A Song For Seamus Heaney

[J. Raymond Carroll]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHsmkpWi20I

Chestersen said of the Irish,

With which we are glad to agree,

That all our songs were sad,

And all our wars were merry.

Webb, Drawdy, Mauer,

Drewich And Maguire,

I set them out in verse,

Harris and Kowal,

Kirkesky and Thom,

And Kennedy,

Their Fearless

Leader.

A Terrible Beauty Is Born.

Edited September 9, 2013 by J. Raymond Carroll

[J. Raymond Carroll]

And All Our Songs Were Sad.

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

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Edited September 9, 2013 by J. Raymond Carroll

[J. Raymond Carroll]

I just missed Hypnotic Ritchie Havens

At an Irish festival in Brooklyn

Many Years Ago

And RItchie was in the Seamus Heaney

Zeitgeist

Famous Seamus Belonged

To The Woodstock

Generation

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

Edited September 9, 2013 by J. Raymond Carroll

[J. Raymond Carroll]

Everyone, Including Bob Dylan

and Famous Seamus,

Loved Woody Guthrey,

And Everyone Loves His Son

Arlo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRpj9mCl0qg

[J. Raymond Carroll]

Famous Seamus called again,

Spouting Oscar Wilde.

I am very easily pleased,

he said,

I am happy with

The very best.

OK, Seamus, I said,

You are the Master.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixUdRQExYQ0

[J. Raymond Carroll]

If ever an encore was called for.........

THIS IS IT,

A Famous Ballad

For Famous Seamus!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX7M9psH0rM

[J. Raymond Carroll]

Special Request From Seamus

For Joe Cocker.

Seamus in not afraid

Of Mad Dogs, or Englishmen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVyJVYWHJaY,

Well not anymore....

[J. Raymond Carroll]

When the truth is found to be lies

And all the joy within' you dies

Don't you want somebody to love

The poet is on the side of undeceiving the world

It means being vigilant in the public realm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1S3jnFfJXM

[J. Raymond Carroll]

Seamus is always satisfied

With the very best,

And though Luke Kelly sings best

About the Town he loves well,

His favorite Dubliner,

Apart From Prayer Man Murphy

Is The Bould Ronnie Drew.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xa566QvOpWE

Edited September 9, 2013 by J. Raymond Carroll

[J. Raymond Carroll]

I cannot find anything with Seamus talking about music,

But I know he loved Tommy Makem and the Clancy Boys.

Since Seamus cannot,

Let's have another great poet

Do the talking

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=te5TUg1bdqM

[J. Raymond Carroll]

Bob Dylan and Famous Seamus

Attended Liam CLancy's Funeral,

By Watching this video

And so can you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUgEYl4V_AE

[J. Raymond Carroll]

Bob Dylan called in

From Australia,

Where he is studying the career of Slim Dusty,

With Slim Dusty's dolcerous daughter

And creating a brand new rendition

Of The Famous Pub With No Beer,

With Slim Dusty's dolcerous daughter.

He says Dusty's daughter is the spittin' image of Kick,

Tragic sister of JFK,

Who died

In a plane crash in England,

But He Wants To Hear The BOLD SLIM AGAIN,

Anyway.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8i35cMTfLw

Edited September 9, 2013 by J. Raymond Carroll

[J. Raymond Carroll]

SIr Mick Jagger called again

And he is mad as hell.

Mick says him and Keith

And Paddy Maloney's musical boys,

Saw Prayer Man coming

A mile Away.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYE-x0Yje98

[J. Raymond Carroll]

I've Heard From Everyone Except Norman Mailer

Asking for a Dylan song by Chrissie Hynde,

In honor of Seamus Heaney.

Seamus, Dylan and Myself are all in Love

With Lovely Chrissie,

But I saw her First.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YFm7SqARrk

[J. Raymond Carroll]

Seamus misses the green fields of France,

Where he gave his final interview.

Our Arbiters Of Culture

The French Rank Seamus With Homer

And Dante and Virgil too.

Private William McBride,

Do you know why you died?

Did you really believe that this war

would end war?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM_UYzUtu0w