Lyr Req: Mouth Music by Keane & Faulkner

Subject: Mouth Music by Keane & Faulkner
From: BeauDangles
Date: 08 Dec 99 - 01:39 PM

Hey Catters,

Can anybody out there provide me with the actual words to a piece of mouth music done by Dolores Kean & John Faulkner on their cd Broken Hearted I'll Wander? All I can do is get some bits & pieces phonetically. For example:

Dance to your shadow and it's good to be living, lad, Dance to your shadow and it's (something unintelligible)

Or,

There are tunes in the river, Water pools in the river Water pools in the river And the river calls him

I'd love to learn this piece with the actual words, even if they are nonsense like a lot of mouth music. Any idea on where the piece was collected and/or published? HWo composed it? Etc.

Thanks muchly,

BeauDangles

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Mouth Music by Keane & Faulkner
From: Áine
Date: 08 Dec 99 - 01:58 PM

Dear BeauDangles,

This piece is also on Dolores' self-titled CD. It is a traditional song and the publisher is listed as Beann Eadar Music.

-- Áine

Mouth Music

Ho ro harra dalla ho ro harra dalla
Ho ro harra darra hind ye handan

Dance to your shadow when it's good to be living lad
Dance to your shadow when there's nothing better near ye

There are tunes in the river otter pools in the river water
Pools in the river and the river calls him

Hin hin harra dalla hin bin harra dalla
Hin hin harra dalla hin harra dalla ro

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Mouth Music by Keane & Faulkner
From: Áine
Date: 08 Dec 99 - 01:59 PM

Oops! In the second line, 'darra' should be 'dalla'.

-- Áine

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Mouth Music by Keane & Faulkner
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 08 Dec 99 - 08:51 PM

This earlier thread may be useful: Dance To Your Shadow

Malcolm