This evening, I went with my parents (who are in town visiting), Kristy and V to hear Brian Clancy, a local Irish pub singer — no relation to the Clancies of Makem/Clancy fame, though he sings a lot of their stuff — sing at the Irish Snug. During his second set, he sang “The Old Dun Cow,” a very funny song about a pub catching fire (and everyone running to the basement to drink up the booze). Here’s the chorus:
There was Brown! Where? Upside down!
Lappin’ up the whiskey on the floor.
“Booze, booze!” the firemen cried
As they came knockin’ on the door
Oh don’t let ’em in till it’s all drunk up
Somebody shouted MacIntyre! (MACINTYRE!)
And we all got blue-blind paralytic drunk
When the Old Dun Cow caught fire.
And then — true story — maybe 20 or 30 seconds after Clancy stopped singing, before he’d even started the next song, the fire alarms went off.
As my tweet says: “And we all got blue-blind paralytic drunk when The Irish Snug caught fire!!!”
Well, not really. The show was halted (and replaced by recorded music to help drown out the screeching alarm) for maybe 15 minutes, as the Fire Department came to the scene and checked things out. There was no fire, and everything was fine; I’m not sure what caused the alarm to sound, but the firefighters promptly turned it off, which allowed Clancy to resume his show.
But regardless, wow, what awesome timing! LOL! As you can see above, I took a bunch of video, which I then mixed together on the spot, using iMovie on my iPhone, and tweeted within maybe a half-hour of the incident, while still at the pub listening to Clancy. Note: technology is amazing.