Episode 4 Opry an Iúir

# But that's all right We're looking as good as can be... #

THEY SING IN IRISH

# Think I'm gonna cry... #

CHEERING

# Well, the midnight headlight Blind you on a rainy night

# Steep grade up ahead Slow me down, makin' no time

# Gotta keep rollin'

# Those windshield wipers slappin' outta tempo

# Keepin' perfect rhythm with the song on the radio

# I gotta keep rollin'

# Ooh, I'm driving my life away

# Lookin' for a better way for me

# Ooh, I'm driving my life away

# Lookin' for a sunny day

# Well, the truck stop cutie comin' on to me

# Tried to talk me into a ride Said I wouldn't be sorry

# But she was just a baby

# Hey, waitress Pour me another cup of coffee

# Pop me down, jack me up

# Shoot me out I'm flyin' down the highway

# I'm lookin' for the morning

# Ooh, I'm driving my life away

# Lookin' for a better way for me

# Ooh, I'm driving my life away

# Lookin' for a sunny day...

Guitar!

# Well, the midnight headlight Blind you on a rainy night

# Steep grade up ahead Slow me down, makin' no time

# I gotta keep rollin'

# But those windshield wipers slappin' outta tempo

# Keepin' perfect rhythm with the song on the radio

# I gotta keep rollin'

# Ooh, I'm driving my life away

# Lookin' for a better way for me

# Ooh, I'm driving my life away

# Lookin' for a sunny day...

Oh!

# Ooh, I'm driving my life away

# Lookin' for a better way for me

# Ooh, I'm driving my life away

# Lookin' for a sunny day... #

CHEERING

-Is everybody in good singing form in Newry? ALL:

-Yes!

Right. It's very, very simple. When I say "It blowed away"...

All you gotta do is "It blowed away".

# It blowed away

-# It blowed away

-# It blowed away

Right, we're gonna try it with just people up top.

Nobody down the bottom. # It blowed away

# It blowed away

Not too bad. We'll try it so.

Take her in, Johnny. Let's try it. Here we go!

THEY CLAP ALONG

Oh!

Oh!

# When they opened up the strip I was young and full of zip

# I wanted some place to call my home

# And so I made the race and staked me out a place

# And settled down along the Cimarron

-# It blowed away

-It blowed away

-# It blowed away

-It blowed away

# My Oklahoma home, it blowed away

# Well, it looked so green and fair when I built my shanty there

# My Oklahoma home, it blowed away

# Well, I planted wheat and oats Got some chickens and some shoats

# Aimed to have some ham and eggs to feed my face

# Got a mule to pull the plough Got an old red muley cow

# And got a fancy mortgage on the place...

Here we go!

-# It blowed away

-It blowed away

-# It blowed away

-It blowed away

# All the crops that I had planted blowed away

# Well, you can't grow any grain if there isn't any rain

# Everything except my mortgage blowed away...

Oh! Hey!

# Well, it looked so green and fair when I built my shanty there

# I figured I was all set for life

# I put on my Sunday best with my fancy scalloped vest

# And I went to town and picked me out a wife

-# She blowed away

-She blowed away

-# She blowed away

-She blowed away

# Yeah, my Oklahoma woman blowed away

# Mister, as I bent and kissed her she was picked up by a twister

# My Oklahoma woman blowed away

# Well, I'm always close to home And no matter where I roam

# For Oklahoma dust is everywhere

# Makes no difference where I'm walkin'

# I can hear my chickens squawkin'

# I can hear my wife a-talkin' in the air

-# It blowed away

-It blowed away

-# It blowed away

-It blowed away

# Yeah, my Oklahoma home It blowed away

# Well, my home is always near It's in the atmosphere

# My Oklahoma home It blowed away...

One more!

-# It blowed away

-It blowed away

-# It blowed away

-It blowed away

# Yeah, my Oklahoma home It blowed away

# Well, my home is always near It's in the atmosphere

# My Oklahoma home It blowed away... #

Get those hands up! Hey!

Oh!

Oh!

Hey!

CHEERING

Mike Denver, ladies and gentlemen. Isn't he doing a great job?

-HE SPEAKS IN IRISH

-Fantastic.

There's lots of bands around Portumna.

As a child growing up, I would've seen the likes of The Conquerors were a great band around here.

I would have seen them travelling off every afternoon

when I'd be heading home from school.

