Tune Req: garryowen

Subject: RE: Tune Req: garryowen
From: Effsee
Date: 19 Feb 06 - 10:12 AM

The song "Mick Ryan's Lament" on Tim O'Brien's album Two Journey's is sung to the tune of Garry Owen.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: garryowen
From: gnu
Date: 18 Feb 06 - 10:05 PM

I have been looking for six years.

Gary Owens

Subject: RE: Tune Req: garryowen
From: Effsee
Date: 18 Feb 06 - 09:47 PM

Allegedly it was Custer's favourite tune. Tim O'Brien does a song to the tune on one of his CDs, I can't recall which one right now, give me till tomorrow. I'll be back.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: garryowen
From:
Date: 18 Feb 06 - 08:13 PM

I am trying to download the modern 7th Cav version of GO. I have tried several sites, but none work. Can anyone point me to a free download?

Subject: RE: Tune Req: garryowen
From: GUEST,Bill Kennedy
Date: 07 Aug 03 - 01:52 PM

the Irish would be 'garraí Owen' - Owen's garden


Garryowen is a neighborhood, or now housing estate, in Limerick.

This info is from the Garryowen football club site - "The word Garryowen - the gardens of John - relates to the association in the 12th century between St. John's Church and the Knights Templar whose house in Limerick was dedicated to St. John the Baptist." -


I haven't seen them yet, though my apologies if they exist somewhere in a thread, (not in DT, though), here are the lyrics to the 7th Cavalry version, from

http://members.fortunecity.com/dikigoros/garryowen.htm

"There was a special set of lyrics written for the 7th Cavalry Regiment in 1905.
For those special troopers of the 7th:


[Verse 1]

We are the pride of the Army
and a regiment of great renown,
Our Name's on the pages of History.
From sixty-six on down.
If you think we stop or falter
While into the fray we're going
Just watch the steps with our heads erect,
While our band plays GarryOwen. (Chorus)


"Chorus"

In the Fighting Seventh's the place for me,
Its the cream of all the Cavalry;
No other regiment ever can claim
Its pride, honor, glory and undying fame.


[Verse 2]

We know fear when stern duty
Calls us far away from home,
Our country's flag shall safely o'er us wave,
No matter where we roam.
"Tis the gallant 7th Cavalry
It matters not where we are going"
Such you'll surely say as we march away;
And our band plays GarryOwen. (Chorus)


[Verse 3]

Then hurrah for our brave commanders!
Who led us into the fight.
We'll do or die in our country's cause,
And battle for the right.
And when the war is o'er,
And to our home we're goin
Just watch your step, with our heads erect,
When our band plays GarryOwen. (Chorus)

Reference: "From Custer to MacArthur, the 7th US Cavalry"

Subject: RE: Tune Req: garryowen
From: Ernest
Date: 07 Aug 03 - 12:47 PM

Notation with tabs for guitar, banjo, mandolin etc. at Jaybuckey.com under "Free stuff - tablature"!
One of those indestructable Irish tunes, sounds great even when played by a brass band.
Yours
Ernest

Subject: RE: Tune Req: garryowen
From: Joe Offer
Date: 07 Aug 03 - 12:20 PM

Hi, Timothy - I moved you over to this existing thread with the same name. Take a look at the crosslinks at the top of this page and see if any of the related threads can help you.
Can't say I've heard a recording of "Garryowen" that's as memorable as what you're seeking - but somebody here must have.
I gather you're looking for a song that would really make a fella buckle his swash. My dad says that happens only in Marine OCS. [grin] He's 82 now, but he can still sing "Stout-Hearted Men" with the best of 'em. There's something about the tune of "Garryowen" that doesn't sound particularly swashbuckling to me - to me, the tune sounds a bit too delicate.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: Tune Req: garryowen
From: timothy.kelly
Date: 07 Aug 03 - 12:11 PM

I'm a US Cavalry Officer and have heard the tune for Garryowen countless times, from Army bands to Derek Warfield's "Sons of Erin". And I have read the lyrics about "Bacchus's sons...etc." here on mudcat. I'm trying to find a recording, though, of someone actually singing the song. I know there is a scene in THEY DIED WITH THEIR BOOTS ON (Errol Flynn) where they gather around a piano and sing but the lyrics are a total 1930s whitewash. I want the song about beating constables and gettinmg drunk, a song that would appeal to a real cavalry trooper stuck out on the frontier.
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Subject: RE: Tune Req: garryowen
From: Dicho (Frank Staplin)
Date: 28 Aug 01 - 06:35 PM

The thread cited by Malcolm Douglas includes the posting by Wolfgang Hell of "Sgt. Flynn." I haven't checked it against the one on the military site.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: garryowen
From: Dicho (Frank Staplin)
Date: 28 Aug 01 - 06:31 PM

