Fabulous gig tonight in the Opera House, Christy, a stunning venue and equally fabulous song list. A huge thank you for the shout out for Molly, who was indeed there for her first ever gig in the upper circle and was truly thrilled with the mention and to have Beeswing sung so beautifully in her honour. We were not a rowdy crowd so you may not have heard us but it did not go unappreciated.
Another fan for life!
Kind regards,
Gillian, Molly, Justin, and James.
Christy's reply
Hi Molly King & Family….welcome aboard….I’m honoured to be part of your first gig …what a beautiful venue….
something happened last night with Beeswing…I accidentally started it in the wrong key…normally I play it in A but last night I started it in key of G….as I settled in I began to like the sound of what was happening as a different mood emerged….I think I’m gonna keep it in that Key
Thanks Christy, when you’re up the road, note ‘Fireworks Over Bethlehem’ by Heba Zagout. The mural was included, as an act of solidarity, after Heba and two of her four sons, Adam and Mahmoud, were killed in a targeted attack by the Israeli Airforce on her home. An artist and teacher, my poem ‘Painting for Palestine’ was written in her memory and subsequently sent to her sister Mayssa Ghazi (also an artist) by a friend who is involved with the murals. As you can imagine I’m very moved by this.
I read on your chat you met Damian Dempsey in 2014 and shared stories and memories of Luke with him. I’m a member of Féile Women’s Singing Group and we sang Ticking Boxes with Damian, in respect of a New Script for Mental Health – the lyrics were written by a friend to the tune of Little Boxes by Malvina Reynolds. Think that’s enough from me! In the meantime, go well.
Christy's reply
Where is the Mural?
where Can I hear the Féile Women’s Singing Group ?
Hi Christy, have a good start in Wexford after the well-deserved break. Just yesterday I met friends from Dortmund at a party who enjoyed your gig in Wexford a year ago. They were and still are very impressed by your great performance, the good atmosphere and the beautiful venue. It was the first (but hopefully not the last time) they’ve seen you. And it was better than eyerything they had hoped for.
Great to read about your recordings at the ITMA. That sounds like huge treasure trove.
I’m looking forward to going to the Shrewsbury festival next weekend. And then I have the privilege to enjoy two of your gigs in September/October 😊, which make me smile just thinking of them.
All the best to you
Birgit
I hope you and your team have enjoyed your very well deserved summer break. Wishing you all the best for the start of the your late summer and autumn gigs tonight.
Thank you so much for all the gigs over the last year. I managed to get to three between December and March, as always each one different, each wonderful.
I was glad to see that you enjoyed Peggy Seeger’s gig, my friend and I saw her and her family’s London concert in the tour. She really is amazing. We are going to see Peggy and Muireann Bradley in conversation at the Purcell Room next month.
I have to tell you something that reveals my great ignorance! My husband, Mike, our son Tom and I were watching Blue Lights (the police drama set in Belfast) on the iPlayer, when some of the characters walked down the road and went into a nightclub. Above the door was displayed “ballrooms of romance”, so Mike and I exclaimed and started singing snatches of All I Remember, with young Tom wondering why we’d suddenly stopped following the plot. I wondered whether the sign was in homage to the song, and it was only then, after some googling, that I discovered that Ballrooms of Romance has been a slogan of Irish dance halls for over a hundred years. All this time l’d thought that it was a poetic expression coined by Mick Hanly. All I Remember particularly resonates with Mike, he went to a De La Salle Brothers school in London and tells me they had similar punishment methods. My brother, on the other hand, went to a Jesuit school where they used a whalebone called a ferula. I was lucky because the Ursuline nuns didn’t practice corporal punishment, so nothing after primary school.
I was interested in the discussion a while back about Tunnel Tigers. I love that song, and have only ever heard it performed by McGoldrick, McCusker and Doyle (Mike McGoldrick told me it will be on their next album). If you should decide to perform it I’d be fascinated to hear it, I reckon the bodhrán would truly enhance the punctuation of the chorus! It would likely be one of them fast ones, so might need a gentle song afterwards. At first I thought of Only Our Rivers, but then it occurred to me that Sweet Thames would fit well as another Ewan MacColl song still on the theme of the London clay, in the sense that it shapes the meander of the river. (Not that I am asking, just pondering.)
