The Fureys- The Red Rose Cafe

[@barryr10]

Was my grans funeral song - she passed nov 2020. Miss you gran.

[@MichaelReilly-q2w]

The last thing my brother sent me before he died rip you will be sadly missed by many j r Fritsa grand old team to play for hh ❤

[@quietman6962]

A pint listening to the ballad's singing along absolutely brilliant

[@jasond869]

Takes me back to good old days when the curtains would be drawn, the lights dimmed and the whole pub would be singing along to songs such as this.

[@zelaht2778]

Love it, we need to bring it back! ❤️

[@rodofiron1583]

I’ve never heard this song before but it makes me feel like crying with a kind of nostalgia and melancholy, bitter sweet feeling. ☘️

[@zelaht2778]

It's beautiful 💖 Listen to this one of theirs, I cry every time kzbin.info/www/bejne/oZvYkolnm897a68

[@stupidcat39]

I listened to The Furey's Greatest Hits during my first pregnancy in 1997. Never was happier, never will be again. There's no feeling like knowing your child is dancing in your belly to the music you grew up on. Now he's a teen, and listens to Irish songs on the weekends when he parties...LOL.

[@dennisposthuma]

You know this song isn't originally Irish right.

[@Janis.7-]

He’s 26 now 😊

[@bellaellaellaeheh]

@@Janis.7-this update is very lovely to hear ❤

[@christiansmith2983]

I bet you're fun at parties ​@@dennisposthuma

[@kevinoboyle8138]

Worked in the central hotel in Donegal Town where the lads used to play quire often. Fantastic memories

[@stujak74]

My mum always told me this was my dad's favourite song. He passed away a good few years ago now and I don't know why I've never listened to this before, but it is actually perfect. It summed him up to a tee. Down at the Red Rose Cafe everyone forgot who they were, forgot their woes and struggles in life.... beautiful...

[@thomasmcilvennymcilvenny5167]

As long as you remember your dad no one can ever take that song from his memory or yours thomas xxx

[@dennisposthuma]

The writer of the original version passed away a few weeks ago too and you're right it is a good song.

[@patriciathewisher2315]

Great song. Fabulous lyrics. Great group.

[@sharonstribling1611]

Heard for the first time this week and will be singing it forever. Filled my heart with happiness and nostalgia

[@ELBLACKO45]

I used to love driving along with my mum and she had the fureys on tape. This song was my favourite.

[@marcusfranconium3392]

Original a dutch song , that has been covered by many artist in many languages , Well worth to listen to all the different languages.

[@Camerasdontlie]

Up the Irish were fcuking crazy. Love you all. Yup yup the dubs

[@sherp2u1]

Ah ye, up the fucking Dubs, we bate the shoite out yee this year....C'mon Galway...FFS....🤣😋🍻🍻

[@paulhamill78]

Reminds me of the party's in my grannies house...all the family there singing their hearts our .....Good times ❤

[@Jimmybob4445]

Mine too all changed now unfortunately, oh too go back for a week

[@emolthegreat1]

fantastic song, sang with loads of passion really ove it well done

[@michaelbarry2700]

Great chorus, one of the best

[@anneconlon3997]

LOVE THIS . SAW ANDRE RIEU IN AMSTERDAM THIS YEAR AND THIS WAS A FEATURED ORCHASTRAL VERSION. DIFFERENT NATIONS SANG IN THEIR OWN LANGUAGE. BRILLIANT.

[@ronnie217ron]

I have not heard this song in years great song love it!!!!

[@georgegunn150]

pure class, these people are gifted.

[@maryodonnell8124]

L

[@madeleycouriers1319]

Have been fortunate enough to see these guys live at the Crewe Lyceum a few years ago , They blew us away ! Folk music at its very Best !

[@thatsthat8421]

Seen these guys last week. I didn't know this song before I went in but I was obsessed with it when I came out. What a band 😍

[@bobw7066]

I absolutely love this song, every time I play it I sing along at the top of my voice. My wife hates it.

