A Song For Seamus Heaney

[J. Raymond Carroll]

Famous Seamus and Frank Patterson

Were great friends.

This song was written by a New Yorker

who took his wife to live in Ohio.

She was always homesick for New York,

So he wrote this song for her.

Of course the thieving Irish stole the song

and made it their own.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpOvbfptWEY

[J. Raymond Carroll]

[J. Raymond Carroll]

[J. Raymond Carroll]

Seamus Kisses JFK's sister.

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[J. Raymond Carroll]

Elvis called to say

Move over Patterson

I am the King!

He would like to sing the song

How it should be sung

In memory of Famous Seamus.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEHnzFC7M9A

Edited September 11, 2013 by J. Raymond Carroll

[J. Raymond Carroll]

Seamus called to say that he loves

The Pub with No Beer

and that Slim Dusty is one of his favorite singers

Ok Seamus

When the Rain Tumbles Down In July

--- Slim Dusty.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERkZfL8lob8

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[J. Raymond Carroll]

Seamus called to say that he loves

The Pub with No Beer

and that Slim Dusty is one of his favorite singers.

Ok Seamus

When the Rain Tumbles Down In July.

--- Slim Dusty.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERkZfL8lob8

Seamus now wants me to play the song again,

But sung by Slim Dusty's Daughter.

Seamus is convinced that Anne Kirkpatrick

Is the Reincarnation of Kathleen Kennedy

JFK's lost sister.

Seamus wants me to play this especially

For William Aloyisius Kelly,

And Robin Aloyisius Unger.

I told him Robin is very good

But Kelly is overrated,

Of course Seamus would not listen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EICe11W5tos

I have to give a special

Shout out to

Robin Unger

When I was in Australia

Robin used

BRUTE FORCE

To keep me from Mobbing

Anne Kirkpatrick

Edited September 11, 2013 by J. Raymond Carroll

[J. Raymond Carroll]

Who Murdered this Man?

Inquiring minds want to know,

I want to know.

The poet is on the side of undeceiving the world,

It means being vigilant in the public realm.

Seamus Heaney.

Edited September 8, 2013 by J. Raymond Carroll

[J. Raymond Carroll]

2. Guestbook | Christy Moore

   www.christymoore.com/guestbook/comment-page-130/?noheader=‎

   2 days ago

   I took a wee trip

   over Glenshane

   last night

   to pay my respects

   to

   Seamus Heaney

   Beautiful evening

   and lovely peaceful setting

   Nice to see the ...

3. Guestbook | Christy Moore
   www.christymoore.com/guestbook/comment-page-129/‎

   Aug 30, 2013 - Saddened and shocked to learn

   of the death

   of Seamus Heaney

   who was here with Liam 'Flynn

   just 2 weeks ago

   Somehow it never seemed

4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH8jYhmcaQE

Edited September 11, 2013 by J. Raymond Carroll

[J. Raymond Carroll]

Slim Dusty sings of a modern Sweeney
Who belongs in a pub with no beer,

Seamus Heaney wrote about

the ancient Sweeney
Who lived in bogs and trees

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1366&bih=632&q=seamus+heaney+tree&oq=seamus+heaney+tree&gs_l=img.12...5982.12529.0.16197.18.17.0.1.0.0.134.1215.16j1.17.0....0...1ac.1.26.img..2.16.1161.8BqbB-zRFvc#facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=eH3pe-zRJG9YuM%3A%3BFZ0ia4SMrjgcQM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.goldcoaster.fdrsuite.org%252FGOLDCOASTER%25252011-12%252FIMAGES11-12%252FKIELY%252520PHOTOS%252FSeamusHeaney95.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.goldcoaster.fdrsuite.org%252FGOLDCOASTER%25252011-12%252FKiely%252520Part%252520II.html%3B500%3B728

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[Gene Kelly]

Mr. Carroll:

This is good stuff... thanks for laying it all out.

[J. Raymond Carroll]

Slim Dusty

An Australian

favorite

of

Seamus

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8E0aZ387M_I

Thank you Gene,
You were a fair good song and dance man
In your own day.

I know for a fact

that Famous Seamus
Loved

An American In Paris

especially
Singing In the Rain

Something he got plenty

of practice at
Living in Dublin.

Slim Dusty's Obituary
From The Guardian

still a great newspaper:


Slim Dusty
Country singer famous

for A Pub With No Beer

Dave Laing
The Guardian, Friday 19 September 2003 21.42 EDT
The Australian singer Slim Dusty

who has died of cancer aged 76,

was best known in Britain for a record

that fleetingly monopolised the radio waves

in 1958

A Pub With No Beer.

The song told of a parched stockman

herding cattle in the outback

who travelled many miles

to a bar

only to find

it was dry.

It had been an immediate

success in Australia

where it was the first

and only 78rpm record

to be awardeda gold disc.

