Mary Wallopers - Building Up and Tearing England Down - RnaL 1064FM

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  • @lorcs6663
    @lorcs6663 4 роки тому +164

    Had to go to London myself in 2010.. looking for work down in Cricklewood ended up on the bedford motorway , met a lot of guys who left in the 80s... good storys and hard luck storys but they always looked after there own. Helped us young guys coming over after the economic crash back home and pointed us in the right direction seeing as they had been threw it all. lovley song.

    • @irishaware
      @irishaware 4 роки тому +8

      With respect your experience in 2010 is not even the same world as being Irish in Britain pre 21st century!
      Not even remotely!
      Even those who left in the 80's (a tough time being Irish in itself) had the rights of Lords compared to Irish emigrants of previous decades.
      Pre 21st century and a great flux of 'other immigrants' allowed the Irish to relax and not be prioritized for ignorant engerland / british oafs.
      It was all too often a very nasty place and constantly demoralizing (debasing paddy jokes for example were national tv, constant relentless weekly prime time) place to be if you were Irish.
      No comparison what so ever to the rights you would of had!
      Back then the Irish were around dog level no rights or avenues to dare complain and purposely created imaged dogs so by the perverse invented british state, a state and culture about as credibly old as the USA.

    • @cunlahound
      @cunlahound 3 роки тому +20

      If there's one thing that can be said for the Irish is we look after our own abroad.....if we could do the same at home it'd be something

    • @declanlucas4977
      @declanlucas4977 3 роки тому +1

      Savage ssssss#

    • @lorcs6663
      @lorcs6663 2 роки тому +8

      @@blueporta I will never forget the day I got the start down in Cricklewood. Getting into the van at 6am and the excitement of this new city but huddling around a generator at 7am trying to get the hands warm was not fun ha. It was the Irish community and characters you meet on the way that made it special because it was a home from home. Just a great life experience, Its nice there songs and fellas like this who remember it and sing about it so well. All the best Steve

    • @andrewconnolly4084
      @andrewconnolly4084 2 роки тому +1

      The Murphyia

  • @jphone-oy9xx
    @jphone-oy9xx 3 роки тому +59

    Jesus lads…memories of the late seventies and early 80s flooding back . Myself and a whole generation lived in squats and worked for Murphy,Clipfine, Mulvaney et al . We pimped ourselves for day work in Kilburn and drank in the Archway Tavern and shifted in The Galtee Mor.
    Great rendition of the Dominick Behan song. Some family. Brother Brendan wrote The AuldTriangle , The Patriot Game and uncle Peadar Kearney penned the National anthem.

    • @jamesbradshaw3389
      @jamesbradshaw3389 10 місяців тому +2

      All that you have said is true, we may have rubbed shoulders at the great place called The Galtee More

  • @glennjones9768
    @glennjones9768 3 роки тому +82

    This is and always will be the best version of this song. Gives me goosebumps

    • @jaydee4674
      @jaydee4674 Рік тому +2

      Nah...the Dubs have the best version.

    • @ruairioceallaigh8882
      @ruairioceallaigh8882 Рік тому +1

      Frank Harte and Donal Lunny's version is best. This is great nonetheless.

  • @nicolenibhailtuinogabhann3839
    @nicolenibhailtuinogabhann3839 2 роки тому +9

    Had to immigrate to the States myself back in 2018. I was 17. The Americans wreck me head most days about their great grandfather x4 who came from Ireland. But they shine brightly telling me of how they clobbered together to make a life for themselves. I find myself things I'm doing the same thing. Miss the motherland like no tomorrow but life here is good and I'm wanting to prosper! Tíochfidh ar La. Éire will always have my heart ❤️ love to all the past Irish men and women who used their new found wealth to keep the motherland floating ❤️🇮🇪🇮🇪

  • @frankflapper445
    @frankflapper445 4 роки тому +43

    Can't get over this rendition of the song. This is my 5th time round.

  • @Eva-ik2ik
    @Eva-ik2ik 4 роки тому +114

    Headed for the big, big, big time.....the best stuff I have heard in years..congrats lads........ye walloped it...

    • @finneire2081
      @finneire2081 4 роки тому +6

      Have you no ears
      I’ve said before and as a corkman I don’t like to say this but the best to sing ballads are the Dubs by far.

