These are my uncles, my father Bernard had already travelled to work and live in Australia by then. I met Ted a couple of times over the years. He's still around at the time of writing this. Dad never sung anything like this unless he was in a certain mood or he had to navigate a particularly challenging U-Turn in the car so to this day I cannot do a U-Turn without going "Diddelly daddyliey diddley dee" to the tune of The Rocky Road To Dublin
Great performance of a great song. This is a timeless scene, repeated all around the world: everyone crowded around the table, maybe drinking, listening to the singer and the musicians, maybe singing along, all soaking in the condensed atmosphere of feeling, song, music, and culture. This is really emblematic of our humanity -- we have done this for untold thousands of years, and come what may, we will be doing it far into the future.
So true! It's how I'd love to spend most of my time, but alas, no one to sing and play with. I was thinking too, of the year this was recorded; little did anyone know that in a years time, the troubles would kick off up north, and 30 years of murder and mayhem would ensue.
I met the guy singing here today, Ted McKenna, a gent, still supping pints of guinness and what a voice! I will put the video up on youtube of him singing at Peter Lennon's tribute in the Irish Film Institute.
Thanks for putting this clip up! I posted "The Making of..." as video responses. It is a movie that deserves to be seen by Irish and others. Amazing transformation - to think that when this film was made, I was around 11 years old...
Got to love it! !1968... I was doing A-levels... when Pink Floyd were singing 'Careful with that axe Eugene', these guys were paying respect to their roots. I think I know which gives me more delight.
Sorry to only be getting back to you now and sorry for the loss of Barney. I couldn't get over the power of his voice and his great sense of humour. We have these gems in life, all around us and we just don't realise or maybe cherish them. Well please tell him the family loved it and thank him for it. Robbie
The details of the LP mentioned below can be seen on the "time-has-told-me" site or on The Whistlebinkies own site under Chronicle for 1976. This group, based in Scotland, has only recently made contact again with Ted McKenna after a gap of nearly 35 years. The other songs he sings on that LP are Ewan McColl's 'Champion at Keepin' Them Rollin' and 'The Dirty Blackleg Miner' as well as choruses with Mick Broderick and the rest of The Whistlebinkies.
People had their Christmas decorations up the day after Thanksgiving. I can't get mad tho. I've been drunk for St Patty's since October. Love this song!
worked with teddy and his dad and gordon in brittens motor car factory portobello late 60s great people am only after seening this video after all these years great people .
All tracks of the LP below (The Whistlebinkies & Ted McKenna - Berlin GDR 1976) can be heard on UA-cam under, for example, "The Whistlebinkies & Ted McKenna 1976 The Dirty Blackleg Miner", etc (visuals are just a photo of the album cover)
A question a while back was about any more recordings by Ted McKenna. There was an LP recorded February, 1976, in East Berlin (German Democratic Republic) called "The Whistlebinkies & Ted McKenna" on the Amiga label of VEB Deutsche Schallplatten (Amiga stereo 845127). They were all there for the 6th Festival of Political Song (the festival has been revived in recent years as 'Festival Musik und Politik'). He sings The Rocky Road to Dublin on it as well as other songs and choruses.
@mmmphilippe I love this version of the song and way he just rolls his shoulders puls the West of Ireland accent ....[ the quitar player looks like his younger brother...]
The faces and the eyes of the women are very interesting, they look tough and weary but very dignified. Your one at 1.21 her little smile is just amazing.
Great. And Ireland is also fantastic! November 2010 i travel alone by care through the burren area in county clare (westcoast). one week in a mystical, magical landscape with nice people anf great memories. Unforgetable!.
According to Slatnick.com: The film couldn't be banned in Ireland (the censors comment to the director was: "Since there is no sex in the film, Peter, there is nothing I can do against you.") It was only picked up by one Dublin cinema for a short run. The church's iron grip on the country was thus shown when no other cinema dared show the film. Wikipedia agrees, and IMDB doesn't mention a ban.
@@adambritain5774of course a fella called Britain would talk that shite. The irish know first hand what life under duress drives men to do. The catholic irish going to England or the oz or the americas were at one point the ‘dangerous foreigners with the wrong religion who had come to steal jobs and not intergrate’ and that’s what’s levied against the dark skinned fellas coming over from Africa or the Middle East. You want to fight a foreign entity that seeks to destroy Europe? Fight the USA, remember what they did in Serbia as an excuse to create a military enclave called Kosovo to get closer to Russia.
