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Thread #170317   Message #4118820
Posted By: Felipa
04-Sep-21 - 11:57 AM
Thread Name: De Dannan song with 'Heng Heng'
Subject: RE: De Dannan song with 'Heng Heng'
not that I recall meself, Meself.
Are you thinking of Bothy Band's Fionnaghuala

https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=1219#5457

Here is another recording of "Horo Haradalda" by Dolores Keane and John Faulkner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TK9CTi3e_z4
Craig Cockburn writes: "The name of this song is "Dance to Your Shadow" words Kenneth Macleod, arranger Marjorie Kennedy-Fraser, tune anonymous and collected in Eigg from Marion Macleod, Kenneth’s elder sister."

As Sung by Christine and Matthew Weir
Horo haradala horo
haradala horo haradal heingi handan.
Dance to your shadow when it's good to be living lad
Dance to your shadow when there's nothing better near x2

Horo haradala horo
haradala horo haradal heingi handan.

I've never thought this song sounds very Scottish; the vocables sound Oriental to me!

Hin hin haradala hin hin haradala hin hin haradal hin haradal ho x2
There are tunes in the River Otter, pools in the river Water
pools in the river, and the river calls him x2

Hin hin haradala hin hin haradala hin hin haradal hin haradal ho x2

Horo haradala horo
haradala horo haradal heingi handan