Irish folk singer Clancy dead at 74

[The Straight Story]

Irish folk singer Clancy dead at 74

CORK, Ireland, Dec. 6 (UPI) -- Irish folk singer Liam Clancy, called the "best ballad singer I'd ever heard in my life" by singer Bob Dylan, is dead at the age of 74, his manager said.

Clancy's manager, David Teevan, said the singer endured a long battle with pulmonary fibrosis, which he spoke candidly about in May at Dublin's National Concert Hall, the Irish Times reported.

"It was a very profound moment. He expressed his fear of dying, but he did it with great dignity," Teevan said of Clancy's last performance.

Clancy began his singing career in New York along with his brothers Paddy and Tom and the Clancy Brothers earned a 1961 guest spot on the "Ed Sullivan Show."

http://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/Music/2009/12/06/Irish-folk-singer-Clancy-dead-at-74/UPI-30051260118513/

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. RIP, Mr. Clancy.

[slay]

2. I heard about this on NPR's Friday night "Back-porch Music" show they run Fri and Sat night

They played a great tune from him is all I caught. Gonna have to check out some more - really cool. RIP Liam.

[struggle4progress]

3. Finnegan's Wake

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfJuGiDsoVA

[WillyT]

6. Lyrics To Same...

<snip>

Tim Finnegan lived in Walkin Street, a gentle Irishman mighty odd
He had a brogue both rich and sweet, an' to rise in the world he carried a hod
You see he'd a sort of a tipplers way but the love for the liquor poor Tim was born
To help him on his way each day, he'd a drop of the craythur every morn

Whack fol the dah now dance to yer partner around the flure yer trotters shake
Wasn't it the truth I told you? Lots of fun at Finnegan's Wake

One morning Tim got rather full, his head felt heavy which made him shake
Fell from a ladder and he broke his skull, and they carried him home his corpse to wake
Rolled him up in a nice clean sheet, and laid him out upon the bed
A bottle of whiskey at his feet and a barrel of porter at his head

Whack fol the dah now dance to yer partner around the flure yer trotters shake
Wasn't it the truth I told you? Lots of fun at Finnegan's Wake

His friends assembled at the wake, and Mrs Finnegan called for lunch
First she brought in tay and cake, then pipes, tobacco and whiskey punch
Biddy O'Brien began to cry, "Such a nice clean corpse, did you ever see,
Tim avourneen, why did you die?", "Will ye hould your gob?" said Paddy McGee

Whack fol the dah now dance to yer partner around the flure yer trotters shake
Wasn't it the truth I told you? Lots of fun at Finnegan's Wake

Then Maggie O'Connor took up the job, "Biddy" says she "you're wrong, I'm sure"
Biddy gave her a belt in the gob and left her sprawling on the floor
Then the war did soon engage, t'was woman to woman and man to man
Shillelagh law was all the rage and a row and a ruction soon began

Whack fol the dah now dance to yer partner around the flure yer trotters shake
Wasn't it the truth I told you? Lots of fun at Finnegan's Wake

Mickey Maloney ducked his head when a bucket of whiskey flew at him
It missed, and falling on the bed, the liquor scattered over Tim
Bedad he revives, see how he rises, Timothy rising from the bed
Saying "Whittle your whiskey around like blazes, t'underin' Jaysus, do ye think I'm dead?"

Whack fol the dah now dance to yer partner around the flure yer trotters shake
Wasn't it the truth I told you? Lots of fun at Finnegan's Wake

Whack fol the dah now dance to yer partner around the flure yer trotters shake
Wasn't it the truth I told you? Lots of fun at Finnegan's Wake

<snip>

Link: http://celtic-lyrics.com/forum/index.php?autocom=tclc&code=lyrics&id=196

Rest In Peace Liam...

:grouphug:

[alfredo]

4. And the band played Waltzing Matilda

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B_pyCzA9k0

[Historic NY]

5. Parting Glass.........RIP

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1se8_-fcxZs&feature=related

[Toasterlad]

8. Indeed

But since it falls unto my lot that I should rise while you should not,
I'll gently rise and I'll softly call, "Goodnight and joy be with you all."