Well, video replies seem to be a thing of the past but here is the link to a fragment of Ted singing this in the same place but 45 years later. Sorry I did not get the whole thing and it is just and iPhone recording. Amazingly about half a dozen of us who were there in 1968 were there last Thursday. arghh I cannot post a web address. Search for Ted McKenna Niall MacDonagh and it will come up.
Last night I was at a sort of reunion of people from O'Donoghues from the 60s. Ted sand the rocky road. It is only a fragment and the video is bad but I am going to post it anyway.
Grus aus Dublin. Yes, she looks "spaced" . Seeed this clip is very rare , almost a national treasure. For example , wissen sie Heinriich BOLL ? This clip of film was used in his famous film on Irland ..." Irland und siener Kinder" 1965.
In the merry month of June from me home I started Left the girls of Tuam nearly broken hearted Saluted Father dear, kissed me darling mother Drank a pint of beer, me grief and tears to smother Then off to reap the corn, leave where I was born Cut a stout blackthorn to banish ghosts and goblins A brand new pair of brogues, rattlin' o'er the bogs Frightenin' all the dogs on the rocky road to Dublin One two three four five Hunt the Hare and turn her down the rocky road And all the way to Dublin, Whack fol lol le rah! In Mullingar that night I rested limbs so weary Started by daylight me spirits bright and airy Took a drop of the pure Keep me heart from sinking That's the Paddy's cure whenever he's on drinking To see the lassies smile, laughing all the while At me curious style, 'twould set your heart a bubblin' An' asked if I was hired, wages I required 'Till I was nearly tired of the rocky road to Dublin One two three four five Hunt the Hare and turn her down the rocky road And all the way to Dublin, Whack fol lol le rah! In Dublin next arrived, I thought it such a pity To be soon deprived a view of that fine city Well then I took a stroll, all among the quality Bundle it was stole, all in a neat locality Something crossed me mind, when I looked behind No bundle could I find upon me stick a wobblin' Enquiring for the rogue, said me Connaught brogue Wasn't much in vogue on the rocky road to Dublin One two three four five Hunt the Hare and turn her down the rocky road And all the way to Dublin, Whack fol lol le rah! From there I got away, me spirits never falling Landed on the quay, just as the ship was sailing The Captain at me roared, said that no room had he When I jumped aboard, a cabin found for Paddy Down among the pigs, played some funny rigs Danced some hearty jigs, the water round me bubbling When off Holyhead wished meself was dead Or better far instead On the rocky road to Dublin One two three four five Hunt the Hare and turn her down the rocky road And all the way to Dublin, Whack fol lol le rah! The boys of Liverpool, when we safely landed Called meself a fool, I could no longer stand it Blood began to boil, temper I was losing Poor old Erin's isle they began abusing "Hurrah me soul!" says I, me shillelagh I let fly Some Galway boys were nigh and saw I was a hobble in With a loud "Hurray!" joined in the affray We quickly cleared the way for the rocky road to Dublin One two three four five Hunt the Hare and turn her down the rocky road And all the way to Dublin, Whack fol lol le rah! Hunt the Hare and turn her down the rocky road And all the way to Dublin, Whack fol lol le rah! Whack fol lol le rah! Whack fol lol le rah!
These are my uncles, my father Bernard had already travelled to work and live in Australia by then. I met Ted a couple of times over the years. He's still around at the time of writing this. Dad never sung anything like this unless he was in a certain mood or he had to navigate a particularly challenging U-Turn in the car so to this day I cannot do a U-Turn without going "Diddelly daddyliey diddley dee" to the tune of The Rocky Road To Dublin
Lovely to hear that Ted is still around and well. Hope that goes for the rest of you as well
@Clairemckenna..I am forever drawn back to this magical scene ever since it made its first appearance ..love it so..love to all..
Hi cousin, I met Kerry and your dad years ago when they came over to Ireland but never got to meet any of the rest of your family
@@jenmckenna3474Hello from Linda Claire's and Kerry's sister
In school I took a class on Irish history that had this in a documentary . Do you know the name of the documentary?
