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27 Aug 01 - 06:15 PM (#536345) Subject: garryowen From: mike putt I'm in trouble again. I have the words to a song called garryowen ( not Sean South )The chorus is "Instead of spa we'll drink brown ale,and pay the reckoning on the nail, no man in debt will go to jail, from Garryowen in glory." I believe that it was the marching song of the 7th cavalry so if anybody knows the tune and chords I will be eternally grateful |
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27 Aug 01 - 06:25 PM (#536354) Subject: Lyr Add: GARRYOWEN From: Sorcha Garyowen
Let Bacchus' sons be not dismayed
Instead of spa, we'll drink brown ale
We'll beat the bailiffs out of fun,
Instead of spa, we'll drink brown ale
Our hearts so stout have got no fame
Instead of spa, we'll drink brown ale |
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27 Aug 01 - 06:30 PM (#536359) Subject: RE: Tune Req: garryowen From: mike putt Sorcha, do you know the tune |
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27 Aug 01 - 06:32 PM (#536361) Subject: RE: Tune Req: garryowen From: Sorcha Oh, yea, I'm sure it's at JC's, just a sec.......Garryowen, take your pick. "G" gives you sheet music, "M" gives you Midi (sound) file. |
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27 Aug 01 - 07:54 PM (#536426) Subject: RE: Tune Req: garryowen From: Mark Cohen This tune was used as the opening theme to the movie "Little Big Man". I wonder if it has any history with Custer's campaign? Aloha, Mark |
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27 Aug 01 - 07:55 PM (#536427) Subject: RE: Tune Req: garryowen From: Dicho (Frank Staplin) Chief musician Brockenshire of the 7th Cavalry rewrote the music and composed verses praising the 7th Cavalry, but they are not very inspirational, to say the least. There are unapproved verses which I can't recall. Does anyone out there have a better memory? |
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27 Aug 01 - 07:59 PM (#536432) Subject: RE: Tune Req: garryowen From: Sorcha I don't know about the re write, but I have always heard that Garryowen was the 7th Cav marching song, until the Greasy Grass. 7th Cav lost so badly that the marching song was changed to Gal I Left Behind. What I posted are the words I have always heard to the tune. |
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27 Aug 01 - 09:04 PM (#536471) Subject: RE: Tune Req: garryowen From: Malcolm Douglas See also, amongst many previous discussions here: GARRYOWEN (DT file, with tune) ...and so on. Most of them contain pretty much the same information, though occasionally someone has had something new to say. |
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27 Aug 01 - 09:10 PM (#536477) Subject: RE: Tune Req: garryowen From: Gareth I suggest that the Native American might well known the Song and Tune - After all they rode away from the Greasy Grass. Gareth |
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28 Aug 01 - 02:22 PM (#536842) Subject: RE: Tune Req: garryowen From: GUEST,Melani As far as I know, the Seventh has ever since been known as "the Garry Owen Regiment." I aquired an insignia pin a couple of years ago that shows a horseshoe surrounding a gauntleted hand holding a sword, with a ribbon with the words "Garry Owen." It is the same design as one I unfortunately lost many years ago, which was given to me by a friend of my father's, who wore it on his uniform in the Korean War. |
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28 Aug 01 - 02:29 PM (#536849) Subject: RE: Tune Req: garryowen From: mike putt I am sorted thanks very much to everyone |
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28 Aug 01 - 04:08 PM (#536910) Subject: RE: Tune Req: garryowen From: Chicken Charlie Try the site www.mandolincafe.com, and I believe you will find a tab. If not, google it, because I have mando tab for it and ergo I got it from the web somewhere. CC |
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28 Aug 01 - 06:31 PM (#537027) Subject: RE: Tune Req: garryowen From: Dicho (Frank Staplin) The 7th still uses the tune. Three versions are given in a history of the 1st Sq. 7th US Cavalry. The first is the set of verses by Thomas Moore, 1807 (see posting by Sorcha). The second is the version preferred by the top brass, written by Chief Musician J. O. Brockenshire in 1907 (one that I consider poor). The third is "Sgt Flynn" with the verse that mentions Montana (the most applicable to the 7th Cavalry). There are profane verses as well and those are the ones I would like to see. For the three main versions used by the 7th: www.geocities.com/Pentagon/3917/history.htm#song. The Garryowen Handbook- interesting reading- has the song on p. 26. www.hood.army.mil. |
