The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #40011   Message #570687
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
12-Oct-01 - 02:23 PM
Thread Name: Lyr/Chords Req: The Hare of Kilgrain
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: The Hare of Kilgrain
Most of us have done that in our time, MudWeasel!  Hare songs are always popular round here, so if you and/or Old Brown's Daughter could post Kilgrain, I'm sure it would be appreciated.

Returning for a moment to Terry Woods' Greenmore, it can be a difficult line to tread between transcribing what somebody actually sings and what they probably ought to have sung; in the case of a traditional singer you have to go for a completely faithful transcription, but in the case of a Revival singer (I'd tend to put Terry in that camp) it's a grey area.  Black and bright is a bit silly; brown and bright is still a bit odd, but though it isn't what he sang, I don't doubt that it should have been.  Joe Toner probably is what he was singing; as Derrymacash says, that Venusian accent is the devil to make out sometimes, and I didn't touch the DT text there because I couldn't tell the difference.  Wheat stubble is obviously what he should have sung; the same may go for ride, though the Dervish set apparently has sight, which is another possibility.  I should have mentioned that other versions have Boys of May Down in the first verse, and it's not impossible that Terry actually intended to sing that...