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SomeGuy
04-24-2010, 05:11 PM
Tune is stuck in my head, heard it at a country bar a few weeks ago...and I know I've heard it before but can't think of what the title is. It's sort of upbeat irish kind of jig thing...the words aren't the clearest to make out but from what I remember a line of it is "them johnny (jolly?) boys they always lead (round?) the way"

Definitely the sort of song that would get people up and dancing and clapping their hands.

Help?
KVS17
04-24-2010, 05:54 PM
take those words you have into google and at the end type in "lyrics" thats who i usually find songs when i dont know the name or artist. doesnt always work if you dont have enough words or the right ones lol.
SomeGuy
04-24-2010, 05:59 PM
yeah, I spent half an hour on google with a million different combinations, no dice.
JaYson
04-24-2010, 07:33 PM
SPIRIT OF THE WEST - Home For A Rest

The Clancy Brothers - Johnny I hardly Knew Ye

try those?
FLIPDADY
04-24-2010, 08:42 PM
Also try Amazon in the music section. Found many songs by words from the lyrics on there.
PCLoadLetter
04-24-2010, 08:56 PM
Anything by Flogging Molly


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-52Yf2F2qU
Default User
04-24-2010, 09:02 PM
you lost me at "...country bar"
m_bisson
04-24-2010, 09:10 PM
you heard flogging molly at a country bar?
PCLoadLetter
04-24-2010, 09:26 PM
you lost me at "...country bar"
Don't be dissin' country. It's not my favourite style of music but it has it's good songs. Check this one out, it's great:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKpQRjj_WbU
SomeGuy
04-25-2010, 11:39 AM
It's not home for a rest...but very very similar sound.
crystal8484
04-25-2010, 12:08 PM
at times like this you should have shazam on your phone. lol
SomeGuy
04-25-2010, 01:17 PM
at times like this you should have shazam on your phone. lol

I do have it, but at the time it wasn't a big deal...it was weeks later when it popped into my head again.
Donutz
04-25-2010, 01:34 PM
Don't be dissin' country. It's not my favourite style of music but it has it's good songs. Check this one out, it's great:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-p8wDhK5LyY
mazdabetty
04-25-2010, 01:46 PM
When this happens to me and I absolutely MUST have the song, I usually go to different radio websites (eg if it was alternative/rock I go to the edge and check out the Thursday 30 countdown, if it's pop/hip hop whatever I go to z103) Another option is checking out the American and Canadian top 40 websites too... and just youtube the titles for a quick check.

EDIT: just saw it was a country song... hahaha that might be harder to find :P
SomeGuy
04-25-2010, 01:53 PM
mazdabetty - it's an older song though, so not on the charts right now.
Noisy Crow
04-25-2010, 03:41 PM
Was it on the radio at the bar? Or was it the bar's music. If it was the bar playing the music and you really want to know what it is, try phoning the bar and ask. Often they have a bunch of compilations burned to CD and they cycle through the discs.
Chester_Lampwick
04-25-2010, 05:26 PM
"Whiskey in the Jar" by Thin Lizzy?
PCLoadLetter
04-25-2010, 05:45 PM
"Whiskey in the Jar" by Thin Lizzy?
Thin Who?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nm9A3J294Ic
SomeGuy
04-25-2010, 05:55 PM
Was it on the radio at the bar? Or was it the bar's music. If it was the bar playing the music and you really want to know what it is, try phoning the bar and ask. Often they have a bunch of compilations burned to CD and they cycle through the discs.

Was a live band playing the song, but I know it's a cover and not something original. I can't even remember which night or what band was playing or anything :(

And no, it's not whiskey in the jar.
Noisy Crow
04-25-2010, 06:15 PM
Was a live band playing the song, but I know it's a cover and not something original. I can't even remember which night or what band was playing or anything :(

And no, it's not whiskey in the jar.

Damn. You are like the guy going in to the book store and asking for a book. You remember that is was blue, and about, y'know, people. You think. :chuckle