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05 Sep 20 - 08:17 PM (#4070909) Subject: Lyr Add: Where My Eileen Is Waiting For Me From: RunrigFan Traditional I am always light-hearted and easy, Not a care in the world have I, For I know I am loved by a colleen And I could not forget if I tried. She lives far away o'er the mountain Where the little birds sing on the trees; In a cottage all covered with ivy My Eileen is waiting for me. chorus It's over, it's over the mountain Where the little birds sing on the trees, In a cottage all covered with ivy My Eileen is waiting for me. The time I bade good-bye to Eileen Is a time I will never forget For the tears bubbled up from their slumbers I fancy I see them yet; They looked like the pearls in the ocean As she wept her tale of love. And she said 'My dear boy, don't forget Willie John Macaulay version Traditional Verse 1 I'm always light-hearted and easy, Not a care in the world have I, For I know I am loved by a lassie And I couldn't forget if I tried. Chorus She lives far away o'er the mountains Where the little birds sing in the trees; In a cottage all covered with ivy My Eileen is waiting for me. It's over, it's over the mountain Where the little birds sing in the trees, In a cottage all covered with ivy My Eileen is waiting for me. The time I wave good-bye to Eileen Twas a time I will never forget For the tears bubbled up from their slumbers I fancy I see them yet; They looked like the pearls in the ocean As she wept her tale of love. And she said 'My dear boy, don't forget me Till we meet here again or above. Chorus It's over, it's over the mountain Where the little birds sing in the trees, In a cottage all covered with ivy My Eileen is waiting for me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGIuQFuegnw&list=OLAK5uy_lY0LtjlTyD1TiOG064Wp2uHucUbmLopHQ&index=2 |
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05 Sep 20 - 08:29 PM (#4070910) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Where My Eileen Is Waiting For Me From: leeneia Thanks. That's a pretty song. In America Eileen is pronounced ei-LEEN, but Willie sings it with the accent on the first syllable. I know a woman from Wales who says it that way too. |
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06 Sep 20 - 04:32 AM (#4070935) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Where My Eileen Is Waiting For Me From: RunrigFan I assume Willie John is from one of the islands, such as Lewis, Skye, Hebrides etc |
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06 Sep 20 - 08:27 AM (#4070956) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Where My Eileen Is Waiting For Me From: Felipa Leenia, I think it depends where in America you are, as I never remember putting the stress on the second syllable the way I would in "Good night Irene". In Ireland you can hear "coleen" pronounced with emphasis on either syllable. In the north, coleen (cailín) would be pronounced with emphasis on the first syllable. I think most Americans would pronounce it with the stress on the second syllable, as you say Eileen is pronounced. One name which changes a lot trans-Atlanticly is the surname Mahoney. In Ireland the stress is slightly on the first syllable and there is a short "o" as in the word "honey"; in America it has stress on the middle syllable, a long "o" and rhymes with "phoney". |
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06 Sep 20 - 12:29 PM (#4070978) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Where My Eileen Is Waiting For Me From: Peter Fisher Having traveled around Ireland several times, from Bantry Bay to Derry Quay and from Dublin to Galway town, with my wife, Eileen, I found her name always pronounced with accent on the second syllable there as it is here in the US. |
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06 Sep 20 - 05:14 PM (#4071004) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Where My Eileen Is Waiting For Me From: GUEST,jim bainbridge I used to sing this old song in the pubs of West Cork years ago. I heard it from an LP of Don McLean- around 1980? Did it in a folk club once & Keith Summers told me it came from Dock Boggs... he knew these things As A Geordie, I'd put the emphasis on the first syllable or none- never the second.... but we're an awkward lot |