Subject: RE: Favorite Celtic songs for singing From: Alice Date: 26 Sep 98 - 11:17 AM kathleen... the Clancy Brothers did record it. They called it "Bonny Charlie" (Will Ye No Come Back Again) in their recordings and songbook. Not quite a happy song, though. It is a beautiful tune and a good singalong.
Jonathan... did you search the database for lyrics and the forum for other threads of the Lass O' Erin's Isle? As Barry noted, your request will be buried in this discussion, but the answer may be just a few keystrokes away.
I'm glad to see this thread on up-beat happy songs still thriving!! I have not been joining in on too many other thread discussions lately. This one still keeps the atmosphere going of the old Mudcat I dearly love.
(I may be repeating myself, this thread is getting long)
Eileen Oge alice in montana |
Subject: RE: Favorite Celtic songs for singing From: Jonathan Date: 26 Sep 98 - 06:49 AM Looking for the lyric to The Lass o' Erin's Isle (Two summers now have passed and gone) Jonathan |
Subject: RE: Favorite Celtic songs for singing From: Jonathan Date: 26 Sep 98 - 06:47 AM Looking for the lyric to The Lass o' Erin's Isle (Two summers now have passed and gone) Jonathan |
Subject: RE: Favorite Celtic songs for singing From: BRACKEN Date: 21 Sep 98 - 03:13 AM In search of happy celtic tunes I would refer you to a non electronic source and that is the Soodlum books. There are at least three or four, 100 Great Scottish Songs and Soodlum's Selection of Irish Ballads Volumes 1, 2 and 3. They also have put out a tape that goes along with the books to give you the tunes if you don't read music but play by ear (like me). There are many happier tunes in these such as Band O'Shearers, Buy Broom Beesoms, The Lea Rig, Maids When Your're Young, Mally Leigh (Archie Fisher did a nice recording of that one), Mary Mack, The Merchant's Son, The Jolly Beggarman, I could go one. As a performer I am always looking for traditional tunes that few and hopefully no one else is performing I do have a couple of other more obscure books which have some happy tunes if you need more. |
Subject: RE: Favorite Celtic songs for singing From: Kathleen Date: 20 Sep 98 - 08:56 PM I forgot one and the title still eludes me but the words are: Ye Jacobites by name, lend an ear, lend an ear Ye Jacobites by name, lend an ear Ye Jacobites by name, your faults I will proclaim, Your doctrines I mun blame, you shall hear, you shall hear Your doctrines I mun blame, you shall hear. There are more verses, but I didn't even check to see if it's listed here. Sorry. Oh yeah, it's the Frog not the Forg that went a-courtin' later kathleen |
Subject: RE: Favorite Celtic songs for singing From: Kathleen Date: 20 Sep 98 - 08:49 PM My little sister is convinced that there are no happy Celtic songs, so this thread made me laugh. Has anyone mentioned: Enniskillen Dragoon; On the Banks of the Roses; A Forg Went A-Courtin' (o.k., someone dies in that one); Johnson's Motor Car; Nell Flaherty's Drake; and my favorite Scottish song: Will Ye No Come Back Again. All of these were done by the Clancy Brothers, except maybe Will Ye No. . . later kathleen |
Subject: RE: Favorite Celtic songs for singing From: Barry Finn Date: 19 Sep 98 - 10:21 PM pegeen, the song you're looking for is in the database (click here). Do a search (using the box in the upper right hand coner) , enter into the box [A place in the choir]. If you're looking for a song or info on one post it as a seperate thread, you'll have far better luck than if it's buried at the bottom of a long thread. Barry |
