We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Hills of Connemara

from A Celebration of Twenty by IONA

/

about

Sally Gardens/Hills of Connemara (The Barnaby Song)/Willy Davie/Miss Girdle
- Irish/Scottish

We include this medley as a tribute to the late, great "CEO" of Barnaby Productions, Inc: Barbara's and Bernard's famous black cocker spaniel, Barnaby. We changed the name of the bootlegger, Barney, in this well known Irish drinking song, when Barnaby would supervise IONA rehearsals. We bracket it with first an Irish, then Scottish, set of reels.
Remastered from "Branching Out " (IONA - 2003)

lyrics

Hills of Connemara (the Barnaby Song)

Chorus:
Gather up your pots and the old tin cans,
The mash, the corn, the barley and the bran,
And you run like the divil from the excise man.
Keep the smoke from rising, BARNABY!

Keep your eyes well peeled today,
Those excise men are on their way,
Drinkin' up that mountain tay,
In the hills of Connemara.

Chorus

Swing to the left and swing to the right,
Those excise men will dance all night,
Drinkin' up the tay ‘til the broad daylight,
In the hills of Connemara.

Chorus

A gallon for the butcher, a quart for Tom
A bottle for puir ould Father John,
To help the puir ould divil along,
In the hills of Connemara.

Chorus

Stand your ground, it is too late!
Those excise men are at the gate.
Glory be to Paddy but they're drinkin' it straight
In the hills of Connemara.

Chorus

credits

from A Celebration of Twenty, released May 15, 2006
Barbara Ryan (vocals, bouzouki, bodhrán)
Bernard Argent (whistle, vocals/doumbek)
Bob Mitchell (Highland pipes)
Chuck Lawhorn (bass guitar, vocals)

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

IONA Washington, D.C.

IONA has been taking its unique brand of traditional Celtic music to festivals, arts centers, schools & house concerts all over North America and Europe since 1986, blending music from the various Celtic traditions with stories and a little humor - Barbara Ryan (vocals, bouzouki, bodhran), Bernard Argent (flute, doumbek), Chuck Lawhorn (bass), Jim Queen (fiddle, banjo) & Kathleen Larrick (dance). ... more

contact / help

Contact IONA

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this track or account

If you like IONA, you may also like: