Some songs are truly experienced. Such is the case with this nostalgic and melancholic classic. It seems as though Liam is living the song as he sings it. Just as the audience by the look of it. Wonderfully done
Those were the days my friend....Greetings from Dublin Ireland many a night this song came out late at night....oh lord twas mighty older but no wiser..
Way back in 1968, I was an International Flight Steward with QANTAS Airways! I first heard this song in London (sung by Mary Hopkins). It has always remained one of my favourite songs --- and as each year passes --- the lyrics become all the more potent!
Up Ireland and Russia and the Russian's and the Irish and anyone in the world that can sorely look back on their life, love it, for what it was, AND IT WAS and then let go..... Not an easy thing to do !!!!...... these are the people who truely appreciate life !!!
Reminds me of my younger years at the best bar in all of Boston The Common Ground in Allston Brighton 95-98 we lived we loved we fought like there was no tomorrow .... those truly were the days my friends!
come on you boys in green! this is he russian tune irish football fans have been singing for a while . the words match the ethos of being an irish football fan or a real supporter of any team. ups and downs ...enjoy it all...win or lose as fortunes come and go.
You can see the whole performance on another RU-vid video. "Liam Clancy Live at The Olympia Dublin 1992" This is a wonderful piece from that concert. Vaya con Dios, Liam. Your talents are missed. And your brothers.
Saludos desde la Ciudad de México 🇲🇽 a todos por esta bella canción 🎵 e interpretación de la canción rusa 🇷🇺 con Liam de 🇮🇪 Irlanda . It’s a wonderful world 🌎 🌍❤️💪🏼🕺🏽🎵
Problem is that for Mary Hopkins, she was just too young to understand this as Liam did for many years. And the singing............... is in the knowing.
Once upon a time there was a tavern Where we used to raise a glass or two Remember how we laughed away the hours And dreamed of all the great things we would do. Those were the days my friend We thought they'd never end We'd sing and dance forever and a day We'd live the life we choose We'd fight and never lose For we were young and sure to have our way. La la la la... Then the busy years went rushing by us We lost our starry notions on the way And if by chance we'd meet outside the tavern We'd smile at one another and we'd say.. Just tonight I stood outside the tavern Nothing seemed the way it used to be And in the glass I saw a strange reflection Was that lonely fellow really me. And through the door I heard familiar laughter I saw your face and heard you call my name Oh my friend we're older but no wiser For in our hearts the dreams are still the same.
من واقعا این ترانه را خیلی دوست دارم،البته گفته می شود که اصل ترانه به روسی و زبان روسی خوانده شده و بعد ماری هوپکین ان را خوانده که به نظر من بسیار زیبا خوانده است من خیلی ترانه ها یش را دوست دارم و قبل از نکبت بار انقلاب که یازده ساله بودم گوش می کردم و جنگ که شد به همراه هموطنان و همشهریان خرمشهری خودم در جبهه خرمشهر با هم می خواندیم و این یکی از زیباترین خاطره های دوران زندگی من می باشد.just want to say I love this song very much because I had a good memory with my mate and we used to sing this song in battle field Iran Iraq war.i am from Iran and I love to die for Iran .from the world down under.
bob dylan thought liam was the best folk/ballad singer he ever heard. you cant argue with that,i still think luke nicks it by a hair. class irish musicians
"Those Were the Days" is a song credited to Gene Raskin, who put a new English lyric to the Russian romance song "Дорогой длинною" (Romance transliteration "Dorogoy dlinnoyu", literally "By the long road"), composed by Boris Fomin (1900-1948) with words by the poet Konstantin Podrevsky. It deals with reminiscence upon youth and romantic idealism. It also deals with tavern activities, which include drinking, singing and dancing. Mary Hopkin's 1968 debut single of "Those Were the Days", which was produced by Paul McCartney of the Beatles, and arranged by Richard Hewson, became a number one hit on the UK Singles Chart and on the Canadian RPM Magazine charts. The song also reached number two on the Billboard Hot 100, behind "Hey Jude" by the Beatles. It was number one in the first edition of the French National Hit Parade launched by the Centre d'Information et de Documentation du Disque.[4] The song was featured on the US version of the debut album Post Card. Early history[edit] Georgian singer Tamara Tsereteli (1900-1968) and Russian singer Alexander Vertinsky made what were probably the earliest recordings of the song, in 1925[5] and 1926[6] respectively. The song appears in the 1953 British/French movie Innocents in Paris, in which it was sung with its original Russian lyrics by the Russian Tzigane chanteuse Ludmila Lopato. Mary Hopkin's 1968 recording of it with Gene Raskin's lyric was a chart-topping hit in much of the Northern Hemisphere. On most recordings of the song, Raskin is credited as the sole writer, even though he wrote only the later English lyrics (which are not an English translation of the Russian lyrics) and not the music.