Subject: RE: Favorite Celtic songs for singing From: pegeen Date: 19 Sep 98 - 08:54 PM Hi - I am new here but really enjoy my music! I have been trying to track down a song sung in pubs and festivals around Pennsylvania - Chorus is as follows: "All God's creatures get to sing in the choir "Some sing lower some sing higher Some just sing on the tlelphone wire Others clap their hands or paws or claws Or whatever they've got" It really is a cute sung song at Irish festivals - little kids love it - I have the music in my head but not the rest of the words. Any help appreciated |
Subject: RE: Favorite Celtic songs for singing From: alison Date: 19 Sep 98 - 08:44 PM Hi Kiwi, Go back up through the thread, I already printed it (4/9/98) Slainte alison |
Subject: RE: Favorite Celtic songs for singing From: Kiwi@unagi.cybernothing.org Date: 19 Sep 98 - 01:14 PM steve t - Great verse! I'll have to print it out and send it to a friend of mine - "Star of the County Down" is one of the signature pieces of the band that he plays in, and I'm sure he'll be delighted to throw out that verse in the pub when the Guinness has flowed freely. :) alison - What's the other verse that no one ever sings? Do you know it? Slán, Kiwi |
Subject: RE: Favorite Celtic songs for singing From: Jonathan Date: 18 Sep 98 - 02:57 PM Faur is a'body? |
Subject: RE: Favorite Celtic songs for singing From: Cuilionn Date: 05 Sep 98 - 01:11 AM Favorite songs o' guid cheer tae sing...hmmm. After three grand weeks wi' a piper/fiddler/singer friend, we came tae th' conclusion that ev'ry tune we're drawn tae falls intae ane single catagory. We call it "Minor Modal Maudlin." Ye can occasionally supplement that wi' additional descriptors sic as "Mysterious" oor "Murderin'". Th' fact o' the matter is that, as a singer whae cannae read music verra weel, I depend on th' singin' o' ithers tae lairn mair sangs. Performers get sae muckle mileage oot o' th' drama o' those maudlin sangs, that they tend tae latch ontae them an' trot them oot whene'er they can. Amang Scots Gaelic singers, for instance, how mony varsions o' Ailein Duinn/Dark Alan dae we hae runnin' aroond th' noo? An' I'm beginnin' tae wince ev'ry time I hear "She Moved Through The Fair." I've been readin' buiks fu' o' notes on field recordins frae Scotland an' Nova Scotia, an' I'm findin' some brilliant lyrics, baith th' maudlin sairt an' mair merry. But maist o' th' performers I hear are wrappit up in coverin' th' weel-kent standards, sae I cannae dae mair than guess at these ither tunes. Tae those o' ye whae perform AND read music, I'm beggin' ye...dig oot some o' these gaitherin's o' auld sangs, an' mak a handfu' o' them yer ain. Gie puir illiterate folk like me a chance tae hear sumpit that isnae dane by sae mony. O' course th' crowd will clamour for their favorites, but breathin' life back intae some forgotten tunes will be nourishin' tae all o' us. That said, I'll retreat agin tae my plaice i' th' cinders an' gae back tae rakin' th' fire! Gabh spòrs, --Cuilionn |
Subject: RE: Favorite Celtic songs for singing From: alison Date: 04 Sep 98 - 07:29 AM Hi, If you check out the "Roger Whittaker" section of your record store. He did a lovely version of "star of the County Down." Just checked the database it only has one of the two verses I was talking about.... it has the "I've travelled a bit one" The one which isn't there goes.
