Just got word that the Uptown Coffee House raised $500 for the Howell Opera House! Last Friday, Uptown donated 25% of all of their sales to the Howell Opera House’s “Restore the Glory” campaign. I was the featured musical guest for the night.
Special thanks to the Voght family and Uptown staff for letting me play at their event. Also, thanks to Stephen Schlaak for joining me and playing some of his original songs.
Congrats to our friend and fellow bandmate, David Mosher, for the nomination for a 2012 Detroit Music Award!
David is nominated for the category of “Outstanding Folk/Acoustic Instrumentation.”
Water Is Alright in Tay (chord chart)
A favorite Clancy Brother’s rendition!
(Don’t forget, I’m playing two shows on St. Patrick’s Day:
- Noon to 4 PM at the grand opening of the Black Rose in Lansing, MI – info
- 5:30- 8:30 at Lu & Carl’s in Brighton, MI – info
Hope to see you there!)
Water Is Alright in Tay – Clancy Brothers
The French drink wine [C], the English tea [G]
The Yankee gulps his hot black coffee [C]
The child drinks milk nine times a day [G]
The Scotsman sips his whiskey toddy [C]
You can keep you wine [C] and keep your tea! [C]
My curse on him that gives [C] me coffee! [G]
I’ll a porter [F], if I may [G]
It makes me feel content and happy [C]
Chorus
Porter quaffed down with a laugh [G]
The gentry have their aching livers [C]
Water is all right in tea [G]
For fish, and things that swim in rivers [C]
The poor man and the beggar, too [C]
The poet in the corner thinking [G]
If they’d money enough to spend [F]
It’s pints of porter [G] they’d be drinking [C]
Chorus
The miser hoards and stores his gold.
The bee collects the summer honey.
When that miser’s dead and cold
Someone else will kiss his money!
Chorus
Some go in for counting beads.
More go in for chasing women.
The scholar stays at home and reads.
Give me the glass with porter in it.
Listen to this song on Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/track/7pOKmoOBN0XkYryiBd1Mni
Here’s another Irish song to wet your whistle! (Don’t forget, I’m playing two shows on St. Patrick’s Day:
- Noon to 4 PM at the grand opening of the Black Rose in Lansing, MI – info
- 5:30- 8:30 at Lu & Carl’s in Brighton, MI – info
Hope to see you there!)
Drink It Up Men – The Dubliners
Time Signature: 3/4
Intro:
C G[7] C
e —————————–
b —————————–
g ———-0————————
d –0-2———2-3-0 ————-
a -3——————–2-3———
e ————————–
At the pub on the crossroads there’s [F] whiskey and beer [C]
There’s brandy from cognac that’s [G7] fragrant but dear [C]
But for killing the thirst and for [F] raising the gout [C]
There’s nothing at all beats a [G7] pint of good stout [G7]
Drink it up [C] men, it’s [G7] long after ten [C]
At the pub on the crossroads I first went astray
There I drank enough drink for to fill Galway Bay
Going up to the mourning I wore out me shoes
Going up to the cross for the best of good booze
Drink it up men, it’s long after ten
Some folk o’er the water think bitter is fine
And others they swear by the juice of the vine
But there’s nothing that’s squeezed from the grape or the hop
Like the black liquidation with the froth on the top
Drink it up men, it’s long after ten
I’ve travelled in England, I’ve travelled in France
At the sound of good music I’ll sing or I’ll dance
So hear me then mister and pour me one more
If I cannot drink it up then throw me out the door
Drink it up men, it’s long after ten
It’s Guinness’s porter that has me this way
For it’s sweeter than buttermilk and stronger than tea
But when in the morning I feel kind of rough
Me cursin’ lord I be who brews the damned stuff
Drink it up men [C], it’s [G7] long after ten [C]
Drink it up men [C], it’s [G7] long after ten [C – G C]
Listen to this song on Spotify:
http://open.spotify.com/track/0lbFURL5QYl2jNf2lWlhMi
It’s six days until St. Patrick’s Day! I’m going to share some of my chord charts of Irish songs each day leading up to Saturday’s festivities.
Don’t forget, I’ll be playing two gigs on St. Patrick’s Day!
- Noon to 4 PM at the grand opening of the Black Rose in Lansing, MI – info
- 5:30-8:30 at Lu & Carl’s in Brighton, MI – info
Here’s a traditional song the Clancy Brother’s sang. I haven’t been able to find any chord charts on the Internet, so I thought I’d share mine:
Jug of This – Clancy Brothers
Capo 1: All chords relative to capo
Ye mourners all [Em], as you pass by [Em]
Come in and drink [Em] if you are dry [D/A]
Just call your drinks [Em] think not amiss [G]
And pop your nose [D/A] in a jug of this [Em]
When I am old [Em] and can scarcely crow ]Em]
With an old grey beard [Em] and a head that’s bald [D/A]
Crown my desire [Em] and fulfill my wish [G]
A pretty young girl [D/A] and a jug of this [Em]
When I am in [Em] my grave and dead [G]|
And all my sorrows [Em] are past and fled [D/A]
Transport me then [Em] into a fish [G]
And let me swim [D/A] in a jug of this [Em]
Listen to this song on Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/track/4P2S4NJXcQoE85ElycX3hO