[@robert32634]

secretly though she loves it

[@marleneodonovan5208]

You're wife 😀😀 has a lot to learn about the Irish 😀

[@nualamcgowan3300]

Good man Bob, keep at it!

[@willemsummer8321]

On a beautiful farm in South Africa.....I grew up with this song.....in the 70's and 80's - so many childhood memories.....😢

[@Octochiken]

With the English version?

[@conzo21]

Remembering my granny Teasie Harris who left us two years ago today, she loved this song and she loved the Fureys.

[@jackinthebox7802]

This is my favourite . I love especially to play it when I go to Holland on my holidays annually. I love to join in the words each time I listen to it.

[@bobdonaldson1183]

Never to early to get the vocals tuned ,in time for their concert in Enniskillen 3 Feb '24

[@michelleobrien4538]

RIP to my sister Margaret who cud sing this in London on paddy day the best times I had with my sister Margaret and Kathleen rip both of thm .... 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪

[@BestUserNameUK]

Galtymore.

[@carolinebreen2619]

This reminds me of my father would always play it in his car

[@natashavance676]

This was me and dads wedding dance song 😁

[@Ledaatje]

Haha, Irish + Dutch = perfect match :D

[@TheBigbadbuster]

Was my bridal waltz at my wedding 20 years ago, yes i married a woman of dutch parents and we're still together.

[@alundavies8402]

Good luck to you

[@barneyboscoe]

feckin' brilliant, only the Furies

[@marymcmullen5150]

Love to hear the Fureys and some Dutch band singing this song together as this song is in Dutch 'De Kleine Café'!

[@I.Toverheks]

*het * kleine café aan de haven ' De ' café is gramatically incorrect🙃

[@dennisposthuma]

Well it does make sense that a dutch band also sings it the song is originally dutch.

[@patriciathewisher2315]

The high status men. When the spoken word was valued and the song even more. When lyrical ballads were the norm. When people were entertained by what they heard. The beauty of it. The imagery. When people could not read or write. The oral and aural traditions. When performance wasn’t recorded on tape or video but in the words of men who passed on their stories of great night and great days and great events and great women and men and cattle and, and everything. Seamus O’Grianna was a Donegal man who recorded the stories he’d heard. An Irish speaker who lived in Gaoth Dobhair (Gweedore). He wrote under the pen name of Maire (Mary). He spent his last years, as I think also did his brother, also a writer, far away from his homestead in a psychiatric hospital in Letterkenny. I wonder why that was. As a teenager I went to where he grew up to learn Irish. We met men who were professional storytellers. That’s all they did. Went from house to house and pub to pub and told their stories. Not their personal stories but their stories of the past where they lived. Of the people and their customs. Their loves and their woes. Their fights and their hardships. Their class struggles and their work. Their marriages and their dowries and bargaining over women and drink and farms. Their fears for their children and of death and disease. The world today doesn’t even know that Maire ever fuckin existed. He was more important to me than that halfwit Madonna who in some convoluted way probably thinks she’s Maire, ie Mary, the mother of Jesus. F F S.

[@marlenesullivan3113]

SO BEAUTIFULLY SANG..💗🎶

[@georgestyer2153]

Something has been lost in the comments, I may have made this reply before, if I have then ...well once again... I was on a journey from Liverpool to Wigan with 2 granddaughters aboard they were bored so I played this for hours they were mystified we sang all the way home......Both are now folk singers with the love of the Irish. They were 8/9 years old then and now 40+ al we all love the Fureys...Ireland for ever

[@sbuechter8027]

All my love for you and your granddaughters, that's one of the first songs I sang in a pub.

[@stephbreitenbach1401]

This song make one longing to experience this café at this harbour. Wish we could see it.

[@dynd]

Steph Breitenbach You can! It’s in a Dutch town called Hoorn.

[@DawnHarris-oy8df]

Love it. So neat

[@annetteelliott1494]

It is so beautiful.....I love it. Happy New Year all my music friends.....

