{"id":10154,"date":"2019-03-15T20:10:41","date_gmt":"2019-03-16T00:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manselldesign.ca\/ProbusORGtoRedesign\/?p=10154"},"modified":"2019-10-19T15:55:24","modified_gmt":"2019-10-19T19:55:24","slug":"entertainment-at-march-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manselldesign.ca\/ProbusORGtoRedesign\/entertainment-at-march-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Member talent on display at March meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"

So close to March 17, we had to have a few numbers from Owen McBride<\/strong><\/span> to be sure, to be sure. And didn’t the audience\u00a0 have a good go at the chorus.<\/p>\n

Firstly we had the light-hearted Percy French number “The Mountains of Mourne” about an Irish emigrant in Victorian London writing to his girl-friend back home.<\/p>\n

Listen to Owen sing “Mountains of Mourne” click HERE<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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That was followed up by a Robbie McConnell song about what songs and singers are authentically Irish. “You’re not Irish, you can’t be Irish”<\/p>\n

Listen to it click HERE\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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Lyrics The Mountains of Mourne<\/p>\n

Oh, Mary this London’s a wonderful sight
\nWith the people here workin’ by day and by night
\nThey don’t sow potatoes, nor barley, nor wheat
\nBut there’s gangs of them diggin’ for gold in the street<\/p>\n

At least when I asked them that’s what I was told
\nSo I just took a hand at this diggin’ for gold
\nBut for all that I found there I might as well be
\nWhere the Mountains of Mourne sweep down to the sea<\/p>\n

I believe that when writin’ a wish you expressed
\nAs to how the fine ladies in London were dressed
\nWell, if you’ll believe me, when asked to a ball
\nThey don’t wear no top to their dresses at all<\/p>\n

Oh, I’ve seen them myself and you could not in truth
\nThey say that if they were bound for a ball or a bath
\nDon’t be startin’ them fashions, now Mary McCree
\nWhere the Mountains of Mourne sweep down to the sea<\/p>\n

You remember young Peter O’Loughlin of course
\nWell, now he is here at the head of the force
\nI met him today, I was crossing the Strand
\nAnd he stopped the whole street with one wave of his hand<\/p>\n

And there we stood talking of days that are gone
\nWhile the whole population of London looked on
\nBut for all these great powers, he’s wishful, like me
\nTo be back where the dark Mourne sweeps down to the sea<\/p>\n

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— Instrumental —<\/p>\n

There’s beautiful girls here, oh, never you mind
\nWith beautiful shapes nature never designed
\nAnd lovely complexions all roses and cream
\nBut O’Loughlin remarked with regard to the same<\/p>\n

That if at those roses you venture to sip
\nThe colors might all come away on your lip
\nSo I’ll wait for the wild rose that’s waitin’ for me
\nWhere the Mountains of Mourne sweep down to the sea…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

May the Good Lord take a liking to you…but not too soon!…Irish blessing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10161,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manselldesign.ca\/ProbusORGtoRedesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manselldesign.ca\/ProbusORGtoRedesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manselldesign.ca\/ProbusORGtoRedesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manselldesign.ca\/ProbusORGtoRedesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manselldesign.ca\/ProbusORGtoRedesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10154"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/manselldesign.ca\/ProbusORGtoRedesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10167,"href":"https:\/\/manselldesign.ca\/ProbusORGtoRedesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10154\/revisions\/10167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manselldesign.ca\/ProbusORGtoRedesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manselldesign.ca\/ProbusORGtoRedesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manselldesign.ca\/ProbusORGtoRedesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manselldesign.ca\/ProbusORGtoRedesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}