The 7th still uses the tune. Three versions are given in a history of the 1st Sq. 7th US Cavalry. The first is the set of verses by Thomas Moore, 1807 (see posting by Sorcha). The second is the version preferred by the top brass, written by Chief Musician J. O. Brockenshire in 1907 (one that I consider poor). The third is "Sgt Flynn" with the verse that mentions Montana (the most applicable to the 7th Cavalry). There are profane verses as well and those are the ones I would like to see. For the three main versions used by the 7th: www.geocities.com/Pentagon/3917/history.htm#song. The Garryowen Handbook- interesting reading- has the song on p. 26. www.hood.army.mil.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: garryowen
From: Chicken Charlie
Date: 28 Aug 01 - 04:08 PM

Try the site www.mandolincafe.com, and I believe you will find a tab. If not, google it, because I have mando tab for it and ergo I got it from the web somewhere.

CC

Subject: RE: Tune Req: garryowen
From: mike putt
Date: 28 Aug 01 - 02:29 PM

I am sorted thanks very much to everyone

Subject: RE: Tune Req: garryowen
From: GUEST,Melani
Date: 28 Aug 01 - 02:22 PM

As far as I know, the Seventh has ever since been known as "the Garry Owen Regiment." I aquired an insignia pin a couple of years ago that shows a horseshoe surrounding a gauntleted hand holding a sword, with a ribbon with the words "Garry Owen." It is the same design as one I unfortunately lost many years ago, which was given to me by a friend of my father's, who wore it on his uniform in the Korean War.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: garryowen
From: Gareth
Date: 27 Aug 01 - 09:10 PM

I suggest that the Native American might well known the Song and Tune - After all they rode away from the Greasy Grass.

Gareth

Subject: RE: Tune Req: garryowen
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 27 Aug 01 - 09:04 PM

See also, amongst many previous discussions here:

GARRYOWEN  (DT file, with tune)
LYRICS for Gary Owen (not the old one)
Help: Garryowen
Garry Owen/ The Girl I Left Behind Me
Garry Owen and Soldiers of the Queen
American Revolutionary Songs

...and so on.  Most of them contain pretty much the same information, though occasionally someone has had something new to say.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: garryowen
From: Sorcha
Date: 27 Aug 01 - 07:59 PM

I don't know about the re write, but I have always heard that Garryowen was the 7th Cav marching song, until the Greasy Grass. 7th Cav lost so badly that the marching song was changed to Gal I Left Behind. What I posted are the words I have always heard to the tune.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: garryowen
From: Dicho (Frank Staplin)
Date: 27 Aug 01 - 07:55 PM

Chief musician Brockenshire of the 7th Cavalry rewrote the music and composed verses praising the 7th Cavalry, but they are not very inspirational, to say the least. There are unapproved verses which I can't recall. Does anyone out there have a better memory?

Subject: RE: Tune Req: garryowen
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 27 Aug 01 - 07:54 PM

This tune was used as the opening theme to the movie "Little Big Man". I wonder if it has any history with Custer's campaign?

Aloha,
Mark

Subject: RE: Tune Req: garryowen
From: Sorcha
Date: 27 Aug 01 - 06:32 PM

Oh, yea, I'm sure it's at JC's, just a sec.......Garryowen, take your pick. "G" gives you sheet music, "M" gives you Midi (sound) file.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: garryowen
From: mike putt
Date: 27 Aug 01 - 06:30 PM

Sorcha, do you know the tune

Subject: Lyr Add: GARRYOWEN
From: Sorcha
Date: 27 Aug 01 - 06:25 PM

Garyowen

Let Bacchus' sons be not dismayed
But join with me, each jovial blade
Come, drink and sing and lend your aid
To help me with the chorus:

Instead of spa, we'll drink brown ale
And pay the reckoning on the nail;
No man for debt shall go to jail
From Garryowen in glory.

We'll beat the bailiffs out of fun,
We'll make the mayor and sheriffs run
We are the boys no man dares dun
If he regards a whole skin.

Instead of spa, we'll drink brown ale
And pay the reckoning on the nail;
No man for debt shall go to jail
From Garryowen in glory.

Our hearts so stout have got no fame
For soon 'tis known from whence we came
Where'er we go they fear the name
Of Garryowen in glory.

Instead of spa, we'll drink brown ale
And pay the reckoning on the nail;
No man for debt shall go to jail
From Garryowen in glory.

Subject: garryowen
From: mike putt
Date: 27 Aug 01 - 06:15 PM

I'm in trouble again. I have the words to a song called garryowen ( not Sean South )The chorus is "Instead of spa we'll drink brown ale,and pay the reckoning on the nail, no man in debt will go to jail, from Garryowen in glory." I believe that it was the marching song of the 7th cavalry so if anybody knows the tune and chords I will be eternally grateful