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| Carrick Castle, Carrick-on-Suir, Co. Tipperary |
With Chris coming from Carrickfergus in County Antrim,
and Claire coming from Piltown, just outside of Carrick-on-Suir in County Tipperary, they asked Paddy Giles to sing the song
Two Carrick Smashers at their wedding in June 2000 - as he did with every other wedding, singalong, party or get together
that he ever attended!
Thanks to Lia Prendergast and the lads of the Kilkenny Claims Department for the words..!
Oh we are the two Carrick smashers,
We often go out on the mash.
We wear no tall hats
Or no shirts to our backs,
And we seldom have got any cash (cash,cash).
We often bring out a new fashion,
While the old ones they stick to the old.
Although we are just 27
We are daring quite handsome and bold
Chorus:
And we'll sing tra la la la as we walk down the street
For style and perfection we 'ere can be beat,
All the ladies declare that we are a treat,
We're the two Carrick smashers from off Greystone street
Last Saturday we were invited,
To the town
hall by two ladies fair,
Their cheeks were in bloom
Like the roses in june,
And we danced to a beautiful air,
We were singin and dancin til midnight
Drinkin whiskey and porter and rum
And when the dancin was over
With the queer wans we had lots of fun
Chorus:
And we'll sing tra la la la as we walk down the street
For style and perfection we 'ere can be beat,
All the ladies declare that we are a treat,
We're the two Carrick smashers from off Greystone street
It should be noted that Paddy used to sing anywhere between ten
and fifty verses depending on how the mood took him...!
Carrickfergus
The song Carrickfergus connects
Chris's home town with Claire's home county of Kilkenny, and is therefore a favourite of the two of them. It was played at
their wedding in June 2000, and was sung at Chris's father's wedding by Colin's life long friend Rosemary Wilson (Newman)
in March 2002.
These are the words...
I wish I was in Carrickfergus
Only for nights in Ballygrand.
I would swim over the deepest ocean
The deepest ocean my love to find.
But
the sea is wide and I cannot swim over
And neither have I wings to fly.
I wish I could find me a handsome boatman
To ferry me over to my love and I.
And in Kilkenny it is reported
They have marble stones there black as ink.
With gold and silver I would support her
But I'll sing no more now, until I get a drink.
I'm drunk today and seldom
sober
A handsome rover from town to town.
Ah but I'm sick now and my days are over
Come all ye young men and lay
me down.
To hear a really dodgy
synthesised version of the tune, but a fantastic website on the town, click on the following website:
Carrickman's Carrickfergus
It's a Long Way to Tipperary
Being a Tipperary man, Calum's grandfather Paddy
Giles had one other favourite party piece, a song which had another particular significance to his family.
Paddy's uncle, Private Martin Colleton, was a member of the 2nd Battalion Connaught Rangers, whose battalion anthem, adopted in 1914, was "It's
a Long Way to Tipperary". Martin died in Belgium was fighting at the first battel of Ypres.
The following are the words as sung by both Paddy and
Martin...
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| MC Paddy Giles does his thang with sidekick, Michael "The Dude" Murray - Bristol, July 12th 2000 |
Up to mighty London came
An Irish lad one day,
All
the streets were paved with gold,
So everyone was gay!
Singing songs of Piccadilly,
Strand, and Leicester Square,
'Til Paddy got excited and
He shouted to them there:
It's a long way to Tipperary,
It's a long way to
go.
It's a long way to Tipperary
To the sweetest girl I know!
Goodbye Piccadilly,
Farewell Leicester Square!
It's a long long way to Tipperary,
But my heart's right there.
Paddy wrote a letter
To his Irish Molly
O',
Saying, "Should you not receive it,
Write and let me know!
If I make mistakes in "spelling",
Molly dear",
said he,
"Remember it's the pen, that's bad,
Don't lay the blame on me".
It's a long way to Tipperary,
It's
a long way to go.
It's a long way to Tipperary
To the sweetest girl I know!
Goodbye Piccadilly,
Farewell Leicester
Square,
It's a long long way to Tipperary,
But my heart's right there.
Molly wrote a neat reply
To Irish
Paddy O',
Saying, "Mike Maloney wants
To marry me, and so
Leave the Strand and Piccadilly,
Or you'll be to
blame,
For love has fairly drove me silly,
Hoping you're the same!"
It's a long way to Tipperary,
It's
a long way to go.
It's a long way to Tipperary
To the sweetest girl I know!
Goodbye Piccadilly,
Farewell Leicester
Square,
It's a long long way to Tipperary,
But my heart's right there.
Extra Verse, From World War One
That's
the wrong way to tickle Marie,
That's the wrong way to kiss!
Don't you know that over here, lad,
They like it
best like this!
Hooray pour le Francais!
Farewell, Angleterre!
We didn't know the way to tickle Marie,
But
we learned how, over there!
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