"She'd a soft brown eye and a look so sly Makes you wonder why people tend not to sing this verse, eh??!! Slainte alison |
Subject: RE: Favorite Celtic songs for singing From: alison Date: 04 Sep 98 - 07:21 AM Hi, Loved the fourth verse Steve. Now that plus the other two in the middle that no one ever sings makes the grand total of 6. slainte alison |
Subject: RE: Favorite Celtic songs for singing From: Gunny Date: 03 Sep 98 - 11:05 PM "Irish Heartbeat" by Van Morrison and the Chieftains has a pretty good rendition of "Star of the County Down", as well as the upbeat "I'll Tell Me Ma", a happy, easy song to sing and play. (Lyrics for both here in DT). |
Subject: RE: Favorite Celtic songs for singing From: Robalot@Compuserve.com Date: 03 Sep 98 - 09:57 PM Sure'n I'm mighty tweaked no one has thought to name that ald classic "Whiskey in the Jar" sure, the lads in trouble deep by the end, but the tune is a lively one for all a that! |
Subject: RE: Favorite Celtic songs for singing From: Susan-Marie Date: 03 Sep 98 - 04:14 PM OK, all this discussion of Star of the County Down has me wanting to learn it. Would someone please recommend a good, readily available recording of it? I'll be at the Irish Folk Festival in Maryland this weekend, maybe I'll request that someone sing it (fourth verse and all!) |
Subject: RE: Favorite Celtic songs for singing From: Jonathan Date: 03 Sep 98 - 03:05 PM Martin, thanks for Taglioni. I'll post what I can make out of Sean Kane's version when I get the Vinyl urge. (the temptation to say "groove" there was almost irresistible. |
Subject: RE: Favorite Celtic songs for singing From: Maelgwyn Date: 01 Sep 98 - 12:44 PM Has anyone mentioned 'Dark Eyed Sailor' yet? |
Subject: RE: Favorite Celtic songs for singing From: steve t Date: 01 Sep 98 - 10:54 AM The Fair Flower of Northumberland is on my mind right now. It's not all happy. Fact is, it's kinda shocking near the middle. But I always find the final verse rather uplifting. |
Subject: RE: Favorite Celtic songs for singing From: steve t Date: 01 Sep 98 - 10:49 AM It is a common misconception that there exist happy Celtic songs. For example, many people will steadfastly maintain that there is NO FOURTH VERSE to Star of the County Down:
So here I stand with my hat in hand, while my heart knows deep, dark blight
But in the folk tradition, you don't have to sing all the verses if you don't want to :-) |
Subject: RE: Favorite Celtic songs for singing From: Martin Ryan Date: 01 Sep 98 - 06:28 AM Jon W.
"suthard" is probably "sagart" as explained in your other thread.
Jonathan I'll post "Taglioni" to a Lyr. Add. thread.
Regards
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Subject: Lyr Add: AINGIR GHEAS CHRÚITI NA MÓ From: Bruce O. Date: 31 Aug 98 - 09:04 PM [This traditional text, from JFSS. 1920, takes the song to the point where the young man has enticed the pretty milkmaid into an inn for a drink. The rest is not given, and I have no other text.]
AINGIR GHEAS CHRÚITI NA MÓ.
Er mo heasduil trí Bwailhi na Múirni,
Do stadasa shealad a smu'inggi,
"Arcuim-she, wascalach wu'inti,
Do reaguir go tapuig mé an chu'ilion:
Cé gur cáitti le shealead am ghnúish mé,
"A haishci na garad" shea du'ert léi,
D' aharuig a haigini liúm-sa, The Next Market Day, given above, 'fragment' given by Hughes, and sung by the McPeakes as "A Maid going to Comber" (from 1st line). For the full original see The Comber's Whistle on my website.
Seduction of the milkmaid on her way to market is a pretty old theme. See also: Nellie coming home from the wake (O. J. Abbott), and The Game of All Fours (Purslow's Marrow Bones) are also quite similar seduction pieces, as are the two 16th century versions of Watkin's Ale (my website). In The Nightingale's Song (traditional version in DT, broadside version on my website) the setting is considerably different, but the contents of the song are much the same. Cf. also "Dabbling in the dew makes milkmaids fair". I have no doubt that others can add more very similar pieces of seduction of the traveling maid or milkmaid.
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Subject: Lyr Add: THE TRIP OVER THE MOUNTAIN^^ From: Jon W. Date: 31 Aug 98 - 10:06 AM Here are the lyrics for the Boys of the Lough song I mentioned earlier. I think I'll try and cobble together an ABC of the tune and post the whole song in a separate thread later.
