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Ep. 228 Today's Peep A St. Patrick's Day Reflection, Family Traditions, Irish Music from Ballads to Celtic Punk, and Green Beers to Mosh Pits... An Unforgettable St. Patrick's Day in Tempe, Arizona 2008
The personal meaning of St. Patrick's Day takes center stage as Pat shares stories of his Irish heritage, musical memories, and recent journey to discover his roots in Killarney, Ireland.
• Named after St. Patrick himself by his mother Teresa Bernadette
• Discovering his Gaelic name "Porak Braknak" and family connections in Killarney
• Childhood memories of St. Patrick's Day cards and his mother's insistence on wearing green
• Exploring the range of Irish music from traditional ballads to Celtic punk
• Memorable St. Patrick's Day concert featuring Flogging Molly and Japanese Celtic punk band Cherry Cokes
• Reflection on family bonds and the recent loss of both his son and cousin Richard
• Mother's influence through John Gary's Irish music and building cultural connections
Be careful and have a safe, happy, healthy, joyous, and blessed St. Patrick's Day.
welcome to the pats peeps podcast. Welcome back. For many of you, hey, happy monday today. Today, as I look out my studio window into the beautiful foothills of northern california. For many of you, hey, happy Monday today. Today, as I look out my studio window into the beautiful foothills of Northern California, cloudy, rainy. We just had some hail, which kind of puts a damper, but not too much, on St Patrick's Day. Happy St Patrick's Day to you. Please tell me you're wearing green today. Please tell me you're wearing green on St Patrick's Day.
Speaker 1:I'm Pat Walsh, named after St Patrick himself. That's no joke. I'm the host of the Pat Walsh Show, heard on KFBK Radio in Sacramento, heard everywhere on your free iHeart app, just like this podcast, heard everywhere on all of your, all your streaming platforms, spotify and Apple, and I mean you name it iHeart. They're all. We're on all of them, okay? Plus, I post them on all of my Facebook pages every single day. So, but it is St Patrick's Day and it's no kidding.
Speaker 1:I was actually named after St Patrick. Can you imagine me being named after a saint? Hard to believe, true, though. My mother used to tell me this story. God rest her soul. She used to tell me, by the way, her name is Teresa Bernadette and she told me that, patrick, when you were born, because I was the first, the first of six kids, and she said when you were going to be, when I was expecting you, when I was pregnant with you, I was going to name you Patrick after St Patrick. But your grandmother, my dad's mother, wanted to name you Anthony after St Anthony. So either way, it seemed like I was going to be named after a saint.
Speaker 1:Now I'm sure I haven't lived up to that billing, but that was mighty nice of them thinking that way and, to be honest with you, I love my name. You know some people don't like their names. I know people who, like I wish I wouldn't have been named this, but I've kind of gotten used to it, fortunately. I mean, I like my name, patrick, that would be what I want to be called. Now that they've named me that, I guess I'm just used to it. But I'm sure most of us like our names that were chosen for us. I just happen to know some people aren't, but I don't want to digress there too far. So I'm named after St Patrick and St Anthony, patrick, anthony.
Speaker 1:Many of you call my radio show and say Patrick Anthony Walsh, and it's funny. You guys, just you know me so well and I just I love it and I love that we have this ever-growing audience on Pat's Peeps. By the way, it's 228. 228. Obviously, st Patrick's Day means it's 17th of March 2025. And you know St Patrick.
Speaker 1:He was a 5th century Roman-B Roman British Christian missionary. He was a bishop in Ireland, known as the Apostle of Ireland. He's the primary patron saint of Ireland, which I just returned from Ireland recently, had a fabulous time and I learned a lot while I was there. I learned my family is from Killarney. I learned my real name, porak Brawbrachnak. Porak Obrachnak is my real name in Gaelic, porak Braknak. Now I got to have people call me Porak Porak Braknak.
Speaker 1:I learned about a man named William Walsh who, in Killarney, he saved a bridge. They were going to get rid of this bridge, but he saved the bridge. He had a bridge. They were going to get rid of this bridge, but he saved the bridge. He had this idea. Anyhow, there was a tax that he put in because they needed this bridge to save these towns, and so he imposed this tax. Long story short saved the bridge and there was the bridge, and his name was William Walsh, which is my dad's name, which is my nephew's name. So I learned a lot and they really welcome you and especially if your name is they're very welcoming people, the Irish but if your name is Walsh, that's the main name surname in that area and they really embrace it, particularly if your name is Walsh without an E. Are you Walsh without an E? With or without an E? I'll say without. Oh, they embrace you. It's good to have you.
