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Thread #601   Message #2769984
Posted By: GUEST,leeneia
20-Nov-09 - 02:36 PM
Thread Name: Lyr/Chords Req: Dream Angus
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Dream Angus
Thanks for reviving this thread. I've downloaded the MIDI linked by Malcolm Douglas. I think it will make a nice addition to my flute and dulcimer tunes.

I fear that whoever originall wrote "The following TĂ ladh or croon is said to have been sung by a kind-hearted fairy who, calling at a house, found a child lying in its cradle, its mother having apparently deserted it," was far too trusting and did not know much about fairies.

Why were the fairies called "The Good People"? They were called the Good People because they were bad. They were feared because they loved to cause trouble.

Telling a baby that its mother has deserted it when in fact the mother has merely gone off on an errand is typical of fairy malice. Actually, the hard-pressed mother has probably left the room briefly to punch down the bread dough or to get a four-year-old child out of a tree.

Disney, et all, had fairies all wrong.