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Thread #1393   Message #1018544
Posted By: Jim McLean
14-Sep-03 - 07:32 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: The Mist-Covered Mountains of Home
Subject: RE: lyrics wanted: Mist Covered Mountains
For years now the melody for Mist Covered Mountains as posted in these threads and elsewhere has not been the correct melody for Chi Mi na Morbheanna or The Mist Covered Mountains and it's no wonder that many people have found it difficult to sing the words to it. The melody posted is the one I use for Smile in your Sleep (Hush, hush don't cry in your sleep. After a great deal of help from George Seto I managed to get Frank at www.ingeb.org/songs/chiminam.midi to put up the correct tune. NOW you can sing the Gaelic/English words to it and they will scan. The main difference is in the first two lines of the verse but there are small changes elsewhere. I sound the last note of verse and chorus so that the word 'baby' can be sung as two syllables -- a small change but a pointer as to which version of the melody is being used.