Irish Songs Reqd:

Subject: Irish Songs Reqd:
From:
Date: 24 Mar 98 - 10:30 PM

Trying to find sheet music or recorded copy of 5 Irish Songs which we have documented as being sung by Irish Volunteers during the US Civil War, they are:The Coronation Anthem, The Colleen Bawn, O'Connor's Bride, Fontenoy, and The Rapparee.

Subject: Lyr Add: MY DARLIN' COLEEN BAWN^^
From: Jon W.
Date: 25 Mar 98 - 10:33 AM

Rounder CD 1087 "From Galway to Dublin (Early Recordings of Traditional Irish Music)" contains "My Darlin' Coleen Bawn" sung by Paddy Beades--probably the same as the second song in your list. Here are the lyrics from the liner notes:

In the golden vales of Limerick beside the Shannon stream
There dwells a maid that holds me heart and haunts me like a dream
Her silky locks of golden hair, as gentle as the fawn
With cheeks to make the red rose pale, my darlin' coleen bawn.

I seldom go up to speak to her but I think of her with pride
For six long months I courted her, I thought she'd be my bride
Six weary months of cold and wet, alas from me she was drawn
I was but a poor laboring boy, she was my coleen bawn.

To leave old Ireland miles behind, it oft runs in my mind
To wander far and other brides in countries for to find
But I have seen some other lads upon her footsteps fall
That leaves me hear to guard me dear, me own dear coleen bawn.

The women of Limerick take the sway throughout old Erin's Isle
They fought within the city walls in days that's long gone by
They kept away the enemy for six nights until the dawn
Most worthy of this title was my darlin' coleen bawn.

More information from the liner notes:
Its melody is similar to those of "The Wild Colonial Boy" and "The Boston Burglar."

The forth verse refers to the siege of Limerick by the Williamite forces, when women took part in the defense of the city under General Patrick Sarsfield. Following their surrender and the signing of the treaty of Limerick in 1691, Sarsfield and his troops sailed for France, joining in exile James Stuart and thousands of Irishmen who would become known in story and song as the Wild Geese.

Subject: RE: Irish Songs Reqd:
From: Bruce O.
Date: 25 Mar 98 - 05:33 PM

Where can I find songs on Sarsfield or the Wild Geese (Gye Fiane)? Tunes for both are listed in my Irish tune index at www.erols.com/olsonw . Edmund Ryan (Ned of the Hill) didn't go with the Wild Geese to France. I have an early translation of the Gaelic song on him now (with the old tune) in my section of Irish songs.

Subject: RE: Irish Songs Reqd:
From: Wolfgang Hell
Date: 27 Mar 98 - 04:57 AM

is "The Rapparee" identical with "The outlaw raparee"? If yes, then I have it.

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: Irish Songs Reqd:
From: GUEST,Joe Oconnor
Date: 26 Feb 03 - 04:21 PM

seeking words of dark loughnagar please

Subject: RE: Irish Songs Reqd:
From: Fleadhman
Date: 26 Feb 03 - 04:31 PM

There's a beautiful traditional Irish ballad called Ballyneety's Walls. Let me know if you want the words

Subject: RE: Irish Songs Reqd:
From: Felipa
Date: 26 Feb 03 - 05:47 PM

Joe O'Connor, how did Lochnagar come to this thread? It's not Irish (though the tune has been used for a song about James Connolly). Type Lochnagar in the search box at the top of the page to find threads discussing this song. I did, and can point you to this threadDark Lochnagar

Subject: RE: Irish Songs Reqd:
From: weerover
Date: 27 Feb 03 - 11:22 AM

"Fontenoy" is in Sparling's Irish Minstrelsy and "The Rapparee" in the Clancy Brother's Irish Song Book - it is the same song sometimes called "Outlaw Rapparee" and has been the subject of much recent discussion in this forum. If you still can't get either or both, let me know and I will post when I get time.

wr