Paddy's Green Shamrock Shore - Paul Brady

[keesvangulik127]

Great respect.

[MrRexBailey]

Reminds me of my mum this song, much loved and sadly missed.

RIP Mamie.

Thanks Paul

[kikibooboos]

Pure perfection!!!!

[jamesbondaygee]

Wonderful how we can hear such diverse expressions of the English language and yet still understand it and still hear how incredibly unique these voices are!!

[sceolaing100]

Excellent

[Jupitersgoose]

HELL, why have I never heard of Paul Brady, he's fantastic.( I've known about Andy Irvine for years).

[supersarahlena]

@inchwormgreen

no he is not dead, seen him in concert last night, still an amazing singer!

[fortuenti]

This is greatness ,,, I mean as great as a duo of Jimmy Page on acoustic guitar and John Paul Jones on mandolin ... there is no doubt in mind they'd agree ... more likely, they've been friends forever

[rockertyronedude]

Five number people need a 'hard clout' - Great version of a great song

[inchwormgreen]

is he dead?

[cupomash2]

@inchwormgreen Is he dead ??? you have access to the net - use it.

[Snagglefratz]

Wonderful.

[BanjoMan1916]

Beautiful song to the same tune as Gleanntáin Ghlas Ghaoth Dóir

[MrCajunmojo]

Absolutely stunning performance.

[tony10396861]

paul brady is superb

[dcconsi]

got it?

[martifingers]

The original version of this is of course that of the Johnstons - a previous home of the amazing Paul Brady...

[timcallinan]

Does anyone know the key of that harmonica? I love this version

[brelfan]

I seem to be listening to this hundreds of times a day.

[brelfan]

Beautiful. Technical excellence in his voice and playing AS WELL as simple, genuine feeling and story telling skills. Kind of reminds me of Don McLean, who was really more of a songwriter. Still, resemblances.

[vikingdude69]

hey folks theyre is a version......from folk freak...old times german publisher..they have as i say a version dolores kaen sings......and i prommis that is the best version ever ....i sing it 2 my son his first years its in his blood

enjoy if you find it,please greatings from norway thor

[gplynch66]

A good version but I prefer Horslips version.

[meab12]

@gplynch66 Im torn between the two! Love the video with the horslips version on youtube though! :)

[chipper30uk]

Anybody paying attention to the guitar skills of this man he is feckin genius.....poet,scholar,musici­an.Ant

[DelenorFoxfyre]

I was in a pub called Pepper's in Feakle on 13-10-10 (during my honeymoon) and there was a live duet singing this song. Just guitar and fiddle and that pure Irish voice. I only got a snippet on my camera, but enough to make me fall in love with the song, which lead me hear. Wow. You can hear the threads of the Irish tradition running through every true folk version. Of course the bar owner found out we were on our honeymoon, bought us drinks, and made me sing. HA!!!

[DublinGav]

lovely song well performed

[Jim7711154]

brilliant musicians, but the sound on the vid is terrible.

[donalb23]

Fantastic version of the song, and one I listen to again and again. Paul's vocal and guitar work is so suited to the song. I've been trying to play the song like this version (DADF#AD) and there's so many little nuances. I'll keep practicing though :D

[gerrywm20]

@donalb23 is that definatly the tuning? trying to learn it myself

[donalb23]

@gerrywm20

Yep, as far as I can tell from the video it is, and it works for me when playing. I've not found a tab for it, just worked it out. It uses similar chords to Lkes of Ponchartrain.

[donalb23]

Meant to also mention that he uses a capo on the 3rd fret.

[Raighne01]

@gerrywm20 It's in Drop D.

[Domitianvs]

@gerrywm20 I'm pretty certain that Paul most oftenly used open G tuning. DGDGBD.

[Raighne01]

@Domitianvs He does use DGDGBD alot but this is definitely in Drop D!

[meab12]

Ah sweet Jesus, this is a tune !

[eastgreenketama1]

Not making any political statement here whatsoever, but there is a great version on youtube of this superb tune played by a flute and pipe band.  do a search for uvf shamrock shores

[neilhosey]

@eastgreenketama1 think ill pass..

