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Subject: Lyrics: Highland Paddy From: Frank Date: 24 Jun 99 - 10:27 AM Does anyone know the Lyrics to an irish rebellion song, probably titled "Highland Paddy"? The first verse starts with:"One evening fair, as the sun was shining, to Kilkenny I did ride, I did meet with Captain Brady...." That's all I know and I didn't find it in the database. Thank you for your help... Frank |
Subject: RE: Lyrics: Highland Paddy From: Susanne (skw) Date: 24 Jun 99 - 06:51 PM I've got the words on the sleeve of an old Finbar & Eddie Furey LP, 'Four Green Fields'. If no one beats me to it, I'll type them out over the weekend. - Susanne |
Subject: Lyr Add: HIGHLAND PADDY From: Susanne (skw) Date: 28 Jun 99 - 06:47 PM Frank, I think this is what you're after: Chorus:
One evening fair as the sun was shining
So in the morning we rose early
Oh in our town close by the river
Oh all my life I will remember
'Highland Paddies' - explained in the sleevenotes to Finbar and Eddie Furey's 'Four Green Fields' (1972) as Irishmen emigrated to Scotland, who returned to fight for Ireland in the '98. |
Subject: RE: Lyrics: Highland Paddy From: Frank Date: 29 Jun 99 - 03:55 AM Thank you Susanne, that was exactly what I was looking for. You must be a walking Folksong Database, amazing... |
Subject: RE: Lyrics: Highland Paddy From: Susanne (skw) Date: 29 Jun 99 - 07:24 PM Not really - it's all the computer's doing ... And just once in a while the DT helps, of course (not in this case). |
Subject: RE: Lyrics: Highland Paddy From: Date: 30 Jun 99 - 09:49 AM a forum search with 'highland paddy' as 'subject' would have helped in this case. Wolfgang |
Subject: RE: Lyrics: Highland Paddy From: Susanne (skw) Date: 30 Jun 99 - 05:49 PM I did a (brief) search before I promised to post it, and it didn't show up. Maybe it was the spelling again. The Fureys have 'Paddie'. I can't remember now what I used. Anyway, how's a person to know? - Susanne Click here for related thread |
Subject: RE: Lyrics: Highland Paddy From: Philippa Date: 30 Nov 99 - 02:04 PM the song is written and copyrighted by Sean McCarthy |
Subject: RE: Lyrics: Highland Paddy From: Stewie Date: 30 Nov 99 - 06:58 PM Wolfgang, the version you gave in the related thread is exactly the one that the Wolfe Tones did on their 'Till Ireland a Nation' album. They also attributed it to Sean McCarthy. Which one did McCarthy actually write? |
Subject: RE: Lyrics: Highland Paddy From: Wolfgang Date: 01 Dec 99 - 12:44 PM Stewie, I don't know, but I guess 'both' could be a correct response. Often writers write more than one version, leave out a verse in the next and so on. Of course, it also can happen that somebody else (singing the song changes a line or two but thinks his changes are too small to mention and still attributes the lyrics to the first writer. Wolfgang |
Subject: Lyr Add: HIGHLAND PADDY From: Philippa Date: 01 Dec 99 - 02:15 PM just slightly different in McCarthy's book:
HIGHLAND PADDY
One evening fair as the sun was shining
"I've come to fight for my land,
Chorus:
In the morning we rose early,
Gather round me men of Ireland,
chorus:
I could hear the Captain calling
chorus:
Fare thee well my Highland Paddy
All my life I will remember
Ah! then you are welcome, Highland Paddy, by Sean McCarthy, as published in The Songs of Sean McCarthy (Listowel, Co Kerry, 1973) |
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