Speaker 1:But I don't know. I'm sure they might do the same thing with someone with the E at the end of Walsh, like Pat Walsh I was talking about on my last podcast, I think, who was one of the main flying monkey in the Wizard of Oz, the dwarf. I mean his name was Patrick Walsh but he had the E on the end, so it's a little different, I guess. For whatever reason, st Patrick he is notably the patron saint of Nigeria Was never formally, I mean, canonized by the Catholic Church. He lived before the current laws that it established for these things, but he is venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church, the Lutheran Church, the Church of Ireland and throughout the world.
Speaker 1:The dates of Patrick's life, they can't really be fixed, I guess, but with absolute certainty. But there's general agreement that he was active as a missionary in Ireland during the 5th century. There was a recent biography done on St Patrick shows a late 4th century date for the saint is not impossible, but yeah, but there is still some question of that. According to tradition dating from the early Middle Ages, patrick was the first bishop in the primate of Ireland is credited with bringing Christianity to Ireland, converting a pagan society in the process and he has been generally so regarded ever since, despite evidence of some earlier Christian presence. So anyhow, just a little bit of that. And also, why not, since I did just get back from Ireland, the last name being Walsh, figured, how about a little Walsh's Hornpipe to start here on Pat's Peeps 228, walsh's Hornpipe, here you go, thank you.
Speaker 1:When we were kids we'd go to the breakfast table and every St Patrick's Day you'd go to the breakfast table. I can just imagine it now, even on this gray St Patrick's Day the sun coming in, beaming through the kitchen curtain windows into our dining room table, beaming through the kitchen curtain windows into our dining room table, and you'd sit down to eat breakfast. My mother would have breakfast made for us six kids, and right next to our plates, on one side would be the silverware, your napkin, and on the other side would be a card. It was like opening, almost like Valentine's Day, those vintage Valentine's Day cards, but they would be St Patrick's Day cards and literally it was like a ray of sunshine into my soul. She'd draw little shamrocks on the envelopes. You did not dare to go to school not wearing green. You did not dare, not, with my mother standing guard. To this day I have such a green wardrobe. So many choices never miss.
Speaker 5:Oh.
Speaker 1:Walsh's Hornpipe on St Patrick's Day. Pat's Peeps number 228.
Speaker 6:Love that you're part of the podcast family. You know to be Irish over here is a special feeling. We turned up and you're celebrating our national holiday, st Patrick's Day. It's amazing and we're like, look at the spirit, these people are all getting involved. And then we realized, hold on a minute, are they calling it St Patrick's Day? It's amazing and we're like, look at the spirit, these people are all getting involved. And then we realize, hold on a minute, are they calling it St Patty's Day? Patty is a woman's name. Patty spelled P-A-T-T-Y. We have Patty, our patron saint, p-a-d-d-y. You can't just go all Bruce Jenner on our patrons saying we wouldn't do that to you. Could you imagine? You just turned up in Ireland and you're like, hey guys, what are you celebrating? This looks like a really good time. And we're like, oh yeah, it's a big day here. We're celebrating Martina Luther King Day.
Speaker 6:Just one little typo there and I would have turned one of the greatest leaders in history into a lesbian tennis player. One little letter, big difference there, right? And then I really home in on it and I'm like, wait a minute. Does it say happy St Patty's Day in a four-leaf clover? What has you know those green things with the sides on four-leaf clover. Four leaves, lovely, I mean. It looks nice, but it's got nothing to do with Ireland.
Speaker 6:We love a good shamrock, very central to Irish culture. Three sides to a shamrock, four-leaf clover nothing to do with Ireland. That's the equivalent of me getting a tattoo on my arm of a pigeon and being like go America, be a bit random, wouldn't it? Such a difference. I do be trying to get into your American sports over here. You guys are amazing at sports. In the last two Olympics, just for consistency, in each of them you won 46 Olympic gold medals 46. And look at you. Not a single person cares about that, not even a mild reaction. If Ireland won 46 gold medals, I'd be still drunk in a field somewhere.
Speaker 1:Dave Nihill. I'm Pat's Peeps 228. This is Flatfoot 56, a song called Brotherhood.
Speaker 3:As I walk through this land, I remember the boys who took a stand, who stood their stone Once they turned tough, the sound of screaming, the face of a rock, but no weapon formed. I guess I won't live. I'll bust their face. The gift of the grip, the curse, was just Something that should have been pure and all hell shone upon the earth and the floor.
