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Thread #128456   Message #2882112
Posted By: GUEST,leeneia
08-Apr-10 - 10:28 AM
Thread Name: Chord Req: Joy of My Heart (Tannahill Weavers)
Subject: RE: Chord Req: 'Joy of My Heart' as byTannahill Weaver
What a coincidence. Last night I reached into my cassette tapes and pulled out a tape called 'The Sound of Mull' by a group by the same name. I bought it in Scotland in 1995.

That tape has a song called:

Eilean Mo Cridh, Muile Ghradhach

which they translate as 'Joy of my heart, Isle of Mull.'

I know just enough to say that:

Eilean = island
mo = my
cridh = heart.

and I bet Muile = Mull. The group is from Mull, so they ought to know, right?

It is a charming tune in 3/4. Does that sound like the same tune as the T. Weavers number? (I find it hard to picture them doing a charming tune in 3/4.)

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Does anybody know what 'Ghradhach' means?