This is ted mckenna here wishing everyone a merry Christmas and thanks for all the views
You are a champ. Thank you
: )
Howya Ted, I'm your grandson Gers best Friend, best wishes
Just got the East German LP The Whistlesbinikies and Ted MCKenna
Thanks Ted
Thank you, Ted...... from a seminal film on Ireland's repressive establishment 💚
This song and this video pushed me to visit Ireland and finally I did It. Thank you from Italy
im so blessed from my visit to the Island 3 years ago
Great performance of a great song. This is a timeless scene, repeated all around the world: everyone crowded around the table, maybe drinking, listening to the singer and the musicians, maybe singing along, all soaking in the condensed atmosphere of feeling, song, music, and culture. This is really emblematic of our humanity -- we have done this for untold thousands of years, and come what may, we will be doing it far into the future.
So true! It's how I'd love to spend most of my time, but alas, no one to sing and play with. I was thinking too, of the year this was recorded; little did anyone know that in a years time, the troubles would kick off up north, and 30 years of murder and mayhem would ensue.
You write beautifully. You conveyed in the best way possible what anyone could think about this
@@milaanvigraham8664 Thanks. I love music and I love words, watching the video made me feel thoughtful and inspired.
❤
2020 anyone!!! Listening with my son!
I met the guy singing here today, Ted McKenna, a gent, still supping pints of guinness and what a voice! I will put the video up on youtube of him singing at Peter Lennon's tribute in the Irish Film Institute.
Thanks for all your nice comments
Ted Mc Kenna
Ted McKenna on vocals and Gordon McKenna on Guitar. One of the finest versions of this song....ever!
Since the Luke Kelly version I`d never seen better. ....Jaysus this is pure 1`st class
Shocked...one of the most awesome things I have ever seen. Thank You
The girl to Teds left is my great great grandmother and lived in Marrowbone Lane Flats Great version
What pub is this? we're from Cork Street.
Thanks for putting this clip up! I posted "The Making of..." as video responses. It is a movie that deserves to be seen by Irish and others. Amazing transformation - to think that when this film was made, I was around 11 years old...
Can you tell me what is this movie about looking forward to watch this movie
This video has an undefineable atmosphere... I am just stunned...
0 dislikes for this amazing piece. As it should be.
Got to love it! !1968... I was doing A-levels... when Pink Floyd were singing 'Careful with that axe Eugene', these guys were paying respect to their roots. I think I know which gives me more delight.
Sorry to only be getting back to you now and sorry for the loss of Barney.
I couldn't get over the power of his voice and his great sense of humour. We have these gems in life, all around us and we just don't realise or maybe cherish them.
Well please tell him the family loved it and thank him for it.
Robbie
this is my favourite video on youtube, I'd love to see the full documentary
The details of the LP mentioned below can be seen on the "time-has-told-me" site or on The Whistlebinkies own site under Chronicle for 1976. This group, based in Scotland, has only recently made contact again with Ted McKenna after a gap of nearly 35 years. The other songs he sings on that LP are Ewan McColl's 'Champion at Keepin' Them Rollin' and 'The Dirty Blackleg Miner' as well as choruses with Mick Broderick and the rest of The Whistlebinkies.
Love this song, lovely clip this is.
Fantastic version
nice. one of my favorite songs
Superb, cheers for posting!
People had their Christmas decorations up the day after Thanksgiving. I can't get mad tho. I've been drunk for St Patty's since October. Love this song!
I wish there was another version of this awesome video but with much clear sound
worked with teddy and his dad and gordon in brittens motor car factory portobello late 60s great people am only after seening this video after all these years great people .
the name is dave hichey not ann .
Thank you for posting! This is amazing.
Beautiful, thankyou
I love this beautiful rendition of this classic Irish tune. Sla'inte!
JDL, thanks for your simple analysis
Watching in 2019 🙏.... lovely
Amazing movie.
I just wish the dound quality was a tad better than it is, i love this song.
Thank you for posting this.
All tracks of the LP below (The Whistlebinkies & Ted McKenna - Berlin GDR 1976) can be heard on UA-cam under, for example, "The Whistlebinkies & Ted McKenna 1976 The Dirty Blackleg Miner", etc (visuals are just a photo of the album cover)
Incredible video!
Greetings from Brazil!
