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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Ten track CD in a fully cardboard four-sided pack with eight page booklet, including full lyrics and credits, with beautiful original artwork by Irish artist Caitriona Sweeney.

    Includes unlimited streaming of The Wedding Above In Glencree via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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  • Limited edition signed CD (shipped from UK). Albums will be shipped on the released date, 24th February.
    Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Ten track CD in a fully cardboard four-sided pack with eight page booklet, including full lyrics and credits, with beautiful original artwork by Irish artist Caitriona Sweeney. These are copies signed personally by Daoirí, limited to 100 copies only.

    Includes unlimited streaming of The Wedding Above In Glencree via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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fell in love with this song many years ago after hearing a version of it sung by Johnny Moynihan and the band Sweeney’s Men.

lyrics

01
Oh Sullivan’s John to the road you’ve gone
Far away from your native home
And you’ve gone with a tinker’s daughter
Far along the road to roam
Ah Sullivan’s John you won’t stick it long
‘til your belly will soon be slack
And you’ll be going the road with a mighty load
And a toolbox on your back

02
I met Katie Coffey with her neat baby
All along on her back strapped on
She’d an old ash plant held up in her fist
For to drive the old donkey on
Oh enquiring at every farmer’s house
As along the road she passed
Ah where would she get an old pot to mend
Or where would she find an ass

Chorus

03
There’s a hairy ass fair in the County Clare
In a place they call Spancil Hill
Where my brother James got a rap of the hames
While poor Paddy he tried to kill
Ah they loaded him up on an ould horse and cart
As along the road to go
Oh bad luck to the day that he went away
To join with the tinker band

Chorus

credits

from The Wedding Above In Glencree, released February 24, 2023
Vocals and bouzouki - Daoirí Farrell / 5-String banjo - Paddy Kiernan

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Daoiri Farrell Dublin, Ireland

It’s commonly accepted that Dublin-born singer and bouzouki player Daoirí Farrell is one of most important singers to come out of Ireland in recent years. A product of Dublin’s famous club An Góilin Traditional Singers, since launching his own solo live career at the 2016 Celtic Connections, Daoirí has gone from strength to strength seeing him tour and play festival stages across the world. ... more

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