The Medusa Fora

While were on instrumentals, does anybody know anything about the coda at the end of " Streets.../Birmingham six" ? I love the lone accordian / concertina maybe, tune at the end. Is it based on some melody or is James just extemporising ( ? ) around the tune of the song ? Very wistful I feel and it fits real nice with the intro to " Lullaby...".

I love dingle regatta probably cause I can "sing" the whole thing..

aussieryan wrote:I love dingle regatta probably cause I can "sing" the whole thing..

It has words actually, at least it did when I was a boy.

Diddledy-idle diddledy-idle diddledy diddeldy idle dum.............

sadly thats actually What i meant! Its one of The few tunes ican sing all The way thru

Whiskey in the jar - not only by pogues but ever at all

Nosey Flinn wrote:Whiskey in the jar - not only by pogues but ever at all

Instrumental

mats wrote:

Nosey Flinn wrote:Whiskey in the jar - not only by pogues but ever at all

Instrumental

Ye,instrumental..what's wrong?a couple of lines could be neglected in this case I presume.

If there ever was a full-verse rendition by The Pogues I never heard it

Nosey Flinn wrote:

mats wrote:

Nosey Flinn wrote:Whiskey in the jar - not only by pogues but ever at all

Instrumental

Ye,instrumental..what's wrong?a couple of lines could be neglected in this case I presume.

If there ever was a full-verse rendition by The Pogues I never heard it

I think there may be some language based confusion here.

Here's the whole song, if not.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5WgYoRCs2U

Strange,never heard this before.The one I've meant is the same in terms of music (featuring the Dubliners too) but the only words it contains are the chorus.I'm really puzzled - I'm listening to it now.
I suppose it must be some incomplete studio version or stuff...that's why I've adduced it as an instrumental.I wonder if I'm the only person ever heard it?Anyway,thanks!

i'm feeling distracted...perhaps i should remove the remark if it provokes controversies...

Still what I have on my album has extended musical passages but no words.Maybe it's really a rarity.

Nosey Flinn wrote:Still what I have on my album has extended musical passages but no words.Maybe it's really a rarity.

Perhaps you mean the "long version" from the Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah single? Is it 4:15 long, with just bits of singing by Shane and Ronnie Drew?

no, it's certainly Whiskey In The Jar.I'm capable to distinguish between two such different things.Thank you for suggestion, all the same!

by the way i like it about eagles and weasels.Is it your own dictum?

Nosey Flinn wrote:no, it's certainly Whiskey In The Jar.I'm capable to distinguish between two such different things.Thank you for suggestion, all the same!

I DID mean "Whiskey in the Jar" - the long version of the song, featured on the above mentioned Pogues single.

Nosey Flinn wrote:by the way i like it about eagles and weasels.Is it your own dictum?

I have adopted it, thus making it mine.

Zuzana wrote:

Nosey Flinn wrote:no, it's certainly Whiskey In The Jar.I'm capable to distinguish between two such different things.Thank you for suggestion, all the same!

I DID mean "Whiskey in the Jar" - the long version of the song, featured on the above mentioned Pogues single.

Nosey Flinn wrote:by the way i like it about eagles and weasels.Is it your own dictum?

I have adopted it, thus making it mine.

"Jack's Heroes" / "Whiskey In The Jar" was a 1990 double A side single by The Pogues and the Dubliners.

The extended version of "Whiskey" Zuzana mentions was indeed on the "Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah" CD single but also, I'm pretty sure, on the 12" of the "Jack's Heroes" single too. There's a US variation on the "Yeah" thing also, with some of the tracks mislabelled. The regular non-instrumental version of "Whiskey" can still be heard among the bonus tracks on the expanded CD of one of our albums, either "Peace and Love" or "Hell's Ditch".

philipchevron wrote:The extended version of "Whiskey" Zuzana mentions was indeed on the "Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah" CD single but also, I'm pretty sure, on the 12" of the "Jack's Heroes" single too.

Yes, the Medusa discography mentions its appearance on the 12" of the "Jack's Heroes" single as well.

philipchevron wrote:The regular non-instrumental version of "Whiskey" can still be heard among the bonus tracks on the expanded CD of one of our albums, either "Peace and Love" or "Hell's Ditch".

Hell's Ditch. But looks like the enxtended version has made it neither on the remastered albums, nor the box set...

Nosey Flinn wrote:but the only words it contains are the chorus.

If you indeed mean the long/extended version of Whiskey in the Jar, it contains not only the churus, but also the verses:

And if anyone can aid me, 'tis my brother in the army,
If I could learn his station in Cork or in Killarney.
And if he'd come and join me we'd go roving through Kilkenny,
I'm sure he'd treat me fairer than my own sporting Jenny.
(sung by Shane)
and
There's some takes delight in the carriages a rolling,
Some takes delight in the hurley or the bowlin'.
But I takes delight in the juice of the barley,
And courting pretty fair maids in the morning bright and early.
(sung by Ronnie Drew)