Lyr Req: Senior Drama Club needs help

Subject: Senior Drama Club needs help
From: angel
Date: 22 Mar 00 - 10:51 PM

Can anyone help with some lyrics to songs for the musical "The Irish and How They Got That Way'?

I need:
The Butterfly
Those Endearing Young Charms (for medley)
Rings On Her Fingers
Has Anybody Seen Kelly
The Ghost Of Molly McGuire
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For

Thank you for any help you can give,
Angel

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Senior Drama Club needs help
From: ddw
Date: 22 Mar 00 - 11:02 PM

Hi angel —

Sorry I can't help you with your posting — at least not as I understand it — but I'm sure there will be people here who can.

A few suggestions, tho':

1) look in the DigiTrad (upper right of the forum page, click on the first letter of the song title and scroll the list or do a phrase search). Then, if you can't find the songs,

2) restart your thread with identifiable info, not a general header, i.e., the title of the play or of a particular song.

3) To clarify titles, use the HTML command
at the end of each title. That will put each one on a different line, so it's clear what the titles are.

Hope you find what you're looking for. Welcome to the Mudcat.

cheers

david

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Senior Drama Club needs help
From: Alice
Date: 22 Mar 00 - 11:24 PM

Angel,
the song "Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms" was written by Thomas Moore, so it should be easily found in your library.
The tune Butterfly or Red Admiral Butterfly (Bob and Joan) and it's sources has been discussed on this forum, but as far as I know, it doesn't have lyrics. Someone who knows will jump in and tell us if it does.

By "Bells On Her Toes" do you mean the song, "I'll Tell My Ma"?

alice flynn

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Senior Drama Club needs help
From: Alice
Date: 22 Mar 00 - 11:30 PM

ooops, that should have been "Rings On Her Fingers", do you mean "I'll Tell My Ma"?
I'm tired, past my bedtime... goodnight everyone.

alice

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Senior Drama Club needs help
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 23 Mar 00 - 10:53 AM

Oh, she's got rings on her fingers, bells on her toes,
Elephants to ride upon, My little Irish Rose.
Come to your Nabob, ad next Patrick's Day
You'll be Mrs. Mumbo-Jumbo Jijaboo Jay....
O'Shay.

That's all I can remember.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Senior Drama Club needs help
From: Amos
Date: 23 Mar 00 - 11:02 AM

The words and mIDI for "Endearing Young Charms" can be reached by clicking here. Dunno the others off hand.

Subject: Lyr Add: I'VE GOT RINGS ON MY FINGERS
From: Dale Rose
Date: 23 Mar 00 - 12:14 PM

I've Got Rings On My Fingers is on the fine album, Never Grow Up by Anne Hills and Cindy Mangsen, Flying Fish (Rounder) 671, 1998.

It is a song that I remember from my childhood, but have no idea anymore who might have done an earlier version. An internet check turned up versions by Dick Kuhn and Ada Jones.

Sheet Music AND lyrics at this site It is also in the DT, just use the blue search box at the top of this page. I found those things AFTER setting up my version, so I am not going to let it go to waste, so here it is! That gives you THREE versions, check'em out for any differences, but likely they are quite similar.

I'VE GOT RINGS ON MY FINGERS
R.P. Weston and F.J. Barnes, 1909

1. Jim O'Shea was cast away upon an Indian isle.
The natives there they liked his hair; they liked his Irish smile,
So made him chief Panjandrum, the nabob of them all.
They called him Jijjiboo Jhai, and rigged him out so gay,
So he wrote to Dublin Bay, to his sweetheart, just to say:

CHORUS: "Sure, I've got rings on my fingers, bells on my toes,
Elephants to ride upon, my little Irish Rose;
So come to your nabob, and next Patrick's Day,
Be Mistress Mumbo Jumbo Jijjiboo J. O'Shea."

2. O'er the sea went Rose McGee to see her Nabob grand.
He sat within his palanquin, and when she'd kissed his hand,
He led her to his harem, where he had wives galore.
She started shedding a tear; said he, "Now have no fear!
I'm keeping these wives here just for ornament, my dear. CHORUS

3. In em'rald green he robed his queen, to share with him his throne.
'Mid eastern charms and waving palms they'd shamrocks, Irish grown,
Sent all the way from Dublin to Nabab J. O'Shea
But in his palace so fine should Rose for Ireland pine,
With smiles her face will shine when he murmurs, "Sweetheart mine: CHORUS

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Senior Drama Club needs help
From: angel
Date: 23 Mar 00 - 02:51 PM

I want to thank all of you for your support. I got two more so that is good.

Angel

Subject: Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For (U2)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 23 Mar 00 - 06:15 PM

I couldn't find a song with the title "Ghost of Molly McGuire." Somebody posted one called Sons of Molly (click here), and I'll betcha that's your song.

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Could you really be looking for a U2 song? Well, it's Irish, I guess. It's also one of my favorites.
-Joe Offer-

I STILL HAVEN'T FOUND WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR
U2
1988.

I have climbed the highest mountains
I have run through the fields
Only to be with you
Only to be with you

I have run I have crawled
I have scaled these city walls
Only to be with you
But I still haven't found
What I'm looking for
But I still haven't found
What I'm looking for

I have kissed honey lips
Felt the healing in her fingertips
It burned like fire
This burning desire
I have spoke with the tongue of angels
I have held the hand of a devil
It was warm in the night
I was cold as a stone
But I still haven't found
What I'm looking for
But I still haven't found
What I'm looking for

I believe in the Kingdom Come
Then all the colours will bleed into one
But yes I'm still running
You broke the bonds
You loosed the chains
You carried the cross
And my shame
And my shame
You know I believe it
But I still haven't found
What I'm looking for
But I still haven't found
What I'm looking for

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I'm sincerely hoping that the butterfly song you're looking for isn't this one (click), but maybe this one (click) will help a bit.

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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Senior Drama Club needs help
From: Mbo
Date: 23 Mar 00 - 06:23 PM

Thanks Joe...Good Gravy how I love that song!

--Mbo

Subject: ADD: HAS ANYBODY HERE SEEN KELLY? ^^
From: Joe Offer
Date: 23 Mar 00 - 06:53 PM

HAS ANYBODY HERE SEEN KELLY?
(C.W. Murphy & Will Letters)
(American version by William J. McKenna, 1909)

Michael Kelly with his sweetheart came from County Cork,
And bent upon a holiday, they landed in New York.
They strolled around to see the sights; alas, it's sad to say,
Poor Kelly lost his little girl upon the Great White Way.
She walked uptown from Herald Square to Forty Second Street
The traffic stopped as she cried to the copper on the beat:

Has anybody here seen Kelly?
K.E. double L. Y,
Has anybody here seen Kelly?
Have you seen him smile?
Sure his hair is red, his eyes are blue,
And he's Irish through and through, Has anybody here seen Kelly?
Kelly from the Emerald Isle

Over on Fifth Avenue, a band began to play,
Ten thousand men were marching for it was Saint Patrick's Day.
The "Wearing of the Green" rang out upon the morning air,
'Twas Kelly's favorite song, so Mary said, "I'll find him there."
She climbed upon the grandstand in hopes her Mike she'd see,
Five hundred Kellys left the ranks in answer to her plea.
CHORUS.

JRO ^^