The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #16068   Message #149031
Posted By: InOBU
13-Dec-99 - 08:44 PM
Thread Name: BS: What is the first tune you play?
Subject: RE: BS: What is the first tune you play?
Well, after all this, no one translated An phis fluch. See my post above, It is an old jig, as I said, from WIllie Clancys father. It translates to The Wet (ephamismatic reference to a certain female genital oraphace often often used to refer to a cat, though not in Gaelic). Well, one day Seamus Ennis played the tune and was asked the name. He got half way through the title, when some wag gave one of the English names for it, O Niel or Someones welcome to Limmerick, at which Seamus said, it must have been one hell of a welcome! Spaw! I need a verce from the song you mention by Pat Sky, Love will endure, I have all the verses, except the one which begins, As for me.... Id be grateful if you woudl post it.
All the best
Larry