OVER THE MOUNTAIN |
Subject: Lyr Add: THE TOWN I LOVED SO WELL (Coulter From: Helen Date: 26 Aug 98 - 07:25 PM A song which has always been one of my favourites is The Town I Loved So Well - it has the depressing second last verse but ends with a hope for more peaceful times. It's in the database. Helen
THE TOWN I LOVED SO WELL
In my memory I will always see
In the early mornin' the shirt factory horn
There was music there in the Derry air
But when I returned how my eyes how they burned
Now the music's gone but they carry on |
Subject: RE: Favorite Celtic songs for singing From: Martin Ryan Date: 25 Aug 98 - 03:06 PM "Taglioni" is basically a double-entendre type song, if I remember rightly - so it's easy to lose track of the words! Not sure if I have a set at home. Will check! Regards |
Subject: RE: Favorite Celtic songs for singing From: Mo Date: 23 Aug 98 - 05:25 PM I've just remembered another one -Jock O'Hazeldean - lyrics are in the DT - it sounds like it's going to be fairly wrist-slitting right up to the final verse as the lady being sung to/about "lets the tears doonfa' " at the end of each verse - but, she does what she wants in the end! I find I have a bit of difficulty singing this as I suspect the range is really more suited to a man - it goes quite low - but it is stil a great song to sing. Best, |
Subject: RE: Favorite Celtic songs for singing From: Jonathan Date: 22 Aug 98 - 01:01 PM Oh, and while I think about it there are a couple of A1 Breton songs; Tri Martolod & Son ar Chist'r in Breton and Les Ponts de Nantes in French. Jonathan. |
Subject: RE: Favorite Celtic songs for singing From: Sophie Date: 22 Aug 98 - 10:18 AM Andy M.Stewart's Rambling Rover is quite cheery I would have thought. I'm female and not a very good singer and I can just about do it, so I guess you could as well. Lyrics are at http://www.mindspring.com/~cwalters/text/rover.txt Sophie |
Subject: RE: Favorite Celtic songs for singing From: Jonathan Date: 22 Aug 98 - 05:46 AM Shegui did a belter called Tagliony, (Sean Kane's singing)but I never did grasp the words to the first couple of verses. I would be well grateful if anyone has the words if they could post them, eh, Sean? Another cracker is the Twa' recruitin Seargeants. Wha' saw the 42nd is excellent if short. Jonathan. |
Subject: RE: Favorite Celtic songs for singing From: Maelgwyn Date: 21 Aug 98 - 11:50 PM Someone mentioned 'Newry Highwayman'. Boiled In Lead does a really wicked recording of it on the CD 'Antler Dance'. :) |
Subject: RE: Favorite Celtic songs for singing From: Susan-Marie Date: 21 Aug 98 - 08:48 PM Sue, If you like Karan Casey's songs and singing I highly recommend her solo album. In addition to the Gray Mare there's also Martinmas Time and the Craggen White Hare, both upbeat songs about escaping from a band of men with bad intentions. Thanks for posing the question, I'm getting a lot out of the replies. |
Subject: Lyr Add: MAID GOING TO COMBER (NEXT MARKET DAY)^^ From: Alice Date: 21 Aug 98 - 06:27 PM Tinwhistler, here is another one that is not a challenging range to sing, and isn't melancholy. I've never heard this one recorded, but I have the old sheet music. Email to me if you need the tune. acflynn@mcn.net
THE NEXT MARKET DAY
A maid goin' to Comber her markets to larn,
Sit ye beside me, I mean ye no harm.
