Folks, I've added a bit of new stuff to the site. In the audio downloads section I've included a few unreleased songs and one or two rare ones that are difficult to get elsewhere. Have a look and tell me what you think.

Gary Og

Well, it's been a while since I've been here. Been really busy. I would like to take this opportunity to invite you all to pay me a visit at the new website.(www.garyog.com). There are free video downloads, lyrics, pics. All the usual stuff. There is also a small forum that some of you may wish to take the time to drop in and leave some comments, thoughts or ideas about anything and everything. I will be posting free song downloads in the near future, so please keep checking back and most of all enjoy the site.

All the best

Gary Og

I have sent you a pm a chara.

Hi gary, was i far off the chords? i see the exiles are playing a few gigs in failte in glasgow, is it tickets only or just a case of turning up?
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The chording is different from the way I play it, but in no way is it wrong. It still works well a chara, and if thats the way you like it then keep at it.

As far as the gigs in Failte go, I don't think there is anything coming up, unless I have been sacked (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ohmy.gif) . I reckon at least Nov/Dec before we'll be back there. And as Armagh said, it's all free!!

I'm sure I put the chords for this up just a little while ago? Maybe not but I'm sure I did. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/huh.gif)

Sorry folks, I don't always read all the posts unless I see them marked for me. This one passed me by until now. I'll be on holisay now for a wee while but will be back in the swing of things come September, although I will be playing in Derry Aug 4th and 5th in "The Oak" and "The Dungloe" as part of the Feile. For more info drop me a pm and I'll get you more details.

All the best
Gary Og

I'm doing this off the top of my head with no guitar. The chords are right I think, but their placement might be slightly off. Just mess around until it feels right.

Gary Og

That's things fixed and ready to go now apparently. Happy downloading.

There is a wee fault with the downloading at the moment, but Declan assures me it will be rectified soon. So keep checking back, it 's worth the wait. Don't forget to pass it on to everyone you know, after all it's free.

Gary Og

Hello folks, how's everyone doing? A good friend of mine and a very talented musician to boot, Declan McLaughlin from Derry has asked me to pass this stuff on to everyone I know, so here goes.

Declan has just released his new cd called "No Big Deal". It's an album completely made up of Declan's own original material and if anyone ever listens to anything I say (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) , then believe me when I tell you this stuff is top notch. And here's the real kicker, he's giving it away FREE (IMG:style_emoticons/default/huh.gif) . Yes FREE!!!!!! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) You can download it from his website, www.declanmclaughlin.com , and I guarantee you'll enjoy this. There's no catch, it's all FREE (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) and in fact the only problem is now people will expect us all to do it (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ph34r.gif) . Something that I am happy to tell you is in the pipeline for me soon enough as well.

All the best and happy listening

Gary Og

FAO Spacekitten.

Firstly let me start by saying that nowhere in TW's post does he say that "The Loughall Ambush" was written by Eire Og. He makes the statement in his second post " here is another song by Eire Og" (which incidentally is one of our songs). At no place on this website, or another website, or anywhere else in print or audio will you be able to back up your allegation.

I do not , nor does any other band member claim to write songs that we have not. In fact your mother is credited on the back cover of my cd "Live in Glasgow" as the author of the song Pearse Jordan. If I wanted to dupe people into thinking I wrote the song, why would I credit your mother with the song?

It also seems that you misunderstand how the whole process of copyright works. I cannot steal, even if I wanted to, the copyright of a song that does not belong to me. On no ocassion have I attempted to steal copyright, again another baseless accusation on your part.

The song "Go on Home British Soldiers" was in fact written by a fella named Tommy Skelly who played with the band "South Dublin Union", a very nice man whom I had the pleasure of playing with in Glasgow on a couple of occassions. Again, nowhere have I claimed I wrote this song.

On a final note, let me finish by saying that I have nothing but respect for the "Irish Brigade", their music and songs included. I know each member of the band personally and have done so for a number of years. However, I won't allow you to spread unfounded and un-true allegations against me and my former band mates. Especially without a hint of proof or evidence to back it up.

Best Wishes

Gary Og

Don't recall singing that Armagh, but you never know. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

I reckon later in the year before the exiles get their album out.

The thing to do is make a wee demo. 2 or 3 songs, you then have something to convince people with. You also get an idea of what you really sound like. ie: what you sound like to other people. Get that and punt it round the venues and pubs. You'll get a start somewhere!!!

Failing that give me a shout and I'll try and sort you something.

All the best
Gary Og

I'm in the key of Bm, using Am Scale(Capo 2nd fret), I think the first note of the solo should be A (1st string, 5th fret), in fact it is a slide note(I have no guitar here I'm having to imagine it), so it's a slide note from G(1st string 3rd fret) to the A note.