Speaker 1:Woah, woah, woah, woah woah, woah, woah, woah, woah, woah, woah, woah, woah, woah, woah, woah, woah. Irish rock. It just has so much energy behind it, Especially with that bagpipe in there. Let them see, our drill is a symbol. But those who are free, we fight against evil, we fight against sin. Our battles are not won, our battles are dead. And I said Whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh what was really great getting you know. Just before we came back from Ireland, we had gone to, we went to Dublin.
Speaker 1:The group, the Pats Peeveseps group, went over to dublin with conservative tours and we toured the jameson whiskey factory. We're sitting in jameson's personal office and we we had a tasting there with all of these beautiful whiskeys. I love irish whiskey. Uh, we went to the guinness factory, you know, and we went to the top of this building. They had this incredible displays all the way through the Guinness factory where light shows that formed, you know, big glasses of Guinness and it just just these spectacular light shows and just some very odd and interesting art and exhibits all the way through.
Speaker 1:And then we get up to the top and they have this room. It's a huge bar and everyone's drinking Guinness. You learn so everything there is about Guinness and why it's special and why people love it. And then you get up to the top there and after this lengthy, wonderful tour and then everyone's having the best time. But it overlooks Dublin and it was just such a fun town. It was just so fun to see some of these places where I've loved their products for many years. As an adult, you know your occasional Guinness and to tilt a few of those with some like-minded folks there at the top of that building in Dublin, and certainly my love of Irish whiskey. These are some good. I'm going to mix it up a little bit with some Irish music. I love this one. Speaking of an Irish pub, here's the Rum Jacks, pat's Peeps 228. Great rocking, like I say, high-energy bands.
Speaker 2:Here it is. There's a county map to go with the wall of hurling Stick in the shinty bowl, the brick, the brack, the crack, and all is calling Irish pub. Hey, caffrey, shop, cocaine in your top, the Guinness pie in the cabbage. Crap the eye, don't wanna be patty trapped. We'll call an Irish pub While all be fucked. A smear upon the holy book. The only crack you'll get is a slap in the ear. While all beat, fuck the lop and burst your filthy mug. If you draw one more shot, I'll give me beer. We'll raise a price. A beer a dollar. We'll make him wear a shirt in colour. We'll fly a bloody tric. Beer a dollar. We'll make him wear a shirt and colour. We'll fry a bloody trot. Colour and colour. An Irish pub. The agar bombs and double shots. The underage, his dick, his cuffs. We'll spike the drinks and pay the cuffs. We got us an Irish pub. The quick one in the filthy dog, the pat and glass across the lug and the lady oh, the dirty dog. We got us an Irish pub. It's over to me.
Speaker 1:It's a Rum Jacks, an Irish pub song. I don't have the rights to it. I'm not trying to make any money off it. I'm just trying to expose and critique. It is Celtic punk. Why is it the Celtics when they talk about basketball? But it's the Celtics, it's Celtic. You're talking about Irish Ireland, the Rumjacks Irish pub. Plastic cups are polished for all.
Speaker 2:The Rum Jacks Irish Pub. We're back for more.
Speaker 1:We're gone as an Irish pub While our Bayfork just ran upon the home. You know, speaking of that kind of Celtic punk, it's kind of like punk Celtic music. Back in 2008, my brother, steve, and I we were in Arizona, we were at spring training and I happened to be looking on my phone seeing if there was any concerts around or kind of what was going on, because the next day was St Patrick's Day and I noticed that in Tempe there was going to be. I think we were in Scottsdale but in Tempe, at Tempe River Park, right by the university there, that Flogging Molly was going to be playing there. And I told Steve I said are you kidding me? You're telling me that Flogging Molly, one of the great Irish Celtic whatever you want to call it punk rock bands, is going to be playing at Tempe River Park. We got to go. He said, yep, we are going. I've never seen so many people drinking green beer in my life. And suddenly my brother and I ended up in a mosh pit with green beer flying everywhere while these great bands were playing. And when I say these great bands, yeah, I was flogging Molly was the headliner, but we were introduced that night to a couple of bands that I had never heard of and I remember thinking well, you know what. These other bands are really cool as well. So it was a trifecta of good music and good times on the 2008 St Patrick's Day.
