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Mo O’Connor – parody on Garth gone viral!

As anyone who is used to writing songs or poetry can vouch, a single offering can sometimes take days, weeks - even months to complete. However, one of The Avondhu area's best known musicians Mo O'Connor, has been bowled over to find that his latest offering that took 'just minutes' to put down on paper - a parody on the Garth Brooks fiasco, has gone viral - attracting in excess of 5,600 shares at the time of going to press.

"I have been writing poems since my teenage years and that is not yesterday," Mo explains to The Avondhu.

"I put poems up on Facebook on a few poetry sites and on my own page. If I got 10 or 20 'shares' for a poem I would be very happy. My poems are often about current events like the Tuam babies or the Middle East crisis at the moment. These are often controversial and sometimes invite heated debate.

"Last week for a bit of a joke, I wrote a parody on the Garth Brooks song 'Friends in Low Places'. This was a reflection on the Croke Park concert fiasco. I thought no more of it until I met one of my UCC classmates (Mo is a mature student) in Miltown Malbay and she said to me 'your song has gone viral', going on to tell me that it had received over 4,000 shares."

Mo thought she was pulling his leg until he checked it the following day and sure enough it was getting shared all over the world.

"This is a big surprise to me for something I wrote in five minutes. You never know these days with social media," he said.

I asked Mo if he has any plans to record the song?

"I'm just in the process of doing that and I would hope to have it on You tube by the end of the week," he said. Certainly one to watch!

Blame it all on my roots

I need hurling boots

To play in Croke Park to be fair.

It was the forth or fifth show

Then the council said no

Three is the limit for there.

I couldn’t but smile at the look of surprise

When I said its five or no deal

Peter Aiken said.....

"Jaysus I'm dead, Garth are you for real"

(Chorus)

I need friends in

high places

Like the good old days

At the Galway races

When we drank away

We were all ok.

Zoning laws, libel or slander,

were sorted out with a big 'backhander'

We had all the aces

with friends in high places.

Well I guess I was wrong they don't like my song,

even though I've been here before.

Donie asked me to play in Leitrim

and said he'd give me the 'door'

I didn't mean to cause a big scene

Give me my five shows and then,

I can retire to my ivory tower

'till I come back to refill my tin.

(Chorus)

I need friends in high places

Like the good old days

At the Galway races

When we drank away

We were all ok

Zoning laws, libel or slander

Were sorted out with a big 'backhander'

We had all the aces

with friends in high places.

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