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It’s possibly the next public event that everyone in Ireland and further afield are looking forward too, in 2024. Yes, “The Boss“, with his E Street Band, will visit Ireland as part of his upcoming European tour, playing Irish venues in Kilkenny, Dublin, Cork and Belfast.
The Bruce Springsteen tour begins in Cardiff, Wales, UK, on May 5th, before he visits to play at Kilkenny’s Nowlan Park, here in Ireland on May 12th, 2024. His Kilkenny play date had sold out within one hour, having gone on sale at 8:00am on Monday November 6th 2023 last.
Jack of All Trades
Vocals: American rock singer, songwriter and guitarist; nicknamed “The Boss”, Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen.
Lyrics: Written by Bruce Springsteen, from his “Wrecking Ball” album.
Jack of All Trades
I’ll mow your lawn, clean the leaves out your drain,
I’ll mend your roof to keep out the rain,
I’ll take the work that God provides,
I’m a Jack of all trades, honey, we’ll be alright.
I’ll hammer the nails and I’ll set the stone,
I’ll harvest your crops when they’re ripe and grown,
I’ll pull that engine apart and patch her up ’til she’s running right,
I’m a Jack of all trades, we’ll be alright.
The hurricane blows, brings a hard rain,
When the blue sky breaks, it feels like the world’s gonna change,
We’ll start caring for each other like Jesus said that we might,
I’m a Jack of all trades, we’ll be alright.
The banker man grows fat, the working man grows thin,
It’s all happened before and it’ll happen again,
It’ll happen again, yeah, they’ll bet your life,
I’m a Jack of all trades, darling, we’ll be alright.
Now sometimes tomorrow comes soaked in treasure and blood,
Here we stood the drought, now we’ll stand the flood,
There’s a new world coming, I can see the light,
I’m a Jack of all trades, we’ll be alright.
So you use what you’ve got and you learn to make do,
You take the old, you make it new,
If I had me a gun, I’d find the bastards and shoot ’em on sight,
I’m a Jack of all trades, we’ll be alright.
I’m a Jack of all trades, we’ll be alright.
End.
Vocals: Canadian music group; Ruth Moody, Nicky Mehta and Cara Luft, better known as “The Wailin’ Jennys”, latter name a pun on the name of country singer Waylon Jennings, latter who died during the same month the group were initially formed.
Lyrics: Same unconfirmed, however, an early version is sometimes attributed to Sir Alexander Boswell* (1775 -1822), latter 1st Baronet, FRSE, FSA; a Scottish poet, antiquary, songwriter, from Auchinleck village, 2 miles (3 km) Northwest of Cumnock, in East Ayrshire, Scotland, UK.
*[Note: Sir Alexander Boswell was son of Edinburgh born James Boswell (1740 -1795) latter a Scottish biographer, diarist, lawyer; a friend and biographer of English writer Samuel Johnson (1709 -1784), latter himself a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, sermonist, biographer, editor, and lexicographer].
The Parting Glass
Oh all the money that e’er I spent,
I’ve spent it in good company,
And all the harm that ere I’ve done,
Alas, it was to none but me,
And all I’ve done for want of wit,
To memory now I can’t recall,
So fill to me the parting glass,
Good night and joy be with you all.
Oh, all the comrades that e’er I’ve had,
I’m sorry for my going away,
And all the sweethearts that e’er I’ve had,
Who would wish me one more day to stay,
But since it falls onto my lot,
That I should rise and you should not,
I’ll gently rise and I’ll softly call
Good night and joy be with you all.
Good night and joy be with you all.
END
Thurles.Info’s wish for you all in 2024.
As 2024 draws close, we hope it is filled with the promise of a hopeful tomorrow.
We wish you a very ‘Happy New Year’ and may 2024 bless all our readers with peace, joy, health, wealth and happiness, complete with new exciting adventure; enjoyable life-changing experiences; and may you be filled full of laughter, love and find even deeper friendships.
