st patty's day!

well, i have been sick for 2 weeks.
having had pneumonia many times, i had to stay in for two weeks with a bronchial
infection.......
long long two weeks.
its st. patty's day today, and i am feeling great now.
can't really go out anywhere, so listening to live ireland!
how wonderful! what great music!
their taking request from around the world, playing the best stuff!
ihave just lately been finding old 'reel's" online that i can play in chords.
using a capo, way low it sounds a bit like a banjo and it is great fun to play the
music, like the "kerry reel" and those old stomping fiddling songs.
thank god for the internet or i may have lost my mind a long long time ago.
or perhaps i did....you know , they say you don't know it if it happens to you, so don't worry about it.
whooo hooo. a couple of killians red, a silver goblet from my mothers old cupboard, set for special occasions, a little irish music, and the old winter nights of the U.P. seem quite tolerable.
So here's to my mom and dad
a couple that glowed with glee
to their flight in the skies of eternity.
to the ring of the irish reel
to the way it makes me dance on my heels.
to my irish great grand dad.
whose eyes were almost white
and his spirit such that could not die, yeah this night i see the whites of his eyes!
and celebrate where e'er i am.
and always sing this song.

It always has fasinated me...
the irish...and the scottish.
of all the people and races, that were taken over and blended in , by those stronger, more prominent ones.
these few little ones, the small little bit of folks, living on these islands, well they defied the world around them....they did.
they survived, they kept them out and more than that.
when they found they had to live, they influenced the whole world around them
can you say that about so many many races that have lived?
can ya say that about any small tribes?
where are they? were is their legacy, most were wiped out with the tides.
but not ireland, not scotland,
now there are some people there!
some very strong strong stubborn people!
i am happy to announce,
i am one of them. hee hee.
and tonight,i celebrate the plight of a few small folks that no one ever really got.
that the whole world the romans the english the europeans, never never against them could fully plot...
nope, instead around the world today, this small people make their play,
on all the streets of america, the people do parade.
with hats of green, and smiles that seem, irish in all ways.
To you dear Ireland, and all your roots and branches, spread out upon this earth.
i say THANKS, for a part of me has known you from my birth.