Lyr Req: Finegal the Harper

Subject: Lyr Req: Finegal the Harper
From: Larkin
Date: 06 Dec 20 - 04:37 AM

I've been going through old lists of possible songs and I vaguely remember this song - does anyone have the lyrics please .

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Finegal the Harper
From: GUEST
Date: 06 Dec 20 - 12:35 PM

Are you sure of the song title??

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Finegal the Harper
From: Helen
Date: 06 Dec 20 - 03:04 PM

The usual questions:

Do you remember any of the lyrics? Please post what you remember to help with internet searches.

When did you hear it or see it in written music collections? If it was in written music collections, what sort of collections are you likely to have seen it in?
Was it recorded? Did you hear it on the radio, see it on TV, hear it on vinyl, CD, digital, YouTube, etc?
Did you hear it live?
Singer(s) male, female, a group, solo?
Musicians? Harp (I'm assuming) but any other instruments.
Lively, haunting, slow, fast, dance tune, etc, etc?

Is it possible the name of the song is incorrect? Fingal, Donegal, Finnegan, etc etc.

Any more information would be helpful. At present, nothing useful comes up on Google search for "Finegal the Harper".

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Finegal the Harper
From: GUEST,nickp (cookieless)
Date: 07 Dec 20 - 04:59 AM

Seem to recall a Bernie Parry song of this title. Don't have the lyrics but may somewhere have the LP...

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Finegal the Harper
From: GUEST
Date: 07 Dec 20 - 05:04 AM

Do you mean " Finagle's Dream" ,written by Bernie Parry? He can be seen performing it on You Tube.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Finegal the Harper
From: GUEST,nickp
Date: 07 Dec 20 - 05:08 AM

Yes... I seem to think chorus went 'Finagle the harper... (something or other!)' N

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Finegal the Harper
From: GUEST,nickp
Date: 07 Dec 20 - 05:29 AM

If it's the one the lyrics at at the end of this old thread

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Finegal the Harper
From: GUEST
Date: 07 Dec 20 - 09:31 AM

This is Finegal's Dream by Bernie Parry. Lyrics are just under the performance screen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Jdnvjr47QM

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Finegal the Harper
From: Helen
Date: 07 Dec 20 - 01:03 PM

Mystery solved. Thanks nickp.

The trick with using the blickifier (Make a link ("blue clicky") ) below is to only put the thread id and not include "https://mudcat.org/" because that gets added automatically for Mudcat links. Confused? Me too, but I've learned by my own mistakes.

Lyr Req: Finigal / Finagle's Dream (Bernie Parry)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Finegal the Harper
From: GUEST,nickp
Date: 07 Dec 20 - 05:50 PM

Ooops! You can tell I rarely use it. ;)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Finegal the Harper
From: Helen
Date: 07 Dec 20 - 06:22 PM

If I haven't used it for a while I forget and muck it up again.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Finegal the Harper
From: leeneia
Date: 08 Dec 20 - 11:13 AM

The "old thread" linked above has gone 404. Here are the lyrics, copied from a YouTube video.

Long have I wandered far and wide with my harp in the misty mornings
Many's the song and the tune I played on many a starry evening.
Played you a jig and I played you a reel
Played for a penny, a drink or a meal
But I dream of a day at court I'll kneel
And play to a king and his lady.

Well I've waited long to play my songs
But now I am old and leaning.
You hear the old man sighing near
'Tis Finagle the harper dreaming.

In the summers I played in the meadows green
with my songs both gentle and stirring
In the long cold nights I played in the light
of the tavern fires burning.
Songs of the forest and songs of the sea
A song for your brother and a song for thee
But I dream of a day at court I'll kneel
And play to a king and his lady.

But the seasons they pass and the short years fly,
creeping upon my shoulders
The legs grow weak and the eyes grow dim
and the nights are feeling colder
Now I am aged, my head is old
My hands are feeble and my fingers cold
And my songs are forgotten and strewn by the road
All of my tunes are forsaken.
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That'll cheer everybody up.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Finegal the Harper
From: Helen
Date: 08 Dec 20 - 12:35 PM

Thanks leeneia, the thread is still there. The link to it wasn't correct. I posted the correct link on 07 Dec 20 - 01:03 PM.

Thanks for posting the lyrics from YouTube.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Finegal the Harper
From: r.padgett
Date: 08 Dec 20 - 01:21 PM

Bernie wrote some fine chorusy songs ~ he can be found on fb ~ pity he no longer sings

Ray

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Finegal the Harper
From: Helen
Date: 09 Dec 20 - 02:05 PM

refresh - just in case Larkin returns to this info request