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Thread #70511   Message #1211326
Posted By: GUEST
21-Jun-04 - 07:12 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Long Mor na Burcac
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Long Mor na Burcac
On the CD "Irlande, héritage gaélique et traditions du Connemara" :
- the first song, "For Ireland, I'll not tell her name" is available on the thread "For Ireland, I'd not tell her name", proposed by Philippa on 26/04/99;
- the last one, "Green valley" is not corresponding to the proposals of Philippa (10/06/04) and Brian (11/06/04), the comments on this song, I can find in the inlay, is : "C. Lawrence, the woman who sings this love song, deserves special mention, for she is a tinker and this song was recorded in her caravan. Her life is very like that of Gypsy's - fortune telling, basketwork, rambling - but there the comparison must end. Driven out of Ireland by the English, the people who were to be known as Tinkers came back to their country penniless and had to keep on the move. Poverty and wandering remain their way of life to this day."
- the fourth song, "Cailin an Cuil Carbaoi" looks like the proposal of Fear Faire (11/06/04) but, as far as I can understand, there are some differences; here are the comments in the inlay : "Mrs. Mary Mullen, Mr. O'Soole's daughter - her black shawl on her shoulders, her eyes looking deep into the fire - sings a long tale about the Carbaoi family's daughter.
- the comments on the second song, "Long Mor na Burcac" are : "The relationship of man to sea is a recurrent sean-nos theme. Singing in a lamp-lighted cottage with his daughter and her children next to him, Martin O'Soole forgets the lyrics to the last two verses".