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Raglan Road
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A lovely, lilting melody, with the usual Irish combination of hope and despair, of love gained and lost.
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An itinerant bunch of traditional/contemporary Celtic musicians and singers with a loyal following in Hanoi, Vietnam and friends and former members around the w
The Social Weevils are a fluid bunch of musicians and singers who perform sets of traditional and contemporary Celtic tunes and songs from Ireland and Scotland. The band's first CD, "One for the Road," was recorded on January 3, 2000 at the Army Recording Studios in Hanoi, Vietnam, using instruments that were mostly cheap and/or broken. On that CD the Social Weevils were Peter Taylor (button accordion, guitar, mandolin, vocals), Kevin Higgins (tenor banjo, mandolin), Don McIntyre (fiddle), Huub Buise (guitar, vocals), Bob Baulch (guitar, vocals), and Mary O'Keeffe (vocals on one song). On Christmas Eve, 2000, the band recorded another CD, "Live at the R&R," at the R&R Tavern in Hanoi, Vietnam, thanks to owner Jay Ellis his wife and their son, and Ralph Raymond at the 4-track mixing board. The line-up that night was Peter Taylor on all his usual instruments and vocals, Don McIntyre on his fiddle, Ann Russell on recorders, Alec Soucy on tin whistle, Genvieve Thibault on bodhran and accapela vocals, Mary O'Keeffe providing Irish and English vocals, Joe Peters on guitar, mandolin and vocals, and assorted other friends (instruments, vocals, hand claps and foot stomps). The band's second studio CD, "Over the Ocean," was recorded in March 2004 at Kien Quyet Studio in Hanoi. The line-up for that album included Don McIntyre (fiddle, vocals), Anna Russell (recorders), Liz Druitt (bass clarinet), Darryl Rees (guitar, vocals), & Joe Peters (guitar).
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Peak #17
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Traditional
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Copyright-free
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October 15, 2004
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MP3 3.1 MB 128 kbps 0:00
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Raglan Road On Raglan Road on an Autumn day I saw her first and knew, that her dark hair would weave a snare that I might one day rue. I saw the danger and I walked along the enchanted way. And I said, "Let grief be a fallen leaf at the dawning of the day." On Grafton Street in November, we tripped lightly along the ledge of a deep ravine where can be seen the depths of passion pledge. The Queen of Hearts still making tarts but I not making hay. And, I loved too much by such, by such is happiness thrown away. I gave her gifts of the mind, I gave her the secret sign that's known to artists who have known the true gods of sound and stone. With word and tint I dare not stint I gave her poems to say. With her own name there and her own dark hair, like clouds over fields of May. On a quiet street where the old ghosts meet I see her walking now, away from me so suddenly. My reason must allow, for I had loved, not as I should. A creature made of clay. When the angel woos his wings he’ll lose at the dawning of the day.
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