Origins: Isle of Innisfree (Richard Farrelly)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: ISLE OF INNISFREE
From: GUEST,Gerard Farrelly
Date: 07 Oct 02 - 01:19 PM

Genie

Many thanks for your response Oct.3rd and I certainly would approve of your suggestion.

Both yourself and Noreen are curious as to how "The Isle Of Innisfree" is somehow connected in some quarters with the "Dream Of Alwyn", - I'm afraid I really don't know. I think it started with some midi-files that were made available online by a person named Barry Taylor. He had the wrong title with the wrong melody and he has created an awful mess and a lot of confusion.

All the best.

Subject: RE: ISLE OF INNISFREE
From: Genie
Date: 07 Oct 02 - 06:04 AM

Yeah, that's right -- what Fionn said. That's the ticket!

Subject: RE: ISLE OF INNISFREE
From: Peter K (Fionn)
Date: 06 Oct 02 - 10:50 PM

You're going about this all wrong, fellow Mudcatters.

Focus more on what a rare privilege and honour it is to be invited into this august community. Hint at a lengthy review of each application for membership. Imply that only those with the most exceptional credentials, such as being the progeny of respected songwriters, have any chance of being allowed across the threshold. Etc, etc.

I am sure that such subtlety will be rewarded.

Subject: RE: ISLE OF INNISFREE
From: Alice
Date: 06 Oct 02 - 10:34 PM

And that price is FREE - what could be better than that?

Subject: RE: ISLE OF INNISFREE
From: Genie
Date: 06 Oct 02 - 10:14 PM

Well, we certainly wouldn't mind having more than one Farrelly around Ye Olde Mudcat CafŽ, Majella. You and Carol and Gerard can all join for the price of one membership!

Genie

Subject: RE: ISLE OF INNISFREE
From: GUEST,Guest Majella Farrelly Daughter of Composer
Date: 06 Oct 02 - 06:26 PM

I was absolutely thrilled to bits to learn of this wonderful and very fascinating website. It was from my sister Carol who informed me of same. I feel very honoured and a very big thankyou to all concerned.

Kind regards,
Majella Farrelly {[e-mail]}

Subject: RE: ISLE OF INNISFREE
From: Alice
Date: 06 Oct 02 - 06:16 PM

Please join the Mudcat membership and stay around, Carol and Ger. Membership is free.

Subject: RE: ISLE OF INNISFREE
From: GUEST,Guest Carol Farrelly DAUGHTER OF COMPOSER
Date: 06 Oct 02 - 05:21 PM

Hello to all who have been corresponding on this intriguing website! So glad that my brother Ger discovered it and has clarified the many misconceptions regarding our fathers song. I thought you might be interested to hear what our father had to say himself.

(Extract from interview with DICK FARRELLY on RTE(Radio Telefis Eireann)-Irelands National broadcasting Station)

'I found myself writing this song, "Isle Of Innisfree". The 'Isle Of Innisfree' that I had in my mind was Ireland, another name for Ireland, and that's something people often get mixed up. I liked the sound of the 'The Isle Of Innisfree'. I thought it would make a good song title. It had a poetic 'ring' to it, and immediately thoughts of Ireland and emmigration came to my mind.

The whole song, words and music were composed on that bus. I know that by the time I got to Dublin I had my song-the complete words and music. For me, the "Isle Of Innisfree" is simply Ireland and it was Ireland that I had in mind when I wrote this song about an exiles longing for home.'

Thankyou,
Kind regards to you all,

Carol Farrelly ([e-mail])   

Subject: RE: ISLE OF INNISFREE
From: Peter K (Fionn)
Date: 06 Oct 02 - 12:00 PM

Just a minor point, but in the W B Yeats poem (many posts above) it was lake water, not the water, he heard lapping with low sounds.

Subject: RE: ISLE OF INNISFREE
From: GUEST,amergin using ip
Date: 05 Oct 02 - 09:09 PM

and don't forget to sign up....

Subject: RE: ISLE OF INNISFREE
From: Alice
Date: 05 Oct 02 - 08:55 PM

I just finished listening to that audio clip at Rattlebag... wonderful, touching, ... the end where you describe finding the old suitcase full of his music in the closet really got to me, as well as the subject of exile. Thanks again for giving that link to the audio file. Your wife has a lovely singing voice and it was good to hear the song as you have recorded it at the end.

Alice Flynn

Subject: RE: ISLE OF INNISFREE
From: Alice
Date: 05 Oct 02 - 08:34 PM

Rattlebag, Tuesday June 11 http://www.rte.ie/arts/2002/0611/rattlebag.html

Subject: RE: ISLE OF INNISFREE
From: Alice
Date: 05 Oct 02 - 08:29 PM

Thanks for the additional link, Gerard.

Alice

Subject: RE: ISLE OF INNISFREE
From: GUEST,Gerard Farrelly - SON OF THE COMPOSER
Date: 05 Oct 02 - 12:38 PM

Hello,

I thought I might mention - if you log on to www.rattlebag.com then click on where it says Fast Access, and then go to June 11, you will find a radio documentry about the "Isle Of Innisfree" in which I was interviewed.
You will also here my father talk about the song, this was taken from a previous programme he did some years ago. This Rattlebag programme was broadcast on the Irish national radio station RTE on June 11 last. I think you would find it interesting and enjoyable.

