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"Galway Girl" is a song written by American singer-songwriter Steve Earle [1] and recorded with Irish musician Sharon Shannon; the title was originally "The Galway Girl". It was featured on Earle's 2000 album Transcendental Blues. [2] "
"Galway Girl" is written in the key of F# minor in cut time with a tempo of 100 beats per minute. Sheeran's vocals span from E 3 to F# 4. [16] [17] Sheeran was introduced to Beoga's music through Foy Vance; Sheeran, who had written several Irish-styled songs for the album, invited Beoga to collaborate with him to help ensure an authentic sound.
The film also includes "Fairytale of New York" performed by The Pogues, "Got Me Like Oh" by Gia Farrell, "No Other Love" by Chuck Prophet, "Mustang Sally" performed by Gerard Butler and "Galway Girl" written and originally released by Steve Earle, performed by Gerard Butler, Nancy Davis, and Jeffrey Dean Morgan.
Galway Girl may refer to: "Galway Girl" (Steve Earle song), 2000 "Galway Girl" (Ed Sheeran song), 2017; A Galway Girl, 1979 play by Geraldine Aron
Sharon's track, "Cavan Potholes", written by Dónal Lunny is featured on the 1996 compilation Common Ground: Voices of Modern Irish Music. Other stars on the album include Sinéad O'Connor, Elvis Costello, Kate Bush and Bono. Sharon's fourth album titled Spellbound was released in September 1998. This compilation featured new material, live ...
"The Galway Shawl" – collected by Sam Henry in Dungiven in 1936 [60] "The Garden Where the Praties Grow" – written in the 19th century by Johnny Patterson [51] " Ceol an Ghrá", Ireland's 1972 Eurovision entry "The Girl from Donegal" – first recorded by Bridie Gallagher and later used as her nickname
"Nancy Mulligan" is one of the most personal songs on the album, telling the story of how his grandparents, William Sheeran, a Protestant from Belfast, Northern Ireland and Anne "Nancy" Mulligan, [4] a Catholic from the Republic of Ireland, met, fell in love during the Second World War and got married at the Wexford border. [4]
The album also contained an encore of "Galway Girl", a Steve Earle-penned song that Clare accordionist Sharon Shannon had recorded with the author years before. The live version became a download hit in Ireland, and eventually a studio version was released, after it was popularised in a television and radio advertising campaign for Bulmer's ...