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11 Jun 03 - 07:11 PM (#966104) Subject: Lyr Add: INNISVADDIE ANNIE From: Stewie I intend to use 'Innisvaddie Annie' for a presentation, but I have no information about it at all. Is it Sots or Irish, traditional or recently composed? Any information will be welcomed. A Net search only unearthed a track listing for an English group called LongNote. I have emailed a couple of members of that group (and one has returned as undeliverable) - the page for their album was 1997, so they may have disappeared from the scene. Anyhow, these are the lyrics: INNISVADDIE ANNIE Up the winding river In by Innisvaddie Annie's got a baby That hasn't got a daddy Who the baby's father is Annie wouldn't say But some think that it's Thomas's And some think that it's Shane's Up the winding river The bonnie little baby Oh it's dandled and it's cuddled close By Innisvaddie Annie Who the baby's father is Annie wouldn't say But nobody expected it With Annie's quiet ways Up the winding river The country folk are kind And who the baby's father is I'm sure they don't mind But, oh the bairn at Annie's breast And the love in Annie's eye It makes me wish with all my heart The bonnie bairn was mine Up the winding river In by Innisvaddie Annie's got a baby That hasn't got a daddy Who the baby's father is Annie wouldn't say But nobody expected it With Annie's quiet ways --Stewie. |
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11 Jun 03 - 08:04 PM (#966144) Subject: RE: Help required - 'Innisvaddie Annie' From: MartinRyan Len Graham sings it. I have a vague memory that his wife (Padraigin Ni hUallachain) set the tune to it - I'll check. Regards |
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11 Jun 03 - 08:33 PM (#966167) Subject: RE: Help required - 'Innisvaddie Annie' From: Noreen Lyr Add: Up the Noran Water would appear to be very closely related. |
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11 Jun 03 - 08:54 PM (#966176) Subject: RE: Help required - 'Innisvaddie Annie' From: Noreen And: Help: Loran Water Shy Geordie And in Lyr Req: innisvaddie annie , John Moulden summarises: Words adapted by Len Graham from a poem "Shy Geordie" by the Scottish poet Helen Cruickshank (1886-1975) and set to music by Padragín Ní Uallacháin. Sung by her husband Len Graham on the album "Skylark" (Claddagh 4CC46). Len calls it Innisvaddy Annie. |
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11 Jun 03 - 09:22 PM (#966189) Subject: RE: Help required - 'Innisvaddie Annie' From: Stewie Many thanks, Noreen and Martin. I did put 'Innisvaddie' into the forum search before posting, but came up with zilch - one of those mysterious glitches, I suppose. It looks like the text I posted is a non-dialect reworking of the poem. It was given to me by Phil Beck of Perth (Oz) who had no idea of how he came by it. How does it compare with Len Graham's text? Years ago, I gave Phil a couple of Len Graham's solo LPs and he was enthused by them - he may have bought the relevant Skylark album and learned the song from there, and then forgot. I want to use it for a presentation I am working on, and segue it with an unusual version of 'Katy Cruel' that was posted to the forum, suggesting that a baby was the cause of Katy's troubles. Once again, thanks. --Stewie. |
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29 Jan 24 - 03:29 PM (#4196345) Subject: RE: Origin: Innisvaddie Annie From: Joe Offer refresh |
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29 Jan 24 - 04:40 PM (#4196353) Subject: RE: Origin: Innisvaddie Annie From: GUEST,Lang Johnnie More Probably the best known Scottish version , sung by the much-missed Jim Ried : https://youtu.be/Wg-RNbXE6YU?si=8gIMp39N55ILztV- |
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01 Feb 24 - 12:42 PM (#4196482) Subject: RE: Origin: Innisvaddie Annie From: leeneia I heard this sung by Margaret Nelson of Phil Cooper & Margaret Nelson. I believe she said it was written by a Scots woman named Helen something. |
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01 Feb 24 - 12:52 PM (#4196483) Subject: RE: Origin: Innisvaddie Annie From: Robert B. Waltz I learned "Up the Noran Water" from Jean Redpath, on "A Fine Song for Singing." The liner notes are minimal, but credit it to H. Cruikshank and J. Reid. I am quite sure that no field collection has ever been printed, although there might be one in some unprinted archive somewhere. |