My daughter Emma and I are at a folk festival in Sutton, south London, today, to see many musicians, including the Tom Robinson Band, Thea Gilmore and Richard Thompson (it will be the first time I have seen Richard in person).
All the very best,
Anne
Christy's reply
Ewan wrote so many great songs…
I’ve always loved his “Tunnel Tigers”
Have often played around with it here on the work bench
never with the old drum
must give it a rattle
thats a great line up for Sutton
Big day in our house – home from the UK for the last few weeks with kids on holidays, travelled up and down the country, not forgetting the homes in Kildare and Monaghan. But all culminating in our trip to Wexford today! Can’t wait to hear you tonight, CM – third concert for the kids, only told them Sunday night because they wouldn’t be able to handle the anticipation otherwise!!
Big chats on what songs will appear – and if there was a chance of a request please Christy:
Kit (7) is hoping for The Reel in the Flickering Light or Boy in the Wild
Ellie (10) is hoping to hear The Voyage or Darkness Before Dawn.
The new album going down very well in our house as you can see!
Keep her lit, can’t wait for this evening!
Caroline
Christy's reply
twas lovely to spot you 4 there last night…what a pleasure to see Kit & Ellie enjoying the songs, Thank You…..
Looking forward to the gig at Knightsbrook Hotel in September. This is our fourth concert, the first was in Dublin in 1989 I think, next was in 2012 in Dublin(Button Factory), 2023 in Westport. My wife is the niece to Annie Kehoe who had the pub in Clonmel where you stayed in your younger days. Kehoes lived in Ballydine area so we have a request for the concert, can you do “Ballydine” from the album “Folktale”. Regards from Anna and Stig
Christy's reply
1963-4 I lodged in the House of Annie Kehoe…best of times…Annie was a woman of Legend, Warmth, Hospitality and Eccentricity…a Landlady like no other…kept in touch with Annie’s late daughter Nuala who was a dear friend…also with Nuala’s daughters Susan and Anne but we have lost touch these past years..please remember me to them….I dont know about the song Ballydine..its been a long time since ..but I’ll check it out before the Trim gig and who knows…if its a goer I might be able to give it a birl.
Christy in the morning i have to go to London but will be back in God’s country by night time.
As i go to Londinium i shall think of Giuseppe Conlon who left his home in Belfast to london for his son.
Away ye broken Heart you.
Rory
Christy's reply
Safe travels to The Big Smoke and back again to Hawick…its a hefty undertaking in one day….the very thought sends shivers…
Packing the Panniers here to head for Wexford where we hope to recommence after a months hiatus….
I often think of Giuseppe Conlan…may his spirit rest in peace… then to remember Gerry, Paul, Carol, Paddy and The Maguire Family,
in turn to remember all the Innocents,all the Volunteers,all the Squaddies,all those lives lost and shattered by the intransigence of Colonial Power…
That London centric legacy of entitlement still brings death and mayhem to many former colonies as divided descendents seek to rationalise ill-thought false borders, left behind by scarpering war-lords…
“for all our languages, we cant communicate” ( Paul Doran …Natives )
My mistake Christy,
The Salmon Leap Inn, Leixlip Road, Cooldrinagh, Leixlip, Co. Kildare.
Christy's reply
Happy to see that your first Irish Gig will be in my native County …..I was born and reared 20 miles upstream from The Salmon leap , on the Banks of the River Liffey in Newbridge Co.Kildare
Cheers Christy,
Gig info for ‘More Christy’ (Tribute Duo)
Saturday 20th September 2025 at The Salmon Leap Inn, Leixlip Road, Dublin.. 9.30pm start. Everyone welcome including you Christy
Christy's reply
cant make it Dave…
for you info…if its the Salmon Leap Inn that I know…that pub is in Leixlip County in Kildare…not very from Dublin but located in Cooldrinagh, Leixlip, County Kildare…I’m very familiar with the area as I spent boyhood years there with my Grandparents who lived nearby…
apologies if there is another pub of that name in Dublin
have a great gig
Hi Christy,
Hope you are well. We are coming over the water in September to play a gig. Our first one in Ireland. Working hard on the setlist at the moment. Coming over to tribute your good self in your native home, well, the nerves are jagged, but the adrenaline is flowing.
