My Cardboard Balcony

For those of you who have never been to Ireland or don't listen to a lot of Irish music, a sean-nós song is a very ornamental, unaccompanied traditional song. It is meant to be a fluid and complex form of singing and most frequently is done in Irish Gaelic. There are many different styles of sean-nós in Ireland, including the Donegal style, the West and East Munster styles, and the more popular but arguably more difficult Connemara style. It has been a dream of mine to write my own lyrics for a sean-nós song that I can perform at some point in the future. Whether or not it'll be here in the United States or off in Ireland, I can't safely say. Sean-nós by Belinda Roddie when the fog comes swirling through the maw of the ledges of Moher intertwined I go where the sea meets Ireland's jaw and for the girl I loved I pine so far away from flat green plains and pints of ointment giv'n to strangers drinking up worries to forget their loved ones who r

As the small gold and bronze pins clung for dear life to the many rolls and folds of her hair, Samantha jigged and polka-ed and promenaded all across the small pub where the older men whistled from behind their masks of accordions and fiddles. A young boy, Steven, played a small wooden piccolo and could not help but watch the blond and fair girl dance to the sound of Irish whims.