Seeing my mam heading out every night,

that was very normal for me growing up to see.

That would have been something that I always wanted to be doing

and something I always wanted to be, on the road.

When Mike was about 15 or 16, I heard him sing.

It was around the time Garth Brooks was coming to Ireland.

And Mike was really into Garth Brooks at the time and I went in

and I said, "Gosh, come out here, quick. You gotta hear Mike."

I listened outside the door, I thought it was Garth Brooks singing.

He was lucky he got good genes from the mother!

It was a great learning experience.

But I had a bit of the groundwork done as I say and a little bit of the apprenticeship served.

Mike Denver!

# Could've been the whiskey Might've been the gin... #

Liz came along to a gig.

She was bringing her mam along to a gig and, as I say,

we haven't looked back.

10, 11, 12 years later, still happy as ever.

It's tough when you're leaving home early in the afternoon.

You're not home till late the next morning,

but that two hours on stage, it just makes up for it.

When you hop out on that stage, nerves just disappear.

You have them for that minute walking around before you hop out,

but I think it's like most artists...

You have a little flutter as I say before you go out.

You're a little bit worried, but once you get on that stage, it all

just disappears when you see people out there enjoying themselves.

It brings the good out in you.

Mike, you started out in your mother's band,

but what was it like when you went on the road yourself?

-Was it nerve-racking being on your own?

-It was frightening.

It's one of them memories that... always in the back of my mind,

I can remember the days coming up to putting the band on the road,

the few days rehearsing, and practising walking out on the stage and all these things.

They're the little things that still stick in my mind.

The very first song I sing,

the night we launched the band was John Denver, Country Roads.

That was the opening number.

I think the next number was yours, a bit of Stand Beside Me.

So there's a couple of numbers that stick in the mind

from the very beginning. They were some of the songs.

Now, you're one of the younger generation of singers,

but singing the good old country songs.

How do you choose the songs you sing?

A lot of the songs are chosen from people sitting in audiences at gigs

come up at the end of the night and would suggest different songs.

I have a great team in the office. My manager, Willie, is a great influence.

And my mam has always been a huge influence as well,

picking songs over the years for me.

Now, I suppose there are always highlights in any career,

but I would hazard a guess by saying

recording with George Jones must have been a highlight?

It was, definitely. A lot of things stick out in my mind.

Without a doubt, George Jones was definitely one of the big ones

because I grew up listening to George Jones.

I loved George Jones and Merle Haggard and all these guys.

There's also other ones that... Meeting different people,

getting to tour with the likes of Charlie Pride and one of

the very first tours we done that I got to work with Crystal Gayle.

That was huge thing at the time for us to meet people like that

that I would have just grown up and seen them on the television.

To meet people even like yourself at the time, it was a huge buzz

and a huge highlight of my career, for someone that coming from a town in Portumna, small place,

and meeting all these people that you grew up watching on

television and seeing and hearing on the radio, it was a huge thing.

# I've walked the soles off my feet in this dark London street

# In search for a room and a bed

# And my heart grows so weary With these nights cold and dreary

# All I want is to lay down my head

# I can see by your face that you're leaving this place

# You're catching the overnight train

# If you should see my mother Will you tell her I love her

# And I'll write just as soon as I can?

# Six months in this city God knows there's no pity

# When you haven't a bob of your own

# And there's no need for locks on this old cardboard box

# Even though it's a place I call home

# I can see by your face that you're leaving this place

# You're catching the overnight train

# If you should see my mother Will you tell her I love her

# And I'll write just as soon as I can?

# Outside Paddington Station My heart it is breaking

# I can't tell my tears from the rain

# And the jingle and jangle of the damned old triangle

# Keeps ringing around in my brain

# I can see by your face that you're leaving this place

# You're catching the overnight train

# If you should see my mother Will you tell her I love her

# And I'll write just as soon as I can?

# I can see by your face that you're leaving this place

# You're catching the overnight train

# If you should see my mother Will you tell her I love her

# And I'll write just as soon as I can? #

# Girl, you taught me how to hurt real bad and cry myself to sleep

# And showed me how this town can shatter dreams

# Another lesson 'bout a naive fool who came to Babylon

# And found out that the pie don't taste so sweet

# And it's guitars, Cadillacs Hillbilly music

# Lonely, lonely streets that I call home

# And my guitars, Cadillacs Hillbilly music

# The only thing that keeps me hangin' on...

Fiddle time now!

