Mayo fever tops the music charts as Saw Doctors say ‘It's Amazing’
The popular song has climbed up the music charts and is now in first place.
Leo Moran, guitarist with The Saw Doctors has said it’s “amazing” to see The Green and Red of Mayo are at the top of the Irish charts.”
It was a popular song for years but since Mayo won the All Ireland last Sunday, the song The Green and Red of Mayo has been everywhere. It has received thousands of listens on streaming platforms as the epic song has been played countless times in Mayo and all over the world. In fact, the song has jumped to the very top of the Irish music charts.
Speaking exclusively To The Mayo News, Moran said “it's amazing, I didn't expect that. I knew it might get a play if they were going to win and like everyone else I didn't expect them to win because I'm a pessimist but anyway and then when it did happen I was expecting the song but I wasn't expecting it to be that popular.”
When asked about the origin of the iconic song, Leo explained “we were there at a festival on Clare Island, it was actually the week of Féile in 1990, the first Féile. We were coming in on the boat the Sunday morning and there wasn't a cloud in the sky, the sea was flat calm and we were looking across at the landscape and it was green and red and we were saying sure that must be where they got the idea to make the jerseys green and red and we started writing the poem and Gerry Mulholland who was an uncle of Alan Mulholland, the ex-Galway football manager was with us and he threw in a few lines.
We had the poem then and Davy made up the tune for it. It was at a time when Mayo had just lost the previous All-Ireland in 1989 and there was a bit of a connection with Anthony Finnerty, he'd gone to college in Galway and we'd all have half known Anthony and so there was a slight connection from that point of view as well. It was just that boat trip in from Clare Island and it's not a long boat trip but we had the poem written at the end of it.”
Leo also admitted that he was delighted to see Mayo lift the Sam Maguire Cup. “I was only about one percent less as excited when Mayo won it compared to if Galway had won it. It was absolutely terrifying at the end and so exciting and just a magical, magical moment and I honestly thought I'd never see it like so many other people. All our gang were all delighted.”