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03-Jun-99 - 04:09 AM
Thread Name: Lyr req: The Tinker Maid -- sung by Rick Lee
Subject: RE: Lyr req: The Tinker Maid -- sung by Rick Lee
Hi Barbara

Your transcripton is almost perfect. Here's a couple of minor corrections - mostly placenames.

Verse* 1.3 Carrhan Bridge
1.4 Famine mound

8.4 "pallid road" is correct

9.2 yellow furze

13.3 Glenbeigh

16.1 Carhan Bridge

22.1 Keelvarnogue

* The poem was set in verses of eight, four-stress lines. Not that it matters for singing but it means you can claim its "only 11 verses"!

Regards

p.s. I presume the sense of the Autumn verse is of mist hiding the trees from the stars which once she had outshone - or something along those lines.