Sunday is Father’s Day!
Every year, we give away a 25 euro Golden Discs voucher to ONE paterfamilias on Fathering Sunday.
All we ask from you is a tune your old man (living or tooling about in the great shed in the sky) would like to hear (in his good ear) on the big day.
We already have 33 songs selected from last week (see below).
This is your very last chance to tell your da you love him through the medium of choonage.
To enter, please complete this sentence:
‘Could you please play____________________________for my father on Father’s Day because it reminds him of___________________________________’
Lines MUST close at 6.15pm
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‘Could you please play Hallelujah for my father on Father’s Day because it reminds him to look up Leonard while he’s knocking around up there’
Could you please play UB40s “Red Red Wine” for my father on Father’s Day because it reminds him of when he had me and my brother tied to a tree at Slane in 84 surrounded by a cloud of smoke while they grooved along to Santana, Dylan and the aforementioned UB40
https://www.childline.ie
The baby seat he rigged up on the motorbike to go to gigs with us may have been additional grounds to call. The phone was too high on the wall for us to reach at the time though.
my Da used to put fake dog poos around in fun places like your shoes, your dolls lap, or your box of biscuits or in your bed for the craic. He fashioned them himself out of putty and they glistened just so…very realistic
were they so realistic that they may not have been fake?
the only poo that turned out to be real was the bag of ” chocolate buttons” my brother gave me…he had replaced them with rabbit poo,
inventive huh?
Don’t worry I got him back
I was at that concert, 1984 I believe it was…I think I saw you.
Can you please play A boy named Sue by Johnny Cash for my Da as he has the same sense of humour as the auld fella in the song
Could you please play ‘Will Ye Go Lassie Go’ by The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem for my father on Father’s Day because it reminds him of the old ballad scene and good times he has had :)
https://youtu.be/w97uEToBzJ4
( I texted him for that :) )
Love it.
I’ve got him reminiscing now, he just sent me this… “Mums favourite song was My Singing Bird and she sang it too, but she had lots of songs then, two old men took off their hats in Kelehans for her Bold Robert Emmet”
G’wan the Dads, n’ Mums :)
https://youtu.be/2Q58X1lLa7c
First gig i was ever at was Tommy’n’Liam in, I think, the Gaiety; I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, they may have fupped up every now and then, but THAT was seriously good jaysusin’ parenting.
Would have loved to have seen ’em in their hey-day
The ever reliable Alan Gilsenan did I a great documentary – The Yellow Bittern – on Liam Clancy.
He led quite the life
Could you please play “Cat’s in the Cradle” for my father on Father’s Day because it reminds him of me.
That’s a bit sad Cian, I hope your life doesn’t emulate the song.
‘Could you please play Waterloo Sunset by the Kinks for my father on Father’s Day because it reminds him of Mother who passed away last september, please? (was her favourite song and now makes me cry because it was the song they played as her coffin was lowered into the crematorium)
Could you please play “Folsom Prison Blues” by Johnny Cash for my father on Father’s Day because it reminds ME of the time we were driving through Folsom and he wouldn’t let me play “that country music” even though I begged.
Could you please play ‘hello patsy fagan’ for my father on Father’s Day because he does a great rendition of it and it always cheers him up when he thinks of his life in Manchester before he met my mother.
He never says it, but I’m great
at reading
(. )
between the lines
could you please play rockin in the free world for my father on fathers day because it reminds him about the time he raped me
Oof, Marone!
Could you please play rockin in the free world for my father on fathers day because it reminds him of the time he raped me.
‘Could you please play PEACHES; F**K THE PAIN AWAY for my father on Father’s Day because it reminds him of WHEN HE LIVED IN AMSTERDAM FOR 2 MONTHS AFTER MAM LEFT”
‘Could you please play Dancin’ Boy by Harry Chapin for my father on Father’s Day because it reminds him of happier times years ago when we were talking before it all went wrong. Maybe.’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBA9zJoVQBg
“Yes, I’m so proud when you are with me,
That my heart digs in my throat.
And when you stop to strut your stuff,
My eyes go all afloat.
And when I have to leave you home
As sometimes it must be.
I feel that with my leaving
I leave far too much of me.”
I’m sending this on behalf of my daughters….‘Could you please play Carolina In My Mind by James Taylor for my father on Father’s Day because it reminds him of when we used to drive to North Carolina to visit our cousins and he would always play it as we crossed the state line.
cute
Could you please play Goodbye, From The White Horse Inn for my father because he used to sing it when it was time to go home.
Could you please play Take Me Away by Blue Oyster Cult for my father because it reminds him of one of the times he was abducted by aliens
Can’t wait to see the Katie Taylor entry on this one.
Just When I Needed You Most.
Nancy Sinatra, bang bang… sorry.
Can you play “Driving home for Christmas” for my Da on Father’s day.
He was working in Limerick for a few months in 1982 and remembers this song on the radio as he drove back home to us.
It wasn’t released until 1988 so please play it for my Da, Doctor Who.
Yeah, a little bit late here but can I suggest this one..
https://youtu.be/3llvPIj_29g
It came on the radio during a long drive years ago, and my dad acted pretty unimpressed until the ‘owner is a mental midget with the IQ of a fencepost’ line. He splurted out a huge laugh and nearly drove us off the road..
Must have reminded him of a few people he’d known.
‘Could you please play “You Sexy Thing” for my father on Father’s Day because it reminds him of me’.
*deadpan*
Could you please play Stayin’ Alive by The Bee Gees for my father on Father’s Day because it reminds him of bein’ alive :-(
Could you please play the living years by mike and the mechanics. Top tune