[@Val-dr3nw]

I used to sing this song when I was four

[@MichaelKane-t8v]

They say i look look like one of the fureys fantastic song

[@shannonelizabeth5676]

My nanny made me put this on haha she loves this song

[@azarialaverty3581]

Shannon Elizabeth so does mime lol

[@sallyandrews9348]

your Nanny has good taste, i love it too - what did you think to it?

[@deanoodonoghue-wn9qn]

Reminds me of my son happy go lucky chap love the bones of him

[@B.Burke1]

i love this song so much

[@marleneodonovan5208]

My most favorite song 😁

[@marleneodonovan5208]

🇮🇪

[@annebreen8092]

Great song 👍👍👍

[@slowianka100]

It's a great Irish version of the Dutch song !!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@happytravels6165]

Both 👍

[@brianbyrne437]

Zofia Yildirim boney

[@jamesfinnegan9498]

It’s a Dutch song ! Ya toch den Haag ! Alles kompt goed

[@plasticroad25]

A true miracle! Congratulations.

[@kellyhannan5891]

love it 😊

[@tom-rn4nc]

love this song

[@sandrawilson8115]

Luke Kelly raglan road

[@MsTazTime]

Just love this song.... It was my Grandfathers' favourite song.... It was the last song he ever heard before he passed away.....

[@lolabridget2454]

same

[@willemsummer8321]

Makes me think of my wonderful childhood......in sunny South Africa - so many memories.....😘

[@kaykinsella6798]

My favorite.

[@thomasmcgrath9935]

Another one of the skills of the travelling people bless

[@Ekki787]

In Germany the version of Peter Alexander was the most successful single in 1976. „Die kleine Kneipe in unserer Straße“. Thanks Pierre Kartner for this song.

[@kingshamie1332]

If you never heard of this song bofore,,,,,,,, well this will be your first time🤗😂

[@wrj888]

Love the Furys

[@ryanomahony2060]

BRILLANT !!!

[@patriciathewisher2315]

Travellers were troubadours. Closest to tradition and music. Took longer to lose their roots than other peoples. We’re tormented to be and live and think like everyone else. The Gypsies. The men who played at courts of kings. The poets. The storytellers. The wandering men.

[@Arentzen]

There is also a German version, sung by Peter Alxender - "Die kleine Kneipe" ... An international success, this song. Everyone knows such a place ... Great :-)

[@dacoconutnut7667]

Gunter Arentzen it's original dutch

[@derekferguson3828]

This will bring us altogether

[@williamgarrett3233]

Beautiful. Xx

[@Davofromdownunder65]

I've seen the Fureys live 3 times back in the 80s

[@jonshs12]

yes me family from donolgal love this song and many more of them

[@BeltandBraces]

john doherty: hello cousin.

[@ruthatwell6816]

Cape Breton Island The Fureys Are Great Singers Beautiful

[@michaeldunne7085]

Spent many a happy hour listening to this song at the Breda beer festival. At the time i was told there was 200 cafes in a square mile, don't know if it was true but it seemed like it and a good time was had by all.

[@robertkavanagh8202]

love this band

[@bobw7066]

Still listening and loving.

[@coreydk4860]

My nana kays favourite fureys song ❤️

[@jamesfletcher5906]

Keego lol my nans called kay too and she gets down to this song aswell

[@dacoconutnut7667]

Keego lol and its originally dutch

[@noelcoffey9989]

❤ this song 🎧

[@tomkeogh8722]

I love your comment, George. Music is international, language is unimportant, as long as we all enjoy it.

[@wasrhenagallagher5916]

This song puts me in the mood for singing and dancing.

[@rosiesavage2499]

My fave song x

[@paddykavanagh3742]

I would love to be there

[@lawrencecampbell8930]

love it

[@Donksn]

Stukybuy It is a Dutch song! One of the band members famously said we took the Dutch song and translated it from Hollish into Irish hehe...it is a Dutch song originally

[@BestUserNameUK]

Played the Galtymore in Cricklewood on a regular basis.

