The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #120038   Message #2609046
Posted By: Gweltas
11-Apr-09 - 01:10 AM
Thread Name: People named in songs
Subject: RE: People named in songs
To Add to the lists :~
Hello Patsy Fagan (from the song by Thomas P Keenan)
Michael Finnegan (who "grew whiskers on his chinigin")
Huw Puw, Dafydd Jones & Captain Llong (from the Welsh song "Fflat Huw Puw")
Bryan O'Lynn (from the song of the same name)
Captain Teare (from Hughie Jones' song "The Ellan Vannin Tragedy")
Illiam Dhone (from the trad Manx song of the same name)
Nicholas Raby (from the trad Manx song "Na Kirree Fo Niaghtey" - "The Sheep Under The Snow")
Eleanor Rigby (Beatles song)
Ben Bolt (from the song by Dr. Thomas Dunn and Nelson Kneass)
Little Jimmy Browne (from the song by Jim Ed Browne called "The Three Bells")
Johnny Murray & Albert Mooney (from the trad Irish song "I'll Tell Me Ma")
Captain Kidd (from the trad song "The Ballad of Captain Kidd")
Willie MacIntosh (from the Scottish song "The Burning of Auchindoun")
Parson Hawker (from Cornish songwriter Mike O'Connor's song "The Tregarten Anthem")

That's it folks! I've run dry, for now. Apologies if I've listed names that have already been posted.

I'm catching the ferry to Ireland tonight to firstly visit with my grand children and to represent Cornwall, along with Tom Paddle, Pol Hodge and Jane Ninnis at the Pan Celtic Festival in Donegal Town (April 14th to 19th). If you are in the area check it out !!
I will be attempting to fill in for Cornwall's well known mistress of song, Moe Keast, who was scheduled to be the main Cornish representative at Pan Celtic 2009 (and who has been a previous winner in the song competitions at this festival) but, she is now unable to travel, due to the very sad loss of her mother, earlier this week. Please spare some kind thoughts and prayers for Moe and her family at this sad time in their lives.

One of the songs I will be singing on Moe's behalf, in competition at the festival, was written by Mudcat's very own singer/ songwriter "Hawker" !! Moe fell in love with this song (a great song, called "Hevva"!) and it is a huge disappointment to all of us that she can't be with us in Ireland to sing it as she had planned.

In conclusion may I wish all of you a really Happy and Music filled Easter, wherever you may be.
Anne XX