Speaker 1:One of these. If you want to hear it, maybe I'll just give you an idea what it's like. So these were the opening bands for Flogging Molly that night. I'll play this one first. There was a guy, big dude, I think. He was wearing overalls, bib overalls, big dude, big beard, and his name of his band is the, and I think his wife plays with him in this band Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band. Clap your hands. The crowd was getting into it anticipating Vlogging Molly. I mean, it was twilight, it's just starting to get dark and this is going on. I'll tell you, I couldn't stand still man, I was moving and grooving and spilling my green beers.
Speaker 3:I was. I'm patting, don't clap your hands.
Speaker 2:I'm so mischievous but I'm trying to be good, I'm patting, don't clap your hands.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, that had me going, man Reverend Peyton's big damn band. Oh yeah, that had me going, man Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band. This song's called Clap your Hands, so that kind of groove is going on. Then, the next thing you know, they introduced this band and this band blew me away too. Now, if you can imagine they come out, it's St Patrick's Day. People are just really into this Irish, this Celtic punk, whatever you want to call it rock, and they introduce this band named the Cherry Cokes the Cherry Cokes. They come onto the stage and proceeded to blow my mind and sure certainly the minds of many other people in the audience who, when we saw them and they spoke with us, initially we realized wait a second, they're Japanese and they don't speak any English and we're listening to Irish rock on St Patrick's Day. Okay, what gives. Well, they said something and then proceeded to do this. They're from Tokyo, but they do this. So great.
Speaker 1:Wow, I mean, we could not believe that they were playing this Irish Celtic punk and it just had this different sound. Man, it was so cool. So yeah, suffice it to say say that really took us by surprise. Just to hear the sound, you know, they come out speaking Japanese and there's another little taste of the cherry cokes. It's called Rise. Again, that's Peeps 228. Thank you for listening. Wow, I said wow a lot during that show and I think they're the ones that got the mosh pit going.
Speaker 3:I love you the Cherry Cokes Wow.
Speaker 1:Suffice it to say that was a St Patrick's Day I will never forget. Really great yeah.
Speaker 4:St Patrick, patron saint of Ireland. Every March 17th we honor St Patrick by getting wasted Right, but we don't know. We don't know St Patrick could be up in heaven going. I didn't even drink. What are these people doing? I like their color blue. I made that very clear. Can someone remind God? I'm from Italy. I don't want to rock the boat here, but these Irish are degenerates.
Speaker 1:Jim Gaffigan. That's Peeps 228. You know it isn't always rock. The Irish one of my favorites, house of Pain did, of course they did rap Irish rappers, house of Pain. I mean, how popular was this song.
Speaker 1:I remember, like in 92, living in Chico Hello Chico We'd be partying, there'd be kegs and in the house there'd be so many people doing this, the floors would be bouncing, bouncing. We were in the Rock and Roll Church and they were playing this. It was formerly a church, now it was a rock and roll building, called it the Rock and Roll Church. They played this and the floor was it was Jump up, jump up and get down, jump, jump, jump, jump. Everybody, jump, jump, jump, jump, jump, jump, jump, everybody, jump, jump, jump, jump, jump, jump, jump. I'll serve your ass, like John McEnroe, if your girl steps up, I'm stuck. So that was a big hit song, big hit song by the House of Pain. But it wasn't. But they had some other cool songs and I'm going to shout this one out to my fan, to my man, danny Boy.
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Speaker 5:Danny Boy, you know, it's Danny Boy. It's Danny Boy, you know it's Danny Boy, danny Boy.
Speaker 1:Danny Boy.
Speaker 7:Oh, Danny.
Speaker 4:Boy the pipes the pipes.
Speaker 7:The pipes are calling.
Speaker 2:From glen to glen and down the mountainside.
