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Thread #51813   Message #790966
Posted By: Kim C
25-Sep-02 - 10:22 AM
Thread Name: Help: The Foggy Dew (Fr. O'Neill): tune?
Subject: Foggy Dew (1916) Tune
I couldn't get SuperSearch to work this morning! Anyway, I was watching Ken Burns' Civil War, and heard a tune that was almost exactly like the Foggy Dew melody (that would be the Easter Uprising of 1916 Foggy Dew, not the Burl Ives one). The only difference was, it was in waltz time, and the chorus part was a little different.

As I understand it, the words were written by Francis O'Neill, who was a tune collector himself. Was this an older tune he had collected? What is it? Any ideas?

Thanks -------------- KFC