# There ain't no glamour in this tinselled land

# Of lost and wasted lives

# Painful scars are all that's left of me

# But thank you girl for teachin' me brand new ways to be cruel

# If I can find my mind now I guess I'll just leave

# And it's guitars, Cadillacs Hillbilly music

# Lonely, lonely streets that I call home

# And my guitars, Cadillacs Hillbilly music

# The only thing that keeps me hangin' on

# And it's guitars, Cadillacs Hillbilly music

# Lonely, lonely streets that I call home

# And my guitars, Cadillacs Hillbilly music

# The only thing that keeps me hangin' on

# It's the only thing that keeps me hangin' on

# It's the only thing that keeps me hangin' on. #

CHEERING

SHE SINGS IN IRISH

HE SPEAKS IN IRISH

SHE CORRECTS HIM

My Irish is very, very minimum.

I have the "conas ata tu" and the "failte"

and a few little words here and there

but it's a song that I know by ear,

which is going to make it a little bit easier to sing it.

SHE SINGS IN IRISH

HE SINGS ALONG

So you'll be fluent now, Mike,

-by the time you're finished with it.

-There's definitely no chance of that

but if I get through this verse and chorus,

I will be a very happy man on the night.

You'll be great!

Now, put your hands together for Siobhan Mhaoileoin.

CHEERING

# Ta am an tSamhraidh ag teacht

# Is duille ar chrainn go fairsing

# Ta nead ag cearca fraoigh

# Is blath bui ar bharr an aitinn

# Tar liom, a chailin, liom!

# Agus siulfaimid le cheile

# Go bhfaighimid nead an ein

# Sa ngleann ag bun an tsleibhe

# Tar liom, a chailin, liom

# Togfad grianan duit

# Agus thart air, fal 'na sheasamh

# Agus cuirfidh me ar a bharr

# A bhfuil de bhlath ar bharr an aitinn

# Tar liom, a chailin, liom!

# Agus siulfaimid le cheile

# Go bhfaighimid nead an ein

# Sa ngleann ag bun an tsleibhe

# Tar liom, a chailin, liom

# Da n-imeodh mo ghra ban

# Thiocfadh ceann 'na hait ar maidin

# O thaobh an ghleanna bhain

# On bhfraoch agus on aiteann

# Tar liom, a chailin, liom!

# Agus siulfaimid le cheile

# Go bhfaighimid nead an ein

# Sa ngleann ag bun an tsleibhe

# Tar liom, a chailin, liom

# Tar liom, a chailin, liom. #

CHEERING

Siobhan Mhaoileoin.

Wonderful stuff.

SHE SINGS IN IRISH

PIANO SOLO

SHE SINGS IN IRISH

SHE CONTINUES SINGING IN IRISH

PIANO SOLO

-CHEERING

-Thank you.

CHEERING

SHE SINGS IN IRISH

THEY SING ALONG

CROWD CLAPS ALONG

SHE SINGS IN IRISH

CHEERING

CHEERING

HE SINGS IN IRISH

CHEERING

-Oh, Strictly, here I come!

-LAUGHTER

HE SINGS IN IRISH

CHEERING

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

CHEERING

Daniel O'Donnell!

# I recall the way you smiled the first time that I met you

# Bewildered by your beauty

# I could hardly say hello

# I've loved you from the first time

# You held my hand and kissed me

# Where the golden sun was setting and the ocean breezes blow

# But if you decide to leave

# Please stay on till mornin'

# If only so that I can spend just one more night with you

# Then slip away into the night

# Don't worry, I will be all right

# Cos morning sun and memories

# Will help me get over you

# You reassure me in your smile

# That you'll be there if ever

# I need a friend to lean on

# As the winds have changed, they blow

# This love we share is like a dream

# Please let me dream forever

# But if I can't dream forever, darlin'

# I want you to know

# That if you decide to leave

# Please stay on till mornin'

# If only so that I can spend just one more night with you

# Then slip away into the night

# Don't worry, I will be all right

# Cos morning sun and memories

# Will help me get over you

# But if you decide to leave

# Please stay on till mornin'

# If only so that I can spend just one more night with you

# Then slip away into the night

# Don't worry, I will be all right

# Cos morning sun and memories

# Will help me get over you

# Then slip away into the night

# Don't worry, I will be all right

# Cos morning sun and memories

# Will help me get over

# You. #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

All right, we're going to keep it nice and lively.

