A Song For Seamus Heaney

[J. Raymond Carroll]

Seamus just reminded me

That Tommy Makem and the Clancy Boys

Were hymning anti-war songs

Long before Eric Bogle came along

With his Scots-Australian Burr.

But Seamus admits that Bogle

Is Truly The One And Only

And we may have another from him yet

RIght now, An Early Anti-War Classic

From a Planxty Pal of Famous Seamus

A one man Band and

A Fine gentleman indeed

Named Paul Brady.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBGkhPx529g

Edited September 11, 2013 by J. Raymond Carroll

[J. Raymond Carroll]

Everyone Loved Woody Guthrie,

Especially Bob Dylan.

Dylan went to visit the ailing Woody

Every time he could.

Dylan wrote a song for Woody

That will surely stand the test of time

Woody said he wasn't sure if Bob

Could make it as a Songwriter,

But Woody said, with all he had,

THAT BOY CAN TRULY SING!

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

Paupers And Peasants

And Princes And Kings

I'm out here a thousand miles from my home
Walkin' a road other men have gone down

I'm seein' your world of people and things
Hear paupers and peasants and princes and kings

Hey, hey, Woody Guthrie, I wrote you a song
'Bout a funny old world that's comin' along

Seems sick and it's hungry, it's tired and it's torn
It looks like it's dyin' and it's hardly been born

Hey, Woody Guthrie, but I know that you know
All the things I'm sayin' and many times more

I'm singin' every song but I can't sing enough
'Cause there's not many men done the things that you done

Here's to Cisco and Sonny and Leadbelly, too
And to all the good people that traveled with you

Here's to the hearts and the hands of the men
That come with the dust and are gone with the wind

I'm a-leavin' tomorrow but I could leave today
Somewhere down the road someday

The very last thing that I'd want to do
Is to say I'd been hittin' some hard travelin' too

Songwriters
DYLAN, BOB

Read more: Bob Dylan - Song To Woody Lyrics | MetroLyrics

Edited September 9, 2013 by J. Raymond Carroll

[J. Raymond Carroll]

George Harrison called to express

his enjoyment and delight

Heaney Poetry Has Power over Him,

He says,

And Makes His Heart Feel

Locked Behind A DOOR.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEu-3HIvYHI

Edited September 9, 2013 by J. Raymond Carroll

[J. Raymond Carroll]

Paul McCartney would

Talk your ear off

And then start singing

So I always try to get rid of him

As fast as possible

But he won't stop talking

About Famous Seamus

And to Seamus he dedicates this song

Mull of Kyntire is only

A hop and a skip

Across the sea

From County Antrim

And Paul Says Mull

Is A CELTIC Anthem

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFRcMYjut4o

Edited September 9, 2013 by J. Raymond Carroll

[J. Raymond Carroll]

RIngo is not talking to Paul

These days,

So RIngo called me on the QT.

I understand a poet's life,

He said,

And I Know It Don't Come Easy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anpjEN9KeJ0

[J. Raymond Carroll]

John Lennon has been trying to reach me

Since he first heard the news,

But I've always been out to lunch

John says he loves Seamus.

Liverpool may be the Capital of Ireland

He said

But it was Seamus,

Not me

Who had the Luck O' The Irish.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njG7p6CSbCU

[James R Gordon]

Raymond,

In conversations with Dennis O'Driscoll, Seamus Heaney was asked whether he feared death.

He replied. "Certainly not in the way I'd have feared it sixty years ago, fearful of dying in the state of mortal sin and suffering the consequences for all eternity.

It's more grief than fear, grief at having to leave 'what thou loves well' and whom thou loves well."

I can't think of a better reply to that question.

James.

[J. Raymond Carroll]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OJSTMC0VjQ

It's more grief than fear,

Grief at having to leave

What Thou loves well

Whom thou loves well

And Where thou loves so well.

Sure Seamus Was Writing Pure Poetry, James,

Even When Speaking plain prose.

https://www.google.com/search?site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1366&bih=632&q=seamus+heaney+family+funeral&oq=seamus+heaney+family+funeral&gs_l=img.12...26420.34140.0.37571.28.17.0.11.11.0.270.1260.16j0j1.17.0....0...1ac.1.26.img..7.21.1289.FAdBgyr3Fks

[J. Raymond Carroll]

Seamus lived in Sandymount

Where Stephen Dedalus walked

Into Eternity

https://www.google.com/search?site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1366&bih=632&q=sandymount+strand+dublin&oq=sandymount+strand+dublin&gs_l=img.12..0i24.2325.9569.0.12963.24.12.0.12.12.0.139.868.11j1.12.0....0...1ac.1.26.img..0.24.985.lF4VSUn6CsM#q=sunset+seamus+heaney+sandymount+strand+dublin&tbm=isch&facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=U5lRNykFmpywNM%3A%3BEOkMt4XkeMPgeM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252F1.bp.blogspot.com%252F-0RppIUPC4AU%252FTyLortXQi_I%252FAAAAAAAAB9k%252FYM9gpPnfLzc%252Fs400%252FDonegal_Sunset_by_aidan8500.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Famericannarrator.blogspot.com%252F%3B1600%3B1202

Into Eternity....

Edited September 9, 2013 by J. Raymond Carroll

[Mark Knight]

Shouldn't this all be on the Irish Songs forum instead of the JFK Assassination forum?

[J. Raymond Carroll]

Shouldn't this all be on the Irish Songs forum instead of the JFK Assassination forum?

Maybe you should read the thread more carefully, Mark,

Or else just ignore it

Altogethe

Posted 07 September 2013 - 09:04 PM

Edited September 9, 2013 by J. Raymond Carroll

[J. Raymond Carroll]

Shouldn't this all be on the Irish Songs forum instead of the JFK Assassination forum?

All our wars were merry

And all our songs were sad,

But not all our our songs

Are Irish,

No more than our wars

Edited September 9, 2013 by J. Raymond Carroll

[J. Raymond Carroll]

• Gender:Male?

• Location:Southern Indiana, USA

• Interests:1950's International trucks,

• Farmall tractors, 1946-47

• Hudson automobiles,

• pre-1980 rock 'n' roll...

• more later when I have time to think about it.

TAKE AS MUCH TIME AS YOU NEED....Mr.Knight

in Blinkered ARMOR,

Surely something

Will come to you...

Eventually..

[J. Raymond Carroll]

He's a Drug-Store Truck Drivin' Man

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzBeV7l8bnY

[David Andrews]

Uh...