Father’s Song

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Every week, we give away a Golden Discs voucher worth a strong and stable 25 Euros, to a Broadsheet reader.

All we ask in return is a tune we can play this Sunday, Father’s Day at 11am.

This week’s theme: A song for da

Is there a song that bonds you and your father, dissolving in a few bars any musical differences you may have had over the years?

To enter, please complete this sentence:

‘On Sunday, please play______________________________for my father ___________[insert dad’s name] because_______________’

Lines MUST close at 6.25pm MIDNIGHT Saturday!

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32 thoughts on “Father’s Song

  1. Boj

    ‘On Sunday, please play Got my Mind Set on You by George Harrison for my father Frank because a) he’s dead and sob stories usually win the voucher & b) That song is a happy memory of being with my dad going into virgin megastores on quays getting the new release George Harrison vinyl album (f.y.i. Cloud 9). Seeing him looking chuffed with his purchase was the closest I’ve seen him to being a kid. It was a sunny day too…

    1. Andyourpointiswhatexactly?

      Ah COME ON! All the feelz, as the kids these days say. I think.
      You might as well get the voucher now.

    2. realPolithicks

      I believed you right up to the bit where you said “It was a sunny day too…” come on, this is Dublin after all.

  2. Penfold

    On Sunday, please play Rory Gallagher’s Tatoo’d Lady for my father Tommy because We used to listen to him loads, and he’d even let me puyt the needle on the vinyls, when I was little.
    Himself and my mum went to heaps of his shows, bringing me and my brother to as many as possible, especially when playing in the north west.
    Dad even had a child seat on his motorbike to bring me to some of his gigs.

    1. Boj

      No way, that’s brilliant! Rory is awesome! Were you at Rory-fest in Ballyshannon a couple of weeks back. Highly recommended if you’ve never been..

  3. Odockatee

    On Sunday, please play Lay Me Down by the Frames for my father Michael because the line reminds me of me Da where it goes “And lay me down, In the hallowed ground, Where my father waits I will stay, So lay me down”

    He’s not dead, I’ll see him Sunday. I got him a very sarcastic card, we get on well. We even hug now. Its like one of those modern man relationships that we are really trying to be better at. There’s nearly 40 years between us. He asks me how I am, like really how I am when I’m home and I always appreciate it.

  4. Paraic Elliott

    ‘On Sunday, please play -These are the days of our lives- for my father Paddy because we are both huge Queen fans. I I can still remember the day -November 24th 1991 -when my dad was giving me a driving lesson and the radio was on. Suddenly we heard the news of Freddie Mercury’s death and I almost crashed the car into a ditch- such was the shock of his passing. My dad was speechless and we abandoned the lesson to go home and listen to Queen. RIP Freddie.’

  5. Daisy Chainsaw

    ‘On Sunday, please play “Raglan Road” by Luke Kelly for my father Pat because I learned, on long drives up to Dublin to visit a sick relative with him, that this is his favourite song. We shared a lot of driving over the course of a few months and had some really lovely chats. He got a turntable for Christmas and I got him a selection of vinyl to go with it, including The Best of Luke Kelly. If I win, I’ll pick him out something.

  6. Bertie "the inexplicable pleasure" Blenkinsop

    On Sunday, please play Derek and Clive for my Dad.

    https://youtu.be/jTifRi3qDkU

    Like most people, I went through all of the different stages with my Dad, I idolised him as a kid, then, as a teenager, I thought he was a clown but eventually the penny dropped that he was actually fantastic and it was through albums like this.
    He has a huge comedy collection, The Goons, Hancock, Round the Horne, Billy Connolly, Woody Allen, Jackie Mason and it’s amazing that he had the patience to tolerate me until I (hopefully) came out the other side of being a sap and now he’s (genuinely) my best pal.

  7. mildred st. meadowlark

    On Sunday please play The Voyage by Christy Moore for my father Anthony as he used to play it on guitar for my mammy when we would go on holidays. It brings back memories of a time lost, and brings to mind all the things I love best about my dear dad, as a man who has made many sacrifices for the happiness of his family and taught me the most about love, loyalty and family.

    1. Lord Snowflakee

      Yea that’s a nice song and post, very heartfelt.
      Only when I started having kids and settling down myself did I even begin to realise what the song is about.

  8. Lord Snowflakee

    Look at yous all with your early years/proto-hipster Dads!

    On Sunday, please play____Count John McCormack singing anything______for my (late) father ___________ because__as a young lad the ritual on Sunday mornings in our house growing up was to listen to Mo Cheol Thu presented by the late Ciarán MacMathuna. Dad taught me through listening to that program in particular that the delivery and the personality of the singer and how they reflected their own personality through a song was the key ingredient in delivering a valid and authentic performance IN THAT MOMENT, irrespective of your musical chops or previous reputation. No Irish singer really epitomises this to the same extent that the late McCormack did. _____________’

    Fupp yous all and your tired, try hard hipster crap btw.

    1. Frilly Keane

      ah
      you’d know you were south of Urlingford

      count your blessings one by one
      and then build a bonfire of your troubles

      Hon’Cork!!!!!!!!!!!!!

      1. Papi

        Brother from another father. Da couldn’t sing for toffee, but he’d put on the Count and become all operatic. Haven’t thought of that in a long time, he’s dead now 37 years. Thank you. Also, Up Cork.

  9. scottser

    On Sunday, please play Beethoven’s 5th for my father Jimmy. But play it really loud, cos he’s as deaf as a post. To quote him last week – Da, there’s someone at the door – ‘What, there’s a towel on the floor? I only just picked the bloody thing up..’

  10. Hawkeyed

    ahhhhhh Is Bodger ” John Ryan”? 2 secs ago Bodger was John ‘Preposterous’ Ryan ?

  11. Clampers Outside

    On Sunday please play McAlpine’s Fusiliers for my father Michael because he’s my Dad, and I love him dearly… and it’s the only song I can hear him sing right now as I close my eyes and think of him.

        1. Sheik Yahbouti

          He’s not dead, but he’s singing about McAlpine’s fusiliers? At least mine used to sing “little old wine drinker me” before he turned up his toes.

  12. good@memes

    My Father never loved Reggae, like me and me Ma did.
    – Either that or he was still upset at me for letting his favourite 78 slip from my tiny hands and smash into pieces on the floor in 1968. Those things were heavy, and brittle, and impossible to replace.

    But this was the song, so I understand why.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJsa0OfWcGA

    If one of my kids did that to me I’d put them up for adoption.

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