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Lyr Req: Mist Covered Mountains of Home DigiTrad: MIST COVERED MOUNTAINS OF HOME Related threads: (origins) Lyr Req: The Mist-Covered Mountains of Home (56) harmony for Mist Covered Mountains (21) Chi Mi Na Morbheanna (6) Lyr Req: Chi Mi Na Morbheanna / Mist Covered Mtns. (2) (closed) |
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Subject: RE: Lyric Req: Mist Covered Mountains From: dick greenhaus Date: 31 Dec 96 - 08:52 PM Hi- thanx much for the lyrics! |
Subject: RE: Lyric Req: Mist Covered Mountains From: Kathleen Date: 30 Dec 96 - 09:50 PM The Rankin Family have a version of Mist Covered Mountains in Gaelic on their first album, The Rankin Family. Their web site does not have the lyrics for the song but they might have a rendition that you can download and listen to. |
Subject: RE: Lyric Req: Mist Covered Mountains From: Ian Date: 05 Dec 96 - 06:05 PM Michael, Excellent! Thanks! This is actually more than I was thinking about. Don't worry about any delay - I'm just glad you found it! (I think the forum was down for a day or two - I had trouble getting in also.) I have heard a lyrical version in English, performed by the Pyrates Royale out of Maryland, US. I don't know where they came by it, though. Who knows - I may be inspired enough to write one myself based on Talitha's translation! If I do, I'll let you know. (If anyone else out there knows of an existing version, Please pass it on...) Once again, thanks for locating these lyrics. I know it wasn't easy. I hope I can return the favor. Slainte! - Ian |
Subject: Lyr Add: CHI MI NA MORBHEANNA / I SEE THE GREAT... From: Michael Date: 05 Dec 96 - 03:21 PM Okay! Sorry it took me so long to get back to you with this Ian. The tape was packed away in a box at my mother's house. I looked all over for the thing. Then when I found I had some trouble getting onto the Forum for some reason. Today I panicked when I realized that Mist Covered Mountains is not how Talitha translates the title, so I thought I might have the wrong one. There is another piece of puirt a beul called something similar. W/out further ado, here is what I have from the liner notes of the Mouth Music tape: CHI MI NA MORBHEANNA -- I SEE THE GREAT MOUNTAINS
CHORUS: O chi, chi min na morbheanna, (3X)
VERSE 1: Chi mi gun dail an t-aite 's an d'rugadh mi, CHORUS
VERSE 2: Chi mi ann coiltean, chi me ann doireachan, CHORUS
VERSE 3: Beanntauchean arda is aillidh leacainnean, CHORUS (Composed by John Cameron of Ballachulish in 1856) That's it. The translation is literal. I think Talitha translated, so it must be pretty accurate. It would be interesting to try a more poetical English translation, although it would be hard to match the beauty of the Gaelic. I appreciate your patience while I dug around for this one and I hope you enjoy it! ~Michael. |
Subject: RE: Lyric Req: Mist Covered Mountains From: Ian Date: 29 Nov 96 - 03:40 PM Michael, Sorry - No luck on Fionnaghuala. Any other forum users know of this one? RE: Mist Covered Mountains - Would love to get the lyrics from you when you get a chance. Thanks! - Ian |
Subject: RE: Lyric Req: Mist Covered Mountains From: Michael Date: 25 Nov 96 - 03:18 PM Whoa! I think I may be out of my depth on that one. I never new her as anything other than Talitha McKenzie. I'll have a look around and see what I can scare up round here. Re. Fionnaghuala (I get cramps evry time I type that!). It was a real hit for the Bothy Band (on Old Hag You Have Killed Me, I think) and Nightnoise (Windham Hill) has redone it. (Triona & Micheal O Domnhaill of the Bothies are both in Nightnoise). I prefer the earlier version. Very exciting. The other I may be able to find if I can locate a copy of Margaret Faye Shaws book on the Folklore of the South Uist I am at work right now. I'll get a copy of Mist Covered Mt. from home and post it tonight if I have time. Cheers! |
Subject: RE: Lyric Req: Mist Covered Mountains From: Ian Date: 25 Nov 96 - 11:27 AM Michael - Thanks! Sounds great. I'll look forward to hearing back from you. Regarding your lyric request, Fionnaghuala seems to ring a bell, but I'm not sure from where - I'll check around. I'm afraid on the other, I may not be much help. Maybe someone else on this forum? Speaking of Talitha McKenzie, do you (or anyone else?) know where one might obtain a copy of an earlier album/cassette of hers? She recorded it as Talitha Nelson (I'm fairly sure) prior to her marriage. As I remember, it contained one or two pieces of mouth music, 'Handsome Cabin Boy' and 'Alabama John Cherokee'. (I can't recall the rest.) Thanks! - Ian |
Subject: RE: Lyric Req: Mist Covered Mountains From: mbc9r@virginia.edu Date: 24 Nov 96 - 01:43 AM Hey, Ian! My name's Michael. I can get you those lyrics. I don't have them right now. It's late, I was just browsing. Go figure. The one night I leave home without the words to that song!! At any rate, I've got them in a book by Pete Kennedy I'm pretty sure; and also in the liner notes to the Talitha McKenzie, Martin Swann recording Mouth Music. It's a beautiful piece and her treatment of it is esp nice. It was one of Pres Kennedys favorites. I'll try to get those out to you. Just out of curiosity, would you happen to have the lyrics to either of two pieces of Mouth Music I'm looking for: Fionnaghuala (Bothy Band) or a piece by Dolores Keane and John Faulkner called simply Mouth Music. It's in the Scots dialect, not gaelic. And there's a line in it which goes something like, "Dance to your shadow, and, it's good to be living, lad..." Very exciting piece, but I just can't puzzle out the lyrics. Thanks, Michael! |
Subject: Lyric Req: Mist Covered Mountains From: Ian Date: 22 Nov 96 - 09:55 PM Hi - I'm looking for either the English translation of Chì Mi Na Mór-bheanna (or possibly an English variant) called something like 'Mist Covered Mountains (of Home)'. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! - Ian |
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