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28 Aug 01 - 06:35 PM (#537035) Subject: RE: Tune Req: garryowen From: Dicho (Frank Staplin) The thread cited by Malcolm Douglas includes the posting by Wolfgang Hell of "Sgt. Flynn." I haven't checked it against the one on the military site. |
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07 Aug 03 - 12:11 PM (#998371) Subject: Tune Req: garryowen From: timothy.kelly I'm a US Cavalry Officer and have heard the tune for Garryowen countless times, from Army bands to Derek Warfield's "Sons of Erin". And I have read the lyrics about "Bacchus's sons...etc." here on mudcat. I'm trying to find a recording, though, of someone actually singing the song. I know there is a scene in THEY DIED WITH THEIR BOOTS ON (Errol Flynn) where they gather around a piano and sing but the lyrics are a total 1930s whitewash. I want the song about beating constables and gettinmg drunk, a song that would appeal to a real cavalry trooper stuck out on the frontier. kelly@armyocs.com |
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07 Aug 03 - 12:20 PM (#998379) Subject: RE: Tune Req: garryowen From: Joe Offer Hi, Timothy - I moved you over to this existing thread with the same name. Take a look at the crosslinks at the top of this page and see if any of the related threads can help you. Can't say I've heard a recording of "Garryowen" that's as memorable as what you're seeking - but somebody here must have. I gather you're looking for a song that would really make a fella buckle his swash. My dad says that happens only in Marine OCS. [grin] He's 82 now, but he can still sing "Stout-Hearted Men" with the best of 'em. There's something about the tune of "Garryowen" that doesn't sound particularly swashbuckling to me - to me, the tune sounds a bit too delicate. -Joe Offer- |
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07 Aug 03 - 12:47 PM (#998401) Subject: RE: Tune Req: garryowen From: Ernest Notation with tabs for guitar, banjo, mandolin etc. at Jaybuckey.com under "Free stuff - tablature"! One of those indestructable Irish tunes, sounds great even when played by a brass band. Yours Ernest |
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07 Aug 03 - 01:52 PM (#998458) Subject: RE: Tune Req: garryowen From: GUEST,Bill Kennedy the Irish would be 'garraí Owen' - Owen's garden Garryowen is a neighborhood, or now housing estate, in Limerick. This info is from the Garryowen football club site - "The word Garryowen - the gardens of John - relates to the association in the 12th century between St. John's Church and the Knights Templar whose house in Limerick was dedicated to St. John the Baptist." - I haven't seen them yet, though my apologies if they exist somewhere in a thread, (not in DT, though), here are the lyrics to the 7th Cavalry version, from http://members.fortunecity.com/dikigoros/garryowen.htm "There was a special set of lyrics written for the 7th Cavalry Regiment in 1905. For those special troopers of the 7th: [Verse 1] We are the pride of the Army and a regiment of great renown, Our Name's on the pages of History. From sixty-six on down. If you think we stop or falter While into the fray we're going Just watch the steps with our heads erect, While our band plays GarryOwen. (Chorus) "Chorus" In the Fighting Seventh's the place for me, Its the cream of all the Cavalry; No other regiment ever can claim Its pride, honor, glory and undying fame. [Verse 2] We know fear when stern duty Calls us far away from home, Our country's flag shall safely o'er us wave, No matter where we roam. "Tis the gallant 7th Cavalry It matters not where we are going" Such you'll surely say as we march away; And our band plays GarryOwen. (Chorus) [Verse 3] Then hurrah for our brave commanders! Who led us into the fight. We'll do or die in our country's cause, And battle for the right. And when the war is o'er, And to our home we're goin Just watch your step, with our heads erect, When our band plays GarryOwen. (Chorus) Reference: "From Custer to MacArthur, the 7th US Cavalry" |
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18 Feb 06 - 08:13 PM (#1672453) Subject: RE: Tune Req: garryowen From: GUEST,pjoki@msn.com I am trying to download the modern 7th Cav version of GO. I have tried several sites, but none work. Can anyone point me to a free download? |
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18 Feb 06 - 09:47 PM (#1672508) Subject: RE: Tune Req: garryowen From: Effsee Allegedly it was Custer's favourite tune. Tim O'Brien does a song to the tune on one of his CDs, I can't recall which one right now, give me till tomorrow. I'll be back. |
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18 Feb 06 - 10:05 PM (#1672523) Subject: RE: Tune Req: garryowen From: gnu I have been looking for six years. Gary Owens |
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19 Feb 06 - 10:12 AM (#1672794) Subject: RE: Tune Req: garryowen From: Effsee The song "Mick Ryan's Lament" on Tim O'Brien's album Two Journey's is sung to the tune of Garry Owen. |