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Thread #35557   Message #487144
Posted By: The Celtic Bard
19-Jun-01 - 02:27 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Seeking Irish Lyrics II
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Seeking Irish Lyrics II
Thanks for the reassurance, Wolfgang. I was starting to think I'd done something wrong.

Here's a revised and expanded list. I realize that I didn't give everyone a lot of information to go on.

FAREWELL TO MY OWN NATIVE LAND - Sung by Margaret Barry. The first verse goes something like this: Farewell my own dear native land for here I cannot stay/For I do intend to cross the sea, all for Americay/To leave the land that gave me birth, it grieves my heart full sore/So fare thee well old Ireland, around the Shamrock Shore

MICHEAL COLLINS - Sung by Brian Moore. Chorus: Hang out your brightest colors/His memory now recall/O which one wants a part in it/No one wants it all

THE GUINNESS SONG - Sung by Margaret Barry. 1st verse: Come all you thirty tourists and travelers everywhere/'Til I sing to you a verse or two in a grand old Irish air/It's all about our famous stout that's known the world wide/And it's made for you, this lovely brew, down by the Liffey side.

MY LAGAN FLOWS SOFTLY - This is NOT the same as "Lagan Love." Sung by Tara Folk. Chorus: My Lagan, she flows softly from sweet Cromb(?) down to the sea/Through Jemora(?) and Jemara(?) then close to Atale(?)/From Lisburn(?) down to Hilldin(?), Lambeggen(?) then Shore's Bridge/To Belfast's salty waters where her lonesome journey ends.

LOVELY ARMAGH - Sung by Pat Woods. 1st verse: O lovely Armagh, that place of renown/With its folklore, history, and cathederal town/How oft I have wandered 'til the set of the sun/Around its (?) and rivers from Armagh to Dunglun(?)

IRELAND BOYS HURRAH - Sung by Dermot O'Brien. 1st verse: Deep in Canadian woods we meet from one bright island home/(?) the land we tread but our hearts are with our own/And there we leave the shanty small(?) one (?) autumn day/We'll toast old Ireland, dear old Ireland, Ireland boys Hurrah/Ireland boys Hurrah, Ireland boys Hurrah/We'll toast old Ireland, dear old Ireland, Ireland boys Hurrah

EDWARD - Sung by the Old Blind Dogs. Sorry this isn't more help but I couldn't understand most of the words. 1st verse: Why does your (?) bleed, young Edward, young Edward/Why does your (?) bleed and why so sad, young (?)/Why does your (?) bleed, young Edward, young Edward/Why does your (?) bleed and why so sad, young (?)/I have killed my (?), my dear mother, my dear mother/I have killed my (?) and I hadn't (?)/I have killed my (?), my dear mother, my dear mother/I have killed my (?) and I hadn't (?)

SILE - Sung by Reeltime. Unfortunately I can't give verses because it's in Gaelic.

BONNIE JEAN CAMERON - This is NOT "Bonnie Jean Campbell." Sung by Kornog. 1st verse: O with all you had, O Bonnie Jean Cameron/O how she was sick and likely to die/But the only thing they could recomend her/O was (?) blink with a young pretender/And rare O rare, Bonnie Jean Cameron/Rare O rare , Bonnie Jean

TILL I SLEEP - Sung by Wolfstone. Chorus: I'll ride this horse into the wind, I'll take you with me when I go/My song is precious, can't you see? I'll sing it till I sleep/I fly with wings that soar above the lands that lies beneath me/The only thing I ever owned was living deep inside

WHEN THE KYE COME HAME - Sung by the Tannahill Weavers. Chorus: When the kye come hame, when the kye come hame/Between the blooming(?) and the (?) when the kye come hame

UNCLE DAN MCGANN - Sung by Mick Moloney. Chorus: Have you seen me Uncle Dan McGann, typical bit of a Galway man/He came out to the USA in the year of '61/Well if any of thou neighbors livin' here, seen or heard of him anywhere/You'd obilge me if you'd help me find me Uncle Dan McGann

KILLEATER FAIR - Sung by Leo McCaffrey. 1st verse: Attention, pay you country folk, a wee while if you please/I'll sing to you a verse or two to content you at me ease/It's all about a country maid, her equal wasn't there/And the first place that I met the girl was in Killeater Fair

SWEET MARIE - Sung by the same person. This is about a racing mare and not a girl. Chorus: Hold your (?), Sweet Marie, if you (?), Sweet Marie/You'll never win the Galway Pin for me/Every daisy in the dell aught to know me mighty well/For at every fence we fell, Sweet Marie

BIRTHDAY OF ST. PATRICK - Sung by the same person. 1st verse: On the 8th day of March, it was, some people say/That St. Patrick, at midnight, he first saw the day/While others declare it was the 9th he was born/But it was all a mistake between midnight and morn/Mistakes will occur with a horrible shock/While some blame the baby and some blame the clock/Till with all the crossed questions, sure no one could know/If the clock was too fast or the child was too slow

REBELS OF OUR LAND - 1st verse: Arise my friends, let us alude, the public (?) today/That all who fought in freedom's cause are truer hearts than they/In prison and internment camps, they lie our blood and men(?)/By traitors set, unconquered yet, those rebles of our land

HEART AND SOUL - Sung by Wolfstone. No, it is NOT the "Heart and Soul" that they used to use for the oatmeal commericals. 1st verse: It's in the rhyme of the dancer, in the standard flag unfurled/It's in the bride's eternal answer and every child across the world/Heart and soul, heart and soul/It's in the rhyme of the dancer

Well, I hope that that helped. Again I appreciate all that everyone has contributed to this thread. Thank you.

Rebecca <><