    • @lorcancushen2494
      @lorcancushen2494 4 роки тому +10

      @@finneire2081 couldnt disagree more, the dubs voice ruin alot of classic songs, either bogger or south Ireland accent is best

    • @finneire2081
      @finneire2081 4 роки тому +1

      Lorcan Cushen so your telling me likes of Luke kelly ruined it paddy Reilly ruined songs go away they are far better than anything I have heard from the south

    • @Phoneygravy
      @Phoneygravy 4 роки тому +11

      @@finneire2081 they're actually from Dundalk. We can't claim them all

    • @markdeer952
      @markdeer952 4 роки тому +1

      @@finneire2081 ..these boys are class

  • @TheDrumlinBoy
    @TheDrumlinBoy 4 роки тому +74

    There is a line straight from The Clancy's and Tommy Makem throught the Dubliners, Shane MacGown a bit of Christy Moore and these lads. This is the salt of Irish singing and music. Simple yet brilliant harmonies, go for it lads.

    • @tim7733-e6w
      @tim7733-e6w 4 роки тому +1

      Can’t beat Shane macgowan

    • @Kloppsserialbottlers
      @Kloppsserialbottlers 4 роки тому

      Not trying to be funny, but do you even understand what a harmony is? I don't think you do.

    • @TheDrumlinBoy
      @TheDrumlinBoy 3 роки тому +11

      @@Kloppsserialbottlers I was referring to many of their other songs. I am aware that this is a solo effort by Charles. The Wallopers are much more than this classic.

    • @marymcelroy5967
      @marymcelroy5967 2 роки тому +1

      Exactly !

    • @marymcelroy5967
      @marymcelroy5967 2 роки тому +2

      These guys are the brilliance of irish music/song finding a new expression!

  • @racheltoner1906
    @racheltoner1906 2 роки тому +15

    These boys are blessed with such a unique Irish expression I love them 🙌☘️🇮🇪🙌 nothing like them. Go wan Dundalk 💪🏻

  • @solemndonkey5965
    @solemndonkey5965 3 роки тому +17

    I think Ronnie Drew is grinning down at this

  • @annegalway4371
    @annegalway4371 3 роки тому +10

    Authentic rendition of this great immigrant song. Love the Mary Wallopers! Three very talented lads.

  • @MrAwsomeshot
    @MrAwsomeshot 5 років тому +44

    would love to hear you guys play some more classics from the dubs, clancy bros, wolfe tones, chieftains, et al.

  • @johncooke2903
    @johncooke2903 4 роки тому +27

    Would love to hear a version of McAlpines Fusiliers, great stuff

  • @pauli6794
    @pauli6794 4 роки тому +11

    I first came across these lads on my You tube thread,very different very unique looking for a man who has listened to Irish music most of my life these lads our fantastic.

  • @seanmurray93
    @seanmurray93 2 роки тому +3

    cant believe I'm only coming across this video now. What a tune!!

  • @Lucyavamaria
    @Lucyavamaria 4 роки тому +12

    I listen to this daily.

  • @joecarley3997
    @joecarley3997 4 роки тому +19

    Brilliant.. Stands up to any other version

  • @MrRoastedSnow
    @MrRoastedSnow 4 роки тому +6

    Amazing voice! Spot on. A great find. Agression in this voice. Lovely

  • @jimfarmerharte4629
    @jimfarmerharte4629 2 роки тому +3

    Best version of this song I've heard,,,

  • @keepitbluezola
    @keepitbluezola 11 місяців тому

    I’m unable to find suitable vocabulary to be able to describe how brilliantly perfect this is. All in there, everything anyone needs to understand.. Just perfect!

  • @TheMasterSmiffy
    @TheMasterSmiffy 3 роки тому +5

    all the way from Prague, fair play to ye lads. very few things could make me home sick but this has to one of em

  • @Xr3737
    @Xr3737 4 роки тому +6

    great tune, cheers from upstate NY.

  • @j.williamkinsella9354
    @j.williamkinsella9354 3 місяці тому

    Great song,remember the early 90s not much work,brings back memories.

