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Thread #18991   Message #2012261
Posted By: Artful Codger
30-Mar-07 - 09:03 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req/Add: The Cocks Are Crowing
Subject: Tune Add: THE COCKS ARE CROWING
Eddie Butcher's 1966 EP "Adam in Paradise", which included "The Cocks Are Crowing", was apparently reissued on CD in 2006. This reissue contains a booklet which reportedly includes the full lyrics to the four songs on the album.

Does anyone have this CD? Or the original EP? If so, could you please post the lyrics from the booklet, or note differences from what Barbara transcribed?

Also, shouldn't the place name be Killybawn/Killybane, a townland in Fermanagh, Northern Ireland?

Here's an ABC of the melody, which I transcribed from a short sound clip of the Voice Squad:

X:1
T:The Cocks Are Crowing
L:1/8
M:3/4
Q:1/4=90
K:E
B,B,E |E3 E/F/ GA|F>E DC B,E|E2 GB cc |B3 B eB|
c2 Bc E/F/G/F/|E2 C3 c| [M:2/4] [L:1/8] B3 G/F/| [M:3/4] E>C B,C EF|E3|]