Lyr Req: 'Spinning song' - Irish?

Subject: 'Spinning song' - Irish?
From: GUEST,2 feathers
Date: 18 Apr 01 - 09:55 PM

Need to fill in the blanks in my mind for a song I love to sing. Here, I think, is the way the song starts:

Mellow the moonlight to shine is beginning
Close by the window young Eileen is spinning
Bent oer the fire her bind grandmother's sitting
She's moaning and crooning and lazily knitting.

Chorus: Merrily, cheerily, nosily whirring
Spins the wheel swings the reel while the foot's stirring
Brightly and sprightly and airily ringing
Sounds the sweet voice of the young maiden singing....

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Spinning song' - Irish?
From: alison
Date: 18 Apr 01 - 10:01 PM

here you go it's in the database

welcome to mudcat

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Spinning song' - Irish?
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 18 Apr 01 - 10:02 PM

Bueatiful song, a favourite of my mothers. the words are in the dt

A forum search is likely to yeild some discssion - haven't the time at the moment to do another search.

Jon

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Spinning song' - Irish?
From: GUEST,2feathers (I am NOT a guest, I am a member!)
Date: 18 Apr 01 - 10:32 PM

Thank you both kindly. This song was a favorite of a friend who died recently. Whenever we were at a sing, a weekend, a party, Ruth would ask me to sing it for her. When I would demur saying were a couple of other songs I'd like to sing when my turns came, she would plead with me to sing it, and I would. I have not sung it for a very long time, and the words were melting out of my brain. I am going to sing it again, tomorrow, and dedicate it to Ruth. Happy traveling, Ruth. Your voice and smile linger on.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Spinning song' - Irish?
From: alison
Date: 18 Apr 01 - 10:49 PM

sorry to hear about your friend Ruth, but music is a wonderful way to keep the memory alive.

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Spinning song' - Irish?
From: Barry T
Date: 19 Apr 01 - 01:43 AM

My midi with lyrics is here... kind of a music box arrangement.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Spinning song' - Irish?
From: Fiolar
Date: 19 Apr 01 - 09:23 AM

The song will always be associated with that great songstress Delia Murphy as indeed will the number "The Blackbird."

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Spinning song' - Irish?
From: SINSULL
Date: 19 Apr 01 - 09:26 AM

I heard this done by three young girls who accompanied themselves on harps. They sounded like angels. So very pretty.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Spinning song' - Irish?
From: Fiolar
Date: 19 Apr 01 - 11:46 AM

I must admit I have yet to hear an angel but look forward in due course to hear the heavenly choir. :-)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Spinning song' - Irish?
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 19 Apr 01 - 01:55 PM

My grandad used to sing this to my Mum so I made a point of learning it and now when I sing it I always think of my mum (now sadly dead) whose name was Eileen.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Spinning song' - Irish?
From: GUEST,erin_draiodoir_mna
Date: 20 Dec 04 - 07:24 PM

does anyone know the chord progressions for this song?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Spinning song' - Irish?
From: Steve Parkes
Date: 21 Dec 04 - 06:58 AM

A similar thread here.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Spinning song' - Irish?
From: s&r
Date: 21 Dec 04 - 08:19 AM

Bar by bar in C:

C C C G G G G C C C F C G7 C G C

Chorus C C C G G G G C C C7 F C G C G C

Stu