  • @jamesbradshaw3389
    @jamesbradshaw3389 11 місяців тому

    There is a stunning beauty in the banjo and guitar playing vocals the story of this song. Most Irish folksongs are based on true happenings, on hard times, and the brutality that people had to suffer over centuries and inflicted on them by their nearest dearest neighbor England. The Mary Wallopers are the band to carry on this great tradition of storytelling, history teaching and at the same time giving the best of fun to al the people

  • @fosbrothers
    @fosbrothers 5 років тому +21

    Proper Irish - great song and well executed

    • @ifIgetinstigatedimsorray
      @ifIgetinstigatedimsorray 4 роки тому

      Did you guys write that song?? Its excellent

    • @fosbrothers
      @fosbrothers 4 роки тому +1

      @@ifIgetinstigatedimsorray written by Dominic Behan, Brendan's brother

  • @MrCreepyb0b
    @MrCreepyb0b Рік тому +2

    Makes me think of my Grandad John immediately. Great work lads.

  • @teddywokk
    @teddywokk 2 роки тому +7

    Best folk/trad group in recent times. Heading big places. ❤️

  • @rxa177
    @rxa177 2 роки тому +2

    New torch bearers of authenticity

  • @lukekelly82
    @lukekelly82 4 роки тому +6

    Total class. These lads are brilliant. Not sure which is better, the music or the vocal.

  • @jcbanjo4150
    @jcbanjo4150 2 роки тому +1

    Amazing version of a brilliant song, well done, keep on trucking lads

  • @michaelcullen1111
    @michaelcullen1111 4 роки тому +12

    Lovely song and this is the best version I've heard. I've gone back to it time and again for months and I reckon it's the tenor banjo that really makes it. Anyone able to find/figure out the tabs for the banjo part? Would love to give it a go.

  • @tyleryoast8299
    @tyleryoast8299 Місяць тому

    Done about 6-7 years of construction work and I hope to never set foot on a jobsite again. Broke bones, spit out shattered teeth, had my arms burned from wrist to elbow by having wet concrete on them for more than 6 hours. I don't know why but this song made me misty eyed when I heard it today. The man who destroy themselves day-in-and-day-out won't ever be known to the world, but you're walking every day on their sacrifices.

  • @seannamadra5675
    @seannamadra5675 4 роки тому +5

    Great Song well delivered!

  • @trophy_husband
    @trophy_husband Рік тому +6

    I'm American, so some words are hard to identify. But the heart of the song is so strong. I will search for the lyrics to bridge my heart to my mind. 💚💚🙈🙉🙊💚💚
    🤠🇺🇸🤝🇨🇮😁

    • @anto5424
      @anto5424 Рік тому +5

      Here you go! Different singers vary the lyrics a bit. The song was written by Dominic Behan, who wrote several songs that have become part of the Irish folk canon. Perhaps his best-known song is McAlpine's Fusiliers, which is about the same topic as this one. The Dubliners made McAlpine's Fusiliers their own, and this is a brilliantly rowdy live recording of it: ua-cam.com/video/xEk37t4LWp0/v-deo.html
      Building Up and Tearing England Down
      Oh, I won a hero’s name with McAlpine and Costain
      With Fitzpatrick, Murphy, Ash and the Wimpey's gang
      I've been often on the road on my way to draw the dole
      When there's nothing left to do for Johnny Laing
      And I used to think that God made the mixer, pick and hod
      So that Paddy might know hell above the ground
      I've had gangers big and tough
      Tell me tear it all out rough
      When you're building up and tearing England down.
      I remember Carrier Jack with his hod upon his back
      And he swore one day he'd set the world on fire
      And his face they've never seen
      Since his shovel it cut clean
      Through the middle of a big high tension wire.
      And I saw auld Bald McCall from the big flyover fall
      Into a concrete mixer spinning round
      Though it was not his intent, he gained a fine head of cement
      When he was building up and tearing England down.
      I was on the hydro dam on the day that Jack McCann
      Got the better of his stammer in a week
      He fell from the shuttering jamb
      And that poor auld stuttering man
      He was never, ever more inclined to speak.
      Oh, no more like Robin Hood will he roam through Cricklewood
      Or dance around the pubs of Camden Town
      Oh, but let no man complain that no navvy dies in vain
      When he's building up and tearing England down.
      In a tunnel underground, a young Limerick man was found;
      He was built into the new Victoria line.
      And when bonus gang had passed sticking through the concrete cast
      Was the face of little Charlie Joe Devine.
      And the ganger man McGurk said “big Paddy ate the work,”
      When a gaspipe burst and he flew off the ground
      Well, they swear he said “Don't slack!
      It won’t be long until I’m back
      Keep on building up and tearing England down!"
      So come all you navvies bold, who do think that English gold
      Is just waiting to be taken from each sod
      Or the likes of you and me will ever get an OBE
      Or a knighthood for good service to the hod.
      They're the concrete master race there to keep you in your place
      And a ganger man to kick you to the ground
      If you ever try to take part of what the bosses make
      When you're building up and tearing England down.
      If you ever try to take part of what the bosses make
      When you're building up and tearing England down.