Speaker 1:Red Hot Media Productions go to bizsites B-I-Z-S-I-T-E-S dot com and I'll tell you what he does. All the work on my my site maintains it and it is a bargain and he's so good, been my, been my best friend for a long time. Hey, I just do want to mention here on Pat's Peeps 228. It has been brutal, many of you know, and I'm not going to try to be a downer here, or on St Patrick's Day in particular. Uh, even now the sun is trying to peek through, so that's making me feel good. However, I do need to and want to say this. Of course, many of you have been listening to my podcast. You realize that I lost my son just a couple of weeks ago and as I've been dealing with that grief comes another. It's just been overwhelming, honestly. So I'll tell you my cousin Richard, who and talking about the Irish, and I've mentioned this on my previous podcast when we were growing up there was the Walshes and the Tracys. It was my dad's side of the family, the Walshes and the Tracys and the Tracys were like aunts and cousins and great uncles and great aunts, and we would go to mass on Sunday morning 8 o'clock mass at St Rose's on Franklin Boulevard in South Sacramento where I was baptized, monsignor Kavanaugh, who I've spoken about on this show Anyhow. And then after mass we would go to this little house on Waugh Avenue not Watt Waugh and it was over in South Sac and we would go to my great aunt's house. So my great aunt Annie lived there. My great grandmother Catherine Tracy lived there, so she was my dad's mother's mother, my grandmother Tracy and my great uncle Bernard, who was special needs. I can still hear his voice in my head. How you doing, pat, pat, how you doing Billy Talking to my dad, billy, just the most gracious, loving human beings ever. But on Sunday, after church, all of the cousins you know, the parents, your aunts and the uncles and everyone would be there on Wah, at this house, and we would be visiting and we would be. It's the most. It is some of the greatest times Now the sun is peeking through my window as I'm speaking of this Some of the fondest memories I have ever had in my life.
Speaker 1:That home, it was just sort of out in the country, sort of. It had a big lot. It made me, it made us kids, made us kids feel like we were in playland outside. We didn't play on video games and none of that. We were outside playing and we had all these little areas we called the helicopter tree and the giant footstep over here, like a giant had walked over. It was shaped like a footstep, and these cupboards that we would sneak in there without our great grandparents knowing these great grandparents, man, and we would open these cupboards up these closets outside and there would be things that they had pickled in jars. And I'm telling you this was like the 70s, this might have been like 71, 72, 70. This stuff looked like it had been there since 1849. I kid you not. This stuff looked like it had been there since 1849. I kid you not. This stuff looked like it had been packed away in these jars in the 1800s. We thought it was so old looking.
Speaker 1:And they're all Irish, we're all Irish, and all this clan gets together and then the clan begins to dwindle and you lose some of the clan, some of the members, some of the families. You're mourning the family. Okay, cut to the chase now. So yesterday, you know, maybe a week ago, I got a call from Richard, richard and Linda. Linda, tracy, my cousin, one of the Tracys. She marries Richard, richard and Linda, two of the nicest people you will ever, probably never meet. If you have met them, know them. You know what I'm talking about. But loving, wonderful, incredible people.
Speaker 1:And I get a call a couple days ago. Hey, pat, listen, richard just got diagnosed with liver cancer. I'm sorry to be a downer here, I'm sorry you might want to come and see us. So I'd called and I couldn't get a hold of anyone. I'm sure they were overwhelmed at the time. So I called back again and so I had a mass set up. I want to say thank you to Eileen for being so sweet and thoughtful, and she had set up a mass for my son, timothy Patrick, over at the church that I go to. So I'm getting ready to go to mass Now I'm headed to mass.
Speaker 1:This is only two days after, I understand. As I understand it, richard was diagnosed with liver cancer. So I'm driving to mass, I'm gonna I already know I'm gonna get my emotional when I have this mass for my son. I'm not even. I'm about three quarters away to mass when my phone rings and it is my cousin, linda, who says and she's crying. And I said, linda, hello. She says, uh, you know you should probably get here. No, no, I take it back. It was my sister-in-law, mary, mary called me. Mary did Mary, and my brother Steve. She called me. They were together and anyhow, she told me we are going there to Linda and Richard's because apparently Richard is taking a turn, just that quick.
Speaker 1:And so we were there yesterday with him by his bedside all day as a family. He wanted one final barbecue. Well, he didn't even have time to buy the briquettes, you know, buy a new propane tank and it took a turn. And so we were around him and we barbecued. It was gray and ugly out but we barbecued. We sat out there and we barbecued and we barbecued some great food that he would have been proud of. Richard is a veteran Army veteran Richard.
Speaker 1:To me, richard and Linda are two of the final pieces, like two of the final parts of that, those two families coming together, the Walshes and the Tracys that I spoke of from years ago. As the family begins to dwindle and you begin to lose more and more Aunt Bonnie and Aunt Judy and Uncle Dick and Uncle Cecil and Aunt Aunt Judy and Uncle Dick and Uncle Cecil and Aunt Tracy, and I can go down the list. These are people you don't know. We all have them and your family. Morning.
Speaker 1:We spent the whole day into the evening there and this morning something just hit me. It just hit me. I don't know what it was. I said what the heck I need to? All of a sudden, I need to call Linda right now. I was going to call her a little later because it was still morning, but it hit me right then. When I called her she had burst out crying and I said Linda, and she said Richard just passed. And so that was this morning.
