I went for a long walk by the Rillito today. It was great after watching "Leap Year", a film set in Ireland, to go for a long walk with it being cloudy outside. It was also lovely to have the horses nearby. I often miss the agricultural community that I grew up in living here in Tucson.
Hanging at my grandparents house is a small plaque of "An Old Irish Blessing." A common thing around South Bend with Notre Dame and the old Irish immigrant community. We also sang the blessing in 8th grade and it has always stuck with me, and I sing it every now and then. Well I tried to find the chords tonight and turns out there are DOZENS of arrangements. So I tried to figure out some of the chords, but in the meantime, here's another version of it.
Sunday, January 10, 2010
ireland comes up again
I went for a long walk by the Rillito today. It was great after watching "Leap Year", a film set in Ireland, to go for a long walk with it being cloudy outside. It was also lovely to have the horses nearby. I often miss the agricultural community that I grew up in living here in Tucson.
Hanging at my grandparents house is a small plaque of "An Old Irish Blessing." A common thing around South Bend with Notre Dame and the old Irish immigrant community. We also sang the blessing in 8th grade and it has always stuck with me, and I sing it every now and then. Well I tried to find the chords tonight and turns out there are DOZENS of arrangements. So I tried to figure out some of the chords, but in the meantime, here's another version of it.
Hanging at my grandparents house is a small plaque of "An Old Irish Blessing." A common thing around South Bend with Notre Dame and the old Irish immigrant community. We also sang the blessing in 8th grade and it has always stuck with me, and I sing it every now and then. Well I tried to find the chords tonight and turns out there are DOZENS of arrangements. So I tried to figure out some of the chords, but in the meantime, here's another version of it.
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jkswartz said...
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Dude!! I remember this song! Mrs. Lehman was the teacher. We sat next to each other! Ahhh the old memories come flooding aback! The music room was upstairs and really hot. Mrs. Hershberger was the piano teacher. Rock on for altos! Still an alto, well...i'm more a 2nd tenor really. Glad that hardcore training then paid off for you now! You're still a singer, and a musician of strings. Haha. Oh man, we were crazy kids. Seriously, we have been friends for a loooong time, minus that time for a short time in high school when we weren't friends when you went with the jocks and I with the cheerleaders, but so glad we reunited Junior year. I knew you were a good one in eighth grade when I ate your mom's pizza and you took the blame for it. LOVE YOU!
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January 10, 2010 at 11:37 PM
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Layne Julia said...
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Yeah!!!! What fun memories :) Yup, it was really hot up there. And nope, we were not friends...until Jesus changed all that - good dang times!
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January 12, 2010 at 5:36 PM
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Dude!! I remember this song! Mrs. Lehman was the teacher. We sat next to each other! Ahhh the old memories come flooding aback! The music room was upstairs and really hot. Mrs. Hershberger was the piano teacher. Rock on for altos! Still an alto, well...i'm more a 2nd tenor really. Glad that hardcore training then paid off for you now! You're still a singer, and a musician of strings. Haha. Oh man, we were crazy kids. Seriously, we have been friends for a loooong time, minus that time for a short time in high school when we weren't friends when you went with the jocks and I with the cheerleaders, but so glad we reunited Junior year. I knew you were a good one in eighth grade when I ate your mom's pizza and you took the blame for it. LOVE YOU!
Yeah!!!! What fun memories :) Yup, it was really hot up there. And nope, we were not friends...until Jesus changed all that - good dang times!
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