    • @pureoracles684
      @pureoracles684 Рік тому

      ​@@anto5424 Thank you 🙏💗

  • @booksandboozebookreviews6870
    @booksandboozebookreviews6870 2 роки тому +3

    amazing work, beautiful!

  • @simonconroy2045
    @simonconroy2045 4 роки тому +9

    These lads are on to something

  • @Rikki0
    @Rikki0 4 роки тому +7

    I keep seeing people say they would love to hear you do this song or that song. Well here's what I say, lads. Do them all and don't leave out a damned one. Just don't forget to share them with us. Salute and respect from a red, white, and blue blooded Texan of indiscriminate Gaelic heritage.

    • @Sean-gj2td
      @Sean-gj2td 9 місяців тому +1

      Here here brother

  • @davidwalker8370
    @davidwalker8370 2 місяці тому

    Class 💯👌. Weel done lads 💯👍😎🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

  • @flannandownesjnr9426
    @flannandownesjnr9426 Рік тому

    A fan now big time
    well done lads

  • @MrAwsomeshot
    @MrAwsomeshot 5 років тому +9

    applause from the states.

  • @niamhlavelle1526
    @niamhlavelle1526 3 роки тому

    great to see ye lads getting reconition many a good nite in Owenies bar we had listening to ye

  • @thomascorcoran8823
    @thomascorcoran8823 Рік тому +2

    Absolute class

  • @vincentcostello6446
    @vincentcostello6446 Рік тому +2

    Brill, JUST BRILL.

  • @sheilaomalley5369
    @sheilaomalley5369 Рік тому

    Simply sublime

  • @davidmcparland7008
    @davidmcparland7008 3 роки тому +1

    Brillant lads keep up the work

  • @johnodonovan2677
    @johnodonovan2677 4 роки тому +1

    Pleasantly different, really good. Well done, best of luck.

  • @dancrowley5128
    @dancrowley5128 4 роки тому +1

    Well done lads 👌we have a great variation of music in Ireland💜

  • @ciaran6988
    @ciaran6988 4 роки тому +1

    Keep trucking lads

  • @reddwing4368
    @reddwing4368 3 роки тому

    Ahhh buys
    Yer bringing it all back home thanks

  • @Frorackous
    @Frorackous 4 роки тому

    So so so good. Amazing guys. I’d pay to see yous any day of the week.

  • @mfphonepics
    @mfphonepics Рік тому +5

    I was there in the 80s and worked alongside these men in the trenches. You do the era justice and give a perfect voice to the often unspoken emotions and hard knocks that these men endured.

    • @imarsayed1844
      @imarsayed1844 Рік тому

      U worked amongst weaklings in trenches. Immediately I had my time back in world wars I would've sent alot more irish into the place cos they need to be fumigated

    • @cpg-fx7ew
      @cpg-fx7ew Рік тому

      Did you "remodel" London as well?

  • @lorcan.oconnell
    @lorcan.oconnell 4 роки тому +2

    Great stuff, fair play to ye lads!

  • @rosswynne4291
    @rosswynne4291 12 днів тому

    the boys are the real deal !!!

  • @aranisaacson9892
    @aranisaacson9892 Місяць тому

    Country cajun irish street punk what a brilliant sound I wonder do they like the Balfa brothers louisiana swamp sounds

  • @derekmulraine7726
    @derekmulraine7726 Рік тому +1

    Brilliant

  • @karlgillespie5906
    @karlgillespie5906 4 роки тому +6

    Mon the town!

  • @johncooke2903
    @johncooke2903 4 роки тому +1

    Great stuff, well done

  • @_Tabasco
    @_Tabasco Рік тому

    Brilliant 👏👏👏

  • @johncarton8701
    @johncarton8701 2 роки тому

    Love it lads !!!!

  • @ianmooloy5130
    @ianmooloy5130 3 роки тому

    Lovely lads ☘❤

  • @mattuboyle5891
    @mattuboyle5891 3 роки тому

    Love that lads singing voice

  • @noeleenobrien2590
    @noeleenobrien2590 4 роки тому

    Love these lads!