I love the Clancy brothers. Goodnight, Liam. Ye'll be missed.

[timtom]

7. Nooooo!

Makem and Clancy -- both gone now.

God have mercy on their souls.

[Paladin]

9. God Love Him.

A great singer I remember from much better times than these....

[Baltimore]

12. Much better times than these

I fell in love with the Clancy Brothers in the 60's. They gave me an everlasting love for the Irish.

[LeftishBrit]

10. RIP. That is very sad.

The Clancy brothers were great.

[Cleita]

11. That's too bad.

It seems like a lifetime ago that the Clancy brothers songs were on the juke box at a pub I tended bar at in Southern California. May he RIP.

[Ikonoklast]

13. Godspeed, Liam.

You, your brothers, and Tommy brought many a smile to the faces of my family and friends.


Here's to your coffin!
May your coffin have six handles of finest silver,
May your coffin be carried by six fair young maids.

And may your coffin be made of finest wood
from a 100-year-old tree,
that I'll go plant tomorrow!

[alfredo]

14. A classic song "The Sick Note." Us working stiff can relate to this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2iUW7GGd8A&feature=related

[old mark]

15. One more song for you , Willie - Hope you got a last drink before your journey.

"Jug of Punch", one of my favorites since 1964.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFYOPyPru0Y&feature=related

mark

[WilliamPitt]

16. Bob Dylan called him the best ballad singer of all time

:toast:

[LeftishBrit]

17. Another Clancy Brothers song for his memory...

I've traveled all over this world
And now to another I go
And I know that good quarters are waiting
To welcome old Rosin the Beau
To welcome old Rosin the Beau
To welcome old Rosin the Beau
And I know that good quarters are waiting
To welcome old Rosin the Beau

When I'm dead and laid out on the counter
A voice you will hear from below
Saying "Send down a hogshead of whiskey
To drink with old Rosin the Beau"
To drink with old Rosin the Beau"
To drink with old Rosin the Beau"
Saying "Send down a hogshead of whiskey
To drink with old Rosin the Beau"

Then get a half dozen stout fellows
And stack them all up in a row
Let them drink out of half gallon bottles
To the memory of Rosin the Beau
To the memory of Rosin the Beau
To the memory of Rosin the Beau
Let them drink out of half gallon bottles
To the memory of Rosin the Beau

Then get this half dozen stout fellows
And let them all stagger and go
And dig a great hole in the meadow
And in it put Rosin the Beau
And in it put Rosin the Beau
And in it put Rosin the Beau
And dig a great hole in the meadow
And in it put Rosin the Beau

Then get ye a couple of bottles
Put one at me head and me toe
With a diamond ring scratch upon them
The name of old Rosin the Beau
The name of old Rosin the Beau
The name of old Rosin the Beau
With a diamond ring scratch upon them
The name of old Rosin the Beau

I've only this one consolation
As out of this world I go
I know that the next generation
Will resemble old Rosin the Beau
Will resemble old Rosin the Beau
Will resemble old Rosin the Beau
I know that the next generation
Will resemble old Rosin the Beau

I fear that old tyrant approaching
That cruel remorseless old foe
And I lift up me glass in his honor
Take a drink with old Rosin the Beau
Take a drink with old Rosin the Beau
Take a drink with old Rosin the Beau
And I lift up me glass in his honor
Take a drink with old Rosin the Beau.

[demigoddess]

18. we used to go see him and tommy makem every march in Wash, DC

when we lived in VA. Loved his voice. Have most of their albums.

[OneBlueSky]

19. the Clancy Brothers and Pete Seeger have been good friends for years . . .

way back when, they appeared on Pete's self-produced (with wife Toshi) tv series Rainbow Quest, singing I Never Will Play the Wild Rover No More . . .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKJ8g9asQnU

I believe they made several visits to the show, and I know they performed in concert with Pete on many occasions . . .

RIP Liam . . . you will be missed, but your music will live on . . .