Pam Ayres - The Galway Shawl

[ThePaxip]

My 85 year old mother says that this is one of the lovliest versions that she's heard. She didn't know that Pam's singing could be as good as her cracking poetry.

[briansacks]

@ThePaxip Thank you! Lovely comment!

[BardofCornwall]

Lovely.

[desertcelt1]

THANKS PAM, LOVED U WHEN I WAS YOUNGER @ HOME IN ANTRIM, THANKS FOR THINKING OF US IRISH, KEEP UP THE SINGIN CLASSES

[maureenchesnut]

Does anyone know the song Pam unsuccessfully wooed Rod Hull with? Sad to think it didn't work. What a lovely couple they would have been. And no doubt Pam would have been strict about climbing on roofs...a tragedy could have been averted.

[Barrheedyin]

This is a real gem, beautifully song and with very sympathetic instrumentation.

[maureenchesnut]

i've just heard that Pam used this song to woo Rod Hull into a romantic tryst. Apparently he was fond of gulls too. Can anyone confirm this?

[tongiorgi]

ididn't think pam would do justice to a margaret barry song - but she did - fair play to you pam!

[Spitalhatch]

She's lovely - always has been.

[donkey3214]

I rember back in 1975 when she appeared on opportunity knocks and her lovely wry sence of humour as a poet but she is also a lovely singer !!

[briansacks]

Actually, I stuck the still image onto this. Sorry it came out so badly.

[maureenchesnut]

this is lovely. I like all her poems about gulls but this is my favourite. I remember watching this live on TV back in the early 80s. It seems funny that a still image and a folk tune counted for entertainment back then, but I remember millions of us tuned in to watch Pam that night. Lovely stuff.

[BridieGallagherTV]

@maureenchesnut She didn't write this, it's a traditional Irish ballad

[briansacks]

@BridieGallagherTV agreed