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Thread #18013   Message #957193
Posted By: Felipa
21-May-03 - 04:12 PM
Thread Name: Irish song Limerick rake
Subject: RE: Limerick Rake , Fagaimid siúd mar atá sé
(there are other threads for Danny boy, Barbie - I hope you found what you were looking for)

There's a version of the Galbally Farmer called "The Spalpeen's Complaint or The Cranbally Farmer" in the PW Joyce Collection of Old Irish Music and Songs (published 1909). The tune is almost the same as the one I know to the Wife of the Bold Tenant Farmer, but without a chorus. See it at the Galbally Farmer thread

Joyce says this is the tune of Fagaimid siúd mar atá sé

It's not the tune most of us know for the Limerick Rake (and newer songs such as MacColl's Champion at Keeping them Rolling and Paxton's High Sheriff of Hazard)