FZ album(s) in which song has appeared

• The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life (1991) as When Irish Eyes Are Smiling, performed in Binghamton, NY, March 17, 1988

Tour(s) on which song is known to have been performed (main source: FZShows, v. 7.1)

• February-March, 1988 (North America)—known performances: 2; known quotations: 1

Comments

Foggy G, "The Songs That Were Played," We're Only In It For The Touring

1988: Essentially performed as on TBBYNHIYL. The song is performed twice, both times in conjunction with "The Theme from Godfather".

Marc De Bruyn (emdebe@village.uunet.be), September 7, 2003

"When Irish Eyes Are Smiling" was composed by Ernest R. Ball (1878-1927) in 1912 ; the lyrics were written by Chauncey Olcott (1858-1932) and George Graff, Jr.

"When Irish eyes are smiling / Sure it's like a morning spring / In the lilt of Irish laughter, / You can hear the angels sing. When Irish hearts are happy, / All the world seems bright and gay / And when Irish eyes are smiling, / Sure, they steal your heart away / There's a tear in your eye, / and I'm wondering why, / For it never should be there at all / With such power in your smile, / sure a stone you'd beguile, / So there's never a teardrop should fall / When your sweet lilting laughter's like some fairy song, / And your eyes twinkle bright as can be, / You should laugh all the while and all other times smile, / And now smile a smile for me / When Irish eyes are smiling Sure it's like a morning spring / In the lilt of Irish laughter, / You can hear the angels sing / When Irish hearts are happy, / All the world seems bright and gay / And when Irish eyes are smiling, / Sure, they steal your heart away."

"When Irish Eyes Are Smiling" was also recorded by Bing Crosby, Connie Francis, and Roger Whittaker.