Fureys and Davey Arthur : Belfast Mill

[@Normalguy1690]

23 years old born and raised in Belfast and my dad has only just introduced me to this song

[@tommcinerney7641]

Ireland's best...forget Tony Blair

[@killickfarms]

Nobody can put over a folk song like Finbarr furey. His voice is a mix of life lessons, cheeky confidence, peace with himself and plenty of black Porter!!!!

[@zachmcloughlin]

Nobody can beat finbarr but look up dan mc cabe

[@kingston2411]

@@zachmcloughlin furys are the best singers and boxers

[@galwaytribes5310]

What a storyteller finbar is, every song he sings he takes us on the journey with him

[@simontimoney]

Dubliners can..luke kelly

[@simontimoney]

@@zachmcloughlin luke kelly

[@kathz9082]

In the early 2000’s, my family would have music nights every week when I was little. I can still my mother singing this (slower than this version) and smiling down at me. what I would do to go back to those simpler times.

[@patriciaoneill8053]

Aw lovely message

[@roryduggan1805]

No clue but that comment brought a tear to my eye mabye it’s cause his voice in the background BRING BACK OLD IRELAND

[@franciso.connell1634]

We can still have simple times

[@michaeldonnellan5865]

Beautiful singing BRING BACK THE OLD DAYS ASAP💚💚💚💚👍👍👍💚💚💚💚💕💕💚💚💚💚💕💚

[@richardbyrne618]

This song sends shivers up my spine

[@TheEamoB]

These Furey lads are national treasures. And Davey Arthur of course!

[@patriciadavidson6765]

How can 106 people give a thumbs down to this iconic song: it is stunning 🤗😎

[@samkearney6424]

DID

[@paddymac5161]

Shower of wankers

[@marcdunn7716]

Yup dunno Somebody's bored n angry i think

[@rcoughlan737]

@@marcdunn7716 Looks like u got it right, too many haters nowadays

[@martinlong106]

Muppets is all its a beautiful song

[@frillman3466]

Was my grandad kenny (pops) favourite song according my dad, I sadly never got to meet my pops!! But what a tune.. proud of my irish blood!!!

[@alan00ross]

At the East end of town, at the foot of the hill, there's a chimney so tall, it says Belfast Mill. But there's no smoke at all, coming out of the stack, for the mill has shut down and it's never coming back. And the only tune I hear is the sound of the wind, as she blows through the town, weave and spin, weave and spin. There's no children playing, in the dark narrow streets, and the loom has shut down, it's so quiet I can't sleep. And the only tune I hear is the sound of the wind, as she blows through the town, weave and spin, weave and spin. The mill has shut down, t'was the only life i know, tell me where will i go now, tell me where will I go. And the only tune I hear is the sound of the wind, as she blows through the town, weave and spin, weave and spin. I'm too old to work and I'm too young to die, tell me where will I go now, my family and I. And the only tune i hear is the sound of the wind, as she blows through the town, weave and spin, weave and spin. At the East end of town, at the foot of the hill, there's a chimney so tall, it says Belfast Mill. But there's no smoke at all, coming out of the stack, for the mill has shut down, and it's never coming back. And the only tune I hear, is the sound of the wind, as she blows through the town, weave and spin, weave and spin. And the only tune, I hear is the sound of the wind, as she blows through the town, weave and spin, weave and spin. As she blows through the town, weave and spin weave and spin

[@aphexrobinson2022]

I'm not even irish but had a beer, sat back in my arm chair and falling in love with this! ❣

[@martinpinkerton1615]

About the song

[@MoMo-vb9zq]

Thanks for the lyrics Alan its a lovely song!

[@dalidelancey5868]

​@@aphexrobinson2022It's not an Irish song, so you're alright there; the original title is Aragon Mill, and Aragon is in Georgia (the American state, not the Slavic country). Si Kahn wrote the lyrics based on overhead conversations when tha mill shut down. The Fureys got the song off him and changed the mill to Belfast. (With permission)

[@thomassmith4259]

I'm Irish ☘️ and I can't stop singing this song omg I love and my sister loves it too such a good song I can't believe this is in the 90s

[@HouseholdDog]

They are brilliant musicians. The instrumentals make you actually feel the wind, blowing through the town.

