Lanigan's Ball

Lanigan 's Ball (often Lannigan 's Ball ) is one of the best known Irish folk songs and played since at least 1860 all over the world. It is usually played in a minor key.

While in Alfred Perceval Graves book " Songs of Irish Wit and Humour " from 1884 Lanigan 's Ball by an unknown author is still the speech is in "Folk Songs of the Catskills ," by Norman Cazden, Herbert Haufrecht and Norman Studer, on the singer John Diprose referred to, which the text of a 1865 DK Gavan and the music attributed to John Candy.

Importance

The lyrics are by Jeremy Lanigan, a hard-working young man who has inherited after the death of his father, a " farm and ten acres of ground," and there is now holding a party. The place is Athy, County Kildare, called in Ireland. Jeremy organized the party for friends and relatives who stood him in difficult times for the page: "friends and relations Who did not forget him When come to the wall". The lyrics of the song describes the persons present and the existing drinks and food. In the refrain, the narrator describes his time at the Brooks Academy in Dublin, and as he there new dance steps for the ball, so the party learned:

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In one version of the song is "Miss Kerrigan " fainted, whereupon her "darling Ned Morgan " is angry and instigates a fight. In another well-known version of " infected the young Terence McCarthy his right foot through Miss Finerty 's tires, after the brawl begins " ( "young Terence McCarthy He put his right leg through Miss Finerty 's hoops " and did started the fight ).

Recordings and cover versions

The song has been covered by many singers. The Irish band The Bards were able in 1980 to celebrate a huge success with it in Ireland, Christy Moore had the song on his 1983 LP "The Time Has Come" and 2007, re-released on CD.

The Irish- American folk - punk band Dropkick Murphys brought with her sixth studio album, The Meanest of Times is typical for the band " punk " version of the song out. The title was changed to " (F) Lannigan 's Ball ", and, although the text has received significant changes, the issue remained the same. Jump, Little Children published another very well-known version of the song and still retains most of the text in. The folk-rock band Enter the Haggis took on their album " Aerials " a version with the traditional text of " Lanigan 's Ball " on. The New York rock band "the Jim C Experience" brought the song under the name " Glennigan 's Ball " on the market. Fiddler's Green from Erlangen had the song on their album "King Shepherd ". LeperKhanz plays the song on the album " Tiocfaidh Ar La ".