At 11 I asked for this for my birthday. I also asked for a guitar and lessons. I made 2 months before quitting. My fingers hurt too much. I wanted to sing in bars and play guitar. And then at 15 I led music for 700 girls at a Lion's Club weekend and a 21 year old woman was playing an autoharp in her hotel room with the door open. I walked in and learned autoharp in 2 hours. I need autoharp tabs for this song. Mary Hopkins was part of my birthday when I was 11. I still the piano music and the album.
Love this version. The masculine voice adds something to it, I think. I always thought of the song's contents as more of an older man's wistfulness rather than a woman's. The withering away of male bravado or something. Not that I'd know anything about that withering shit, mind you.
Tracy Paxton I kind of thought of that line about fighting as a couple having an argument but not losing, as in, it didn't break the relationship but made it stronger?? wishful thinking on my part perhaps. Guess I never was a fighter, not a physical one anyway.
Brilliant. Liam Clancy could command a room of people and deliver a song like no other. Saw him live at The Cork Opera House and he was amazing, a true folk legend.
The world’s most legendary rock stars are amateurs next to Liam Clancy and Tommy Makem. It takes a small army to help Mick Jagger be Mick Jagger on stage. Remove him from that environment and he’s probably not much fun to watch. The thing about Tommy and Liam is that they were actors before becoming professional musicians. I think they understood that the product they were selling was themselves, and in a sense, they developed and played their characters with total commitment. People have often said that Liam could read the phone book and it would be entertaining. That’s hyperbolic but everyone understands what that means. Liam could lose his guitar at the airport, his accompanist could get stuck in traffic, have no books of poetry on hand, with a showtime only a few minutes away and no chance of cancellation. Somehow, I just know Liam could take a situation like that and turn it on its head. He would win the audience over one way or another and no one would go home disappointed. He’d tell stories, sing a cappella, and have the crowd singing along with him. Tommy could do that too. I’m telling you: those guys were the best there ever was. Sure they had off nights like everyone else. There are stories about Liam being drunk on stage and forgetting words. But on a good night, they were masters.
@MikeSpiritofNature Tom Clancy actually sang another Gene Raskin song called "Time Gentlemen, Time." And @JaneLawton it is available on Welcome to Our House.
WÓWWWWWWWW Robert...i ÁLWAYS LÓVED this song SÓÓÓÓÓÓÓÓÓÓÓÓÓÓÓÓÓÓÓ SÓÓÓÓÓÓÓÓÓÓÓÓÓÓÓÓÓÓÓ MÚCH...NÓW it shall ÁLWAYS ÁLWAYS ÁLWAYS REMIND me of you...and the love we could've made when we would marry😔😔😔😔😔and it shall ÁLWAYS make me want to cry...but i shall ÁLWAYS hope in the Lord...but if you find a LÓVELY bride i'll understand and nót come with the Pirate ship...
Stolen Russian song. Although many believe that it is a Russian folk composition, its author is known, his name is Boris Ivanovich Fomin, he was a Russian composer and musician, born on April 12, 1900 in St. Petersburg. The original name of the composition was "The Way Far Away", ("Dorogoj dlinnoju"), and the first performance was recorded by Tamara Cereteli (1925), but outside Russia the composition first became known in the performance of Alexander Vertinsky (1926) and most likely is that Raskin heard exactly that version. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7pDTywCYc5Y.html
While I liked Liam Clancy a lot, he had some wonderful stories about his days in Greenwich Village . He tells of his friendship I would say with Bob Dylan, before the infamous electric guitar incident at the Newport folk festival. I understand Bob Dylan liked his authetic folksy style and his playing of the nine string guitar. Liam Clancy in his later years told of how he was taken in (and perhaps lost his innoncence) by this extraordinary wealthy anonymous wealthy woman. These kind of stories would not have gone down well in the staunchly conservative Catholic Ireland of the 1960's. Getting back to the song, I have to say that it belongs to Mary Hopkins. She has that wonerful voice, and beautiful sixties look.
