How Are We Getting Home? (album)

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How Are We Getting Home?

Studio album by Gaelic Storm
Released	August 3, 2004
Recorded	2003
Genre	Irish folk music
Length	62:36
Label	Lost Again
Producer(s)	Mark Miller
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Gaelic Storm chronology
Special Reserve (2003)	How Are We Getting Home? (2004)	Bring Yer Wellies (2006)

How Are We Getting Home? is a 2004 album by Gaelic Storm.

[edit] Track listing

"I Miss My Home"
"Born To Be A Bachelor"
"Punjab Paddy"
"Stain the Grout"
"Tear Upon the Rose"
"Summer's Gone"
"Piña Colada in a Pint Glass"
"Fish and Get Fat"
"The Lone-Star Stowaway"
"When I Win"
"An Cailin Deas Rua"
"Down Underground"
"Cab Ride to Kingston"
"Time, Drink 'Em Up!"
"Short A Couple A' Bob"

This album features the most original compositions to date by Gaelic Storm featuring a working class theme. The band also has a new percussionist and fiddler. I Miss My Home is a sing-along about traveling and being homesick for the cobble streets of your town. Born to be a Bachelor celebrates single life and also features the electric pipes and didgeridoo. Punjab Paddy has Indian undertones and celebrates leaving Ireland behind for exotic India. Summer's Gone, Fish and Get Fat, When I Win, Down Underground and Time Drink 'Em Up are all sung by the guitarist. Summer's Gone is about the end of a relationship that shouldn't end, Fish and Get Fat is the anthem for all frustrated workers. When I Win could also be an anthem for workers, but it is simply for big dreamers. Down Underground is a slow song that serves as a tribute to blue collar workers who live and die in the mines. Time, Drink 'Em Up is a pub sing along about all the people you might find in a pub. Stain the Grout, Cab Ride to Kingston and the Lone-Star Stowaway are all instrumentals. The first two feature the pipes and the last features the fiddle. Tear Upon the Rose is a slow song about the necessary pain of leaving your homeland. Pina Colada in a Pint Glass, a mainstay live, is the song about a waitress who saves up her money to vacation someplace warm, complete with papaya, rum and coconut. Short a Couple a' Bob is reminiscent of the Beggarman in that it is catchy, quick and, tells the tale of a poor, but happy soul. The band's second foray into the Irish language is about An Cailin Deas Rua (the beautiful red-haired girl). The instruments featured are beautifully played and the lyrics, while telling about an unappreciative girlfriend, are extremely catchy.