Someone else have a go.

But I'll sing no more now till I get a drink

For I'm drunk today and I'm seldom sober

The handsome rover from town to town

Ah but I am sick now my days are numbered

Come all me young men and lay me down

Get that without googling then

Fields of Athenry

See, there is some peace in the World.

You were not mauled by a big hansum Maori. All tattooed and doing the haka.

Did he do the thing with his eyes and tongue...?

Theres some really big lads down there in NZ.

Fields of Athenry

Nooooooooooo

Carrickfergus

Fields of Athenry

Nooooooooooo

Carrickfergus

Must be an inhouse thing.

Both songs, Athenry and Carrickfergus are sombre recitals of exile but of differing reasons.

Athenry is regarding a man's deportation to Van Dieman's Land for stealing corn during the famine to feed his family from wealthy absentee landlords and Carrickfergus is about a guy who had to leave his town, his sweet heart and his country to find work.

Promising to return, he finds he has neither the money nor the means and so he loses himself in drink.

Carrickfergus

The short version as I am sure it is not for most of your taste

Now for the Triple Crown

Both songs, Athenry and Carrickfergus are sombre recitals of exile but of differing reasons.

Athenry is regarding a man's deportation to Van Dieman's Land for stealing corn during the famine to feed his family from wealthy absentee landlords and Carrickfergus is about a guy who had to leave his town, his sweet heart and his country to find work.

Promising to return, he finds he has neither the money nor the means and so he loses himself in drink.

Carrickfergus

The short version as I am sure it is not for most of your taste

Now for the Triple Crown

Sombre and melancholy.

Sombre and melancholy.

Did you enjoy the song, shall I find the long version?

So i arrive with a bit of Colombia

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LOPw7wltas

Great song with a bit of a wiggle----

And i didnt sniff it either

Hey mossie remember OUR song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlssW7c9igw

Gotta nother one

This fred seems to have become another "You Tube" post.

Sombre and melancholy.

Did you enjoy the song, shall I find the long version?

I found the artist to be talented, but it was all a bit too depressing for me at this time, thanks Moss.

rules are made to be broken, godammit...

'hold me close try an' understand...

'desire is hunger and the fire I breathe...

'love is the banquet on which we feed...'

(then turn up the volume and blast out to the cosmos...)

wish I coulda growled that with passion into someone's ear back when I was a vital young man...also the refrain from 'Nights in White Satin' ...

but, ultimately, the whole arrangement is fcuked up...how can ye save the world with hopelessly romantic and sentimental lyrics?...

bring on the Internationale and the red banners, godammit...

Didn't know the answer Tutsi, so I googled it and found it was a great record of my youth.

And don't worry about zzzzzzzz, because few others do

Didn't know the answer Tutsi, so I googled it and found it was a great record of my youth.

And don't worry about zzzzzzzz, because few others do

yeah...an' it's a brucie song, probably betrayed by the thunder of the production...

dem folks from new jersey have gots sum rock respectability, despite all the jibes...

Col. Kilgore roars in defense of California surfing: 'what d'yew know about surfin' soldier??!! yer from goddam new jersey!!!...'

This fred seems to have become another "You Tube" post.

INDEED!

gotta barge in again...

'close yer eyes

give me yer hand

darling, can you feel my heart beating...?

...

I watch you when you are sleeping,

you belong with me...'

yes! I am a goddam sentimentalist and this stupid song by a gurl band always brings a tear...

I can't stand it...the wheel chair will be rolled out soon...I look into my wife's fathomless eyes and I can see a response!!! oh, boo hoo...

gotta barge in again...

'close yer eyes

give me yer hand

darling, can you feel my heart beating...?

...

I watch you when you are sleeping,

you belong with me...'

yes! I am a goddam sentimentalist and this stupid song by a gurl band always brings a tear...

I can't stand it...the wheel chair will be rolled out soon...I look into my wife's fathomless eyes and I can see a response!!! oh, boo hoo...

I know the song...it's playing in my head right now.....but for the life of me I can't recall the band or the title..... (edit: I wrote what I thought was the answer but the spoiler didn't work)

Come to think of it....why use a spoiler? Is it The Bangles?

yeah...The Bangles...buncha cute girls...

btw, the last refrains use the Phil Spector 'wall of sound' technique (use yer headphones)...you can say what you want about the dude but there ain't no denying that he is an ace...

just like Roman Polanski but I won't go into that...

Eternal Flame

I was a little too tall

Could've used a few pounds

Tight pants points hardly reknown

She was a black haired beauty with big dark eyes

And points all her own sitting way up high

Way up firm and high

there was a brit that I knew in Nicaragua that ran up against a 'dark eyed, gypsy tica woman'; (tica as in costa rican); as he was a music enthusiast I encouraged him to put it into a song...

came to nought as he was a miserable bastid...ended up as an artificial intelligence expert...

she was loose an', man, I would have loved some of that action meself...

there was a brit that I knew in Nicaragua that ran up against a 'dark eyed, gypsy tica woman'; (tica as in costa rican); as he was a music enthusiast I encouraged him to put it into a song...

came to nought as he was a miserable bastid...ended up as an artificial intelligence expert...

she was loose an', man, I would have loved some of that action meself...

but, she was trouble and lord knows there was enough trouble to go around at the time...

to be fair, the miserable bastid managed to make his way overland to Sao Paulo...an epic journey...

he was also best man at our wedding with the ex...we shared a room at the Clarence Hotel in Dublin and when he awoke and saw me staring out the window on the morning of the wedding day he said 'don't jump...'

he knew something about my ex that I didn't...

gangly dude, looked just like Rodney from Only fools and horses...

Bob Seger " Night Moves" , great memories of that time.

I'll tell you, you , that was some soulful music back then and right in step with what we thought we were doing at that time. Nice memory.

I ain’t too good at conversation, girl,

So you might not know exactly how I feel,

But if I could, I’d bring you to the mountaintop, girl,

And build you a house made out of stainless steel.

But it’s like I’m stuck inside a painting

That’s hanging in the Louvre,

My throat start to tickle and my nose itches

But I know that I can’t move.

Bob Seger was right on...for a traditionalist like me he said all he needed to say with 'Old time rock and roll'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6UJZtCz1-c

the actress on the movie Rebecca DeMornay I resisted falling in love with...never seen any female so beautiful...

He says, "Son, can you play me a memory

I'm not really sure how it goes

But it's sad and it's sweet and I knew it complete

When I wore a younger man's clothes."

Hmmm

Still got bruce in my brain.

Nope, not the most well known version anyway.