|#
I won't be playing all Irish music on my radio show
today
Just play U2 and The Cranberries all day. Everyone can
enjoy that!
Warty|3.17.09 @ 11:50AM|#
Jesse, I'll be pissed at you if you don't play at least one Thin Lizzy song, preferably Roisin Dubh. Some version of Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye would be appreciated, too.
TofuSushi w/O\'ganicWasabi|3.17.09 @ 12:37PM|#
Epi,
INFILTRATORS! They must be stopped! I have not heard much from
them, prhaps they are in a secret IRA welcome center?
Bronwyn (That\'s sufficiently |3.17.09 @ 12:37PM|#
Wishing you a rainbow
For sunlight after showers-
Miles and miles of Irish smiles
For golden happy hours-
Shamrocks at your doorway
For luck and laughter too,
And a host of friends that never ends
Each day your whole life through!
Jesse Walker|3.17.09 @ 1:23PM|#
Thin Lizzy was for you, My Bloody Valentine was for EJM. And in a little bit, I'm gonna play a Texan singing "Danny Boy"...for me.
EJM|3.17.09 @ 1:31PM|#
...My Bloody Valentine was for EJM...
Thanks, but I'd be remiss if I didn't mention that it was FP's
Joshua Keating who recently reminded me that MBV is technically
an Irish band.
|3.17.09 @ 1:53PM|#
Okay, okay, how about the Sinead O'Conner version of 'oro se do
bheatha bhaile'?
That's not even in english. Noone will ever know that the lyrics
are about fighting the british invaders.
BakedPenguin|3.17.09 @ 3:20PM|#
Damn computer. I came home early to try to listen, but I put
Guitar Port on, and now anything that links to Windows Media won't
play.
Thanks if you played SLF, and to hell with ye if you didn't.
EJM|3.17.09 @ 3:49PM|#
FWIW, music critics at the "Irish Times" recently compiled their list of the "Top 40 Irish Albums" of all time. (Northern Ireland is included--hence the appearance of SLF, Therapy?, and Ash.)
Lefiti|3.17.09 @ 3:50PM|#
Honest to God, this is the most vapid post I have ever seen. Just play the fucking music.
EJM|3.17.09 @ 4:07PM|#
(Northern Ireland is included--hence the appearance of SLF,
Therapy?, and Ash.)
...plus the Undertones, Snow Patrol, and likely some others that I
don't have time to double-check now.
EJM|3.17.09 @ 4:58PM|#
i tink a lost me fookin other toof innis gin
bottal
The best song
ever about an Irish band, but not (originally)
by an Irish band?
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