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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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about

In 2019 I was asked if I would sing this song as part of a TV production called ‘Ireland’s Favourite Folk Song’. I came up with the arrangement for the song while travelling through Australia on a three week solo tour that spring.

lyrics

01
As down the glen one Easter morn to a city fair rode I
There armed lines of marching men in squadrons they passed me by
No fife did hum no battle drum did sound its lowly tattoo
But the Angelus bell o’er the Liffey’s swell it rang out in the foggy dew

02
And right proudly high over Dublin town they hung out the flag of war
It was better to die beneath an Irish sky than in Sulva or Sedd el Bahr
And from the plains of Royal Meath strong men came marching through
And Britannia’s huns with their long range guns sailed into the foggy
dew

03
Well the night drew black and the rifle crack made perfidious Albion reel
Through the laden rain seven tongues of flame they rang out over lines of steel
And on to every blade a prayer I’d said that to Ireland her young men be true
Oh and when morning broke well the war flag shook out its folds all in the foggy dew

04
It was England that bade our wild geese go so small nations might be free
But their lonely graves are by Sulva’s waves on the fringes of the grey north sea
But had they died by Pearse’s side or fought with Cathal Bruagh
Well their names we’d keep where The Fenians sleep under the shroud of the foggy dew

05
Well the bravest fell and the requiem bell rang mournfully and free
For those men who died on that Eastertide at the spring time of the year
And as the world did gaze in grief and amaze at those gallant men but few
Who bore the fight so that freedom’s light might shine in through the foggy dew

06
Then back o’er the glen I rode again and my heart with grief it was sore
For I parted then with gallant men that I never would see no more
And to and fro in my dream I’ll go I’ll kneel and I’ll say a prayer for you
Oh slavery fled ye gallant dead when you fell in the foggy dew
Oh slavery fled ye gallant dead when you died in the foggy dew

credits

from The Wedding Above In Glencree, released February 24, 2023
Vocals, bouzouki – Daoirí Farrell
Guitar - Manus Lunny
5-String banjo - Paddy Kiernan
Whistles - Alan Doherty

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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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