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Thread #35557   Message #485704
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
17-Jun-01 - 09:30 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Seeking Irish Lyrics II
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Seeking Irish Lyrics II
You can't have tried very hard.  The following are easily found here by searching for the titles you gave, so I won't give links:

Flight of the Earls
The Town I Loved so Well
Bonnie Jean Cameron
Broken Wings
Donald MacGillavry (but only if you spell it right)
Work of the Weavers (ALWAYS try a standard English spelling if you can't find it using a dialectal one)

When the Kye Come Hame: there are two.  an English song, Felton Lonnin, can be found by searching for "kye cam".  A different, Scottish song by the same name can be found at  Lesley Nelson's Site  -use the search engine there.

The Four Poster Bed is a dance tune, particularly popular in Shetland; so far as I know, it has never had any words attached to it.

The  Fisherman's Dream  is Scottish.

With a little imagination, the following can be found under other names; do bear in mind that most traditional songs have more than one title (tip: search for part of the title, or for key phrases from the song - bear in mind that you, or the person who posted the words, may not know how to spell them!):

FAIR AND TENDER LADIES  (American set).
KELLY, THE BOY FROM KILLANNE
A search for Eamonn a Chnuic  (ALWAYS TRY ALTERNATIVE SPELLINGS, particularly when it's a language you don't understand) will find you  EDMUND OF THE HILL (Ned of the Hill)

Probably some of the others are here, too, or can be found with a little patience via Google.com -I spent a lot of time, as did several others, answering your last huge list of questions last year, and I think that you ought to be in a position to do most of the work yourself by now.

Malcolm