Dave and Giles (More Christy)
Christy's reply
come on over and have a good one..hope it goes well…post info here if you wish
Christy, recently saw Julie in the Heaney Homeplace, Bellaghy. Such a heart wrenching play, yet woven with warmth and humour, about the tragic death of 14-year-old Julie Livingstone killed when a solider fired a plastic bullet at her from a speeding Saracen, Lenadoon 1981. It was written and performed by Julie’s niece Charlotte McCurry and produced by Kabosh Theatre. Your friend Colm Scullion spoke during question time and I had the pleasure of meeting him. Some quare events at this years Féile. Hopefully get to see you again somewhere down the line.
Christy's reply
“Our neighbours sent squaddies on the water
hey Geordie, dont be afraid to die
in camouflage he dreamt of his darlin bairns and hinny
on the watchtower overlookin Aughnacloy
down Dublin Rd young Aiden MacAnespie
was making for the football field to play
on Downtown Radio a news flash
Julie Livinstone has just been blown away”
always good to hear from you Mary… I have a wee gig up the road next week
Hello Christy,
Practice, I’m back to it.
Trying to improve my strumming. That right arm of yours is like a pendulum. Lovely.
Billy Gray is my companion in this. Three chords and when it’s going well I get to hum along.
Rebecca
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 home 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
Fabulous gig tonight in the Opera House, Christy, a stunning venue and equally fabulous song list. A huge thank you for the shout out for Molly, who was indeed there for her first ever gig in the upper circle and was truly thrilled with the mention and to have Beeswing sung so beautifully in her honour. We were not a rowdy crowd so you may not have heard us but it did not go unappreciated.
Another fan for life!
Kind regards,
Gillian, Molly, Justin, and James.
Hi Molly King & Family….welcome aboard….I’m honoured to be part of your first gig …what a beautiful venue….
something happened last night with Beeswing…I accidentally started it in the wrong key…normally I play it in A but last night I started it in key of G….as I settled in I began to like the sound of what was happening as a different mood emerged….I think I’m gonna keep it in that Key
Feck’a Shoal of Herrin’s Christy! Ouwa Yarmouth Town with the Handsome Cabin Boy! Them Silver Darlin’s!
“down the quay to feck a herrin “( Declan Sinnott circa 1960)
Thanks Christy, when you’re up the road, note ‘Fireworks Over Bethlehem’ by Heba Zagout. The mural was included, as an act of solidarity, after Heba and two of her four sons, Adam and Mahmoud, were killed in a targeted attack by the Israeli Airforce on her home. An artist and teacher, my poem ‘Painting for Palestine’ was written in her memory and subsequently sent to her sister Mayssa Ghazi (also an artist) by a friend who is involved with the murals. As you can imagine I’m very moved by this.
I read on your chat you met Damian Dempsey in 2014 and shared stories and memories of Luke with him. I’m a member of Féile Women’s Singing Group and we sang Ticking Boxes with Damian, in respect of a New Script for Mental Health – the lyrics were written by a friend to the tune of Little Boxes by Malvina Reynolds. Think that’s enough from me! In the meantime, go well.
Where is the Mural?
where Can I hear the Féile Women’s Singing Group ?
Hi Christy, have a good start in Wexford after the well-deserved break. Just yesterday I met friends from Dortmund at a party who enjoyed your gig in Wexford a year ago. They were and still are very impressed by your great performance, the good atmosphere and the beautiful venue. It was the first (but hopefully not the last time) they’ve seen you. And it was better than eyerything they had hoped for.
Great to read about your recordings at the ITMA. That sounds like huge treasure trove.
I’m looking forward to going to the Shrewsbury festival next weekend. And then I have the privilege to enjoy two of your gigs in September/October 😊, which make me smile just thinking of them.
