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Thread #162053   Message #3855990
Posted By: GUEST,Texas Jodler
20-May-17 - 12:25 AM
Thread Name: Origins: What Will We Do? (Silly Sisters)
Subject: RE: Origins: What Will We Do? (Silly Sisters)
Thanks for posting such and imaginative cobbling together of various bits of songs I recall from the 1950s etc, Irish local carants, if you happen to know what I am talking about.

There used be loads of those back in the pre-recording era when house dancing was popular in Ireland, and it appears little of that survived, as the above mixup clearly shows.

For example, of several there are two carants, equally collectable if I publish, of note. The first goes with the Irish Jig 'The Connaughtman's Rambles', a farmer family ditty about a house dance in an Irish townland of the early 1900s; the other one is an Irish Tinker's lament about being moved on by the Police, or the Guards as they have it, appearing to be from the post WW2 era.

To be perfectly honest, and out of respect for the good native Irish people that shared these, and the carant ' The Frost Is All Over' I do not think it right to publish. Perfectly in line with native Irish today closing the door to outsiders to their folk tradition because of downright theft of tunes/songs/ etc etc.

But thanks for asking.