Come to Ireland, there are lots of pubs like this
@@fxq777 Is there? I would like to go too. The Irish culture is very beautiful.
class, just class. voice perfect for the song
That Lecture does Zip for what went down back then.. we can't undo the past, but learn from same.... Peace to you....
You can find out more about it on imdb. Amazon are also selling copies for £9 sterling.
You're so right!
so fascinating clip... i'll surely watch the film
I love this song!!!!!
A question a while back was about any more recordings by Ted McKenna. There was an LP recorded February, 1976, in East Berlin (German Democratic Republic) called "The Whistlebinkies & Ted McKenna" on the Amiga label of VEB Deutsche Schallplatten (Amiga stereo 845127). They were all there for the 6th Festival of Political Song (the festival has been revived in recent years as 'Festival Musik und Politik'). He sings The Rocky Road to Dublin on it as well as other songs and choruses.
My favourite song, well done
Spot on! Just like the man himself! Good delivery as well...
beautiful, can feel every step
@mmmphilippe I love this version of the song and way he just rolls his shoulders puls the West of Ireland accent ....[ the quitar player looks like his younger brother...]
@kevleitrim
Thank You, reminds me of the great evenings I spent at JD MCGurks in Soulard, St Lois back in the early 90's
The faces and the eyes of the women are very interesting, they look tough and weary but very dignified. Your one at 1.21 her little smile is just amazing.
Yer man's "ah yeh' at 2.17 is pure gold, argh so homesick!
A great singer of a great song
2019 anyone?
December 8th 2019
July 2020🇸🇴
LOVE that song!
Wonderful and authentic!
This is *THE* recorded version of this song, nothing compares imo
I am sending this to everybody.
Great. And Ireland is also fantastic! November 2010 i travel alone by care through the burren area in county clare (westcoast). one week in a mystical, magical landscape with nice people anf great memories. Unforgetable!.
Awesome!!! Love it.....
According to Slatnick.com:
The film couldn't be banned in Ireland (the censors comment to the director was: "Since there is no sex in the film, Peter, there is nothing I can do against you.") It was only picked up by one Dublin cinema for a short run. The church's iron grip on the country was thus shown when no other cinema dared show the film.
Wikipedia agrees, and IMDB doesn't mention a ban.
Don't ever forget Luke Kelly.
Beautiful! Drinking, smoking, singing, loving, it’s the essence of life… Yes, it is!
Love the shoulder shrug, what a night I’m sure, I wish I would’ve been there
I long to go to my ancestors homeland. Love from Canada! I'll make my way eventually.
Drinking smoking and singing this is the real ireland not the plastic one we have now
Ireland for the irish
Africa for the Africans
Ireland is increasingly black, that’s your problem. Not whether it’s plastic or not.
@@adambritain5774of course a fella called Britain would talk that shite. The irish know first hand what life under duress drives men to do. The catholic irish going to England or the oz or the americas were at one point the ‘dangerous foreigners with the wrong religion who had come to steal jobs and not intergrate’ and that’s what’s levied against the dark skinned fellas coming over from Africa or the Middle East. You want to fight a foreign entity that seeks to destroy Europe? Fight the USA, remember what they did in Serbia as an excuse to create a military enclave called Kosovo to get closer to Russia.
Anyone know where I can find the full documentary?
Well, video replies seem to be a thing of the past but here is the link to a fragment of Ted singing this in the same place but 45 years later. Sorry I did not get the whole thing and it is just and iPhone recording. Amazingly about half a dozen of us who were there in 1968 were there last Thursday. arghh I cannot post a web address. Search for Ted McKenna Niall MacDonagh and it will come up.
thanks
The lad playing the guitar is his brother Gordon. Well done
Love it!
Just an idea to do it with vid and lyrics, but they're not on YT together., shame.
Epic 👍👍👍👍
I love how many pints go down.
bellissimo...troppo intensa sta storia
Last night I was at a sort of reunion of people from O'Donoghues from the 60s. Ted sand the rocky road. It is only a fragment and the video is bad but I am going to post it anyway.
You cant beat a good aul ballod session gr8 video gr8 singing
Awesome, Greetings from Germany
The girl on right of him looks like she smokes more than a cigarette
Seeed920 yes^^but her voice lifts the mood a hundred times.
this time and pub is just my thing
Grus aus Dublin. Yes, she looks "spaced" . Seeed this clip is very rare , almost a national treasure. For example , wissen sie Heinriich BOLL ? This clip of film was used in his famous film on Irland ..." Irland und siener Kinder" 1965.
