O'McPub Band | Irish-American Duo

Every song story from Tales of the Tunes, A to Z — click any title to read it.

• All For Me Grog: He Drank Away Everything
• All of the Hard Days Are Gone: Celebrating Better Times
• American Wake: A Funeral for the Living
• And It Stoned Me: Not About Drugs
• Auld Lang Syne: The Farewell Emigrants Carried Around the World
• The Auld Triangle: The Song Brendan Behan Didn’t Write
• Back Home in Derry: Written by Bobby Sands
• Big Strong Man: A True(-ish) Story
• Black Velvet Band: Love, Watch, Australia
• Body of an American: The Boxer’s Irish Wake
• Brown Eyed Girl: Originally ‘Brown-Skinned Girl’
• Caledonia: Scotland’s Unofficial National Anthem
• Charlie on the MTA: The Song Behind the CharlieCard
• Come Out Ye Black and Tans: Dominic Behan’s Defiant Taunt
• Don’t Go for the One: The Snail Misadventure
• Drinking in the Day: A Toast to Short-Term Pleasure
• Drunken Sailor: The Age Old Question
• Dublin Whiskey Fire: A True Story
• Emerald Rain: ‘Purple Rain’ With One Word Changed
• Fairytale of New York: The Unsentimental Christmas Song
• Fiddler’s Green: A Sailor’s Paradise
• Fisherman’s Blues: A Hopeful Future
• Four Green Fields: Mother Ireland’s Four Provinces
• Going Out For One: When ‘Just One Pint’ Isn’t
• Grace: A Wedding Hours Before Execution
• Green Fields of France: Who Was Willie McBride?
• Haul Away Joe: A History Lesson
• House of the Rising Sun: Brothel or Gambling Den?
• I’ll Tell Me Ma: A Children’s Ring Game
• Irish Pub Song: More Than a Place to Drink
• Jackie: The Narrator Is a Ghost
• Jolene: Covered Before Beyoncé
• Jolly Rovin’ Tar: Can You Trust an Irishman?
• Katy Daly: Poitín in Tombstone, Arizona
• Killeagh: How this GAA tune became the new Irish Classic
• Kiss Me I’m Irish: An O’McPub Band Closer
• Leave Her Johnny: A Farewell to the Ship
• Leaving of Liverpool: ‘Fare Thee Well, My Own True Love’
• Mary Mack: Her Mother Arranged the Marriage
• Men Behind the Wire: Banned by RTÉ, No. 1 for Five Weeks
• Moonshiner: Irish or American? The Song Nobody Can Place
• Nancy Whiskey: Whiskey as a Woman
• The Night That Pat Murphy Died: A Joyous Wake
• Old Dun Cow: The Pub That Caught Fire
• On The One Road: A Call for Unity
• The Orange and the Green: The Living Irish Flag
• Pass Me a Pint: A Grump’s Christmas Wish
• Raggle Taggle Gypsy: From John Reilly to Planxty to the Waterboys
• Raglan Road: A Poem of Unrequited Love
• Rare Old Mountain Dew: This Drink Isn’t Green
• Rattlin’ Bog: Making the Band Work
• Ride On: Watching a Loved One Ride Away
• The Rising of the Moon: Rebels Meeting by Moonlight
• Rocky Road to Dublin: A Galway Labourer's Road to Liverpool
• Sean South of Garryowen: Story of a Limerick Man
• Seven Drunken Nights: Banned but a Hit
• Streams of Whiskey: Dreaming of Brendan Behan
• Sunday Bloody Sunday: "This Is Not a Rebel Song"
• Thousands Are Sailing: An Anthem for All Immigrants
• Whiskey in the Jar: A Song of Betrayal
• Whiskey You’re the Devil: A Liquor Love Song
• Wild Rover: The Temperance Song Turned Pub Anthem
• Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald: The Song That Saved Its Memory
• Zombie: Written After the Warrington Bombing