[eastgreenketama1]

@neilhosey Surely you're not too bitter to listen to music? The band weren't too bitter to play what is an openly very Irish tune.

[neilhosey]

@eastgreenketama1 no, ur mention of the terrorist scum, the uvf, was enough to pass on that actually.

[eastgreenketama1]

@neilhosey The original UVF were not a terrorist organisation though neil. But I'm sure you know that already

[neilhosey]

@eastgreenketama1 they were a loyalist 'militia'.. just as bad. still, no connection with the modern terrorists... Either way, i dont want anything to do with them sectarian wankerse. Shower of scum.

[jmonatron]

I think ireland have a great chance.

[sgtcharlesfloyd]

Love the way Andy transitions from harp to mandolin at the end of the break. Seamless!

[Pwecko]

Stunningly good. Shame about the hair. : )

[Lisnageeragh]

@Pwecko I remember listening to these two in Dublin when a student 1964/68...not so many of us around now who remember the hair!

[cardigan181]

@Lisnageeragh I heard Planxty in 72 in the old Cinema in Athlone, Happy Days!

[Lisnageeragh]

@cardigan181 Happy days indeed ..the thoughts of youth!

[jrs1675]

Brady's guitar work always supercedes his contemporaries, and those who followed...I really haven't seen any to play and sing with such ease!!!

[ShielaLisa]

@jrs1675 I have to agree. His singing seems effortless. Just brilliant.

[BambiLoo]

Just lovely!

[scotbuch7]

No words.

[borealify]

My very favorite tune. Thanks for posting this most excellent version. Definitely definitive, as an earlier poster said.

[golaoi]

The finest folk singer I've ever heard. Better than Liam Clancy, and maybe Dick Gaughan and Luke Kelly. His pop stuff is very good but he was born to sing folk, even though he doesn't know it!

[nolan1432]

I love the way Irvine's harmonica break is in between the two verses of leaving and arriving, It's an apt fill to the passage of time.

Brady is some musician-I'll listen to this gladly until I know the words.

[MATWrehearsals]

Peerless!

[dinty66]

hay we gotta hide hour glove away

[appoNo1]

I played this tune every week at local celidhi band night around south manchester, what memories, the o'carolan and st malachys bands christine kelly

[Pagra50]

And I believe it was Andy Irvine strummin it.

[xLLBxLLBxLLBx]

what is called the instrument in the backround??

[Pagra50]

It`s a Mandola.

As close as I can describe it, a cross between a bouzuoki and a mandolin.

[RatherCrunchyMuffin]

@xLLBxLLBxLLBx

If you're referring to the one unplayed at Andy's legs, that's a bouzouki of the Grecian bowlback sort

[xLLBxLLBxLLBx]

@RatherCrunchyMuffin

yes bouzouki thats it thank you.

[skaborsky]

Paul's the bhoy!

[lookinwell]

shoulda went to specsavers

[Zeneternity]

Words pale to describe the power, soulfulness and beauty of this performance.

Thank you so much for sharing it!

[Antihero1945]

wow what a voice

[Cotictimmy]

Blimey - who knew Bill Gates had a former career in music before Windows and Billiionairehood??? PS. You should have stuck to music Bill - you were terriffic. LOL

[0807unforgiven]

私はこの曲を日本のartistのUeno Yokoさんがcoverしたもので知りました。

その曲はとても素敵な曲です。

でもPaul Bradyさんの歌うこの曲もとても好きです。

声がとても魅力的で、思わず釘付けになってしまいました。

[arturoid3000]

A chara

[mossie2644]

brady is the best trad guitarist around.

[aftermath842]

@mossie2644 by miles and miles a ledgend that is my inspiration. What a singer too. Words dont do justice.

[mossie2644]

he's unreal he doesnt get the credit he deserves!!!!!

[truskinboy]

perfect

[MrColinohagan]

a breath of irish air,a dieng breed of irish music stand up and sing boys and be proud of a great nation and never forget,why we sing

[gazgoon654]

pure Irish talent ... up Leitrim an the Geoghegans.......... from fair Essex

[joeygsmom]

He has a perfect inflection for a very sympathetic and pensive song.

