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Thread #154143   Message #3614028
Posted By: Jim Carroll
31-Mar-14 - 01:09 PM
Thread Name: The Foggy Dew [O'Neil]
Subject: RE: The Foggy Dew [O'Neil]
And yet another Foggy Dew
Jim Carroll

Foggy Dew (Old Irish version) Junior Crehan
This song was written by Alfred Percival Graves and published in 'Irish Songs and Ballads in 1880. Junior says he learned it when he was at school
It has nothing whatever to do with the erotic English song of the same name or the Irish song celebrating Easter Week 1916.
it is highly likely that the attributed author of the Easter Week 'Foggy Dew', Canon Charles O'Neill (1887-1963), borrowed 'Graves' evocative title as a 'calm before the storm' scene-setter. The English title is said to be a corruption of 'buggaboo', the old term for the ghost that the gullible young woman is invited to hide from, under the young man's blankets.