They sat down together, the grass it was green,
This young maid went home and the words that he said, alice
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Subject: RE: Favorite Celtic songs for singing From: Alice Date: 21 Aug 98 - 05:58 PM Tinwhistler, the lyrics are at the URL I included in my previous message. Here is the address, again:
http://ingeb.org/songs/itwasona.html
More suggestions:
Mist Covered Mountains alice in montana |
Subject: RE: Favorite Celtic songs for singing From: Tinwhistler Date: 21 Aug 98 - 02:45 PM I knew you'd not let me down, Mudcatters! Thanks to you all. Alice-Pretty Maid Milking a Cow is a beautiful tune. I play it in figerstyle guitar as an instumental--does it have words? I guess it must, but I've never heard them. Isn't it also the song that belonged to the faeries and was so beautiful that whoever heard it was bewitched? Looking through my Solas albums I found that you are right, Susan-Marie. Karan Casey seems to like upbeat songs. In addition to the ones you mention there's Nil Ni La, The Newry Highwayman (a little sad, but still upbeat), Adieu Lovely Nancy (one of my favorites to sing, but I change the words a little. I don't think the sailor intended to deceive!), ALilu na Bhana (beautiful). Can't wait til their next album! Thank you for the lyrics, which brought a smile and made me chuckle. Sue |
Subject: RE: Favorite Celtic songs for singing From: Big Mick Date: 21 Aug 98 - 02:44 PM Welcome/Failte, Here are a couple that I sing in Gaelige, but there are also english translations. Ta mo Chleamhnas Deanta and Cunla. If you need the lyrics, drop me a line at mlane@accn.org. Mick |
Subject: RE: Favorite Celtic songs for singing From: Alice Date: 21 Aug 98 - 01:32 PM Another Thomas Moore song that isn't too melancholy and has a pretty tune is "The Pretty Maid Milking The Cow".
http://ingeb.org/songs/itwasona.html
One of my favorite standards for both tune and lyrics that aren't sad is the old love song (not the rebel version) of the Foggy Dew. alice in montana |
Subject: RE: Favorite Celtic songs for singing From: Jon W. Date: 21 Aug 98 - 12:52 PM A couple upbeat songs from Boys of the Lough: "The Bonny Laborin' Boy" from the CD "Fair Hills of Ireland" and "The Sea Apprentice" from "In the Tradition." Another happy song I've heard them do but don't know if it's on an album, and don't know the title, has to do with eloping "over the mountain". I'll try to post the lyrics next week, I've only got the song on a videotape of a concert broadcast. My observation is that the Irish generally sing when they're sad and dance when they're happy (at least from the sound of the music). Jon W. |
Subject: RE: Favorite Celtic songs for singing From: Michelle from Newfoundland Date: 21 Aug 98 - 12:12 PM Hi there! This is my first visit to this site so I've just been bobbing around exploring when I stumbled on 'celtic song questions' ... yours being one of them. First of all, are you familiar with Newfoundland? We are the most eastern province of Canada and have a hugh celtic tradition (probably because we are so close to Ireland, and we were settled primarily by the English, Irish, Scotish and French). I am a female performed myself & have been singing traditional songs since I was a young girl. I could recommend alot of different artists & their material....some Irish, some Newfoundlanders. If interested you can email me at m.myrick@nf.sympatico.ca Michelle |
Subject: Lyr Add: THE CORK LEG (Co. Tyrone version) From: Alice Date: 21 Aug 98 - 10:15 AM I just checked the database and found that the Cork Leg lyrics there are different than the ones in Herbert Hughes. This from Vol.2, published in 1915. I heard this song on National Public Radio by an Irish soprano named Francis Lucy, making her American debut in New York on the radio. She sang a recital of classical pieces, and ended it with Irish songs. Using this piano accompaniment, she sang this version word for word. There is a slow, rolling portion of the accompaniment as it nears the end of the song. Hughes' notes on this song label it as "old song, Tyrone version".
