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Thread #166643 Message #4009207
Posted By: Kevin Werner
16-Sep-19 - 08:40 PM
Thread Name: Tune Req: Derry Down
Subject: RE: Tune Req: Derry Down
Thank you for that, Lighter.
That is definitely a variant of the tune.
I've expected there to be songs that use the tune, but I was unable to find any. Shame, that no field (sound) recording of "Droylsden Wakes" seems to exist.
As for Brinzi O Flynn, that was printed in Randolph/Legman's Unprintable Ozark Folksongs.
Here are the respective pages:
First:
https://i.imgur.com/eiYEX8H.jpg
Second:
https://i.imgur.com/zvvoMjh.jpg
Third:
https://i.imgur.com/weW0AfW.jpg
Last:
https://i.imgur.com/zCihqdI.jpg
There also a second text there, Thumble O'Lynn, also set to the Packington tune.
I have never encountered another Brinzi version apart from the one given in this book.
There's a Tombolin text in the Flanders collection that was sung to a variant of the Greensleeves tune.
I have heard it as Barney O'Lynn, but that was sung to the tune "Irish Washerwoman".
The tune I heard the most was however When She Cam Ben She Bobbit / Laird O Cockpen.
Ok, I'm sorry for interrupting the discussion with this. Thanks again, Lighter, for helping me out.