[whackfoldeediedo]

This IS the Definitive version of this song. Fair play to ye boy!

[Barbara925]

Sung and performed with heart and soul! Awesome!!!

[BRONXIRISH78]

this is the most unbelievable performance of this song ever recorded...up cavan and armagh!!!!!

[eoin55]

a far superior version of this song than any of the others.

[TheJacquesHappy]

@eoin55 Have a listen to "marta sebestyen"s version on her "Kismet" album. Pronunciation's a bit ropey but it's easily up there with Brady's.

[DottzR123]

class tune

[shakeahand1]

Brilliant!

[joeygsmom]

yes it is, I really like the lyrics Im sure thousands of people can sympathise...

[damienmcm]

absolutely beautiful Paul! Im from Strabane too, now living in California.

[Shabanni1]

was at your cosert tonight paul in l.kenny was a really enjoyable night,thank you very much,buncrana fan

[Susq15]

I love to sing this song, but could never match Brady's expression.

[ballinameen]

Very, Very well done.

[suzartfam]

Paul gets SO into this....I love watching his face as he sings so beautifully!

[babyalco]

mullaghbawn south armagh the richest history for trad music and storytelling in the country where the hills roll and the whisky flows for all the exiles of the gullion to the foriegn shores of the mainland

[babyalco]

well brother much love from mullaghbawn

[EddieAlexanderRocks]

Paul and Andy are shit HOT! This is one of my favourite traditional songs, I love playin' it. They do a beutiful version of Lough Erne Shore

[laca103]

Nemes egyszerűséggel ZSENIÁLIS !!!!

[whosnext1234567]

man hes a god, why isnt he bigger in america

[FilleRebelle]

*Music

[FilleRebelle]

I love Irish misic

[8mousey8]

This is so great.

[relimes]

ok, howbout the irish bob dylan?

[Raymantico]

sorry, no...

[Raymantico]

reply to "the irish bob dylan?"

[NewFriiiikan]

How bout the Chuck Norris of Irish folk?

[keg64]

great song

[riverpotato]

I love both these guys, but oboy does that hairstyle look dated now.

[hiccup2398]

i have hair like that now! :P :L not so ginger though :L love this tune :)

[relimes]

Paul Brady, the irish John Denver.

[NewFriiiikan]

Dude...John Denver?! You could have picked somebody better o_O

[hiccup2398]

how about james taylor?

[laca103]

Bár tudnám mit jelent a szöveg :(

De nagyon hangulatos kis dalocska :)

[r1z8]

Wonderfull. I could listen to this all day. In fact I just did.

[Nyquistic]

I saw Paul Brady do a lunchtime solo gig in Waterford Regional College (as it was known at the time) around 1978-79, with no microphone or other amplification, just one voice and one guitar alone on the stage in the lecture hall. I was never as blown away. Here's to you Paul, if you ever stumble across this! The nearest I've heard on record is the "Liberty Tapes", which I stumbled across two years ago, and I cried for joy on listening to it one more time! Absolute MAGIC.

[zoocamel33]

he uses ornamentation really well in this song.great song.

[bobnoshoes]

MAGIC!

[hottoaster12311]

i love this song it actualy cheered me up. i hope u all got the same reaction. its a really well done song and sounds really happy even though the lyrics really arnt

[craiced1]

class guitarist and andy irvine is one of the best mandolin player ever

[Timothydlol]

is andy's mandolin in regular tuning there?

[Domitianvs]

I think he use to tune down his highest string a whole step down to a D. Not sure if he did that here, though.

[sunnyvale123]

yeah he did. That is the same tuning as a Bouzouki. well, standard tuning anyways

[Giselle62]

a minute ago I was starting to get pretty weepy at the lyrics, this is a sad and beautiful song--so I had to laugh --just saw sarah marshall movie last week...

[cerronevado]

Stunningly individual and trad at the same time. We'll not see the like again, that's for sure.