THE CORK LEG
I'll tell you a story that is no sham,
chorus
One day he sat as full as an egg,
chorus
He told his friends he had got hurt
chorus
A doctor came on his vocation
chorus
When the leg was on and finished right,
chorus
O'er hedges and ditches and scaur and plain
chorus
He called to them that were in sight,
chorus
And he kept running from place to place,
chorus
Over hedges and ditches and plain and scaur,
chorus
So often you see in broad daylight,
chorus
----------------- (Although this version refers to an artist at the end, it has left out the verses which you find in the database, regarding the artist who specialized in making cork legs. ) alice in montana |
Subject: RE: Favorite Celtic songs for singing From: alison Date: 21 Aug 98 - 03:53 AM Hi, Of course we made up for all of that by giving it a beautiful sad minor tune(*grin*). Slainte alison |
Subject: RE: Favorite Celtic songs for singing From: alison Date: 21 Aug 98 - 03:47 AM Hi, Star of the County Down. Nobody dies, everybody falls in love, (well probably) and thay all settle down to a life of married bliss. How un-Celtic can you get!! Slainte Alison |
Subject: RE: Favorite Celtic songs for singing From: JB3 Date: 21 Aug 98 - 01:11 AM I don-t know just how up-beat these are, but at least, no one dies in them:
Cliffs of Duneen I haven't checked yet to see if these are in the DT, but will. I'll add in lyrics to those I can't find there. A lovely song with a strong woman in it is Factory Girl. The version I sing is closest to FACTGRL2 in the DT. By the way, do you sing The Waggoner's Lad? One of the few English Ballads I sing, with a happy ending, is Willie of Winesbury. Cheers! June |
Subject: RE: Favorite Celtic songs for singing From: Tinwhistler Date: 20 Aug 98 - 11:15 PM Thank you all. Susan-Marie, three of the upbeat songs in my own collection are Come By the Hills, Jug O Punch and Maid on the Shore, so we're on the same track! Please keep me informed if you come upon anything else. I'm of Irish ancestry and always thought it was just me that sometimes dwelled in melancholy--now I know it's in the blood! Cheers, Sue |
Subject: Lyr Add: YOU AND I IN THE ONE BED LIE^^ From: Kiwi Date: 20 Aug 98 - 09:35 PM One of my favorite upbeat songs is "YOU AND I IN THE ONE BED LIE":
A nobleman's fair daughter was walkin' down yon lane
"Go away young man," says she, "and do not me perplex
"What is rounder than a ring? What's higher than a tree?
"A globe is rounder than a ring, sky higher than a tree.
"You must get for me some winter fruit that in December grew
"My father has some winter fruit that in December grew Another version of this is listed in the database as "Captain Wedderburn's Courtship". Also fun is "Invitation To a Funeral" - if you're looking to hear the tune of it, it's the Temperance Reel.
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Subject: RE: Favorite Celtic songs for singing From: Susan-Marie Date: 20 Aug 98 - 09:34 PM I'm also always searching for upbeat Celtic songs with strong female roles - here are some of my favorites: "Willie Taylor" on Deanta's first album: woman dresses up as a man to find her true love, finds out he cheated on her, kills him. Very peppy tune. "Jug of Punch" on one of Altan's albums: sung by a woman weaving although the text is about how much men love drinking and "a tidy wench". "Come by the Hills", I heard it first by Loreena McKennit: lyrical verses about golden bracken and a land where legends never die. "Band O' Shearers": don't remember where I learned it, it's a happy song about about shearing sheep and flirting with your fellow shearers. "Maid on the Shore", versions by Stan Rogers and Solas: great song about a woman who "takes advantage" of a ship of pirates. "The Gray Mare", Karan Casey on her solo album "Songlines": a funny song about a greedy young man who loses his chance to wed a beautiful rich girl because he asks for too much. These are all in the DTbase. There are more - I find that it helps to identify artists who like these kind of songs, and learn from them. For example, Karan Casey seems to like songs that have a positive outlook, so I look forward to the next album by her or Solas. |
Subject: RE: Favorite Celtic songs for singing From: Jerry Friedman Date: 20 Aug 98 - 07:34 PM No doubt many of the Irish people on the list are sick of this quotation from Chesterton, but how can I pass it up with a set-up like this?