[@shannonduddy4149]

Grew up with the furyes,, brilliant portsalon back in the days x us derry people love use xx

[@johnmurphy4601]

First time I heard this song was in London 1990 in the wheatsheaf pub in tooting bec

[@philippatton4399]

I’m Irish and it brings tears to me !

[@benmchenry4587]

Whenever I feel down I listen to Fin. Thanks heaps for your beautiful voice 😊

[@patriciaoneill8053]

Listen to Finbar singing with Finbar Furey " Green Fields of France"

[@patriciaoneill8053]

Sorry With Christy Dignam

[@kittymon35]

Good I read this thread as I am singing this song at a summer festival on Saturday in Zurich. My grandmother worked in a Belfast mill and so this song really means something to me. The girls who worked in the Belfast Mills were called 'Millies'. Two of the largest mills in NI closed due to a fall in consumer demand in 1962. Its a wonderful song and I love singing it. Thanks Si for writing it. I also wrote a song recently called the Highwaymans Lass which I also hope will be liked as much as Belfast Mill. Thanks Katie

[@patriciaoneill8053]

Aw my Granny worked in the mill too

[@philippatton4399]

My uncle Brian Patton played with these as a fiddle player from Donegal Eire

[@THEMCCARTNEYCHANNEL]

My mum used to work there East Bread st Newtownards rd at the foot of the hill when she was 13. Long since gone

[@ammulhare1644]

First time hearing this beautiful, sad, magical song. Well done to the musicians! Oregon Mill, eh? Another interesting history there too I am sure. Such songs are also documenting the onward flowing river of human civilisation & history. Thanks for posting this example!

[@declandarthwing5691]

I've literally just discovered this song, what else am I missing I wonder.

[@robbiehunt868]

2024 and still love it

[@BILLYnKAREN]

There is no band better than The fureys for putting genuine feeling in any and every song they play. This is no exception. Fantastic. Love this band.

[@normkraushaar8395]

So universal, says so much from the heart....as is Gallipoli and most of their songs

[@soniatilbrook4100]

Sonia kerwick this tune is BRILLIANT GOD Bless IRELAND

[@coleenquinn3761]

Beautiful 🎶🎶🇮🇪🍀🍀

[@stevesuffet]

Everyone should read songwriter Si Kahn's own comments below. Si begins by saying "Thanks to whoever posted this great version of my song 'Aragon Mill' by Davey Arthur and the Fureys." As Si says, he wrote this song after the textile mill in Aragon, Georgia, closed in 1970. What he does not say is that the mill subsequently reopened and closed again several times, but it finally closed permanently after a fire in 2002. We should all wish Si the best of luck in starting the Aragon Mill JamFest, but more importantly we should stand in solidarity with all people who are fighting against the transnational corporate greed that has destroyed the lives of working people in both big cities like Belfast and small towns like Aragon.

[@landrykkb]

I've heard this song a lot throughout my life and I still love it.

[@woodiethompson526]

This man was no doubt born to be a singer perfect voice perfect accent passion oozing in every performance I have heard what an entertainer ! Too early gone!

[@waynecrothers2012]

Going to see the fureys and davey Arthur perform at the Ardhowen theatre,Enniskillen 8/02/2020 I can't wait,great musicians and songwriters...

[@rossedmonds1828]

I was unemployed years ago - and I haven't forgotten what it felt like. Sad

[@lindy-loucullen4226]

God in Australia, if you are over 55, no matter how qualified you are singing the Belfast Mill.

[@rossedmonds1828]

@@lindy-loucullen4226 True

[@daistoke1314]

This song resonates with every town, city or community that has seen jobs destroyed, Too old to work, and too young to die.

[@ciarahamilton279]

It's 1974. Just to clarify! Brilliant song. If you're Irish, you can't stop the foot going.

[@hehe3439]

hahah

[@williammongan9806]

Not a truer word said

[@quickmick1112]

I read your comment as my foot started to raise up for the tap down haha thanks for the laugh.

[@moneymay7050]

Go on ciara

[@raymondoreilly4726]

Ha sitting with the foot going

[@mikecarter5846]

This is an awesome tune. The closing of factories and mills worldwide is a sad consequence of economic times. Whole towns fall into waste and many families are destroyed. Keep a good thought for those unfortunate people.

