After Dinner Dancing Gets Underway (Page Three)
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Page 1 - Pre-Dinner Visiting
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Page 2 - Who Was Here Tonight?
Page 3 - Serious Dancing Gets Underway | Page 4 - Dancing Continues Page 5 - A Comical View Of The Evening |
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A Traditional Irish Saying:
May you have warm words on a cold evening, a full moon on a dark night, and the road downhill all the way to your door.
Men are like bagpipes: no sound comes from them until they're full.
Five frogs are sitting on a log. Four decide to jump off. How many are left? [Answer: 5.]
Why? Because there's a difference between deciding & doing.
Fearless Leader Makes The Announcements
The gift basket was won by Dale & Marsha Cook
"The contents are a secret!"
"We won!"
"So Dale... Where was the envelope placed?"
"I was sitting on it"
Please meet our newest members....
Sue and Paul Liles with Del and Vicky Kuhn... Our newest members and
Paul and Sue's next-door neighbors!
A delightful couple who have been friends with the Liles' for 20+ years
(p.s. Del gives ten-step polka lessons)
Bob And Donna Were Ready For The Questions And Answers!
Q: What is out on the lawn all summer and is Irish?
A: Paddy O'Furniture
Q: What do you call a fake stone in Ireland?
A: A sham rock.
Q: Why do people wear shamrocks on St. Patrick's Day?
A: Regular rocks are too heavy.
Q: Why can't you borrow money from a leprechaun?
A: Because they're always a little short.
Q: How did the Irish Jig get started?
A: Too much to drink and not enough restrooms!
Q: Why do leprechauns have pots o'gold?
A: They like to "go" first class!
Q: How can you tell if an Irishman is having a good time?
A: He's Dublin over with laughter!
Q: What would you get if you crossed Quasimodo with an Irish football player?
A: The Halfback of Notre Dame!
Q: What would you get if you crossed Christmas with St. Patrick's Day?
A: St. O'Claus!
Q: What does it mean when you find a horseshoe?
A: Some poor horse is going barefoot!
Q: Do leprechauns make good secretaries?
A: Sure, they're great at shorthand!
Q: What do leprechauns love to barbecue?
A: Short ribs!
Q: Why did the leprechaun stand on the potato?
A: To keep from falling in the stew!
Bob Muschek volunteers to lead the group
That's An Irish Lullaby
Over in Killarney, many years ago,
Me Mother sang a song to me in tones so sweet and low.
Just a simple little ditty, in her good old Irish way.
And I'd give the world if she could sing that song to me this day.
Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ral, Too-ra-loo-ra-li.
Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ral, Hush now don't you cry!
Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ral, Too-ra-loo-ra-li.
Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ral, That's an Irish lullaby.
Everyone can sing on at a St. Patricks Day party
It's a sea of green
The club is loaded with singers this evening
"Del... Is this an old song??? I just thought I would ask you?"
Did You Know? - "Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral (That's an Irish Lullaby)" is a classic Irish song originally written in 1914 by composer James Royce Shannon (1881–1946) and popularised by Bing Crosby in 1944's Going My Way.
Doris asks "Have you seen my little Leprechaun?"
Quotation To Remember: May you have the hindsight to know where you've been, the foresight to know where you are going, and the insight to know when you have gone too far.
Jennifer and Guy are getting ready to sing!
"Come on on Bob... One more!"
"You all sing... You know it!"
When Irish Eyes Are Smiling
When Irish Eyes Are Smiling
When Irish eyes are smiling
Sure it's like a morning spring.
In the lilt of Irish laughter,
You can hear the angels sing.
When Irish hearts are happy,
All the world seems bright and gay.
And when Irish eyes are smiling,
Sure, they steal your heart away.
There's a tear in your eye, and I'm wondering why,
For it never should be there at all.
With such power in your smile, sure a stone you'd beguile,
So there's never a teardrop should fall.
When your sweet lilting laughter's like some fairy song,
And your eyes twinkle bright as can be,
You should laugh all the while and all other times smile,
And now smile a smile for me.
Chorus:
When Irish eyes are smiling
Sure it's like a morning spring.
In the lilt of Irish laughter,
You can hear the angels sing.
When Irish hearts are happy,
All the world seems bright and gay.
And when Irish eyes are smiling,
Sure, they steal your heart away.
We put down the camera... Thanks Ed for the shots
Jim needed help picking up the television signals
Meanwhile Wyatt has the whole group up and dancing
At the bar... Making special arrangements.....
"I think we need twenty wine glasses for our official dessert dine tasting
Did You Know? - Port wine (also known as Vinho do Porto, Porto, and usually simply port) is a Portuguese fortified wine produced exclusively in the Douro Valley in the northern provinces of Portugal. It is typically a sweet, red wine, often served as a dessert wine though it also comes in dry, semi-dry, and white varieties.
"OK... Which one is Port and which one is Starboard?"
Ed Roberts prepares our table for dessert wine tasting
"We have only one word to say..... hic!"
"Contrary to popular opinion, I am NOT
holding the second glass for anyone else!
It is mine!"
The dancers continue to dance and the lights are low....
Romance is in the air
"I smell dessert wine.... Where could it be coming from???"
Bob makes sure everyone is having fun!
Millie makes a request for Hawaiian Irish music? Wyatt can do it!
All dance....
Turn to the left... Turn to the right...
Stand up... Sit Down... Dance dance dance
The O'Branders keep the floor warm...
Remember - May you always walk in sunshine. May you never want for more. May Irish angels rest their wings right beside your door.
The O'Thedens join the dance
Wyatt kept us all moving the whole evening
"Oh Jimmy You are such an Irishman!"
A Traditional Irish Saying:
A family of Irish birth will argue and fight,
But let a shout come from without and see them all unite.
There is no fireside like your own fireside.
A friend's eye is a good mirror.
Song: Danny Boy
Although initially written to a tune other than "Londonderry Air", the words to "Danny Boy" were penned by English and Irish immigrant to Philadephia named James Duffy and sent to lawyer and lyricist Frederic Weatherly in Bath, Somerset in 1910.
After his Irish-born sister-in-law Margaret (known as Jess) in the United States sent him a copy of "Londonderry Air" in 1913 (an alternative version has her singing the air to him in 1912 with different lyrics), Weatherly slightly modified the lyrics of "Danny Boy" to fit the rhyme and meter of "Londonderry Air".
Oh, Danny Boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling
From glen to glen, and down the mountain side,
The summer's gone, and all the roses falling,
It's you, it's you must go and I must bide.
But come ye back when summer's in the meadow,
Or when the valley's hushed and white with snow,
And I'll be here in sunshine or in shadow,
Oh, Danny Boy, oh Danny Boy, I love you so!
But when ye come, and all the flowers are dying,
If I am dead, as dead I well may be,
Ye'll come and find the place where I am lying,
And kneel and say an Ave there for me;
And I shall hear, though soft you tread above me,
And all my grave will warmer, sweeter be,
For you will bend and tell me that you love me,
And I shall sleep in peace until you come to me!
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Page 1 - Pre-Dinner Visiting
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Page 2 - Who Was Here Tonight?
Page 3 - Serious Dancing Gets Underway | Page 4 - Dancing Continues Page 5 - A Comical View Of The Evening |
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