Lyr Req: The Galway Rover: Confusing lyrics

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Galway Rover: Confusing lyrics
From: Ebbie
Date: 23 Oct 05 - 02:12 AM

hahhaha I love mondegreens.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Galway Rover: Confusing lyrics
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 22 Oct 05 - 09:05 PM

Now if it read
"The ferns on them bulGing by the thousand gentle eyes"

I'm sure there are enough fertile minds here to do something with that...

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Galway Rover: Confusing lyrics
From: ElwynnMaxon
Date: 22 Oct 05 - 10:38 AM

Thank you Celtaddict and Joe.

I got those lines off what was supposed to be a Pete St. John lyric site. I knew they just couldn't be correct.

E. M.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Galway Rover: Confusing lyrics
From: Joe Offer
Date: 22 Oct 05 - 04:17 AM

Does this link (click) work? It leads to a photo of Ben Bulben, a mountain (1,730 feet [527 m]) in County Sligo in the West of Ireland that is steeped in folklore. Yeats wrote of the mountain, and is buried not far from it. I went to his grave, and got a good view of the mountain from there.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Galway Rover: Confusing lyrics
From: Celtaddict
Date: 22 Oct 05 - 12:14 AM

The curlew is calling,
The shy fawn is prancing,
The ferns on Ben Bulben hide a thousand gentle eyes.

Ben Bulben is a mountain [ben] in Ireland.

Subject: Lyr Req: The Galway Rover: Confusing lyrics
From: ElwynnMaxon
Date: 21 Oct 05 - 11:58 PM

The first two lines of the last verse of this Pete St. John song reads:

The Curlew is calling, a shy form(Fawn)is prancing,

The ferns on them bulbing by the thousand gentle eyes.




Is this correct? If so can anyone explain what it means.

Thanks

E. M.