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Posted: 21-May-2004, 08:24 AM
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PLEASE PLEASE!! somebody post the lyrics and chords if possibel to "Geraldine's thinking of Galway" what a wonderful song...... i mean doesnt it just make ya wanna drop everything leave note.gif ......? taz.gif


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Posted: 21-May-2004, 11:06 AM
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Dundee, I looked on the net but I couldn't find the lyrics. sad.gif Maybe someone else will have better luck.

I agree with you about the song. I believe it was written by Kevin McKrell (of the McKrells). I've been a fan of theirs since I first heard them at a pub here in Nashville 6 or 7 years ago. They haven't been here in a long time, tho. Takes a lot of money to get them to come here from NY where they're based.


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Posted: 21-May-2004, 12:53 PM
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thanks for your search gtrplr i too have searched...... now is kevin mckrell the one that does the great drawnings also artist.gif ? seems to be quite a talent...... well now it goes down to maybe droppin them an email....... cause ya cant seem to get mcfive to let ya repeat a song...... without waiting 3 hrs..... grrrrrr ranting.gif ..... or .... or .....maybe.....just maybe kevin him ol self will read this post and post the lyrics....... lookaround.gif ..... or not........ huh.gif
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Posted: 21-May-2004, 01:08 PM
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As near as I can tell, Kevin is the one who does the drawings. I've had no contact with them for over 5 years, which is a shame. They're great folks, Chris Leske and Craig Vance are top-flight musicians with very impressive resumes. Kevin is tremendously talented, especially as a writer. Maybe they do monitor this board, who knows?

Kevin, if you're here, I'm the guy who gave you the tape at Mulligan's in Nashville many years ago. I'd love to see ya'll again. Any plans to come to (or near to) Nashville?
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Posted: 21-May-2004, 03:07 PM
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here is the scetchbook from the mckrells site..... really some nice drawerings....
check it out..........

http://www.mckrells.com/sketchbook/home.html
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  Posted: 24-May-2004, 08:10 AM
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Greetings, Dundee.

I saw this the day you posted, and started looking. I too have had no luuck in finding anything for this song. So, I will try and get a copy of it and start tearing it apart and figuring it out. This might take a little while, since we are getting ready to start recording album number 2.

Hopefully I can get thgis done sometime soon. cool.gif


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Posted: 24-May-2004, 08:51 AM
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jason a blessing on ya...

May you always have a clean shirt,
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and enough coins in your pocket to buy a pint!

i do appreciate the effort and to you too gtrplr

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jason what is your location .... are you guys a ren band?
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Posted: 11-Jun-2004, 07:37 AM
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I have to agree that this song is absolutey fabulous. I have only figured out the chorus for sure. Here is what I have. I am sure there are mistakes that i'll work out later. more to come later

Oh the Dawn it is breaking
Geraldine?s waking
Far away from the place she calls home
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She always thought she?d travel
But she never intended to stay
Geraldine?s thinking of Galway
And Galway?s a long way away


Geraldine?s thinking of Galway again
You can tell by the look in her eyes
Sometimes alone in the nighttime Geraldine cries
She can still see the moon over Connaught
O the sun going down in Kildare (?)
Geraldine?s thinking of Galway
And Galway?s a long way away

And the band it is playing
Geraldine's swaying
To the tune of 'A Pair of Brown Eyes'
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Posted: 15-Jun-2004, 06:27 AM
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Here is as close as I can get it. The song was actually written by Australia's Pat Mckernan. You can hear him play this song at http://www.thecan.com.au/shop/product.asp?...roductID=597034 . I'll Post chords next. I am not sure if that is how you spell kill bay. I couldn't find it on any map of Galway. Claddaghduff is in the northern part of the county.

Geraldine's Thinking of Galway

Oh the Dawn it is breaking
And Geraldine?s waking
So far from the place she calls home
The new day is dawning
And Geraldine?s longing for far away over the fall(?)
She always intended to travel
But she never intended to stay
Now Geraldine?s thinking of Galway
And Galway?s a long way away

Chorus
Geraldine?s thinking of Galway again
You can tell by the look in her eyes
Sometimes alone in the nighttime Geraldine cries
She can still see the moon over Claddaghduff
Or the sun going down in Kill-bay
Geraldine?s thinking of Galway
And Galway?s a long way away

Oh the band it is playing
And Geraldine's swaying
To the tune of 'A Pair of Brown Eyes'
Somebody calls for a small bit of ardor
While the fiddler plays ?Danny Boy?
As she listens the music transports her
To faraway over the sea
Geraldine?s thinking of Galway
And that?s where she?s longing to be
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Posted: 17-Jun-2004, 04:38 PM
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I found a "Killybegs" (which would be pronounced more or less like "Kill-bay") In Donegal Bay just south of Carrick. This is pretty far north however and really isn't that close to Galway....

However, Kildare isn't that close either. It's on the other side of the island; closer to Dublin than anything else.

<----working on those chords as well.
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It's funny to see the McKrells mentioned on this discussion board. When I was living in New York, I'd make regular sojourns to Saratoga (where an Irish identity is VERY strong) to see those guys and many other names in the Irish music circles.

Their old bassist, John Kribs, is a very good friend of my family and after every gig he and I would sit down over a drink and he'd give me advice about whatever problems I was having with my band(s) at the time.

It's kinda fun trying to learn his bass lines now, many years later.


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Posted: 17-Jun-2004, 05:14 PM
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And Geraldine?s longing for far away over the fall(?)


I believe that's 'over the foam'.

Great song.
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Posted: 18-Jun-2004, 06:34 AM
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Yeah, Foam makes sense. It sounded like either fall or phone...neither made any sense. Foam fits, Thanks

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Posted: 18-Jun-2004, 09:28 AM
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hey thanks alot kewl and all the rest..... i was playin with it this mornign on my mandolin...... and it seems to be a pretty straight forward key of C I IV V progression with a G7 thrown in for good measure............thanks again thumbs_up.gif note.gif note.gif
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  Posted: 08-Jul-2004, 09:39 PM
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ok nobody else did it so here are the words and chords. i did it in G the mckrells do it in F transpose it to any key ya want it isnt tough.

oh i didnt do the intro.... but i am sure ya'll can figure it out.....
gee hope this isnt to contraversial sadangel.gif
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Posted: 08-Jul-2004, 09:48 PM
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hmmmm tried downloading the file and the chords seem to be a bit out of place.
if ya want the file pm me i will send it to ya in word..... thumbs_up.gif
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