‘Happy New Year’
It is dark, cold, wet and windy here in Thurles, Co. Tipperary tonight, which leaves our community with that wintery feeling; which reminds me.
Wintery Feeling.
Vocals: Canadian singer of pop, country and adult contemporary music, Anne Murray(CC ONS) [Ordre du Canada/Ordre de la Nouvelle], latter who has sold over 55 million album copies worldwide, during her career.
Lyrics: American-Canadian musician and songwriter Jesse Winchester.
Wintery Feeling.
Look how the sky’s all silver, beautiful Montreal.
Out of the sky of silver, snowflakes begin to fall.
I sit by my window; I take my pen in hand.
If I sound a little wintry, you’ll have to understand.
So how is California? How is the weather there?
Where every day is sunny and where all the skies are fair.
Tell me, do you remember how once upon a time?
We’d sit and watch the snow fall, sharing a glass of wine.
[Chorus]
Oh, that sad, old wintry feeling,
I don’t really seem to mind.
Sad, but sweet, old wintry feeling,
Oh, that wintry feeling, somehow it just seems to suit me fine.
If you are never cold love, then who’s going to keep you warm.
You’ll take the sun for granted love, if you run from every storm.
But Lord, me and this old guitar, we’ve seen a storm or two.
We’ve seen a million drifters, these snowflakes and you.
[Repeat Chorus]
End
The 1956 Christmas song “Mary’s Boy Child”.
Vocals: American singer, actor, and civil rights activist, who popularized calypso music with international audiences in the 1950s and 1960s, Harry Belafonte, [Born Harold George Bellanfanti Jr. (March 1927 – April 2023) ].
Lyrics: American composer, songwriter, arranger, choral conductor and actor, Jester Joseph Hairston.
Mary’s Boy Child.
Long time ago in Bethlehem,
So the Holy Bible say.
Mary’s boy child, Jesus Christ,
Was born on Christmas day.
[ Chorus]
Hark, now hear the angels sing,
A new King born today,
And man will live for evermore,
Because of Christmas day.
Trumpets sound and angels sing,
Listen what they say,
That man will live for evermore,
Because of Christmas day.
While shepherds watched their flock by night,
Them see a bright new shining star,
Then hear a choir sing,
The music seemed to come from afar.
Now Joseph and his wife Mary,
Come to Bethlehem that night,
Then find no place to borne she child,
Not a single room was in sight.
[Repeat Chorus]
By and by they find a little nook,
In a stable all forlorn.
And in a manger cold and dark,
Mary’s little boy was born.
Long time ago in Bethlehem,
So the Holy Bible say,
Mary’s boy child, Jesus Christ,
Was born on Christmas day.
[Repeat Chorus]
END
O Holy Night.
Vocals: American singer, songwriter and actor Joshua Winslow Groban. (Latter who has sold over 22.3 million records, with four solo albums certified multi-platinum),
Lyrics: Originally based on a French-language poem written in 1843 by poet Placide Cappeau. Same was set to music by composer Adolphe Adam in 1847. The English version, with small changes to the initial melody, is by John Sullivan Dwight. The carol reflects on the birth of Jesus as humanity’s redemption.
“For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, the mighty God, the everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace.” Isaiah 9:6 (King James Version).
O Holy Night.
O Holy night, the stars are brightly shining.
It is the night of our dear Savior’s birth.
Long lay the world in sin and error, pining,
‘Til He appeared, and the soul felt its worth.
A thrill of hope, the weary world rejoices,
For yonder breaks a new and glorious morn.
Fall on your knees,
O hear the angel voices,
O night divine,
O night when Christ was born,
O night divine,
O night, O night divine,
Chains shall He break, for the slave is our brother,
And in His name all oppression shall cease.
Sweet hymns of joy in grateful chorus raise we,
Let all within us praise His holy name.
Christ is the Lord.
Let ever, ever praise Thee.
Noel, Noel.
O night, O night divine.
Noel, Noel.
O night, O night divine.
Noel, Noel.
O night, O night divine.
End.
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