[Sportymike]

Check out the Irish version, Gleanntáin Ghlas Ghaoth Dobhair

[Lodestone1968]

Sportymike,"Gleanntáin Ghlas Ghaoth Dobhair" sounds similar, but is a different song. The English title is "The Green Glens of Gaoth Dobhair". Brady sings it very well, check out the video.

[zoukminstrel]

Is it just the video delay or does Andy play his harmonica upside down...with the low notes to his right side?

[bpc1960]

hes stoned out of his mind.. hes luckey he didnt blow it out his arse

[johnny1kenobi]

u proick ur i guess ur british shit head

[bpc1960]

whats your problemen?? up francis!

[bollix13]

Plays it in the same way as his hero, Woody Guthrie. Dylan did the same as he was a disciple of Guthrie's

[johnny1kenobi]

shut ur trap and take the needle out of ur arm

[billythehobbit]

hauntingly beautiful...

[mrblushy]

Masterpiece.

[jessicarita]

Another GREAT video and song...well done (again) Bilko :)

[maclink1]

This is def the best version of the song I heard.

[Iomarca]

Utterly beautiful!

Did you notice how Brady, at 3:41, adjusts the tuning? Such virtuosity...

[menmenmen118]

He's playing this in dropped D, just watch his left hand

[whiskeyonasunday]

absolutly amazing.. i love traditional irish music.. anyone interested in this should check out the bagpipes and guitar (with no lyrics) version.. limewire or bearshare the word bagpipes and its under paddy's green shamrock (there wont be a shore on the end of this version) its just as amazing....

oh yeah, and HAPPY SAINT PADDYS DAY from your fellow youtuber Paul Clarke aka whiskeyonasunday =)

[DaveyDave27]

is this on an album, and if so whats it called?

[cilamc]

Yes, it's on Paul Brady's 1978 album "Welcome Here, Kind Stranger".

[hannigan06]

Well not all todays kids but there some of us that enjoy singing still.

[brittaindominic]

erin go bragh

[goodirishman]

Agus an ceol na hEirean go bragh

[Plikten]

In Scandinavia they use the letter"H" instead of "B" and is the same note.

[DClynch]

some other countrys as well, i know germany uses "H" for sure. you probably knew that

[edelahaye]

Isn't H a Bb in Germany ?

[bailliekins]

in reply to Maclink 1, Guitar tuning DADGHE? never heard of that one? is it similar to ADHD or 'Attention deficit Hyperactivity Disorder tuning' as it's generally known?

[acousticalyirish]

I'm assuming he means DADGBE or Dropped D

[autodane]

He has a tab posted on his site, it's in open D- DADF#AE

[autodane]

My bad, I'm thinking of the Lakes of Ponchartrain.... still, he later did it in open D.

[mrblushy]

OMEGA!

[bobnoshoes]

brilliant!

[NameNotaNumber]

Fantastic. I really don't think todays kids even know how great it's possible for singing to be.

[MMRCOOPER]

Hi anyone out there with name of Brendan Quinn aka Ben? Excellent memories!

[scati1971]

I just love this man, even if he is ginger! Sometimes it just hits u how fantasic it is to be Irish, even if we do say so ourselves;)

[goodirishman]

God bless my mother's people. Slainte, mo chara!

[Lotrfan99]

agreed

[Royalnord01]

What do you mean by : even if he is ginger!

Is that dangerous or something ??

[hughzy11]

Bik mcfarlane does the best version of this song iv heard

brady still excellent though

[CuriouserNCuriouser]

I'll look for it.

This version was very fine, but my favorite version of this song that I've heard so far was done by Battlefield Band.

[oaklandbloke]

there's no better than the liberty tapes, maybe different, but no better!

[maclink1]

Defnetly the best version of this song. I heard many people singing this, but nothing comes close. Interesting: Brady play it in DADGHE here. Later on he changed to an open D to play it.

[AllyWheels]

Great performance. Thanks for posting this.

[BardofCornwall]

What a distinctive vocal sound. Great stuff.

[rysands]

Such a lovely song so irish :D

[DirtyMarsh]

is this available on dvd?

[dugsie]

get ''the liberty tapes''recorded live in 76 in dublin this is on it