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The Waterboys — The Raggle Taggle Gypsy (Live)
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cormatic
(Dublin, Ireland)
Posted: Mar 02, 2013 - 19:16
 
 esmeralda wrote:

I was going to write how much I agree with this post, then I realized it was me.

 
haHA

Foot
(NorCal / Wine)
Posted: Mar 02, 2013 - 19:09
 
Too good - 9 > 10+  More H2O Boys anytime!

Boy_Wonder
(Bath, back in the UK)
Posted: Jan 30, 2013 - 11:28
 
 Lrobby99 wrote:


How was the show, and where?
 

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!

d-don
(Oregon)
Posted: Jan 30, 2013 - 11:25
 


More Waterboys!!!!

jadewahoo
Posted: Sep 11, 2012 - 09:55
 
I always love me some Waterboys!

bluecshells
Posted: Sep 11, 2012 - 09:55
 
{#Good-vibes}

shellbella
(so california)
Posted: Sep 11, 2012 - 09:52
 
 demenshea wrote:
Damn...i want to go to the pub now!!
 
I'm in.....  {#Cheers}

philbertr
(Roch New York)
Posted: Sep 11, 2012 - 09:52
 
 shellbella wrote:
Radio Paradise on a roll today baby!!
 
Yea, today, too. 

shellbella
(so california)
Posted: Jul 10, 2012 - 11:50
 
Radio Paradise on a roll today baby!!

demenshea
(Foothills of the Sierra Nevada Range)
Posted: Jun 08, 2012 - 18:44
 
Damn...i want to go to the pub now!!

Hannio
(Austin, TX)
Posted: Mar 21, 2012 - 08:02
 
I like playing this on the recorder.  Sends the wife running to the furthest reaches of the house.

Lrobby99
(Wisconsin, USA)
Posted: Mar 21, 2012 - 08:00
 
 Boy_Wonder wrote:
Great..... and I'm seeing them live later this month.... 
 

How was the show, and where?

Boy_Wonder
(Bath, back in the UK)
Posted: Mar 05, 2012 - 13:55
 
Great..... and I'm seeing them live later this month.... 

MiracleDrug
(Earth)
Posted: Mar 05, 2012 - 13:54
 
HEY!! diddle-diddle...

ferwoman
Posted: Feb 02, 2012 - 21:35
 
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. 

Stranglersfan
(Revelstoke, B.C.)
Posted: Feb 02, 2012 - 21:32
 
Good stuff for sure!

desertbecca
(North of Paris of the Piedmont)
Posted: Dec 01, 2011 - 08:47
 
Bounced around the office - doing my jigg! Excellent afternoon music!

fredriley
(Nottingham, UK)
Posted: Nov 15, 2011 - 10:10
 
 Glencoe_JC wrote:
This is taken from Mike Scott's website:

Is The Waterboys a Scottish or Irish band ?
Mike Scott who formed the group is from Edinburgh in Scotland. Several Irishmen and one Irishwoman have been members at various times and the group was based in Dublin from 1986 to 1991. At other times the group has been based in London or New York. The Waterboys have had English, Welsh, American and other Scottish members too.

For me they're Scottish....but then again I would say that?!
 
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.


Poacher
(Brighton, UK)
Posted: Nov 15, 2011 - 10:08
 
 Misterfixit wrote:
"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.
 
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. 

 

Cynaera
(In a hammock under my own vine and fig tree.)
Posted: Nov 15, 2011 - 10:05
 
 SpamNRice wrote:
And me without a beer in my hand....{#Yell}
 
Here - have a Samuel Smith's Pale Ale.  Plenty to go around!  Gotta go dance on a table now... {#Bananapiano} 

terrapin52
(Terrapin Station, SC)
Posted: Nov 15, 2011 - 10:03
 
It's magically delicious! Corned beef and cabbage!  Yuck!


TerryS
(Another SW)
Posted: Oct 30, 2011 - 17:55
 
 Stingray wrote:
hate this irish bull
 

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.



SpamNRice
(Northern, Italy)
Posted: Sep 29, 2011 - 00:51
 
And me without a beer in my hand....{#Yell}

hmulhall
Posted: Sep 13, 2011 - 10:03
 
 rdo wrote:
It seems like there are at least 10 different versions of this song on RP.  Different names, bands and lyrics, but the same melody. 

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


hmulhall
Posted: Sep 13, 2011 - 10:03
 
 rdo wrote:
It seems like there are at least 10 different versions of this song on RP.  Different names, bands and lyrics, but the same melody. 

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


Alexandra
(Here and Now)
Posted: Sep 13, 2011 - 07:33
 
Woohoo!!! This kind of music is BEST enjoyed in a rollicking crowd, packed into a good Irish Pub. {#Cheers}  {#Guitarist}  {#Boohoo}

Misterfixit
(Nashville)
Posted: Sep 13, 2011 - 07:32
 
"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.



rdo
(DC)
Posted: Aug 28, 2011 - 15:26
 
It seems like there are at least 10 different versions of this song on RP.  Different names, bands and lyrics, but the same melody. 


Cynaera
(South of Neanderthal)
Posted: Apr 24, 2011 - 15:12
 
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... {#Cheers}

Cynaera
(South of Neanderthal)
Posted: Apr 08, 2011 - 16:20
 
 Businessgypsy wrote:
My taggles are hardly raggled at all, but I keep 'em in a special box.
 
