Lammas Fair Ballycastle - 2013
This year our annual Lammas Fair will be held on Monday 26th and Tuesday 27th August 2013 (always held on the Last Monday and Tuesday in August). Visit Paul McAuley Bodhrán stall, Ann Street, just opposite the Northern Bank - where some of his bodhráns will be on display. Due to the fact that most of our bodhrans are made to order, there will be only a small selection on display, but please feel free to come and discuss your requirements with Paul, who will be on hand to give expert advice. We are expecting the usual thousands of visitors and stalls will be set up all around the town. Well worth a visit - especially down and around the sea-front area where there will be a market and marque - similar to St George's Market, in Belfast - all traditional crafts and home made produce and if the weather is wet then what a great place to spend a bit of time brousing in comfort!!!!.
At the Ould Lammas Fair in Ballycastle long
ago
I met a pretty colleen who set me heart a-glow
She was smiling at her daddy buying lambs from Paddy Roe
At the Ould Lammas Fair in Ballycastle-O!
Sure I seen her home that night
When the moon was shining bright
From the ould Lammas Fair in Ballycastle-O!
Chorus
At the ould Lammas Fair
boys were you ever there
Were you ever at the Fair In Ballycastle-O?
Did you treat your Mary Ann
To some Dulse and Yellow Man
At the ould Lammas Fair in Ballycastle-O!
In Flander's fields afar
while resting from the War
We drank Bon Sante to the Flemish lassies O!
But the scene that haunts my memory is kissing Mary Ann
Her pouting lips all sticky from eating Yellow Man
As we passed the silver Margy and we strolled along the strand
From the ould Lammas Fair in Ballycastle-O!
Repeat Chorus
There's a neat little
cabin on the slopes of fair Knocklayde
It's lit by love and sunshine where the heather honey's made
With the bees ever humming and the children's joyous call
Resounds across the valley as the shadows fall
Sure I take my fiddle down and my Mary smiling there
Brings back a happy mem'ry of the Lammas Fair
Repeat Chorus
