Pride In The Name of Love
Released in 1984, is a
song by the Irish rock band U2, written for Martin Luther King, the American activist and
leader of the African-American Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for his
role in the advancement of civil rights using nonviolent civil disobedience on
his Christian beliefs. In 1964, King received the Nobel Peace Prize and in 1968
he was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee.
The song was a major commercial success for the band, becoming one of
the band's most popular songs.
The U2 performed this song, in
front of 400,000 people on 18 th January 2009 at the We Are One concert
to celebrate the upcoming inauguration of Barack Obama as the new President of the USA.
At the end of the performance Bono asked the audience to sing for King's
dream, saying it was "not just an American dream but also an Irish dream,
a European dream, an African dream", "an Israeli dream, and also a
Palestinian dream."
Bono quoted part of King's speech
"I Have a Dream", saying "Let freedom ring! Let freedom ring!
Let freedom ring! In every village, every hamlet, every state, every city. Let
freedom ring!”.
LYRICS
One man come in the name of love
One man come and go.
One man come here to justify
One man to overthrow
In the name of love
What more in the name of love.
In the name of love
What more in the name of love.
One man caught on a barbed wire fence
One man he resist
One man washed up on an empty beach
One man betrayed with a kiss
In the name of love What more in the name of love.
In the name of love What more in the name of love.
Early morning, April four
Shot rings out in the Memphis sky.
Free at last, they took your life
They could not take your pride.
In the name of love
What more in the name of love.
In the name of love
What more in the name of love.
In the name of love
What more in the name of love.
In the name of love
What more in the name of love.
Only Time
Was written and recorded by the Irish singer and native Gaelic speaker Enya.
It was released in 2000 as the first single from A
Day Without Rain.
The song took on new meaning in 2001 as a tribute song to commemorate
the victims of the blackest day in America's history on the 11th of September
2001.
'Who can say where the road goes, Where the day flows,
only time?' It means that “No one can predict the future, our fate
and futures will only reveal themselves with time”.
Lyrics
Who can say where the road goes, Where the day flows,
only time? And who can say if your love grows, As your hearth chose, only time?
Who can say why your heart sights, As your live flies,
only time? And who can say why your heart cries when your love lies, only time?
Who can say when the roads meet. That love might be,
in your heart? and who can say when the day sleeps, and the night keeps all
your heart? Night keeps all your heart…..
Who can say if your love groves, As your heart chose,
only time? And who can say where the road goes. Where the day flows, only time?
Who knows? Only time
Who knows? Only time
Breathless and Runaway
" Breathless" is a song written by the Irish pop rock group The Corrs.
The Corrs are a family group formed in Dundalk,
Ireland in 1990. They are all siblings, consisting of a brother, Jim, and
his 3 younger sisters: Sharon ,Caroline and Andrea.
They blend the music of
their Irish background with contemporary Pop and Rock.
They are well known in the UK and most of Europe,
Australia, South East Asia, and in the USA.
Breathless was the first single released from their
third album In Blue, on 18th July 2000; In 2001 the song was nominated
for a Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals”.
"Breathless," is an airy celebration of new-found love, in
which Andrea sings in her rich, powerful alto: “Come on and leave me breathless. You know the
scene. The daylight is fading and nothing matters but the two people who are there."
Runaway
, released in 1995, is the début single by the Irish
family band further is really the Corrs' best love
song. It
is a very simply written love ballad, written by Andrea and delivers its theme so emotionally that
you can just feel the power, the feelings and the emotions of the music in
it.
The
video for "Runaway" (1995), mostly in black-and-white with flashes of colour in certain
scenes, was shot in Dublin, featuring
locations such as Phoenix Park. The
video follows the band as they sing and perform on several locations including
a forest and train station platform. The video begins with Andrea on a train,
looking out the window and singing, and ends with her getting off the train and
running towards the camera.
Irish Tunes
These are the tunes we're going to play for the Parade: Britches full of Stitches is a particulalry easy tune to learn, as it is based
on a pentatonic (five note) scale. It might refer to the several periods of
hunger Ireland had to face, among which we'd like to remember the Great Famine during those
years (1845-1852) about 1 million Irish died. The other tunes are Dingle Polka and We Won't Come Home.
Polkas are actually played faster than reels, but feel steadier as
they have far fewer runs of quavers. They are in 2/4 time. They are used for a
couple dance which originated, probably in Poland, in the 1830's. The polka was
soon a popular throughout the ballrooms of Europe, before filtering down to the
dances of ordinary people. Polkas are often very simple melodies, and a
particularly prevalent in the region of Cork, Kerry and Limerick
Sabina for the Italian team
