Still have´nt heard a version of this tune I did'nt like instantly. Someone could kindly explain the o-thing for a no-native speaker?

 esmeralda wrote: 
haHA

Too good - 9 > 10+  More H2O Boys anytime!

 Lrobby99 wrote: 

Saw them in Bristol, two rows from the front so looking straight up Mike Scott's nose! First half was the recent 'Appointmnet with Mr Yeats', second was all the old songs you'd expect.... a great night!

More Waterboys!!!!

I always love me some Waterboys!

 demenshea wrote: 
I'm in..... 

 shellbella wrote: 
Yea, today, too. 

Radio Paradise on a roll today baby!!

Damn...i want to go to the pub now!!

I like playing this on the recorder.  Sends the wife running to the furthest reaches of the house.

 Boy_Wonder wrote: 

How was the show, and where?

Great..... and I'm seeing them live later this month.... 

HEY!! diddle-diddle...

Maybe it's just that the playlist is all super-great right now, but this is at least an 8 from me tonight!

(But it does remind me of "the frog on the log in the bog" which makes me LOL to remember!) It's folksy, that's for sure. 

Good stuff for sure!

Bounced around the office - doing my jigg! Excellent afternoon music!

 Glencoe_JC wrote: 
Call them Celtic, I reckon, like so many other modern bands outwith that bastion of barbarism South of Scotland. Ireland and Scotland, particularly the Highlands (called in Gaelic the Gaidhealtachd, or land of the Gaels), are very closely linked culturally, historically, linguistically and genetically. Not surprising, really, seeing as the pesky Irish colonised the Highlands and Islands in the first millennium, and brought their language with them, which mutated and softened as it travelled North. Off the top of my head, other joint Irish/Scottish bands are Salsa Celtica, Afro-Celt Sound System, and Shooglenifty.

 Misterfixit wrote: 
Not true (at least where I hail from). To talk about a Gypsy is still very much (pc) allowed. Mind you, they are now mostly lumped under the title of 'travellers' who have more bad press than News International. 

 

 SpamNRice wrote: 
Here - have a Samuel Smith's Pale Ale.  Plenty to go around!  Gotta go dance on a table now...  

It's magically delicious! Corned beef and cabbage!  Yuck!

 Stingray wrote: 

True, but it was much better when it was English and before that, Scottish.

"The Gypsy Laddie" (Roud 1, Child 200), also known as "Black Jack Davy" and "The Raggle Taggle Gypsies" among many other titles, is a Border ballad ^<1>, possibly written about 1720 on the Scottish side of the border. The ballad has often been used and recorded in many different variations in Scotland and England from the 18th century, the United States, Canada from the 19th century, and more recently Ireland from the 1970s.

And me without a beer in my hand....

 rdo wrote: 
This is an Old Irish Traditional Song. It has been recorded many times over.

 rdo wrote: 
This is an Old Irish Traditional Song. It has been recorded many times over.

Woohoo!!! This kind of music is BEST enjoyed in a rollicking crowd, packed into a good Irish Pub.    

"Gypsy" is no longer PC unless we are talking about Gypsy Rose Lee.  "The Travelling People"; "The Roma", "The Romani".  Beware the PC Police or you'll have their raggle taggle in yer eye.

It seems like there are at least 10 different versions of this song on RP.  Different names, bands and lyrics, but the same melody. 

I still can't help but do a little dance when I hear this song - whether I'm folding clothes or loading the dishwasher.  It just makes me happy. And I actually have a head-scarf given to me by a man who's descended from a Gypsy clan. The stories he tells...