Doesn't it hurt to detach them? {#Bananajumprope}

Stingray
(EUROPE)
Posted: Jan 20, 2011 - 09:10
 
hate this irish bull

whtahtefcuk
(Flagstaff, AZ, USA)
Posted: Jan 20, 2011 - 09:06
 
mute

Businessgypsy
(Deepest, Darkest Florida)
Posted: Jan 04, 2011 - 13:23
 
My taggles are hardly raggled at all, but I keep 'em in a special box.

arserocket
(S.O.B in an S.U.V)
Posted: Nov 02, 2010 - 05:55
 
 Lrobby99 wrote:
More Irish!
More Irish!

Go to Ireland and learn what contentment is.
 
MMMmmm {#Think}  - not too content right now, just a little problem with da economy, shouldn't take too many decades to sort


zenmumu
(Barcelona - Spain)
Posted: Nov 02, 2010 - 05:53
 
{#Dancingbanana}

gatorade
(Ocean Park, WA)
Posted: Sep 15, 2010 - 19:25
 
I'll have another one!

Cynaera
(South of Neanderthal)
Posted: Aug 30, 2010 - 15:13
 
Okay, I know this will be weird, but stick with me, okay?  I watched "Anne of Avonlea" on DVD, and in one of the episodes, Anne has commandeered the horses and carriages of a curmudgeonly matron whose grand-daughter she is tutoring.  Anne has invited the school students she teaches to an alfresco lunch, unbeknownst to the matron.  Dame Wendy Hiller as Margaret Harris is outraged at the blatant anarchy - at one point she protests, "I'm not some raggle-taggle gypsy!"  Hence the connection.

I love this song, and if anyone has a yearning for simpler times, the whole "Anne of Green Gables" series is perfect to watch with kids. Or alone. Or with a friend.  It's perfect, okay?

So, whenever I hear this song, I'm thrown back into the past, in the best way.

Shutting up now.

ziggytrix
(Dallas, TX)
Posted: Aug 30, 2010 - 15:03
 
 ed wrote:
When did Popeye release a c.d?
 

Ik's quite uncanny, ah-gah-gah-gah-gah! {#Lol}

nicolewe
Posted: Aug 30, 2010 - 15:00
 
{#Drunk}{#Notworthy}{#Cool} Like a drink with this one!



Glencoe_JC
(GlasVegas)
Posted: Jul 29, 2010 - 14:53
 
This is taken from Mike Scott's website:

Is The Waterboys a Scottish or Irish band ?
Mike Scott who formed the group is from Edinburgh in Scotland. Several Irishmen and one Irishwoman have been members at various times and the group was based in Dublin from 1986 to 1991. At other times the group has been based in London or New York. The Waterboys have had English, Welsh, American and other Scottish members too.

For me they're Scottish....but then again I would say that?!

Great band, saw them first when I was 16 at the QM...a few moons ago {#Whistle}

King-Tut09
Posted: Jul 29, 2010 - 14:49
 
this is the last song yu here just before they throw you out for dancin too hard and makin a fool of yu self {#Bananasplit}{#Dancingbanana_2}{#Bananasplit}

whtahtefcuk
(Flagstaff, AZ, USA)
Posted: Jul 29, 2010 - 14:48
 
Why does this crap make me sick?  I love all types of music... but something about Tori Amos and Irish music makes me want to barf?

jtarp
(Dublin, Ireland)
Posted: Apr 25, 2010 - 04:41
 
 DaMoGan wrote:

Love it.  I wish I was in an Irish bar tonight, instead of at home!

 
 I'll meet ya at the local for a pint.



jersey_birdman
Posted: Mar 24, 2010 - 13:42
 
Great to see all of the pro-Waterboy stuff below: be sure to support the band next time they are stateside.  I have a distant connection to Mike Scott and am told coming to the states to perform is a loosing battle since very few come out in support: all of our loss.


Lrobby99
(Wisconsin, USA)
Posted: Mar 24, 2010 - 13:38
 
More Irish!
More Irish!

Go to Ireland and learn what contentment is.

Bleyfusz
Posted: Jan 20, 2010 - 13:43
 
There are countless versions of this song and the story it tells, handed down to american music as Blackjack Davye, which Bob Dylan picked up on Good as I been to you.

alux
(atop the pyramid)
Posted: Dec 04, 2009 - 15:09
 
I never really got the Waterboys from their studio work.  But this I get.  

DaMoGan
(Body on the east coast, Mind on the west coast.)
Posted: Dec 04, 2009 - 14:53
 

Love it.  I wish I was in an Irish bar tonight, instead of at home!


fredriley
(Nottingham, UK)
Posted: Nov 03, 2009 - 05:42
 
 Govi wrote:
Is this Irish oompah?
 
Nope, it's Irish drinking music, a long and honourable tradition across the country, and played by countless pub bands every weekend whilst the punters drink themselves into a stupor on Guinness, Harp and Paddy's :*)

This is a great example of it, and IMO pure, concentrated craic. A pint o' porter and a Jamieson's for me, barman!


ianmoff
(Nr London UK)
Posted: Oct 18, 2009 - 07:00
 
Best served with Guinness!