Irish Songs Lyrics With Guitar Chords By Martin Dardis

About Martin Dardis Site For Irish Songs

Gerry O'Glacain from The Irish Brigade and Martin Dardis Info, about Martin Dardis And The Site ,   The only reason this guitar and lyrics site is here is to keep the Irish tradition of singing and playing music alive and kicking ,since I started back in March 2006 I have received hundreds of requests through email and the guestbook for songs , most of which I have provided and are on the site , the others I have emailed on to the people who requested them. I don't get many requests for chords anymore, that's a good thing and shows that I already have most of them here already   This is a LIVE site , probably the only one of it's kind to accept requests and for the webmaster to try work out the chords for visitors.   Favorite band/singer =The Wolfe Tones,The Pogues,Johnny McEvoy.Dubliners , Christy Moore and the Dublin City Ramblers Best moment in time=Playing guitar for Shane MacGowan [what a night] Favorite songs=For Ireland I'll not tell her name,Broad Majestic Shannon,Lullaby Of London[Pogues] Night Visiting Song[Dubliners] The Old Bog Road the Johnny McEvoy version Favorite pass time=Playing music with the lads in the pub. Updating web site=25 hours a week, once you start something like this it's hard to stop What do I play ? mostly guitar, a bit of banjo and tin whistle. Where am I from ? Swords North Co. Dublin Ireland   Collecting Irish songs and promoting them is a passion with me I wrote the songs called  Thomas Ashe also the song called ,The First Tuesday both are on the site The site receives on average 11000 visits a day. and has now reached the 5 million mark as from September 2009 It has helped thousands of guitar players of Irish songs, I know this because of the amount of emails I receive     The design  evolved through trial and error , I keep the layout simple and easy to navigate , This is a user friendly site, avoid sites with pop ups ,as they are bad for your computer, the guitar chords are kept very basic, mostly three chords, If you came here looking for Boyzone or Westlife lyrics and chords, then you came to the wrong place, sure them boys don't even know the chords themselves.   Recently I started collecting general folk songs from around the world, especially from England, America and Germany which has a rich culture in folk songs.

Irish Singers And Songwriters Music Here There are now 103 Wolfe Tones songs, 65 Christy Moore, 116 Dubliners, 44 Fureys, 32 Mary Black, 52 Pogues, 40 Foster And Allen, 38 Dublin City Ramblers, 25 Barleycorn, 60 Johnny McEvoy 30 Clancy Brothers, 6 Charlie And The Bhoys, 8 Gary Og, 7 Celtic Thunder  with a total of 830 including the traditional and folk songs. These are estimates as songs get added here on a regular basis.   Have Your Song Published Here If you have written an Irish song or even a folk song and want it published here just send it to me at the email address, lots of novice and established singer songwriters already have, if you have chords or sheet music for your song send it also and any backround information that might be of intrest. Keep the tablature easy.

Martin Dardis

Why Don't  Irish Radio Stations  Play Our Songs ? Well that question has puzzled me for years, I live in Dublin and if you were to hear even one of the songs I've on the site in a month you be lucky. There are radio stations for every brand of music here in Ireland except Irish. I'm involved in several Irish music discussion boards on the net and if for example The Wolfe Tones get one of their songs on radio it's a big deal with the board members at The Wolfe Tones site, they want to know what radio station played the song, what D.J what time etc. It should not be like this, our music has been handed down through the generations at sessions, open houses, crossroads dances and so on.   Things have moved on, I can only speak about Irish t.v and radio here, I've been told in Canada Irish music gets hugh airtime. If it was left to the big Irish stations then our songs and stories would have died a death years ago because all they play is non stop hip-hop, rap, and nonsencical pop music with no social value.   Folk songs tell a story, you can learn a lot from an old ballad, you will get an insight into the social history of your country by listening to it's folk/ballad songs. I'm sure most of you have been to YouTube to watch the songs, look how many hits the songs get. There are some old folk tunes there that have gotten a few hundred thousand hits. It's sad when we have to go on the internet to listen to our own songs. Shame on the radio stations in Ireland that won't play Irish songs. There are a few exceptions, Donnncha O'Dulaing on Saturday nights with ''Failte Isteach at 10 pm plays all Irish songs for an hour.

Are Rebel Songs Dying Out At Sessions Over the past couple of years I've noticed that rebel songs are not being played much by ballad groups or at sessions. Has anybody else noticed this ? This would be a shame in my opinion, the memory of our forefathers who fought so bravely for Ireland's freedom should be remembered and honored. Perhaps the rebel songs are just not being played around the Dublin area where I attend ballad sessions and are being played elsewhere ? but I have seen folk groups where in the past have included a good amount of rebel songs and are no longer playing them. Of course I'm not referring here to The Wolfe Tones, but to the other less well known ballad groups who play the pubs and clubs around Ireland every night. I would appreciate your view on this.

The Google Search On The Site If you are looking for a particular song that you can't remember the name of just enter a few words into the Google search box. The search results will be for this site only. I get lots of guitarists emailing me saying they would like a favorite song they like to be on the site even though the song may already be there, this happens a lot, so if your unsure of the title of the song it's no big deal, enter the few words you may know and several songs will be returned in the search results.

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Why You Would Contribute To The Site's Upkeep ? Many people consider a site for providing Irish music to a world wide community invaluable, that's the feed back I receive. Contributions are totally voluntary, but if you would like to help support and keep the site going so our music lives on just use the paypal button. What you give is up to yourself and confidential, it may be just the price of a pint or a songbook. Every little helps and gives me a big incentive to continue providing all your favorite Irish/folk songs.     When I started playing the guitar myself there were very little help, I bought a few song books but the chords were always way too hard and in the wrong key for me and there were tons of songs I just couldn't find anywhere. I would have given anything for a site like this.     Then the Internet came along, I searched and searched for Irish songs to play and all I got were these big sites that mainly catered for pop music but had a few folk songs  like 'The Wild Rover and 'Merry Ploughboy. ''Where are all the Irish songs'' I used to say to myself while shouting at the computer. Why wasn't anybody promoting the Irish folk and ballads ? so what did I do ? I done it myself.     By the time I made this website I already had about 150 songs in my head, going to ballad sessions you will always pick up a song or two, visitors to the site sent in a rake of songs, and as time went by I developed an ear for working out the chords myself, the easy songs. My long term plan is to collect as many of the Irish folk and ballads as possibly, these songs need to be kept alive for future generation. If the site has helped you please consider making a contribution so I may keep it going. [On Average One Person A Month Contributes]   Thanks

Marc Fahrbach has helped me with well over a hundred songs on this site, his contribution to the chords of The Dubliners, The Wolfe Tones, The Fureys and a whole load of traditional folk songs has added immensely to the popularity of what has become every ballad singers favorite site for guitar chords. When I get a request I hand the song over to Marc to put chords to it. Even songs I wanted to learn myself but wasn't sure if I had the chords correct I'd ask Marc to have a look and see what changes the song required. Marc comes from Germany and has a great love of Irish music, especially the Dubliners and The Wolfe Tones. Most of the newer songs from The Wolfe Tones have chords put to them by Marc as well as a whole heap of the Dubliners songs that were not available anywhere else. He has even tackled some Johnny McEvoy stuff he never heard of before. Marc has a fine tuned ear for music and I'm most grateful for his enormous input

Elias Montiel And Matt Molloy