29 Mar 01 - 05:44 AM (#428215) Subject: Foot and Mouth Songs ^^ From: MartinRyan Foot and mouth is, of course, no joke. Here are the two songs which appeared in recent threads. I hear rumours of at least one from the 1940's outbreak in Ireland, but haven't found it yet. No sign of one from the current outbreak. Regards Song 2 : circa 1910? Posted by McGrath of Harlow Air: The Groves of Blarney |
29 Mar 01 - 08:30 AM (#428286) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Foot and Mouth Songs From: MMario Thanks for extracting them Martin - I'm sure Joe will aprreciate it - easier for him to find and harvest this way. |
29 Mar 01 - 10:24 AM (#428368) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Foot and Mouth Songs From: GUEST "Cow cow Bogie"? |
30 Mar 01 - 12:48 AM (#428989) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Foot and Mouth Songs From: GUEST,mgarvey@pacifier.com oh a great one that I was trying to remember for our cattle/sheep song workshop at SingTime Frolics... it may or may not be called the Drover's Sweetheart...by Henry Lawson, tune I believe by Priscilla Herdman.... here are some fragments... ....dusty cows.. beneath the ....dome For there was one I loved the best who'd bring the cattle home... the flood is in the Darling now and footrot in the flock ....he tucked the remnant down ...his luck was always bad instead of making more he lost the money that he had and how he'll manage heaven knows my eyes are growing dim he says he says he don't suppose I'd want to marry him as if I wouldn't take his hand without the golden glove Oh Jack you men don't understand howmuch a girl can love I long to se e him yet again Jack's dog thank God it's Jack I never thought I'd faint before he's coming down the track... .... doubles as an absolutely wonderful love song.. mg |
30 Mar 01 - 01:26 AM (#429004) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Foot and Mouth Songs From: GUEST,mgarvey@pacifier.com here is the web site that will give the words to the poem..I think some verses are combined in the song to very good effect. mg http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/L/LawsonHenry/verse/world_wide/droversweetheart.html |
01 Oct 14 - 09:14 AM (#3665012) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Foot and Mouth Songs From: MartinRyan The Goilin Song Project at the Irish Traditional Music Archive has included the J Burke song detailed above in its new website, sung by yours truly: Click here I remember learning it in 2001 or so, during an outbreak of the disease. Interestingly, despite my mentioning "The Bonny Boy" as the suggested air, I have no recollection of where I found the air I used! Regards |