All the best to you
Birgit
Enjoy Shrewsbury
Oh, typo, by December and March I meant December and May…
Hello Christy,
I hope you and your team have enjoyed your very well deserved summer break. Wishing you all the best for the start of the your late summer and autumn gigs tonight.
Thank you so much for all the gigs over the last year. I managed to get to three between December and March, as always each one different, each wonderful.
I was glad to see that you enjoyed Peggy Seeger’s gig, my friend and I saw her and her family’s London concert in the tour. She really is amazing. We are going to see Peggy and Muireann Bradley in conversation at the Purcell Room next month.
I have to tell you something that reveals my great ignorance! My husband, Mike, our son Tom and I were watching Blue Lights (the police drama set in Belfast) on the iPlayer, when some of the characters walked down the road and went into a nightclub. Above the door was displayed “ballrooms of romance”, so Mike and I exclaimed and started singing snatches of All I Remember, with young Tom wondering why we’d suddenly stopped following the plot. I wondered whether the sign was in homage to the song, and it was only then, after some googling, that I discovered that Ballrooms of Romance has been a slogan of Irish dance halls for over a hundred years. All this time l’d thought that it was a poetic expression coined by Mick Hanly. All I Remember particularly resonates with Mike, he went to a De La Salle Brothers school in London and tells me they had similar punishment methods. My brother, on the other hand, went to a Jesuit school where they used a whalebone called a ferula. I was lucky because the Ursuline nuns didn’t practice corporal punishment, so nothing after primary school.
I was interested in the discussion a while back about Tunnel Tigers. I love that song, and have only ever heard it performed by McGoldrick, McCusker and Doyle (Mike McGoldrick told me it will be on their next album). If you should decide to perform it I’d be fascinated to hear it, I reckon the bodhrán would truly enhance the punctuation of the chorus! It would likely be one of them fast ones, so might need a gentle song afterwards. At first I thought of Only Our Rivers, but then it occurred to me that Sweet Thames would fit well as another Ewan MacColl song still on the theme of the London clay, in the sense that it shapes the meander of the river. (Not that I am asking, just pondering.)
My daughter Emma and I are at a folk festival in Sutton, south London, today, to see many musicians, including the Tom Robinson Band, Thea Gilmore and Richard Thompson (it will be the first time I have seen Richard in person).
All the very best,
Anne
Ewan wrote so many great songs…
I’ve always loved his “Tunnel Tigers”
Have often played around with it here on the work bench
never with the old drum
must give it a rattle
thats a great line up for Sutton
Big day in our house – home from the UK for the last few weeks with kids on holidays, travelled up and down the country, not forgetting the homes in Kildare and Monaghan. But all culminating in our trip to Wexford today! Can’t wait to hear you tonight, CM – third concert for the kids, only told them Sunday night because they wouldn’t be able to handle the anticipation otherwise!!
Big chats on what songs will appear – and if there was a chance of a request please Christy:
Kit (7) is hoping for The Reel in the Flickering Light or Boy in the Wild
Ellie (10) is hoping to hear The Voyage or Darkness Before Dawn.
The new album going down very well in our house as you can see!
Keep her lit, can’t wait for this evening!
Caroline
twas lovely to spot you 4 there last night…what a pleasure to see Kit & Ellie enjoying the songs, Thank You…..
Dear Christy, I hope you had a pleasant holiday and wish you lots of fun at your next gigs. Moeke Luce
The Party is over..
time to reconvene…
time to go down to the harbour and feck a herrin
Looking forward to the gig at Knightsbrook Hotel in September. This is our fourth concert, the first was in Dublin in 1989 I think, next was in 2012 in Dublin(Button Factory), 2023 in Westport. My wife is the niece to Annie Kehoe who had the pub in Clonmel where you stayed in your younger days. Kehoes lived in Ballydine area so we have a request for the concert, can you do “Ballydine” from the album “Folktale”. Regards from Anna and Stig
1963-4 I lodged in the House of Annie Kehoe…best of times…Annie was a woman of Legend, Warmth, Hospitality and Eccentricity…a Landlady like no other…kept in touch with Annie’s late daughter Nuala who was a dear friend…also with Nuala’s daughters Susan and Anne but we have lost touch these past years..please remember me to them….I dont know about the song Ballydine..its been a long time since ..but I’ll check it out before the Trim gig and who knows…if its a goer I might be able to give it a birl.