It subsequently became

a top 20 hit in Britain

the stuff of the BBC

Light Programme

Two-Way

Family Favourites

And an erratically sung

barroom anthem.

BBC television viewers

meanwhile

had seen Dusty in an interlude clip

singing Waltzing Matilda on horseback.

Dusty came to embody an ideal

of rural Australia

later symbolised

by his performance of the same song

at the closing ceremony

of the Sydney Olympic Games

three years ago

In 1983 his recording was beamed down

from the space shuttle Columbia

as it passed over Australia

Born David Gordon Kirkpatrick

In the northern New South Wales

coastal town of Kempsey

Dusty grew up on a dairy farm

in Nulla Nulla Creek

Like many rural Australians

he was drawn to the American hillbilly music

of Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter family

and he played a crucial role in the creation

of an indigenous genre that fused the imported country sound

with the traditions of bush poetry and song

associated with Waltzing Matilda's author

Banjo Patterson and others.

He wrote his first song

The Way A Cowboy Dies

at the age of 10

and the following year

chose Slim Dusty

as his stage name

At the age of 15

after his first broadcast on Radio 2KM Kempsey

he made his first recording

Song For The Aussies,

a patriotic wartime number.

In 1946,he signed a contract

with EMI Records

for whom he made 100 albums

mainly of his own compositions.

His career was part-time until 1954

when he launched the travelling Slim Dusty Show

with his singer-songwriter wife Joy McKean.

They toured small outback settlement

and soon graduated

to the more lucrative showground circuit

Dusty became known for

the simplicity of his performances

appearing alone as a cowboy-hatted

stockman with an acoustic guitar

He once described his music as

Songs about real Australians

I have to be fair dinkum with my audience

I can't see any other way

of doing it

His reputation

in Australian country music circles

grew gradually,

but he did not impinge

on the national consciousness

until

A Pub With No Beer

In the 1960s

he expanded his touring schedule

to an annual 30,000-mile,

10-month trek

involving more than 200 concerts

He also performed in New Zealand

Papua New Guinea

and the Solomon Islands

His biggest hit

after

A Pub With No Beer

was Duncan

in 1980,

and he re-recorded the song

with Rolf Harris 16 years later

Among his biggest selling albums were

Beer Drinking Songs Of Australia (1986)

and G'day, G'day (1989).

Dusty published two autobiographies, Walk A Country Mile (1979) and Another Day, Another Town (1997). The feature film, The Slim Dusty Movie, appeared in 1984.

He received numerous awards

including an MBE in 1970

and the Golden Gumleaf Heritage award

at the 2000 Australian Bush Laureate awards

In 1999 he was given the inaugural

Senior Australian Of The Year

title by the Canberra government

In 1995 a permanent Slim Dusty exhibition

was opened at the Australian Country Music Foundation

in Tamworth.

He is survived by his wife and two children.

· Slim Dusty

David Gordon Kirkpatrick

singer and songwriter

Born June 13 1927

died September 19 2003

Ar Dheis De

Go Raibh

A

Hanam

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[J. Raymond Carroll]

Truth and Consequences.

Tell'em Bob,

And Tell them you speak

for Me, Famous Seamus from Dublin,

Murphy is still nobody yet!

And don't hold back, Bobby,

Get some fire in the belly

Like Tommy Makem and the Clancy Boys!

Let 'er Rip Bob!

Who Murdered this Man?

Inquiring minds want to know,

I want to know.

The poet is on the side of undeceiving the world,

It means being vigilant in the public realm.

Seamus Heaney.

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[J. Raymond Carroll]

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1366&bih=632&q=Seamus+heaney&oq=Seamus+heaney&gs_l=img.12..0i3j0l6j0i5j0i24l2.55864.60319.0.63776.13.13.0.0.0.0.128.1008.11j2.13.0....0...1ac.1.26.img..0.13.1006.kbBgrP5jM8w#facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=d07Vv6Wk8u70uM%3A%3Bo4q-_u4rX_etqM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.mulhall-portrait-artist.com%252Fnews%252Fimages%252FSeamus%252520Heaney_1.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.mulhall-portrait-artist.com%252Fmulhall_news.cfm%252Fshownews%252Fyes%252Fnews_key%252F8%252FHeaney_meets_Mulhall_for_portrait%3B578%3B288

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6ZUYU4tWU

Famous Seamus Was

A Work of Art

As These pictures attest,

But like his famous friend

Christy Moore,

He Remained

An [EXTRA] Ordinary Man.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6ZUYU4tWUU

[J. Raymond Carroll]

Famous Seamus called again

To say he is Mad as Hell,

This thread is too bloody bloody serious,

The Queen just called,

And She Is Bored As Well!

OK Seamus and Your Majesty,

I Know You Both Loved Dublin Town,

Despite Sean Murphy's presence,

So I hope you enjoy this little song,

And PLEASE PARDON

Any Irreverence!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMm3eUoA1No

Edited September 9, 2013 by J. Raymond Carroll