Gaelic Storm are a Celtic band from Santa Monica, California, USA. Their music includes traditional Irish music, Scottish music, and original tunes in both the Celtic and Celtic rock genres. Band members are Patrick Murphy (accordion, spoons, bodhrán, lead vocals), Steve Twigger (guitar, bouzouki, mandolin, lead vocals), Ryan Lacey (djembe, doumbek, surdo, cajón, vocals, various percussion), Peter Purvis (Highland bagpipes, Uillean pipes, DegerPipes, whistle) and Jessie Burns (fiddle, vocals). Here they are performing a track on their latest album “Cabbage” (released on August 3, 2010).
Raised on Black and Tans
I was raised on black and tans,
Ronnie Drew and Van the Man.
I go to mass on Sunday and then it’s back to the pub on Monday.
I’ve got a sister Meghan
with a Celtic cross tattoo,
I’ll tell you a few stories
and everyone of them is true.
My mother’s, brother’s, sister’s, cousin’s, auntie’s, Uncle Barney’s, father’s, brother, had a cousin from Killarney.
Well my great-grandad and his mates,
They tried to make it to the States.
His uncle, he was a failure,
He got deported off to Australia.
So they stowed upon a steamer
On the famous White Star Line,
I was raised upon these stories
Since I was age of nine.
My mother’s, brother’s, sister’s, cousin’s auntie’s, Uncle Barney’s, father’s, brother’s, sister’s, auntie had a cousin from Killarney.
My great-uncle, he liked the races,
He liked the dogs and steeple chases.
His wife, my dear old auntie,
She kept a tea shop way, way down in Bantry.
But he fixed a race in Donegal
And now he’s got to hide,
With the sticky buns and cakes and guns
And whiskey on the side!
My mother’s, brother’s, sister’s, cousin’s auntie’s, Uncle Barney’s, father’s, brother’s, sister’s, auntie had a cousin from Killarney.
I was raised on black and tans,
Ronnie Drew and Van the Man.
I go to mass on Sunday,
And then it’s back to the pub on Monday.
I’m from the wrong side of the South Side Of an Irish neighborhood I’ve never been to Ireland but I know it’s in my blood.
My mother’s, brother’s, sister’s, cousin’s auntie’s, Uncle Barney’s, father’s, brother’s, sister’s, auntie had a cousin from Killarney.
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Ah the fun of tattoos! Everyone came to me to have Gaelic Storm and Enter The Haggis tattoos applied on Sunday the 28th right before Scythian’s first set. I had so much fun that I added the counting song and think I should go into business as a tattoo artist! Thanks Bob and Nancy for the addition of your humor! The Town Pants music playing in the background!
Us phoning up a tattoo shop for a laugh to try and get a tattoo removed.