[@rossedmonds1828]

I've known what its like to want work and not getting it. Under those circumstances its a battle to hang onto any self confidence and to hang onto a relationship. It was a long time ago but I haven't forgotten.

[@redarchibald]

Love this! Had on repeat all night!

[@Maksimfan]

this is the song that first got me loving folk music

[@stuartlooby2418]

Dopes dats why

[@irishfield1]

So great song ever adore it thank you

[@Ken528100]

Absolutely love this tune!!!❤

[@iainmackillop2128]

Killiekentman Hey Ray ! I'm so amazed that this post has racked up nearly 200,000 views since it was posted. Many thanks to you for maing it available .. and to Si Kahn for writing this great song :)

[@josparkes1]

The Furies are awesome, and this is awesome too, they are a great band !

[@jestalhut]

Whatever The Furey's do is great. I love this song, and this is a great version.

[@josparkes1]

The banjo is superb on this version !

[@noelsteele7112]

Born in Belfast .used to hear hewitts mill horn as i walked up the crumlin road to school.happy days.

[@megancrowley2154]

Love this song💕💕

[@hooleyqueen]

Dear Michael Kelly, Thank you so much for sharing your lovely story with us. I was in Sligo where the Fureys own a bar called (surprise) Furey's. It is in the Northwest of the Republic close to the sea. I went to Furey's Pub & heard some lads playing traditional songs. For all I know it could have been some of the original band if any were (or are) still alive. I was there around 2002or 2003. I did not know about the Fureys then, but discovered them later. I bought one of their early CDs in a tiny record shop in the tiny village of Doolin on my way out to the Aran Islands which lie in the Galway Bay Doolin is the departure point for the smallest of the three islands, Inisheer. Inish means Island in Irish.

[@iandickson1330]

Sad there is olso a lot of houses with chimneys but no smoke used to love watching the smoke comeing from the train gone by days

[@MRAWSOME481]

It was played at my granddads funeral

[@iandickson1330]

Great songs from the great FUREYS lovely folk music

[@richardbyrne618]

Whoever gave thumbs down to this are obviously tone deaf friend.

[@dougreed2257]

Absolutely richard,and they have no soul!

[@maxjohnson4477]

I'll drink to that

[@jennypiper377]

" JUST PERFECT THANK YOU FINBAR DAVEY,

[@georgestyer2153]

Thanks for the info Si...most enlightening I love those who care !!!!

[@johncole8501]

Love this song

[@SuperMicksor]

Best version ever , Great Song

[@bowie47ziggy]

brilliant stuff, and very rare love it...

[@johnduffy2604]

My father was born in tipperary

[@fred0donohoe593]

Great song good voice finbar

[@punkcat77]

I never knew who sang this song! Fureys are awesome.

[@deaghansionnach2936]

Awesome song, reminds me of my time in Belfast

[@natashamolloy5885]

My big brothers song 5months gone our thomas the pain in my heart is getting worse , u and our patrick is up there in paradise . I miss you so much i love you to bits , r.i.p my two brother thomas and patrick ,life will never be the same

[@annmariem121]

I love ya sis we will get threw this 😭

[@shannonduddy4149]

My family always loved them ,and always will ,I lost my sister 2 which broke my heart

[@shannonduddy4149]

God bless use xx

[@jojokeavy2835]

Beautiful 🇮🇪🎶🎶🎶🎶🇮🇪2020🇮🇪

[@iandickson1330]

That’s music at its best they sure bring life to there songs maybe not the chimney stack

[@johannothnagel137]

Amazing voice !!!!

[@patriciaoneill8053]

Aw brilliant, Belfast Mill, made the greatest people,

[@iandickson1330]

Great 👍 brilliant the best thank too them

[@arthurshelby6733]

One of the best songs to be made! Listening to this takes me pack to the 50 shades of green I miss

[@thelittleowl2484]

One of my favorite song

[@tichmulraney6784]

Weave n spin weave n spin 🇮🇪💚☘✊🏼

[@hooleyqueen]

so beautiful, so sad

[@docholiday8308]

I love both Argon Mill and Belfast Mill. I live in SO in cotton country and there are hundreds of closed and or adapted. Many mills have been torn down to make way for new industrial plants. The South is coming back but it went lose its soul. I wish the same for distant cousins in the 6 counties now that the worst of The Troubles are over

[@coyi7454]

God bless you 🇬🇧❤️🇮🇪

[@taphhedrof1045]

Dave Arthur, you are a fantastic Banjo Player. I love your Banjo playing on When you were Sweet 16 also.

