One of our classic "straight" tracks, this tune has no humor, no silliness, and no slapstick. It is pure barbershop at its finest. We found sheet music to this tune on what quickly became our favorite barbershop website, SPEBSQSA. That is, the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America. Of course, today that name has been shortened to BHS (Barbershop Harmony Society) but that's besides the point. Who doesn't love to say Spebsqsa, or try to put that down on a Scrabble game?!? According to Wikipedia, they named the society SPEBSQSA to poke fun at the New Deal-era work agencies full of acronyms, but I digress. "My Wild Irish Rose" is a classic barbershop romance, singing about a girl who is our wild Irish rose. Jacob Broderick sang tenor, Peter sang lead, Eric sang baritone, and Jacob Stewart sang bass.
Some thoughts about this tune:
- The four tones to start the tune are, coincidentally, the exact same that we used to sing Coney Island Baby, another SPEBSQSA classic.
- We named this song Notre Dame because their mascot is the Fighting Irish, and so we made the connection with the Irish rose.
- I think we did a really good job with the repeated "My Rose" chord near the end of the song. It's a great barbershop chord, and in unofficial conversations between members of the group, it has been rumored that the "Rose" chord was our finest chord in any of our numbers.
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