Christy in the morning i have to go to London but will be back in God’s country by night time.
As i go to Londinium i shall think of Giuseppe Conlon who left his home in Belfast to london for his son.
Away ye broken Heart you.
Rory
Safe travels to The Big Smoke and back again to Hawick…its a hefty undertaking in one day….the very thought sends shivers…
Packing the Panniers here to head for Wexford where we hope to recommence after a months hiatus….
I often think of Giuseppe Conlan…may his spirit rest in peace… then to remember Gerry, Paul, Carol, Paddy and The Maguire Family,
in turn to remember all the Innocents,all the Volunteers,all the Squaddies,all those lives lost and shattered by the intransigence of Colonial Power…
That London centric legacy of entitlement still brings death and mayhem to many former colonies as divided descendents seek to rationalise ill-thought false borders, left behind by scarpering war-lords…
“for all our languages, we cant communicate” ( Paul Doran …Natives )
“Anyone for the last few choc ices”
My mistake Christy,
The Salmon Leap Inn, Leixlip Road, Cooldrinagh, Leixlip, Co. Kildare.
Happy to see that your first Irish Gig will be in my native County …..I was born and reared 20 miles upstream from The Salmon leap , on the Banks of the River Liffey in Newbridge Co.Kildare
>>>>>Newbridge or Nowhere<<<<<<<<<<
Cheers Christy,
Gig info for ‘More Christy’ (Tribute Duo)
Saturday 20th September 2025 at The Salmon Leap Inn, Leixlip Road, Dublin.. 9.30pm start. Everyone welcome including you Christy
cant make it Dave…
for you info…if its the Salmon Leap Inn that I know…that pub is in Leixlip County in Kildare…not very from Dublin but located in Cooldrinagh, Leixlip, County Kildare…I’m very familiar with the area as I spent boyhood years there with my Grandparents who lived nearby…
apologies if there is another pub of that name in Dublin
have a great gig
Hi Christy,
Hope you are well. We are coming over the water in September to play a gig. Our first one in Ireland. Working hard on the setlist at the moment. Coming over to tribute your good self in your native home, well, the nerves are jagged, but the adrenaline is flowing.
Dave and Giles (More Christy)
come on over and have a good one..hope it goes well…post info here if you wish
Hi Christy. I thought i saw somewhere you were doing a concert in waterfront next april. Cant see tickets now. Is this right
played Waterfront April of this year….no plans at the moment
BUT
barring a fall, I hope to be back
Christy, recently saw Julie in the Heaney Homeplace, Bellaghy. Such a heart wrenching play, yet woven with warmth and humour, about the tragic death of 14-year-old Julie Livingstone killed when a solider fired a plastic bullet at her from a speeding Saracen, Lenadoon 1981. It was written and performed by Julie’s niece Charlotte McCurry and produced by Kabosh Theatre. Your friend Colm Scullion spoke during question time and I had the pleasure of meeting him. Some quare events at this years Féile. Hopefully get to see you again somewhere down the line.
“Our neighbours sent squaddies on the water
hey Geordie, dont be afraid to die
in camouflage he dreamt of his darlin bairns and hinny
on the watchtower overlookin Aughnacloy
down Dublin Rd young Aiden MacAnespie
was making for the football field to play
on Downtown Radio a news flash
Julie Livinstone has just been blown away”
always good to hear from you Mary… I have a wee gig up the road next week
Hello Christy,
Practice, I’m back to it.
Trying to improve my strumming. That right arm of yours is like a pendulum. Lovely.
Billy Gray is my companion in this. Three chords and when it’s going well I get to hum along.
Rebecca
Billy Gray…. wanted in Kansas City by The Law
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 home 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