Name: Fair Play to You
Duration: 2 min 7 s
Channel: Stef Sigfalk
Description: 'The jaunty title cut, 'Fair Play To You,' is the best of the songs. It advises the listener to make peace with all of his or her decisions--regardless of whether or not you succeed while attempting to reach for the gold. Kevin McCarthy, Kevin's

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'The jaunty title cut, 'Fair Play To You,' is the best of the songs. It advises the listener to make peace with all of his or her decisions--regardless of whether or not you succeed while attempting to reach for the gold. Kevin McCarthy, Kevin's

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Very Celtic music played by a dedicated Band. Traditional songs and tunes plus original compositions combining their own multinational backgrounds whith the Cel

Band members: Heidi Sigfalk (violin, viola, guitar, voice), Stef Sigfalk (guitar, fiddle, mandolin, banjo, concertina, voice), Andreas Aeppli (bodhran, percussion, voice), Brendan Wade (uillean pipes, whistles, guitar, voice).

Song Info

Genre

World • Traditional Irish

Charts

Peak #16

Peak in subgenre #1

Author

Stef Sigfalk

Rights

Stef Sigfalk

Uploaded

June 30, 2006

Track Files

MP3

MP3 2.9 MB • 192 kbps • 2:07

Story behind the song

Do mo chara Ronnie, Dún na Séad

This is the title song of the current cd album, written by Stef in Baltimore – West Cork, Ireland, 
in June 2005, for his friend Ronnie Carthy, singer & guitarist. A lively and wet discussion 
in the local Baltimore Pub “Algier’s” one late night led to the composition of this hearty 
but very seriously intended song.

Lyrics

Fair Play to You	(for Ronnie Carthy, Baltimore)

Don’t regret and blame yourself for things you haven’t done
Only if you do it, you can tell if you have won
Often it is better if we don’t, that is true
But fair play to all of those who do

Sometimes things will make you want to turn around and stay
Who is there to tell when it is best to walk away
It’s up to one and all if they sit or they dance
So fair play to those who grab their chance

chorus
Fear and doubt
Fair play to you if you can sus it out
And even if you can’t, it’s your good right to have a try
But if you leave it don’t keep asking why

No chance is the only one you’re ever going to get
And if you don’t take it, there’ll be nothing to regret
But wouldn’t life be boring with no risk at all
So fair play, to those who risk it all

2 x chorus, refrain


Stef Sigfalk, Baltimore, West Cork , June 2005

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