So GC are you based in Glasgow? Is it rebel music you play? Do you play solo/band? Do you have home recording equipment(for the purposes of a demo)?

Getting gigs is not as easy as it sounds. There are so few places playing that type of music now, that there are not many free slots to move into. Get back to me on these points and we'll see what we can work out.

All the best
Gary Og

Right Matt, here goes. This was written about 7/8(could be wrong, that's just a guess) years ago by myself and Colm(lead guitar player with Eire Og). The song is pretty self-explanatory.

Diarmuid O'Neill

Em/////////////////////////////D//////////////////////Em//////////////D
1. The news came through last Tuesday night, to paralyse the truth,
Em////////////////////D//////////C////D///////////Em
A man lay dead in London, gunned down in his youth.
Em///////////////D/////Em//////////////// D
A bitter hail of stories, telling what went on,
Em/////////////////////////D/////////////C////D///////////Em
But the blood upon the pavements told a story of it's own

2. A little house in Hammersmith invaded in the night.
With a hundred in their death squads, to be sure and get it right
Assembled in the darkness with their hatred un-concealed
To murder Dairmuid O'Neill

3. Now Major's calling up his men to praise a job well done,
With special commendations for those that held the guns
Arrest a dozen Irishmen to help the story stick
The coldness of you people makes me sick

4. So be careful now you papermen, the British leaders say,
You know that we can never hope to beat the IRA
So be careful while you write your lies, for our people must not see,
Just how we hold Ireland un-free.

bridge
C//////////////////////D////////////////Em
For England your crimes are not over
C///////////////////////D////////////////Em
You will not have the blood you crave
C////////////////////////D//////////////G//////////Em
You will never break our will, with your Shoot-To-Kill
///////C//////////////D///////////////Em
And our people will not be your slaves


Repeat 2nd verse to finish


To hear the song go to www.irishrebelmusic.co.uk click Music of Mark O'Neill ( bass player with Partisan another former band of mine), it's on page 2. Happy listening and playing.


Gary Og

Anbhoy, stick up the words of the songs you want and I'll fill in the chords. I think a new thread for each song is the best way.



I don't read music/stave notation or TAB. I play everything by ear and I've said before somewhere here, I don't even know the names of most of the chords I play. So explaining a solo on here is difficult for me. How much help do you need? We could maybe work it out together by pm if you are stuck at bits, but if it's the whole solo note for note you want I don't know really how to explain it, providing I can even remember how I played it back then.

Hi folks. I haven't gone away you know! I just haven't had the time of late, been very busy. I know there's a few requests for things and I promise I'll get round to them all, not tonight though, but soon. Take care and be good!


Gary Og (IMG:style_emoticons/default/mellow.gif)

Matt, all verses are the same, so follow this and ye'll be grand.

All the best




D/ / / / /[D/C#]/Bm/ / G/ / / / /A / / / / D
I went to see a legend just the other night
Bm / / / / / / / /A / / / / / /G / / / / / / / A/
At the Yankee Stadium, underneath the lights.
Bm / / / / / // / A / / / / / / / /G/ / / / / / /A / / / / /D
I heard a man speaking after years and years in jail.
D / / / / / /[D/C#] Bm / / / / / / /G / / / / A / / / / D
His name it was Mandela and he came to tell his tale.



The crowd they cheered him loudly, ah, but then the silence fell
As he spoke about the hard years in a South African cell.

And though he was free, his heart was feelin' the pain,
For his country and his people were still a part of that shame.

He said he hoped that we would join him and walk down freedom's path,
And these roads would be the hardest, oh, but they would be the last.

And to join our hands together so that we might be as one,
And to bring ourselves to the cause so his battle could be won.

I went home to bed that evening, went to sleep and I had a dream.
I was standing in the pouring rain, in an Irish field of green.

And all around the headstones were the martyrs of the past.
I stood there in silence, and they spoke to me at last.

"Kevin Barry is my name, and I died in a cell.
They wanted the names of my comrades, oh, but this I would not tell."

"And I am Roger Casement. I was shot in London town
For bringing German rifles to the lonely Banna Strand."

"James Connolly is my name. The working people are my life.
When they shot me down in Kilmainham Gaol with strife."

"And I am Padraic Pearse. I was shot down by the foe.
I read the proclamation at the steps of the GPO."

And the last voice that I heard says, "My name is Bobby Sands,
And it's good to hear Mandela's words a-ringin' through the land.

"I want to hear them in Belfast, in Derry and Tyrone.
Maybe then those English soldiers will know it's time to go home."

I woke up in the morning. I remembered them all.
And who would believe that they'd knocked down the Berlin Wall?

