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'And that was the Can I Leave You Home song!'

Sean explains how the Can I Leave You Home song came about.

“That's not the way it happened in Tamnaherin!” says Charlie Harkin. Sean has just been explaining the ‘Can I Leave You Home’ songs of the Showband days. “You would wait for the right song to make a move,” Sean says, “and go through a couple of thousand people to get to the love or your life… and then you’d say, ‘Can I leave you home?’” “What happened was this,” says Charlie. “First, you asked for a normal dance, then you waited for a slow dance with her, and then you asked her up for a mineral. If she went for a mineral with you, there was a 99% chance you'd be walking her home that night.”

With music from Queen, Bedrocks, Dwight Yoakam, and more.

56 minutes

Last on

Tue 8 Apr 202515:04
BBC Radio Foyle

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Music Played

  • Queen

    Fat Bottomed Girls

  • The Bedrocks

    Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da

  • Dwight Yoakam

    Trains And Boats And Planes

  • The Monkees

    Last Train To Clarksville

  • Leo Sayer

    I Can't Stop Loving You

  • Buck Owens

    Cryin' Time

  • Matchbox

    When You Ask About Love

  • Mud

    The Secrets That You Keep

  • Bitty McLean

    It Keeps Raining

  • Van Morrison

    I'm Tired Joey Boy

  • ABBA

    Waterloo

  • Aretha Franklin

    Spanish Harlem

  • Kathy Kirby

    Dance On

  • McGuinness Flint

    When I'm Dead And Gone

Broadcast

  • Tue 8 Apr 202515:04
    BBC Radio Foyle