The Aces' Repertoire

The Aces sing - and play, sometimes simultaneously! - and often with considerable gusto, feeling and indeed, aplomb, a wide variety of songs, from hugely enjoyable traditional Irish melodies, ballads and frantic canterings, to the sort of good-time, feel-good, sing-along stuff that inebriates and ne'er-do-wells have always tended to drift towards as the evening goes on. And as for the audience...

All together, now...
So fare thee well my own true love
For when I return united we will be
It’s not the leaving of Liverpool that grieves me
But my darling when I think of thee

Amarillo Is this the way to Amarillo
Every night I’ve been hugging my pillow
Dreaming dreams of Amarillo
And sweet Marie who waits for me
Show me the way to Amarillo
I’ve been weeping like a willow
Crying over Amarillo
And sweet Marie who waits for me
Sha-la-la la-la la-la-la, sha-la-la la-la la-la-la
Sha-la-la la-la la-la-la, and Marie who waits for me

Amelia Erhart For there’s a beautiful, beautiful feel
In a land far away that is fair
Happy landings to you Amelia Erhart
Farewell first lady of the sky

Banks of the roses On the banks of the Roses my love and I sat down
And I took out my fiddle for to play my love a tune
In the middle of the tune, oh she sighed and she said
‘Young Johnny, lovely Johnny would you leave me?’

Black velvet band Her eyes they shone like diamonds
You’d think she was Queen of the land
With her hair hung over her shoulders
Tied up with a black velvet band

Country honk It’s the honky tonk women
Gimme, gimme, gimme the honky tonk blues

Country roads Country roads, take me home, to the place I belong
West Virginia, mountain mamma
Take me home, country roads

Courtin’ in the kitchen
Dead flowers

Delilah My, my, my, Delilah
Why, why, why, Delilah
I could see that girl was no good for me
But I was lost like a slave that no man could free

Dirty Old Town
East Virginia Blues

Fields of Athenry Low lie the fields of Athenry
Where once we watched the small free birds fly
Our love was on the wing, we had dreams and songs to sing
It’s so lonely round the fieldsof Athenry

Forty shades of green But most of all I miss a girl in Tipperary town
And most of all I miss her lips as soft as eiderdown
Again I want to see and do the things we’ve done and seen
Where the breeze is sweet as Shalamar
And there’s forty shades of green

Galway Bay

Gold watch & chain Oh I’ll pawn you my gold watch and chain love
And I’ll pawn you my gold diamond ring
I will pawn you this heart in my bosom
Only say that you will love me again

Goodnight Irene Irene, goodnight Irene, Irene goodnight
Goodnight Irene, goodnight Irene
I’ll see you in my dreams

Greenland whale fisheries
Honey don’t
I saw her standing there
I’ll tell me ma

I'm a believer Then I saw her face, now I’m a believer
Not a trace of doubt in my mind
I’m in love …I’m a believer
I couldn’t leave her if I tried

In Dublin’s Fair City (or Mollie Malone, as it’s known)
Irish rover

Jambalaya Jambalaya, an’-a crawfish pie an’-a filé gumbo
’Cause tonight I’m gonna see my ma-chère amie-oh
Pick guitar, fill fruit jar and be gay-oh
Son of a gun, we’ll have big fun on the bayou

Johnny come lately But when Johnny Come Lately comes marching home
With a chest full of medals and a GI loan
They’ll be waiting at the station down in San Antone
When Johnny comes marching home

Katy Daly Come down from the mountain Katie Daly
Oh come down the mountain Katie Daly
Come down from the mountain Katie do
Oh can’t you hear us calling Katie Daly
We want to drink your Irish mountain dew

Leaving of Liverpool So fare thee well my own true love
For when I return united we will be
It’s not the leaving of Liverpool that grieves me
But my darling when I think of thee

Let’s work together
Love in vain
Maritime medley
McAlpine’s fusiliers

Midnight special Let the midnight special shine her light on me
Let the midnight special shine her ever-loving light on me

Muirsheen durkin So goodbye Muirsheen Durkin, I’m sick and tired of workin’
No more I’ll dig the praties, no longer I’ll be fooled
As sure as me name is Carney, I’ll go off to Californee
Where instead of diggin’ praties I’ll be diggin lumps of gold

Munster hop
My Oklahoma home
New York, New York

Patsy Fagan Hello Patsy Fagan , you can hear the girls all cry
Hello Patsy Fagan , you’re the apple of my eye
A decent boy from Ireland, that no-one can deny
A rarem, scarem, devil-may-carem, decent Irish boy

Pay me my money down Pay me my money down
Pay me, pay me, pay me my money down
Pay me or go to jail, pay me my money down

Raglan Road
Sam Hall

Say you love me Waited for you to say you love me (say you love me)
Longed for the day you’d take my hand
I asked again last night
Your love’s so divine
I’ve waited as long as I can

Scholars on the road
Seven drunken nights
Star of the County Down

Streams of whiskyI am going, I am going
Any which way the wind may be blowing
I am going, I am going
Where streams of whiskey are flowing

Sweet Virginia
The rising of the moon
Those dark eyes

Town of Ballybay With a ring-a-ding-a-dong
A-ring-a-ding-a-daddio
A-ring-a-ding-a-dong
A whack for the daddio

Whiskey in the jar Mush-a-ring dum-a-doo dum-a-dah
Whack-fol-the-daddy-o
Whack-fol-the-daddy-o
There’s whiskey in the jar

Wild rover And it’s no nay never … no nay never no more
Will I play the wild rover, no never, no more

Will the circle be unbroken?

Woolly Bully Woolly Bully, Woolly Bully
Woolly Bully, Woolly Bully, Woolly Bully

You are my sunshine
You got gold

Your cheatin’ heart When tears come down like fallin’ rain
You’ll toss around and call my name
You’ll walk the floor the way I do
Your cheatin’ heart will tell on you