And I said "Mandela, could this really be?
Maybe now we will see Ireland reunited and free.
Maybe now we will see Ireland reunited and free."l

Forgot all about this recording (http://www.geocities.com/markoneillrebpage8/index.htm) "Patriot Game". Came across it again by accident. It was never released
and is part of a recording by an old band I played in for a while called Partisan. The chord structure is
different, but I like the way it goes. I'll show you below.


Come [D] all you young [G]reb[D]els and [A]list while I [D]sing, G, D,

For [D/C#]love of one's [Bm]cou[A]ntry[G] is a ter[A]rible t[Bm]hing. ,A,G

It [A]banishes [Bm]fe[A]ar[G] with the spe[A}ed of a f[Bm]lame.A,G

And m[A]akes us all [G]part [D]of the [A]patriot [D]game.

Matt, you know the drill. Put up the words and I'll add in the chords.

Alright, I got these lyrics from Bik McFarlane, so if anyone disagrees with them, take it up with him. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)


n [F] Sackville Street the [Bb] curfew drove the [C] restless [F] out of sight,
The [Bb] Black and Tans marched [F] up and [Dm] down, the [Gm] moon shone cold and [Bb] bright,

The [F] shot was like a [Bb] whip crack � pulled the [C] first man off his [F] feet,
He [Bb] died on bloody [F] cobble[Dm]stones while his [Gm] comrades combed the [Bb] street.
They [F] called up rein[Bb]forcements, pulled the [C] people from their [F] beds,
They were [Bb] screaming �[F] Get the [Dm] bastard!�, but its [Gm] fear was in their [Bb] heads,

They found him in a cellar, he was only seventeen,
Fighting for his country: Dying for the green.
The sergeant dragged him by the hair and beat him to the ground,
Into this young mans body he emptied every round,

�Come out and take a look�, he cried as he marched his troops away,
They went in stony silence � such a prize to have today!
Some knelt and prayed beside him, ah but it�s too late anyhow,
They said he was a rebel then � and he�s a hero now,

In �66 this country sang the praises of the dead,
We didn�t call them rebels then we used �patriot� instead,
On every household TV screen we saw how hard they fought,
How they spilled their life�s blood and how freedom had been bought.

The garden gates were opened up to silent motorcades,
Cannons boomed and flags unfurled and solemn wreaths were laid,
Prayers for those departed were called for loud and clear,
For those who had been outlawed � ah but that was another year�

The veterans stood up stiff and proud, their white hair ruled the wind,
With their pride pinned to their gaberdine and thoughts upon their friends,
And bitter wounds burst open, the scars of history,
Went flying into our faces in stark reality,
Just up the road from Sackville Street ah but things are different now,
They said he was a rebel then but he�s a hero now.

Along the Falls Road soldiers push - their glances left and right,
Kids of the English working class � soldiers overnight,
Tossed into the melting pot of bloody war and strife,
Never understanding and fearing for their lives.

Outside the Glenn Road Brewery a bomb takes two away,
The bombers work is over; he�s finished for the day,
The terrorist or the dreamer: the savage or the brave?
It depends who's vote you're trying to catch, or who's face you're trying to save.

There�s tea and cakes in Downing Street, there�s whispers in the halls,
Let�s move to cure Rhodesia (?) now our backs are to the wall.
There�s panic down in Leinster House where words are seldom scarce,
�Send someone to Glasnevin quick to remember Padraig Pearse!�

Once more His crucifixion, it seems a lie somehow
They said he was a rebel then � but he�s a hero now
Once more His crucifixion, it seems a lie somehow
They said he was a rebel then � but he�s a hero now
But he�s a hero now

George I will be in the NY area this weekend, followed by Boston, the following week. Check out some of your local info sources for more details. Nobody tells me anything!

Many thanks, scottishgizmo for your kind post. I do indeed remember the Irish dancers doing their bit in the Brazen before the bands, although it seems so long ago. How long ago are we really talking here? I have the biggest holes in my memory for reasons I won't mention, but I'm thinking must be close to 10 years ago, eh?

I note you sadi in your post, your sister danced when she was younger. Does that mean she no longer does? Such a shame if thats the case, as all the dancers I remember where excellent, and you should never give up your culture a chara. It's what makes us who we are!

All the best!

You can hear songs of that exact nature being sung at Ibrox park every second weekend. Tribalism, triumphalism, sectarianism, call it what you may, but they do exist! Everyone who has ever asked me to explain why "The Troubles" are the way they are, I tell them to look at the songs of the conflict. I believe this is the best way to truly understand the nature of the conflict. With regards to Ireland, you only have to compare the songs of both sides to know who is in the right, and it certainly isn't the murdering, raping, pillaging, colonising, imperialist, capitalist f*ckpigs of the British establishment. Then again, I would say that, wouldn't I.

As far as finding these songs, you are on your own kid. I don't want to be responsible for subjecting you to such misguided hatred, and complete sectarian bile, but they are out there, although, you have been warned. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)