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Thread #60202   Message #964253
Posted By: Rara Avis
08-Jun-03 - 08:49 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Welsh and Manx songs
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Welsh and Manx songs
The liner notes of Past Times' Celtic Airs and Ballads indicate that the English words for Nee Callinyn Roie were "If young women were hares on the mountain..." That sounds remarkably like "Blackbirds and Thrushes". Check out the Niamh Parsons CD of the same name. The tune is different, though.