We want to get a few of those hands up.

Hey!

Hey!

# Some girls will

# Some girls won't

# Some girls need a lot of lovin'

# And some girls don't

# I know I've got the fever

# But I don't know why

# Some say they will

# And some girls lie

# So here I am in front of you

# Not really knowing what to do

# My heart is feeling something new

# Nervously I'll turn away from you

# I've seen those looks you're sending me

# Is this the way it's meant to be?

# It's something we should talk about

# Oh, how I wish you'd work it out

# Some girls will

# Some girls won't

# Some girls need a lot of lovin'

# And some girls don't

# I know I've got the fever

# But I don't know why

# Some say they will

# And some girls lie

# I find your company to be

# Something completely new to me

# Now that I know you socially

# Obviously I'll fall heavily

# I've seen those looks you're sending me

# Is this the way it's meant to be?

# It's something we should talk about

# Oh, how I wish you'd work it out

# Some girls will

# Some girls won't

# Some girls need a lot of lovin'

# And some girls don't

# I know I've got the fever

# But I don't know why

# Some say they will

# And some girls lie... #

On the fiddle!

FIDDLE SOLO

Accordion!

ACCORDION SOLO

# Some girls will

# Some girls won't

# Some girls need a lot of lovin'

# And some girls don't

# I know I've got the fever

# But I don't know why

# Some say they will

# And some girls lie

# I find you coming here to be

# Something completely new to me

# Now that I know you socially

# Obviously I'll fall heavily

# I've seen those looks you're sending me

# Is this the way it's meant to be?

# It's something we should talk about

# Oh, how I wish you'd work it out

# Some girls will

# Some girls won't

# Some girls need a lot of lovin'

# And some girls don't

# I know I've got the fever

# But I don't know why

# Some say they will

# And some girls lie

# Some say they will

# And some girls lie

# Some say they will

# And some girls lie. #

CHEERING

-Mike, I've been abroad with you. We have been to Spain.

-Yeah.

Spain, and we went to Portugal last year.

I've been a few times and a good few times.

-You have - yourself and Sean on numerous occasions.

-Yes.

-Yes, and Barrosa Park is the venue and that place is beautiful.

-Yeah.

# Let's call out his name

# Tommy K, Tommy K... #

You have some lovely songs

but I think at the moment my favourite is Tommy K.

And I love your video of Tommy K.

Tommy K is just... It's one of them songs that...

It was one that a lot of young people and everyone seemed to like.

So it's a great song and the video was a great thing for it.

Yes, because you can see the actions now,

-it's a different dance!

-A bit of dance!

-And everybody can do that now.

-That was it.

And when we got Brendan Grace and Paddy Cole, Foster and Allen,

and Joe Canning and everyone else that was on it, it was great.

It is a lovely song.

# Let's call out his name

# Tommy K, Tommy K

# Tommy K the DJ

# Tommy K, Tommy K

# It's not today nor yesterday

# The times were different then

# The dancing was in dance halls

# And it had to stop for lent

# Ah, but one man kept it going

# With his home-made twin-deck sounds

# The bishop, he didn't like the craic

# So the DJ left the town

# Let's call out his name

# Tommy K, Tommy K

# Tommy K the DJ

# Tommy K, Tommy K

# Ah, give us the locomotion

# Gimme me dancing shoes

# Give us the mashed potato

# And give us the boogaloo!

# And give us the words between the songs

# To keep us on the floor

# When Tommy's playing them records

# We'll be all night wanting more

# Let's call out his name

# Tommy K, Tommy K

# Tommy K the DJ

# Tommy K, Tommy K... #

CHEERING

# He's brave and courageous, upright and strong

# He gives us inspiration

# Helps us all to get along

# He'll be climbing up the hit parade

# Forever and a day

# And this song's in his memory

# Immortal Tommy K

# Let's call out his name

# Tommy K, Tommy K

# Tommy K the DJ

# Tommy K, Tommy K

# He'll be climbing up the hit parade

# Forever and a day

# And this song's in his memory

# Immortal Tommy K

# Let's call out his name

# Tommy K, Tommy K

# Tommy K the DJ

# Tommy K, Tommy K

# Let's call out his name

# Tommy K, Tommy K

# Tommy K the DJ

# Tommy K, Tommy K. #

CHEERING Oh!

