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Nov.
1: Name the song: "While the miller he idled"
Nov.
2: Where will I "fight ye all"?
Nov.
3: What do the album titles "The Boys Won't Leave The Girls
Alone", "Two For The Early Dew" and "The Wild And Wateful Ocean" have
in common?
Nov.
4: In what war did "my father never put his parachute on"?
Nov.
5:None
Nov.
6: In what song does Liam wish he could "sail all the way
across the street"?
Nov.
7:Who wrote the liner notes for "Isn't It Grand Boys"?
Nov.
8: What song is preceded with this quip, and who says it:
"You want sides and everything!"
Nov.
9: Who sings lead on "My Son Ted"?
Nov.
10: Where is it "where there ain't no trees, no scented breeze,
no fields of waving corn"?
Nov.
11: What war is referred to in "Willie McBride"?
Nov.
12: Poll of the Week:
Liam has been
a part of recording a few Bob Dylan songs. Which is your favorite?
Nov.
13: Name the song: "Out came a poor man and he was tattered
and torn."
Nov.
14: Name the song: "Where is me bed?"
Nov.
15: Who supposedly wears a second-hand girdle?
Nov.
16: Name the song: "My kitchen is full of the smells of the
sea".
Nov.
17: Who has "gone with a tinker's daughter - the countryside
to roam"?
Nov.
18: Name the song:
"Looking seaward
from the heather".
Nov.
19: Poll of the Week"
Of all the "live"
albums made by Liam and the others, which is your 'all around' favorite?
Nov.
20: Name the song:
"She sent us to
Heaven in our own good time."
Nov.
21: Name the song:
"I loved the fairest
lass that ever yet was born".
Nov.
22: In what song do the Clancys want the clergy to agree to
"the bargain"?
Nov.
23: Name the song:
"But the earth
really ends where you started to roam"
Nov.
24: Name the song: "They reap the harvest of the cold night
sea".
Nov.
25: Here is another three part question.
"Where the liquor
tasted good and the women were all fast".
1) Name the song.
2) Name the songwriter.
3) Name the two
recordings the song appears on.
Nov.
26: Poll of the Week:
What is the one
song never recorded by Liam and the others that you would have loved
to hear them sing?
Nov.
27: Name the song:
"And a poor simple
sailor just like me".
Nov.
28: Name the song:
"We travel
the whole world by land and by sea"
Nov.
29: "And the world was simply this, all that mattered was
a kiss"
1) Name the song.
2) Name the songwriter.
3) Name two other
songs written by this person and recorded by the Clancy's.
Nov.
30: According to Liam what song is a 'real love song' and
why?
Answers:
Nov.
1:
"Windmills". "The miller he idled - his mill to repair"
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Nov.
2: It was the town of Rosthea in "Rosthea-O".
"Clear
the room and we'll make a ring, And I'll fight ye all in Rosthea-o"
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Nov.
3: The titles are lyrics in songs:
"I'll
Tell Me Ma', "Morning Glory" and "Shoals of Herring".
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Nov.
4: "For Real" by Bob Framke- a Liam solo from "Clancy,
O'Connell and Clancy".
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Nov.
5:None
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Nov.
6: It's "My Island".
"And
board the good ship Chance and take my voyage And sail all the way
across the street"
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Nov.
7: Tommy Makem. Complete with autograph. And by the way,
the lapel pin on his tux is a "PIONEER" pin.
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Nov.
8: It is "Maid of Fife". Intro by Tom Clancy, "Now this
is the story about some poor unfortunate fella in the Army who fell
in love with a girl"(What army was it?-shouted from the audience.)
Tom continues, "It doesn't matter what the hell army it was. Come
on you want sides and everything..In the bloody army that's all...anyway
this fella fell in love with the maid of Fife"
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Nov.
9: Paddy Clancy, from the album "Isn't It Grand Boys",
side two cut two.
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Nov.
10: It is Liverpool in "I Wish I was Back In Liverpool"
on 'Show Me the Way'.
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Nov.
11: World War I
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Nov.
12: Some answers:
I
love so much "Fare thee well" from "The Dutchman" CD.
"Girl
From The North Country" on the "Save the Land" album
Ramblin'
Gamblin' Willie (Older But No Wiser)
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Nov.
13: 'The Stuttering Lovers'
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Nov.
14: "All For Me Grog" off "Liam Clancy" and
"Irish Troubador". Columbia saw fit to edit that verse out on "Flowers
In The Valley".
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Nov.
15: Liam Clancy. It's part of the banter before the song
"Leave her Johnny" on the Makem & Clancy Concert album, and also
before the song "My Father Loves Nakita Krushev"
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Nov.
16: "Love Of The North" by Bobby Clancy on the Vanguard
"Clancy Brothers & Robbie O'Connell album.
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Nov.
17: "Sullivan's Son"
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Nov.
18: "Mingulay Boat Song"
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Nov.
19: Some answers:
I
love the feel and energy of "Spontaneous Performance", but if you
consider the quality of the songs and the recording, than the Makem
& Clancy Concert is the best.
Live
In Ireland. Columbia should have released it as a double album. Maybe
they will some day using the modern CD format.
The
Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem In Concert
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Nov.
20: "God Bless England"
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Nov.
21: "Broom Of the Cowdenknowes" from Clancy O'Connell
and Clancy
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Nov.
22: "The Limerick Rake" from "Welcome to Our House"
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Nov.
23: "We've Come A Long Way" from the album of
the same name by Makem & Clancy
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Nov.
24: "The Bergen" from Wild & Wasteful Ocean
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Nov.
25: 1) Early Morning Rain
2)
Gordon Lightfoot
3)
'The Bold Fenian Man' & 'Shine on Brighter'.
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Nov.
26: Some answers:
"Claire's
Dragoons" -The potential for explosive vocalization and dramatic effects
in this song are limitless:
"So
fling your Green Flag to the sky! Be Limerick your battle cry! And
charge till blood flows fetlock high! Around the track of Claire's
Dragoons."
Turning
Toward the Morning, by Gordon Bok
"Willie
O' Winsbury" or "Annicke Gordon" maybe those would have suited Paddy
or Bobby. For Liam, Dylan's "Tomorrow Is a Long Time"
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Nov.
27: "Farewell to Nova Scotia" from Shine on Brighter
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Nov.
28: "Bread and Fishes", from "Tommy Makem & Liam Clancy"
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Nov.
29:
1)Cafe
By The Sea
2)Gene
Raskin
3)Time
Gentlemen Time, Those Were the Days and/or Dandelion Wine.
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Nov.
30: "The Dutchman" because Margaret puts whiskey in his
tea. From Liam's introduction- "Not that garbage kids call love songs
'BAAAAABY!! Ya got balckheads on yer pimples, but I LOOOOVE ya!'"