[@ingeborgdomin6846]

Good song, THX

[@KillieKentRadio]

Thanks for your note VanillaCapnCream :-)

[@NiamhAdventureTime]

Reminds me of my old man

[@connorscoursing2053]

Best song ever ☝️💯

[@julane50]

Wow . a great version of Aragon Mill. I love the Red Clay Ramblers(?) soulful rendition. I've only recently discovered 'Belfast Mill' .. ♬‧*˚✧♬‧*˚ .. must say it's one o the best !

[@patmcd8271]

Number 1 song legends

[@sikahn9181]

DO YOU KNOW A RECORDED VERSION OF ARAGON MILL? If so, please let me know for a paper I'm writing about the song's history. It also goes by the names Belfast Mill, Oregon Mill, Douglass Mills and Weave & Spin. Thanks so much, Si

[@Luukupuuk]

You might want to check out this one: Planxty: Accidentals / Aragon Mill (is on youtube)

[@shutyadish666]

Sat here just kicking up my leg,

[@cheerydavie]

One of the Furey's /Arthur .recordings

[@montelee8244]

I live 3 mi. From the mill . great song

[@michaelmorley6423]

🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪 Beautiful song

[@insideout4892]

the song is such a wonderful homage to the working class people in the western world who suffered just like those who suffered across the eastern world, due to faceless big business. we might all suffer in the end

[@paulamcnama1499]

The fureys are legendary xx

[@Maksimfan]

@KillieKentRadio I know you posted you're comment ages ago, but, in England 'The Dogs Bollox' is a phrase that means brilliant! Absolutely the best.

[@jim621000]

Great version from a great band..

[@SheyD78]

The heartbreak of hard working people who's jobs are suddenly gone because it's cheaper to make things somewhere without safety regulations or minimum wage. Corporate greed has a lot to answer for.

[@susanpurnell2433]

So many traditional employments gone all over England, Ireland Scotland & Wales. Only on-line shops & call centres left, sadly. Says it perfectly.

[@damonwalters1813]

Feeling your pain. (Cornwall)

[@martinmcdonagh161]

love this

[@jamesdoran8326]

This war is going on to long there should be peace

[@creasemason6347]

Thatcher!!!! The witch closed down the mills in the 80s...Belfast Catholics suffered...

[@paddymcdaid3447]

Hazel dickens brilliant at this Aragon mill ☘️👍🐶woof

[@angielaz6107]

Love it

[@annmariem121]

Awesome

[@gaconnochie]

" I love this however the song is about a mill in Belfast that was occupied by the British Army during the troubles" That is nonsense. It is just Si Kahn's song with the name changed to 'Belfast' to make it sound Irish. Using Belfast kind of misses the point of the song in that it is a big city. It is about a mill closing in a small American one mill town - and the devastation that had on the small town.

[@adlofheltirchiefadvisortot40]

didn't know the background to the song, tragic, and makes the song devastating

[@waynecrothers2012]

Many are misled by media,about the troubles I was born and raised 10 miles outside Belfast, it's very different from the bleak misleading picture the media has portrayed,ie gunmen on every street corner,I'm 46 and can honestly say I've never seen a gunman etc...... I think the song is very catchy and is about the plight of the average Joe out trying to make an honest living thru sweat and toil,the line "I'm too old to work and I'm too young to die" is indeed very poignant, so many men and women find theirselves in this predicament when work drys up in the autumn of their years,very sad indeed.......great song🌍 could be about any town in the world.

[@milkywhite2939]

British through and through but this isthe most amazing song x

[@johndelaney2321]

outstanding@

[@mark-anthonybent7951]

makes me homesick . miss ireland very much . maybe its time to finally go home

[@ponymahony]

hope you made it buddy

[@davideddy2672]

Actually ‘Aragon Mill’ in Georgia U.S.

[@jockyblade]

Ah finbar you beauty, magic pure magic

[@richardbyrne618]

Anyone who dishes this song are obviously Eurovision fans