Friday, 30 August 2013

The Saw Doctors

The Saw Doctors are one of my favorite Irish bands and have been ever since I heard one of their songs on a Harp Beer commercial several years ago!

They sing a song which says "I wish I was on that N17 stone walls and the grass is green" and I love the song but didn't know what the N17 was  all about.  Now I know!  It is the road that goes from the town of Sligo to the town of Galway, and  I pass under it every time I take Haley to Castlebar!

They also sing a song that goes "Oh the green and  red of mayo, I can see it still, it's soft and craggy boglands,  it's tall majestic hills"  and NOW I know that the mayo colors are green and red - and the green and red flags are EVERYWHERE right now for the GAA football championship game which will be Mayo and either  Dublin or Kerry, depending who wins the semi-final  on Sunday!  We see a lot of the Mayo fan base around here, as I said before, Castlebar is in County Mayo.



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