Irish Rovers-Old Rocking Chair

[@patszer8314]

It's early Saturday morning, and my eyes are filled with tears listening to this song. Everyone is in bed sleeping, thank God. I am the Dad and head of my family, and it wouldn't do to have my wife or any of my children walk in on me and see me upset. I am not really upset. I just started thinking about my mom. She passed away eleven years ago and I am thinking of her. Thank you to whomever posted this song. I have to go wash my face now. ❤

[@PaulMcElveen]

I was born in the late fall of 1978. I was given The Unicorn Record Album by The Handsome, Charming and Extremely Talented Singers and Musicians, The Irish Rovers when I was four. I still have it! I later bought The Unicorn Record Album on CD. This is the first time I have ever heard or seen this Awesome Song and Video! The melody is beautiful, and the lyrics are sad. I love the funny part about not having a granny because they were too poor, but they had too fast dogs! Made me Laugh! Very Funny!

[@trex18369]

I just love them.. 2020 I still consider them as my favourite band...

[@gwc289]

Just listened to this again for the... goodness knows how many times now, and yet again it had me close to tears remembering both my amazing grandmothers, now sadly no longer here. I’ll say it again, thanks for posting and thank you Irish Rovers for composing and singing it so beautifully 😊😥 #bittersweet

[@Shan_Dalamani]

It's been over 35 years since I last heard this song. The Irish Rovers were in Red Deer in 1976, for the Westerner Days grandstand show. This is one of the songs they sang, and I'm glad I could hear it again.

[@bubba4198]

I came back to this song today, remembering how it made me feel the first time I had been listening to it at 3 am when i thought about my Nana and began balling my eyes out. We were pretty close when she passed in 2011, a hard veteran of life at 91.

[@LindseyGittus-gz8uq]

I married an Irish Coleen sixty years ago and have loved this music since brilliant

[@finehomemadewine]

My gran´s died yesterday. Thank You for the song.

[@berniedonohoe5875]

May she Rest in Peace and God bless.you all

[@tomtomb243]

I just found this Band, and I madly love thier beautiful songs.

[@musicmandon1]

I discovered this unknown gem while looking for a different song. Glad I did. We had a double-LP of the Irish Rovers, but this song wasn't on it. They were something else again.

[@chriswhitten7986]

my parent s saw then in the 70s when they had a tv show,,,love how their music tells a story

[@gwc289]

Had another watch/listen today as it’s 20 years to the very day my Grandmum sadly left us. Had me in tears. Beautiful and very emotional song.

[@MrDead1972]

i use to watch their show as a kid i loved their music as a kid and i love it now thanks for the song

[@donnahanson]

This song reminds me of my grandma... had me crying by the end of it... beautiful...

[@yvonneglass3418]

thank you for this song

[@KeatingChick]

All of my grandparents had passed away by the time I came along. I didn't realize until I was adult and a Grandma myself, what I had missed out on. Been a long time since I've heard this song. Thanks for posting it!!

[@chrisnixon1991]

Jimmy was too funny!!! But Will always has a sense a humour and now it has passed down to George who is the legacy to keep the irish rover roving!!!!! I heard Will Millar as a kid and has always stuck to me now im seeing more and more Will in George which to me is always a pleasure to see in all song writer and artists

[@OctoberChad]

I always loved Jimmy's joke at 0:43. Sometimes he'd add, "We had four fathers, though."

[@garymilsten9793]

i still get tears listening to this song

[@cgastle]

Thank you for posting. The first time I heard this song was in 1979, broadcasted on tv, when they did a concert in Vancouver. It has been one of my favorite songs ever since.

[@johnhouchins3156]

What a love song... I miss mine too.

[@froggiechar]

John, this is so wonderful, and I thank you for sharing it. I just subbed. In the Eighties, we used to go and hear the Irish Rovers (in concert), when they'd come to the Rialto Theater, in Joliet, Illinois. GREAT! God bless, Brother Charlie

[@carolschmitz9511]

I didn't really know my grandmothers. I met them briefly. One passed away from old age and the other from a place collision in mid air. But really do miss my Mom. She was my best friend.

[@greenbloodedpostman4338]

They all ways remind me of my dear old homeland where I'll return one day

[@mariaspencerfied]

Such a sad song...real feeling there.

[@ulsterstan]

My friends the Irish Rovers and best friend back in Sydenhan ,N.Ireland Jimmy Ferguson ,we bit overweight here , sadly Jimmy passed away about 10 years ago only in his 50.s.

[@ryanmoore8814]

I wish he had just one last song in him before his passing. Love these guys so much.

[@TheKaran1998]

I like this song. It also reminds me of my grandma.

[@Boombox1967]

My Grandparents have all passed on. I miss them dearly.

[@dancomtois9839]

Best music I heard in a very long time

[@glennmarshall4693]

My Granny got me into this group and she helped raise me, she wasn't in a rocking chair though, heheh

[@awritersheart]

I remember sitting at my grandfather’s knee as he played and sang this on guitar. I thought I’d lost the song forever as I had the hardest time finding it with the snippets of lyrics I could remember. Wouldn’t you know, as soon as the Rovers started, they all came rushing back. Thank you so much for posting

[@somegalfromcan]

I wish I'd had a Granny like the one he describes in the song.

[@gerrywagoner26]

That bass line at 3:52-55. Magnifique !!