  • @junglejuice3536
    @junglejuice3536 5 років тому +8

    F*ckin beautiful 💚🔥

  • @etniesdub1
    @etniesdub1 Рік тому +2

    boys you honestly dont push your stuff enough im sick of telling evryone.. its there for the takin

  • @phoebeandkaylee7927
    @phoebeandkaylee7927 10 місяців тому

    we need the banjo tab badly!

  • @alandineen6582
    @alandineen6582 4 роки тому +4

    Serious musicians

  • @saramontgomery4840
    @saramontgomery4840 8 місяців тому

    heart and soul

  • @sitdowntwice
    @sitdowntwice Рік тому

    These guys are amazing 🔥 yup TPM

  • @jonathanoconnor5381
    @jonathanoconnor5381 4 роки тому

    Seriously brilliant

  • @williamclinton5733
    @williamclinton5733 4 роки тому

    Love it, more power to them

  • @mamaduhalyan6006
    @mamaduhalyan6006 Рік тому +1

    Jaysus, i never liked this song at all before. Always felt any version i heard was boozy and too fast. This version puts the soul back into it again. The story that it was intended to be.

  • @seosamhv
    @seosamhv 2 роки тому

    Incredible

  • @hippyjoe
    @hippyjoe 4 роки тому +16

    Le ceol mar seo tá ionadh orm nach bhfuil níos mó Marxóirí in Éirinn.

  • @upsidedahead
    @upsidedahead 2 роки тому

    Bravo 💥🔥

  • @N29o21ah
    @N29o21ah Рік тому +1

    All the boys on the dole!

  • @mairtinkeane9582
    @mairtinkeane9582 3 роки тому +1

    'There you go, there's the song' he says. Someone else says 'Beautiful' and they are not wrong..

  • @paulmcghee8180
    @paulmcghee8180 7 місяців тому

    Where's your video version lads?

  • @ratheanach5545
    @ratheanach5545 4 роки тому +1

    Check out the Crubeen version

  • @kennymacdonald8226
    @kennymacdonald8226 4 роки тому +6

    There was no health and safety or toolbox talks way back then

  • @CAVAN310
    @CAVAN310 4 роки тому

    Anyone have a banjo tab for this whatsoever??

  • @patrickbreslin7499
    @patrickbreslin7499 3 роки тому

    tremendous!

  • @shanedalton2560
    @shanedalton2560 Рік тому

    Just class

  • @flannandownesjnr9426
    @flannandownesjnr9426 24 дні тому

    These guys
    Thank funk there about❤

  • @mauricehigney4024
    @mauricehigney4024 4 роки тому

    love it

  • @tuomok2343
    @tuomok2343 4 роки тому

    Class!

  • @Oooo-bi7bi
    @Oooo-bi7bi Рік тому

    Go on lads high grade folk

  • @PatrickClarkin
    @PatrickClarkin Рік тому

    “There you go. There’s the song.”

  • @eiretek
    @eiretek 4 роки тому

    Powerful.

  • @johnniejukebox
    @johnniejukebox 5 років тому +2

    Fucken NAILED!

  • @Abcd-hr9ot
    @Abcd-hr9ot 4 роки тому

    Are murphys still going strong

  • @FionnMacCumhail1
    @FionnMacCumhail1 4 роки тому +19

    Ar Fheabhas / Top class

  • @albertmccready478
    @albertmccready478 2 роки тому

    Like it.

  • @declanlucas4977
    @declanlucas4977 3 роки тому

    Class

  • @jambutty2218
    @jambutty2218 3 роки тому +2

    I did the same when I busked in Kingston upon Thames. Got a lot more interest and money if I put on an Irish accent. These guys are good keeping it up between songs.

  • @Vandalgrease
    @Vandalgrease Рік тому

    God bless James Connolly

  • @TrevorMcCarney
    @TrevorMcCarney Рік тому

    I help to dig it up ,

  • @joshgraziosi8159
    @joshgraziosi8159 2 роки тому

    I believe this is a Portuguese dialect

  • @pegknife
    @pegknife 21 день тому

    Should have left this one to the Dubliners

  • @ThePaddyjohn
    @ThePaddyjohn 3 роки тому

    G’wan ya buachaill ya!

  • @colm9582
    @colm9582 2 роки тому

    Giddy up

  • @Reezy1888
    @Reezy1888 2 роки тому

    Lizzys in a box in a box