Can you name the Irish songs by their opening lines?

created by TJL
  • Enter a Song in the box below
  • Correctly named Songs will show up below
  • Click any empty Opening Line or Song to answer for that location
  • Source: Growing up in an Irish-American household
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In Dublin's fair city, Where the girls are so pretty, I first set my eyes on sweet [Title]
There's a collen fair as May, for a year and for a day I have sought by every way her heart to gain
Over In Killarney, many years a go, me Mother sang a song to me in tones so sweet and low
O, father dear I often hear you speak of Erin's Isle, her lofty scenes, her valleys green, her mountains rude and wild
Oh Paddy, dear, and did you hear the news that's going round, the shamrock is forbid by law to grow on Irish ground.
As we gather in the chapel here in old Kilmainham Jail, I think about these past few weeks, oh will they say we've failed?
Oh, [Title], the pipes, the pipes are calling, from glen to glen, and down the mountain side
The [Title] to the war is gone, In the ranks of death ye will find him
As I went down to Dublin city, at the hour of twelve at night, who should I see but the [Title], washing her feet by candlelight.
When winter was brawling, o'er high hills and mountains And dark were the clouds o'er the deep rolling sea, I spied a wee lass as the daylight was dawning
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I was born on a Dublin street where the royal drums did beat and the loving English feet walked all over us
We were sitting on the wall upon a Sunday to watch the girls go by
When boyhood's fire was in my blood I read of ancient freemen, for Greece and Rome who bravely stood, three hundred men and three men
I've been a [Title] for many's the year, and I spent all me money on whiskey and beer
If you ever go across the sea to Ireland, then maybe, at the closing of your day, you can sit and watch the moon rise over Claddagh and see the sun go down on [Title]
A great crowd had gathered outside of Kilmainham, with their heads all uncovered, they knelt on the ground
At [Title] as the sun was setting, o'er the bright May meadows of Shelmalier
There's a place just outside Lisburn, it's a place that's known to few, where a group of Irish rebels are held by Faulkner's crew
Oh, Mary, this London's a wonderful sight, with people all working by day and by night.
'Twas a cold an' dreary (frosty) mornin' in December, an' all of me money it was spent
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Irish Songs By Opening Lines Quiz

  1. by TJL
  • Created Mar 16, 2011 in Music
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