Speaker 1:And again this man was a veteran and I just need to say Richard, I love you. Brother. This is the guy who, great dad, and if he loved you man, he loved you and you knew he loved you. Tough guy, but never really showed that, maybe in his younger years. I didn't know him back then, but when I say a tough guy, I'm talking about just a masculine guy with a golden heart, cared about people and he really cared for marrying into the Tracys, who were connected to the Walshes. He really cared about that family and getting that family together. He cared about my dad, my stepmother Bonnie, who was obviously part of the family, all of us, polly and Valerie and Mikey and Dee and Aunt Judy and Bonnie and all of these beautiful people, uncle Paul, aunt Chris, uncle Paul, hey, patrick, come here, I'm going to drink up my beer.
Speaker 1:While we're watching Indian Red Lopez on Fights from the Forum on a Saturday night, our parents are playing pinochle or whatever at the table, drinking hams or Falstaff beers. Richard was that kind of guy playing pool at his home, got a beautiful hot rod truck. Be drinking Coors, richard. You're drinking Coors, brother. We're playing pool and you know what? We're going to listen to oldies. We're going to listen to Ricky Nelson and we're going to listen to the big bopper. You know we're going to listen to Sandy Nelson and I mean Fats Domino. Little Richard drinking Coors and playing pool. So I love you, richard. Richard would say right after that what's that? I invented love. Whatever it was, he invented it. Richard, do you like these bagpipes? Yeah, I like these bagpipes. I invented bagpipes. I invented bagpipes when I was younger and it would be St Patrick's Day.
Speaker 1:My mother as I'm going back to my mother, a lot of things lead back to my mother music and everything. I was probably eight years old and she used to play this record all the time she had. As I've mentioned so many times. She had this huge record collection. It's where I got most of my musical knowledge and she had this record. She'd play it quite often.
Speaker 1:John Gary with a little bit of heaven. I always thought he was Irish. It turns out really he was from New York, but I always thought he was Irish. The album A Little Bit of Heaven, you know, there he is and he's in his sweater and he's looking over the tree limits like one of those 70s, 60s albums and she'd put it on the turntable and play it over and over. And I can remember and how are things in Glockomor and these wonderful songs that he would sing.
Speaker 1:And she took me, I think, again, probably eight, nine years old, to the Sacramento Memorial Auditorium to see John Gary. And afterwards we were standing in line. She had this record, she had this record. She says here, hold on to the record. And we stood in this line and we got to meet John Gary and I remember distinctly him in this black suit, black tie, and I had red hair. I looked just like Opie Taylor.
Speaker 1:And he said to me he stooped down and he says well, how are you son? I said fine, he goes. What's your name? And I said Patrick and he goes Patrick. Patrick Well, that's a mighty good Irish name. And he took his hand and he messed up my. You know how they would mess up your hair like as a goof. Yeah, you, little rascal, that's a fine Irish name. So I thought he was Irish. In my mind he must have been Irish. And then he signed the record government. He had the biggest smile on his face and so, in honor of my dear mother, I'm going to finish the Pats Peeps 228 today. Sorry I went long, but it's St Patrick's Day. I wish all of you a very, very safe, happy, healthy, joyous, blessed St Patrick's Day. Please be careful now. But here's John Gary From that album, a Little Bit of Heaven from my mother's collection. Is that little?
Speaker 7:brook still leaving there? Still leaving there? Does it still run down To Donny Cove Through Killiebeg's, kilgarry and Gildare? How are things In Glacomora? Is the willow tree Still leaving there? Is the willow tree still weeping there? Does that lassie with a twinkling eye Come smiling by? Or does she walk away, sad and dreamy there, not to see me there? Not to see me there. So I ask each weeping willow and each brook along the way and each lass that comes, a sign to relay. How are things in Glacomora?
Speaker 5:this fine day.
Speaker 1:I love that. He's rocking that cardigan sweater. That looks good. He's got the white cardigan going.
Speaker 7:I hear a bird a London dairy bird, it well may be. He's bringing me a cheering word. I hear a breeze, a river shattering.
Speaker 1:We've gone from Celtic punk to rap, to bagpipes, to John Gary. We run the gamut here on St Patrick's Day on Pat's Peeps 228. I want to say thank you so much for listening. Happy St Patrick's Day. We'll see you on the radio Black Amora.
Speaker 7:Is that willow tree still weeping there? Does that lassie with a twinkling eye Come smiling by and does she walk away, sad and dreamy there, not to see me there?
