Irish Arts Week© Tony Fallon071318.

 Irish Arts Week© Tony Fallon071318.

Up and down 145 in East Durham of high renown

The best Irish talent in the world was gathered in this town

It was of course the six days of the Annual Irish Arts Week

A gathering in America which is truly unique

On the pipes or banjo you can learn a brand new technique

Or a few focals of Gaelic language you can learn to speak

Some people came up for four days of quiet vacation

Any many are here for some musical education

The parents have instilled some inquiring motivation

And teachers pass on our traditions to the next generation

I was in McGraths last night, the pipes many people were playing

There was a big crowd there all night no one was straying

Mattie Connolly was in his glory his fingers were hopping

Jigs Reels one after the other of him there was no stopping

He was not the only one there whose fingers seemed to glide

Deirdre Corrigan's were so fast I thought they would collide

For months we will talk about legends like Bergin,Madden and Fee

And instructors like Margie and Donny and Annemarie

There will be people who danced so much they will have blisters

We'll talk about the Coen brothers and the Casey sisters

If we had a piper named John or Michael Regan

I could have teamed him up with the singer Patrick Egan

There is such great talent here yet so many were omitted

They didn't rhyme with anyone when they were submitted

The names of most the teachers this year were not very phonetic

So I had a hard time with rhyming names and being poetic

But where else is a better place to make new or meet an old friend

Than the Irish arts week in East Durham I wish it would never end

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