Hi Christy,
Is the work ever done a chara ?
You’ve written countless songs, come across countless more.
And been given for your consideration countless plus one.
But from Don’t Forget Your Shovel to before,
and from Lemons 7 to beyond you have always found a way
to get inside the songs and connect them to so many people.
And it is a holy thing
And it is a precious time
And it is the only way
Enjoy the cabaret in Wexford on Saturday and we’re all
looking forward to you coming west along the road in September.
Tabhair Aire
Bourkey
Christy's reply
I hope not Bourkey!!
but then again..the day will come when the day wont come…
you set me thinking here
Work you ask !
I never took to work…I laboured fleetingly for builders ( Sisk, Wimpey and the Gray Murphy) …Factories, ( Emi Pressing Plant / Ross Foods/ Waste paper plant /Walls Sausages,) Oil Rig Orion North Sea, various other short jobs , National Bank for 3 years…I was never worth a shite at any of this work….but come the day in 1966 ….. I’ve not done a days work ever since…..
singing and playing and gigging is a passion of mine…I feel so priviliged to make a good living from doing what I love to do…a fulfilling obligation more then a labour of work
I still recall hearing The Clancys sing ” Brennan on The Moor” for the first time…I was 15 …those songs became my purpose in life and 65 years later that flame still burns bright..
I heard Christie Hennessy sing “The Shovel” in a Folk Club in Chatham, Kent in 1968…Briany sing “Lemon 7s” in Whelan’s Dublin in 2020 ish, I keep hearing verses and tunes that turn me on, I take them hope and give them a vamp, a shake and a shimmy and sometimes I get to inhabit them. along the way I scribble the odd verse myself and on it goes…at the moment I’m revisiting “Hiroshima” after Louise played it on the wireless to mark the 80th commemoration, revisiting “Yellow Furze Woman” “John O’Dreams” “Hattie”…a few new songs on the desk waiting for attention…. still trying to find a gig setting for “Boy in The Wild”…giving Sacco and Continental a seeing to..who knows…they might get an outing…if they dont ,it wont be for the lack of trying…
commencing work on a fresh collection…I have a date in mind for release but who knows….its all spinning in the eye of a needle, dancing on a thread
Dear Christy; If you have a chance give a listen to Another Christmas Song by Jethro Tull. Probably Ian Anderson’s finest song from his years living on Skye. It awaits a true ballad singer. And a new arrangement. But I think you would do a brilliant job with it. I imagine Liam Clancy or Glen Campbell or Stan Rogers or one of those guys doing it. But Jaysus they’re all dead.
Christy's reply
we wont feel it comin around again…have yet to finish last Christmas’s pudding…there’s a green mould growing out of it but that could be tasty in itself…the evenings drawing in already and August only half over…before we know it we’ll have Bing Crosby back in the shopping mall ..yo ho ho jingle bells,….Nollaig sona dhuit Owen
Hi Christy,
Is the work ever done a chara ?
You’ve written countless songs, come across countless more.
And been given for your consideration countless plus one.
But from Don’t Forget Your Shovel to before,
and from Lemons 7 to beyond you have always found a way
to get inside the songs and connect them to so many people.
And it is a holy thing
And it is a precious time
And it is the only way
Enjoy the cabaret in Wexford on Saturday and we’re all
looking forward to you coming west along the road in September.
Tabhair Aire
Bourkey
I hope not Bourkey!!
but then again..the day will come when the day wont come…
you set me thinking here
Work you ask !
I never took to work…I laboured fleetingly for builders ( Sisk, Wimpey and the Gray Murphy) …Factories, ( Emi Pressing Plant / Ross Foods/ Waste paper plant /Walls Sausages,) Oil Rig Orion North Sea, various other short jobs , National Bank for 3 years…I was never worth a shite at any of this work….but come the day in 1966 ….. I’ve not done a days work ever since…..
singing and playing and gigging is a passion of mine…I feel so priviliged to make a good living from doing what I love to do…a fulfilling obligation more then a labour of work
I still recall hearing The Clancys sing ” Brennan on The Moor” for the first time…I was 15 …those songs became my purpose in life and 65 years later that flame still burns bright..
I heard Christie Hennessy sing “The Shovel” in a Folk Club in Chatham, Kent in 1968…Briany sing “Lemon 7s” in Whelan’s Dublin in 2020 ish, I keep hearing verses and tunes that turn me on, I take them hope and give them a vamp, a shake and a shimmy and sometimes I get to inhabit them. along the way I scribble the odd verse myself and on it goes…at the moment I’m revisiting “Hiroshima” after Louise played it on the wireless to mark the 80th commemoration, revisiting “Yellow Furze Woman” “John O’Dreams” “Hattie”…a few new songs on the desk waiting for attention…. still trying to find a gig setting for “Boy in The Wild”…giving Sacco and Continental a seeing to..who knows…they might get an outing…if they dont ,it wont be for the lack of trying…
commencing work on a fresh collection…I have a date in mind for release but who knows….its all spinning in the eye of a needle, dancing on a thread
Hello Christy,
I’m so glad to hear about your recording project. It’s going to be a wonderland for folk singers. I’d love to hear more about it.
Rebecca
all will be revealed in due course…the Archive will let us know when the work is done….
Hi Christy
Many thanks for the update re ITMA recordings.
Great that you’re contributing so much to a priceless resource.
Enjoy the day
Dave
greetings to Suffragette City
Dear Christy; If you have a chance give a listen to Another Christmas Song by Jethro Tull. Probably Ian Anderson’s finest song from his years living on Skye. It awaits a true ballad singer. And a new arrangement. But I think you would do a brilliant job with it. I imagine Liam Clancy or Glen Campbell or Stan Rogers or one of those guys doing it. But Jaysus they’re all dead.
we wont feel it comin around again…have yet to finish last Christmas’s pudding…there’s a green mould growing out of it but that could be tasty in itself…the evenings drawing in already and August only half over…before we know it we’ll have Bing Crosby back in the shopping mall ..yo ho ho jingle bells,….Nollaig sona dhuit Owen