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Tune Req: Auld Plaid Shawl

22 Feb 00 - 05:12 PM (#182945)
Subject: Auld Plaid Shawl
From: GUEST,Ardgregan

My Mother sings an old song that her Uncle Jack used to sing called The Auld Plaid Shawl. I'm just learning to fiddle and would like to get the sheet music for this old song if anybody has it. You can contact me at gcstorrs@telusplanet.net

Thanks


22 Feb 00 - 05:29 PM (#182961)
Subject: RE: Tune Req: Auld Plaid Shawl
From: Mbo

Oh NO! Not my "Ould Plaid Shawl"? Please don't tell me I'm a ripoff artist! The one that starts "Down bu old Kinavara, in the merry month of May..."?

--Mbo


22 Feb 00 - 05:32 PM (#182964)
Subject: RE: Tune Req: Auld Plaid Shawl
From: MMario

there is one tune here

but I don't know if it's the right one.


22 Feb 00 - 06:26 PM (#182995)
Subject: RE: Tune Req: Auld Plaid Shawl
From: Pinetop Slim

Mbo, is that a song about the Old Plaid Shawl pub in Kinvara?


22 Feb 00 - 06:28 PM (#182997)
Subject: RE: Tune Req: Auld Plaid Shawl
From: Mbo

No...


22 Feb 00 - 08:10 PM (#183044)
Subject: RE: Tune Req: Auld Plaid Shawl
From: GUEST,Bruce O

Words and music in Levy sheet music collection (Mudcat's Links). Search on 'plaid shawl'.


22 Feb 00 - 08:49 PM (#183054)
Subject: RE: Tune Req: Auld Plaid Shawl
From: Mbo

Well don't that beat all! The song in the Levy collection has lyrics by Francis Fahy, who wrote the poem "The Ould Plaid Shawl" that I put to music. But while the general subject and the title are the same, they are completely different. Maybe he wasn't so happy with his poem version and decided on a broad adaptation for the song version. Phew! My honor remains intact! And pssssst...my version is more fun to sing!

--Mbo


22 Feb 00 - 09:32 PM (#183083)
Subject: RE: Tune Req: Auld Plaid Shawl
From: wysiwyg

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