The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #55594 Message #865466
Posted By: MartinRyan
12-Jan-03 - 06:43 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Finding of Moses / Pharaoh's Daughter
Subject: RE: Finding of Moses / Pharoah's Daughter
Robin
The version in the DT was submitted by me, a long time ago. It's the way I sing it. Frank Harte (and most others) sing "slavey" but I've always felt more comfortable with "skivvy", so to speak. Apart from that, its pretty much as Frank does it.
My earliest memory of the song is from my Boy Scout days which, as John Moulden would confirm, were not today nor yesterday! I believe that version, with a simpler tune than the one now common, is still around.
Regards
p.s. There was a lovely clip on television the other night in which Dominic Behan sang a parody of "Galway Bay" based on an early suburb of Dublin called Kimmage, to which his family were banished from their inner city home. The final verse went, roughly,:
Ah but maybe someday I'll go back to Kimmage
If only at the closing of my mind
For to see the childer beating up their granny
Or picking on the crippled and the blind!"