The Great Gaels of Ireland (GKC was no more than half right.) Anyway, for Irish songs in which your lover doesn't leave, your dog doesn't die, your pickup doesn't break down (oh, sorry, wrong genre), you might try Thomas Moore's Irish Melodies, for instance, "Believe Me, if All Those Endearing Young Charms". I just searched for "Irish Melodies" and found only two songs from this collection in the DT! But also in the DT is the overlong but charming "Rory O'More". A search of the DT for "@ribald" might turn up some good possibilities, if you like to sing such songs. |
Subject: Lyr Add: THE LEPRECHAUN^^ From: Alice Date: 20 Aug 98 - 06:50 PM Welcome to the Mudcat, Mo.
A fun song is The Leprechaun, by Patrick Weston Joyce (1827-1914). The only recording I know of it is by Mary O'Hara. The words and music are in Vol. 3 of Herbert Hughes, 'Irish Country Songs'.
THE LEPRECHAUN
In a shady nook one moonlit night, a leprechaun I spied,
With tip-toe step and beating heart, quite softly I drew nigh,
(I change the lyrics a little when I sing it. In the last verse, I sing "What's that?" he said, "A handsome lad, a-sittin' by your side?" I turned to look.... etc.)
Hughes adds this editorial note: "When Dr. Joyce published his collection of old Irish airs in 1872 he was unable to remember more than one line of the ballad to which the air had been sung both in Dublin and Limerick, and wrote the words here given. In his 'Ancient Irish Music' (1901 edition) he made the following remarks about the leprehaun: (sic) 'It may be necessary to state, for the information of those not acquainted with Irish fairies, that the leprehaun (sic) is a very tricky little fellow, usually dressed in a green coat, red cap, and knee breeches, and silver shoe buckles, whom you may sometimes see in the shades of evening, or by moonlight under a bush, and he is generally making or mending a shoe....' "
Another fun song is The Cork Leg. A more light-hearted approach to lost love are the songs Blarney Roses, and Let Him Go Let Him Tarry.
Alice in Montana
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Subject: RE: Favorite Celtic songs for singing From: Mo Date: 20 Aug 98 - 12:27 PM Possibly the reason there's such a plethora of melancholy songs is that that's what Celts do best! Never happier than when we're miserable.... However, if you are looking for more up-beat songs how about "Ho-ro My Nut Brown Maiden", or the "Mingulay Boat Song"? Not necessarily everyone's cup of tea, but I don't think anyone dies in them. I couldn't say what Cd's you'd find them on as they are traditional songs. A good source of more up-beat songs, though maybe not strictly Celtic are by a band called The Poozies (all female, very very good). They have two albums out "Chantoozies" and "Dansoozies" - sorry, I don't know the album label off hand as my copies have gone walkabout. By the way, I've only just discovered Mudcat - what a fabulous place! Hope some of this has been some help, Tinwhistler. |
Subject: Favorite Celtic songs for singing From: Tinwhistler Date: 20 Aug 98 - 12:06 PM Well, we have a favorite whistles and whistle tune thread, and you're all so helpful... Here's my dilemna. I love to sing, especially Celtic songs because the melodies are so beautiful. However, when I look over my list of songs, most of them are so melancholy. Beautiful, yes, but melancholy--I lost my love, my love died, the war rages on kind of songs. Does anyone know any good, upbeat happy songs they can share? In particular, songs that are for women singers (not too high!) or unisex, perhaps with a twist of humor or irony or longing for home in a positive way? English or Gaellic OK. Just please give me the title, artist/CD so I can find it if I want to. Maybe a short description too. Thanks Mudcatters. I'm so glad I joined! |
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