Biography:
Damien Dempsey (born 1975 in Donaghmede, Dublin) is an Irish singer and songwriter who mixes traditional Irish folk with contemporary lyrics to deliver social commentary on the positive and negative aspects arising from Ireland's Celtic Tiger society. He sings in English, and to a lesser extent in Irish.
Dempsey's earliest musical influences were the post-pub singsongs that his parents used to have at their home when he was a toddler. Good, bad or indifferent, everyone had to sing.
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- Your Pretty Smile
- Sing All Our Cares Away
- Apple Of My Eye
- Bad Time Garda
- Bottle Talk
- Bustin Outta Here
- Canadian Geese Live
- Cardboard City
- Chase The Light
- Colony
- Factories
- Ghosts Of Overdoses
- Go To Sea No More
- Hold Me
- Industrial School
- Its All Good
- Jar Song
- Kelly From Killane
- Negative Vibes
- Not On Your Own Tonight
- Party On
- Patience
- Sam Jenkins
- Schooldays Over
- Seize The Day
- Sing All Your Cares Away
- Spraypaint Backalley
- St Patricks Day
- We Need Community
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Sam Jenkins Damien Dempsey - Soulsun 2017
[Intro]
D G
D G
D G
[Verse 1]
D G D G
My name it is Sam Jenkins I come from old Whitington Hill
D G D A Em
My people bow their heads down to the Lord of the manor still.
D G D G
I grew up mean and hungry, dirty and poor and sick
D G D A Em
I tried my best for not to steal, too afraid of the Van Diemen ships
[Verse 2]
D G D G
Well the only road to money it was the road to the army gates
D G D A Em
I took that road in ’45 with a gang of my Staffordshire mates
D G D G
We were shipped across to Ireland some rebellions for to quell
D G D A Em
Stationed North of Galway in a landscape that mirrored hell
[Verse 3]
Bm A
When we sailed into Galway before my head and pride
G Bm G
I will never forget the skeletons with a crazed look in their eyes
Bm A
And their little children wailing as hunger ate them alive
G Em G
When I realised what I was doing there, with the shame I nearly died
[Verse 4]
D G D G
The food removal regiments, we were there to guard the food
D G D A Em
Being shipped each day to England while the starving they were subdued
D G D G
They said we needed the food more, for our hungry boys abroad
D G D A Em
And the Irish apes who farmed it they weren’t men in the eyes of the lord
[Verse 5]
Bm A
My dear friend Billy Cooper he couldn’t console himself
G D Em G
From a cherry tree in the back field he was hanging by his belt
Bm A
In the 41st foot regiment, just north of Galway town
G Em G
I felt myself the servent of a devil in a crown.
[Verse 6]
D G D G
I disobeyed an order, I refused to shoot a man
D G
Now stripped of my gun and uniform
D A Em
I am bound for Van Diemen's land
[Verse 7]
D G
You rogues who rule Britannia
D G
May you burn in hell for good
D G
Us poor we do your dirty work
D A Em
Then you dine on our flesh and blood
[END]
[Intro]
D G
D G
D G
[Verse 1]
D G D G
My name it is Sam Jenkins I come from old Whitington Hill
D G D A Em
My people bow their heads down to the Lord of the manor still.
D G D G
I grew up mean and hungry, dirty and poor and sick
D G D A Em
I tried my best for not to steal, too afraid of the Van Diemen ships
[Verse 2]
D G D G
Well the only road to money it was the road to the army gates
D G D A Em
I took that road in ’45 with a gang of my Staffordshire mates
D G D G
We were shipped across to Ireland some rebellions for to quell
D G D A Em
Stationed North of Galway in a landscape that mirrored hell
[Verse 3]
Bm A
When we sailed into Galway before my head and pride
G Bm G
I will never forget the skeletons with a crazed look in their eyes
Bm A
And their little children wailing as hunger ate them alive
G Em G
When I realised what I was doing there, with the shame I nearly died
[Verse 4]
D G D G
The food removal regiments, we were there to guard the food
D G D A Em
Being shipped each day to England while the starving they were subdued
D G D G
They said we needed the food more, for our hungry boys abroad
D G D A Em
And the Irish apes who farmed it they weren’t men in the eyes of the lord
[Verse 5]
Bm A
My dear friend Billy Cooper he couldn’t console himself
G D Em G
From a cherry tree in the back field he was hanging by his belt
Bm A
In the 41st foot regiment, just north of Galway town
G Em G
I felt myself the servent of a devil in a crown.
[Verse 6]
D G D G
I disobeyed an order, I refused to shoot a man
D G
Now stripped of my gun and uniform
D A Em
I am bound for Van Diemen's land
[Verse 7]
D G
You rogues who rule Britannia
D G
May you burn in hell for good
D G
Us poor we do your dirty work
D A Em
Then you dine on our flesh and blood
[END]
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