Right now, I'm watching Trump and Fox News and looking at our site.....I'll be watching Duke boys here in a bit when I go to bed. OH....and of course you know I'm communing with the spirits.....Natural Ice.....I can sleep in, a little tomorrow......wife doesn't have to be at work but she has a Dr's appt. at 10 in Cookeville...so....I'm still looking forward to doing what all decent Hazzardites will do tomorrow.....on DOHD.....watch TDOH, especially tomorrow night.
Like The Blizzards (above), brothers Frank and Seán O'Meara are from Mullingar. They wrote this song based on the true story of Grace Gifford's marriage to Joseph Plunkett in Kilmainham Gaol. Plunkett was one of the leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising, and was executed by the British just hours after the wedding. It's a heart-wrenching and poignant ballad that's a bit different to the songs I've posted recently.
The Wolfe Tones - Grace
I posted another song by Bell X1 in the One Word Song Titles thread recently, but I heard this one today and it has too many words in the title for that thread. I known and liked it for a while, but never knew what it was about. According to the band, they used to see a man in his late-50s sleeping rough in Dublin. One day he had a female companion, and they invented this backstory for him.
Bell X1 - Rocky Took A Lover
Here's when they performed it live on Letterman in 2008.
Sorry, Hobie. I missed this comment. From what I've read, they picked their name from a selection of six because it was ambiguous and open to interpretation. Bono got his nickname from Bonavox, a hearing aid shop in Dublin (it's Latin for "good voice").
Bono and The Edge walk into a bar. The bartender looks up and says, "Oh no, not U2 again!".
The British band UB40 took their name from Unemployment Benefit Form 40.