Salonika - Jimmy Crowley & Stokers Lodge

Jimmy Crowley & Stokers Lodge singing Salonika

My husband's in Salonika
And I wonder if he's dead
I wonder if he knows he has
A kid with a foxy head

Chorus:
So right away, so right away
So right away, Salonika
Right away, my soldier boy

Now when the war is over
What will the slackers do
They'll be all around the soldiers
For the loan of a bob or two

But when the war is over
What will the soldiers do
They'll be walking around with a leg-and-a-half
And the slackers will have two

And they tax their pound o' butter
They tax their halfpenny bun
But still with all their taxes
They can't beat the bloody Hun

And they tax th' old Coliseum
They tax St Mary's Hall
Why don't they tax the bobbies
Wi' their backs ag'in' the wall

But when the war is over
What will the slackers do
For every kid in Americay
In Cork there will be two

For they takes us out to Blarney
They lays us on the grass
They puts us in the family way
And leaves us on our arse

There's lino in the parlour
And in the kitchen too
A glass-backed chevonier
That we got from Dicky Glue

And before that I got married
Sure I used to wear a shawl
But now the war is over
'Tis hanging in Jones' pawn

And never marry a soldier
A sailor or a Marine
But keep your eye on the Sinn Fein boy
With his yellow, white and green

[sentimentaloldme]

This one always brings a smile to my face from the moment I heard it over 40 years ago..Only one man to sing it and that's Jimmy with that great auld Cork accent .Up The Rebels

[edwardmcardle]

Jimmy and the lads their music never ages pure class.

[donalryan]

Back in the nineties Jimmy played for us one St Patrick's out in Gaberone in Botswanna. A gentleman .twas some week!

[LBYTAMBC]

Awesome heard him in Schull and met him personally! What a blast we had!

[michaeljamestalbot]

Salonika is such a good song. I have the Dubliners singing this on vinyl but I do like this version too.

[mauracurley]

HON
A mighty singer ta
have @ a party hi. 🎤🎸🎶🎵

[christophebrotet]

C'est l'un de mes chanteur préféré

[cheerydavie]

Thanks for posting. great version

[carmelcrowley]

I wonder what will we do, my shoulder boy. They taxed the butter, sir right of way my shoulder boy. When the war is over, they put us in the family line. Sailet keep your eye

[neilcam]

While I was working with some people in Holland the co owner, Wiel, said at the regular coffee drinking session every morning that he has gone by plane somewhere or other and has brought back duty free a bottle of Paddy Irish whiskey. Later on when I got suspicious of them I realised he was asking if I was sympathetic to the cause of the IRA freedom fighter's. I replied that I was by buying two cds of Irish songs, one of which includes this one.

[kerrykikker]

Isn't that the famous Eoin O'Riabhaigh on de pipes? Eoin "Rabies" O'Riabhaigh... how did the poor man get that quaint nickname?
I remember those duffle coat Cork Uni concerts..! Pure folk music heaven.

[normanstrongbow]

Salonika. Is this Thessaloniki, Greece?

[KillieKentRadio]

Great minds think alike Decky :-) This a better recording than the one I posted the same day. Thanks for posting. Iain

[leslieasuncion]

haha, my best friend's name is Salonika.

[catherineohalloran]

Who is the piper on this? I think Jimmy is an amazing and underestimated talent...