+bigtiga kid..../ well said Bigtigta , me too , lifts the soul a million times
This is so cool. Proper pub no bs
@sandroilmagnifico who is that singing?
just watched the full movie on vimeo. check it out!
Please tell me more about the movie , please !
HCFBEE .
What is the name of the band and who the the French cinematographer? Anyone ///Cheers?
this is in odonegues(cant remember spelling) isnt it?
Anyone know the pub?
that he is robbie still getting him to play this nearly every week wen im over doing sum house work for him
wonderful
In the merry month of June from me home I started
Left the girls of Tuam nearly broken hearted
Saluted Father dear, kissed me darling mother
Drank a pint of beer, me grief and tears to smother
Then off to reap the corn, leave where I was born
Cut a stout blackthorn to banish ghosts and goblins
A brand new pair of brogues, rattlin' o'er the bogs
Frightenin' all the dogs on the rocky road to Dublin
One two three four five
Hunt the Hare and turn her down the rocky road
And all the way to Dublin, Whack fol lol le rah!
In Mullingar that night I rested limbs so weary
Started by daylight me spirits bright and airy
Took a drop of the pure
Keep me heart from sinking
That's the Paddy's cure whenever he's on drinking
To see the lassies smile, laughing all the while
At me curious style, 'twould set your heart a bubblin'
An' asked if I was hired, wages I required
'Till I was nearly tired of the rocky road to Dublin
One two three four five
Hunt the Hare and turn her down the rocky road
And all the way to Dublin, Whack fol lol le rah!
In Dublin next arrived, I thought it such a pity
To be soon deprived a view of that fine city
Well then I took a stroll, all among the quality
Bundle it was stole, all in a neat locality
Something crossed me mind, when I looked behind
No bundle could I find upon me stick a wobblin'
Enquiring for the rogue, said me Connaught brogue
Wasn't much in vogue on the rocky road to Dublin
One two three four five
Hunt the Hare and turn her down the rocky road
And all the way to Dublin, Whack fol lol le rah!
From there I got away, me spirits never falling
Landed on the quay, just as the ship was sailing
The Captain at me roared, said that no room had he
When I jumped aboard, a cabin found for Paddy
Down among the pigs, played some funny rigs
Danced some hearty jigs, the water round me bubbling
When off Holyhead wished meself was dead
Or better far instead
On the rocky road to Dublin
One two three four five
Hunt the Hare and turn her down the rocky road
And all the way to Dublin, Whack fol lol le rah!
The boys of Liverpool, when we safely landed
Called meself a fool, I could no longer stand it
Blood began to boil, temper I was losing
Poor old Erin's isle they began abusing
"Hurrah me soul!" says I, me shillelagh I let fly
Some Galway boys were nigh and saw I was a hobble in
With a loud "Hurray!" joined in the affray
We quickly cleared the way for the rocky road to Dublin
One two three four five
Hunt the Hare and turn her down the rocky road
And all the way to Dublin, Whack fol lol le rah!
Hunt the Hare and turn her down the rocky road
And all the way to Dublin, Whack fol lol le rah!
Whack fol lol le rah!
Whack fol lol le rah!
This is magic!! Thanks for sharing!! Anyone got the words to this, could do it for my party piece, would be an honour!! x ;)
best drinking song in the world ;D
12345. What a great song!
top tune
do you have any of his tapes or anything?
who is the guy singing?
What's his name?
Great song!
Greets from Russia! :)
Is the main instrument here a mouth organ? Can't tell what that is
Fiddle my boy
Wow I had actually replied to myself wtf
Got any more info on this movie?
Ted mc kenna here
Thanks for your kind comments
Luke Kelly playing guitar?
No, Gordon McKenna
So, where do we find a copy of this film? Thanks!
They do not let you put links in here but it is on UA-cam. Search for lennon rocky road to dublin movie and it should come up.
Cadence equals Alchemy! Magic !
Erin Go Bragh!!!
Real Ireland! brilliant song
super song
The year I was born 😎🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
very nice gents! Aloha!
memories from dundrum
I love The Dubliners but this is the best version
Любо !
Now I want to get loaded in Dublin again