Good Irish Music (Potts the piper, Potts the fiddler)

Some great Irish music (piping) with Sean Potts (a namesake, no relation).

More (air and reels)

The Chieftains, Morning Dew

The Chieftains, Pub Music

Tommy Potts, Irish fiddler

A Dublin Song, An Ruirthech 1966
   
Easter 1966

It’s Easter once again and I’ve got Ireland on my brain

And the memory of you as I was leaving on the train

Brings little my love but bewilderment and pain.

    For your love ebbed like the Liffey water,

    So, Barman, please, mine’s another pint of porter.

Fifty years ago today, all Dublin Town was torn

And Nelson’s Pillar nearly crumbled

At the beauty that was born.

    But your love fled like the Liffey water

    So, Barman, please, mine’s another pint of porter.

A year ago today in O’Connell Street at dawn

Nelson’s Pillar nearly crumbled

When he saw our love was born.

 

     But your love flowed like the Liffey water,

     So, barman, please, mine’s another pint of porter.

In Trafalgar Square I wait, with no one there to meet,

Like me, Lord Nelson trembles, from stony heart to stony feet,

And monuments have crumbled, down in O’Connell Street.

      For your love ebbed like the Liffey Water

      So, Barman, please, mine’s another pint of porter. 


1966-1967, Dublin-London

On Nelson's Pillar, 1966

Up Went Nelson, The Go Lucky Four (YouTube) - A somewhat different sort of song.

Easter 1916, by W B Yeats