The great Tommy K.

I want to dedicate that to a very special friend of ours

down there, Mary Ann, great to have you with us tonight.

Thank you very much.

I think I'll just say yes.

LAUGHTER

# Bye bye, love

# Bye bye, happiness

# Hello, loneliness

# I think I'm gonna cry

# Bye bye, love

# Bye bye, sweet caress

# Hello, emptiness

# I think I'm gonna die

# Bye bye, my love, goodbye

# There goes my baby with someone new

# She sure looks happy, I sure am blue

# She was my baby till he stepped in

# Goodbye to romance that might have been

# Bye bye, love

# Bye bye, happiness

# Hello, loneliness

# I think I'm gonna cry

# Bye bye, love

# Bye bye, sweet caress

# Hello, emptiness

# I think I'm gonna die

# Bye bye, my love, goodbye

# Well, I'm through with romance

# I'm through with love

# I'm through a-countin' the stars above

# And here's the reason why I'm so free

# My lovin' baby, she's through with me

# Bye bye, love

# Bye bye, happiness

# Hello, loneliness

# I think I'm gonna cry

# Bye bye, love

# Bye bye, sweet caress

# Hello, emptiness

# I think I'm gonna die

# Bye bye, my love, goodbye

# Bye bye, my love, goodbye

# Bye bye, my love, goodbye. #

CHEERING

Oh, Lordy...

CHEERING

# Well

# Get in that kitchen and rattle those pots 'n pans

# Get down to that kitchen and rattle those pots 'n pans

# Roll my breakfast cos I'm a hungry man

# I said shake, rattle and roll

# I said shake, rattle and roll

# I said shake, rattle and roll

# I said shake, rattle and roll

# My mama don't like it, the way I comb my hair

# Papa thinks I'm crazy in the clothes I wear

# They took all my records cos I played them all day

# Yeah, I am what I am

# And I'm gonna keep a-rockin' that way

# I'm a rockabilly rebel from head to toe

# I gotta keep a-rockin' everywhere I go

# Everybody join us, we're good company

# Be a real cool cat

# Be a rockabilly rebel like me

# Well

# My baby and me went out late Saturday night

# I had my hair piled high and my baby just looked so right

# Well, pick you up at ten

# Gotta have you home at two

# Mama don't know what I got in store for you

# But that's all right

# We're looking as cool as can be... #

Here we go!

# We're gonna rock this town

# Rock it inside out

# We're gonna rock this town

# Make 'em scream and shout

# Yeah, let's rock, rock, rock Man, rock

# We're gonna rock till we pop We're gonna rock till we drop

# We're gonna rock this town

# Rockin' it inside out... #

Guitar!

GUITAR SOLO

# I said shake, rattle and roll

# I said shake, rattle and roll

# This ole house once knew children

# This ole house once knew a wife

# This ole house was home and comfort

# And as we fought the storms of life

# This ole house once rang with laughter

# This ole house heard many shouts

# Now it trembles in the darkness

# When the lightnin' walks about

# Ain't gonna need this house no longer

# Ain't gonna need this house no more

# Ain't got time to fix the shingles

# Ain't got time to fix the floor

# Ain't got time to oil the hinges

# Nor to mend no windowpane

# Ain't gonna need this house no longer

# She's gettin' ready to meet the saints

# Well, look about, look about

# Look about, look about Oo-ee!

# Look about, look about Look about, look about, oo-ee!

# Ooh, ah, ooh, ah, oo-ee

# Well, she's so fine, fine, fine

# She's so fine, fine, fine

# She's so fine

# She's so fine, fine, fine

# She's really sweet, the finest girl you ever wanna meet

# Here we go!

# Oh, oh, oh, oh

# Oh, oh, oh, oh

# Oh, oh, oh, oh

# Oh, oh, oh, oh

# She's really sweet, the finest girl you ever wanna meet

# Oh, oh, oh, oh

# Oh, oh, oh, oh

# Oh, oh, oh, oh

# Oh, oh, oh, oh

# She's really sweet, the finest girl you ever wanna meet

# She's really sweet, the finest girl you ever wanna meet

# Yeah, she's really sweet, the finest girl you ever wanna meet

# Yeah, rock n' roll! #

CHEERING Thank you!