[@norahkennedy32]

I lived in ballyfermot where they come from then finber moved to daventry where i also lived my two younger sisters used to babysit for him

[@gilledwards8417]

brings back very happy memoiries of an ex boyfriend still miss him . . . .

[@goldbomb123]

love this song, xxxx

[@stepheng4009]

great music and band

[@irishfield1]

So amazing song ever I sing meself so great song ever adore it so much than Fureys and Dave Arthur

[@mikekavanagh8952]

True Legends,

[@gmcfc]

great song that the fureys have ever sang

[@FuzailAhmed]

Better song,love it this song.

[@Mcvity]

Celtic blood is universal, were all connected so erm yerr god bless :)

[@cloneoffred]

Nonsense, welcome to DNA technology of the 2020’s

[@rebelangel66]

Rip Pierre Kartner aka Father Abraham.

[@shannonduddy4149]

Best ever , grow up with all ur mucic xx and all my children will 2

[@jakewilson3240]

Magic!

[@emmalim4695]

Very nice lyric

[@rosemariedoyle1462]

Love it 🌹🌹

[@beulahventer5451]

The best music ever!

[@TARAHILLMUSIC]

@alpquelle1 its dutch song wrote in 1975 by valder abraham and covered by many bands including my good friends the fureys and davey arthur. have had the pleasure to meet valder in holland.

[@freddyodonohoe2644]

Finbar fury Irish legend 🇮🇪

[@jurvanderveen3467]

The Dutch song is: Het kleine café aan de haven. Singer: Vader Abraham

[@esmemaia]

Just like the song,always requested for me by a special wee girl Janie love her xxx

[@laserbeam002]

First heard the instrumental by Andre Reiu then looked up the lyrics. Simply beautiful song. I wonder if the Red Rose Cafe is still in business?

[@barlogirl]

laserbeam 002 I don't think there ever was a 'Red Rose Cafe'. The song is an adaptation of a Dutch song which has been written about (and inside) a cafe that is indeed still in business called - 't Schippershuis - (the boatsman's home, lit.)

[@jurvanderveen3467]

Vader Abraham, Het kleine café aan de haven (in Dutch)

[@thomasmartin4396]

laserbeam 002 i

[@jeroendevries]

Thanks for posting, I loved to here this song, I have also the original dutch version. It's written by Pierre Kartner also know as Vader Abraham, Het kleine cafe aan de haven that's the original title.

[@happytravels6165]

Link please!

[@pierapetruzzi709]

They come from the forests and the factories too And they all soon forget who they are. The cares of the day are soon washed away As they sit at a stool by the bar. The girl with green eyes in the Rolling Stones shirt Doesn't look like she works on the land. The man at the end, is a very good friend Of a man who sells cars second hand. CHORUS Down at the Red Rose Cafe in the Harbour There by the port just outside Amsterdam. Everyone shares in the songs and the laughter. Everyone there is so happy to be there. The salesmen relax with a few pints of beer As they try not to talk about trade. The poet won't write any verses tonight. but he may sing a sweet serenade. So pull up a chair and forget about life. It's a good thing to do now and then And if you like it here I have an idea Tomorrow let's all meet again.

[@ruthatwell6816]

Great The Furey Cape Breton Island

[@ciarasexton7093]

THE GIRL WITH GREENS EYES IN THE ROLLING STONE SHIRT ;)

[@jimfennell3378]

Great lol

[@sbuechter8027]

Love you green eyed girl;)

[@georgeknowles1437]

Fabulous ❤️

[@Utd_4Me]

Uncle harry sang this in his lorry as i sat next to him as a kid growing up getting to know that brilliant man one morning as i sat at breakfast i heard awful shooting it was my brilliant uncle harry murdered by the ira.....thanks for the broken heart ireland.

[@jlmdad1950]

love Amsterdam

[@storkovicify]

Original written in my little ol' home town of Hoorn. The only famous thing we brought this world in recent times, aside from George Baker :P