[@tommy...8924]

This reminds me of my grandma that died last year

[@UAConstantine]

Grandmother's Old Rocking Chair Well I courted your old gran, me son, a long, long time ago. And it's said that she was the fairest of them all, And I told her that I loved her and I wanted her for mine and I wrote it all along the factory wall. Now she gave me six fine sons and your father, he was one. and she kept our home together and a favorite she had none. But the war, it cut the family down to less than half its size. and I watched your grandma aging right before me very eyes. She was bunny, she was fair and we made a lovely pair. I'd give all the world to see her in the old rocking chair. Now an angel called on us one night to take your gran away and I just had time to comb and plait her hair. And then the lonely times did face me, and it nearly broke me heart, nobody else could fill that rocking chair She was bunny, she was fair and we made a lovely pair. I'd give all the world to see her in the old rocking chair. So now I climb the stairs at night by the flicker of candlelight and I look upon me shadow on the wall and I can still remember when that shadow once was two and beside me stood the fairest of them all So now I lay me down to sleep, I ? for my sweet las. Oh I wish that things were like they used to be And I hope your grandma hears me voice and tells the Lord above to send an angel down to call on me She was bunny, she was fair and we made a lovely pair. I'd give all the world to see her in the old rocking chair. She was bunny, she was fair and we made a lovely pair. I'd give all the world to see her in the old rocking chair. lyricstranslate.com

[@garysimard5674]

I pined for my sweet lass

[@tlharts]

Love this song!

[@Eltonlaleham]

old rocking chair is an ace song

[@claralong1170]

Rocking alone in an old rocking chair

[@ruthslack4551]

GREAT SONG GREAT VOICES

[@gwc289]

Both of my grandmothers are now long gone sadly, although I still have my mum and dad alive and well 😊. Can remember so well both of them in their chairs (not rocking chairs though!) in their living rooms, and many happy memories. Love and miss you both Grandmum and Nanna. So, thank you for posting this, don’t mind admitting it brings a tear to my eye every time I hear it 😥- any idea of the year this was filmed? Thank you again 😊

[@mcmgag]

I've become a "granny" recently and I like this song!!! I also like to rock i.e. on a chair!!!

[@valleyramstv]

I remember listening to this song on the lap of my dad growing up. I can't remember who the Orginal Song was by and where to get it.

[@darrellnorris6810]

Valley RAMS could not skip this song for no other reason other then respect for the wonderful world that my nana made us to be a family

[@neilrichardson1075]

@465coleman Have you/is there/could you send any details of chords or sheet music available for this song. It has very poignant memories for me. I remember it as the the B-side to matchstalk men and my late grandma used to play it on her organ, she used to tell me it was written for her when I was 5. Thank you

[@JBodine67]

Sadly,they don't write them like that anymore.

[@ejili]

i love grannies

[@mackiemackie8579]

Range rovers you will be an excellent Angeles all Thee times God bless

[@footballgeorgiebest]

Are you putting the Rocking Chair on Ebay?

[@siobhanoshea9979]

I miss my dear nan

[@jimmyjoeh2o]

i am crying why is this?

[@alexgshaman]

Lyrics,please!

[@wheatcow]

Does anyone know the name of the tape that these songs came from?

[@RobbieTyler1]

@painnneck I have Irish relations, I think everyone does...your location says USA but you are Irish, when did you move away? I have had many good holidays over there in ireland...

[@skylartemming3369]

ik vind hem wel leuk

[@FatherGregorian]

@Boombox1967 Same here. But we will see them again someday!

[@blackpoolmadteacher]

@madmo32 10,000 Irish men dies in WW2 fighting with Irish regiments in the British Army. I was stating a fact, nothing more. My facts are right. 388,000 British people died during WW2, including civilians in our bombed cities. WW1 947,000 British people lost their lives, don't know how many Irish. Anyway, great song, I used to sing it 33 years ago when i was a kid.

[@painnneck]

@RobbieTyler1 um dude they look like Irish men of their age. Nothing sterotyped about it. None of them were/are exactly young so it was pretty normal for them to dress the way they did considering when they grew up. By the way I am Irish and its not them that annoys me. Long live The Rovers and good old tunes like these.

[@va3rm]

Great ic

[@rabc012345]

they did a song called granma got run over by a reindeer.....iheard it on a site called beemp3 try there to get it .

[@SandySalmansohn]

They sang a good song about a "granny" and a reindeer. :)

[@majellamcclenaghan859]

I remember my older first brother me my first rocking chair his is noel mc connell

[@blackpoolmadteacher]

This is an old Northern English song made famous by Brian and Michael. The song was the "B" side of Matchstalk men and matchstalk cats and dogs. "Wrote it all along the gasworks wall" and "The war it cut the family down to more than half it's size" suggests the circa of the song too. Not many Irish lost their lives during the World War 2 as they stayed nuteral throughout it.

[@Eltonlaleham]

Francesca is the granny in the old rocking chair

[@Thecowavenger]

preitty song

[@jussirintamaki4736]

Old ladies in camera their mothers?

[@reflective_lights]

That middle dude lookin like a pirate

[@kanaifu1539]

ayo m8 i dont want my grandma to go

[@huho9686]

damn those stealthy onion cutting brits

[@johnbilodeau5292]

Hu Ho they are IRISH 🇨🇮

[@Eltonlaleham]

I think the granny should be called Francesca

[@blairdawson9506]

Baking and cooking

[@statelyelms]

And not an eye was left dry

[@brunodebarcelosmiguel3460]

our time is basically the opposite of a diamond its gone from superb to rotten as the devil

[@skylartemming3369]

:)

[@majellamcclenaghan859]

And he also give me one pound coin for my birthday every year

[@tedchirvasiu]

You were too poor, huh? Heads up, mate, at least you had 2 fast dogs.

[@ryanmoore8814]

A perfect substitute :D

[@gremlinuk1968]

fcuk,,, / am just sayen,,,/ to much whisky,,,!!!,