Regards,
Gerard

Subject: RE: ISLE OF INNISFREE
From: Noreen
Date: 03 Oct 02 - 08:46 PM

Thank you, Barry T, I missed your posting while I was playing around getting my links to work...

How did you get involved with Alwyn, then, and is she related to Olwen? :0)

Subject: RE: ISLE OF INNISFREE
From: Noreen
Date: 03 Oct 02 - 08:43 PM

Try this one for The Dream of Olwen

Subject: RE: ISLE OF INNISFREE
From: Noreen
Date: 03 Oct 02 - 08:34 PM

Gerard, perhaps you are also thinking of 'The Dream of Olwen', (From the film "The Way to the Stars") composed by Charles Williams, who also, incidentally, composed the music for 'Dick Barton Special Agent!'

You will no doubt be interested to know that "The Isle Of Innisfree" is indeed known as "The Dream of Alwyn", at least in North America, as the following websites (and many more sites, if you do a Google search) attest:

www.contemplator.com/tunebook/irshmidi.htm

www.worldfolksong.com/songbook/extra/heal.htm

www.racine.ra.it/ungaretti/ireland/music/irshmenu.htm

The question is still, why the connection, as it's obviously a surprise to you, too.

Subject: RE: ISLE OF INNISFREE
From: Barry T
Date: 03 Oct 02 - 08:31 PM

The association of Alwyn with this song is a common phenomenon on the web... the evolution of threaded discussion into substantiated fact. We witnessed the same thing happen to another popular song... Pete St. John's Fields of Athenry, whose lyrics for a time were erroneously tagged to a non-existent traditional tune.

By having sequenced a midi of The Isle of Innisfree I am embarrassed to have been partly responsible for this musical fiction, as my midi spread across the web as some kind of authenticated proof of the traditional tune.

I myself have experienced the wonder of such web metamorphosis. My one and only lyrical creation, An Emigrant's Daughter, became 'Irish traditional' within two years of its creation in 1998!

On the plus side of this experience...
...we now have a complete appreciation of the background of the The Isle of Innisfree and of its author
...we have welcomed a new 'Catter in the form of Gerard
...hundreds of us are singing the tune anew
...the record sales for both Gerard and Carmel Quinn will hopefully increase as a result of our thread!

Now, to reprove my metamorphosis theory I will make mention of the 'fact' that White Christmas is based on an old Gaelic air titled Herding My Goats. Set your stopwatch! ;-)

Subject: Lyr/Authorship Correction: ISLE OF INNISFREE
From: Genie
Date: 03 Oct 02 - 01:13 PM

Gerard, thanks so much for correcting the various misinformation about your father's song.

We need get the attribution corrected in the DT, too, in addition to correcting the lyrics. (I hope you, on behalf of your father, approve of its being there.)

Like Noreen, I am curious as to how your father's tune came to be associated with "Dreams Of Alwyn."

I am very sorry to hear that your father was not duly acknowledged for his song in the credits for "The Quiet Man." It is truly a beautiful song.

And thanks for the link to your website. Do join us here at Mudcat!

Genie

P.S.,
You are right that it used to be common for studios (and sheet music publishers) not to give due credit to songwriters, co-authors, etc. (The man usually credited with sole authorship was named Herman, with a last name something like Hapfeld -- it's on the tip of my tongue. Cole Porter's publishers for "Don't Fence Me In," and the studio that made the movie for which the song was commissioned, would not allow Porter to formally accredit Robert Fletcher, on whose poem the song was based [cf. forum threads on "Don't Fence Me In"]. And if you see sheet music from the musical "Kismet," you will often find "Stranger In Paradise" attributed solely to, I think, Jerome Kern, with no mention of the Russian composer Borodin, from whose "Polovetzian Dance No. 9" the main melody was lifted.)

Subject: RE: ISLE OF INNISFREE
From: GUEST,Airto
Date: 03 Oct 02 - 12:40 PM

A planning consultant I once briefly worked for applied to Sligo County Council for permission to

"... arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made;
Nine bean rows will I have there, a hive for the honeybee,
And live alone in the bee-loud glade".

They turned him down on the grounds that it would be contrary to the proper planning and development of the area.

Subject: RE: ISLE OF INNISFREE
From: GUEST,Gerard Farrelly - SON OF THE COMPOSER
Date: 03 Oct 02 - 11:43 AM

Dear Noreen,

The tune is not known as "The Dream of Alwyn", someone is making a huge mistake here. "The Isle Of Innisfree" and "The Dream Of Alwyn" are two totally different works, written by different composers and at very different times. This can be verified by the Mechanical Copyright Protection Society.

Hi Tim,

My father used the word "Innisfree" as a metaphor for Ireland. He once said in an interview that it was Ireland he had in mind when he wrote the song. In relation to my father not getting a credit in the film, this kind of thing happened a lot then. Very often Hollywood just gave a single credit to the person who orchastrated the musical score. Today as you know, every small piece of music that appears in a movie must by law be credited, usually at the end of the film.

Another great example of this is in the film "Casablanca". The famous song from that film is "As Time Goes By" - again the writer of that song never got a credit. I think it was Bernard Herman who got the only credit for the music, it might have been Max Stiner, I can't remember.
The use of "Isle Of Innisfree" in The Quiet Man was above board and my father has always received his due royalties from the film and recordings of the song. It's just very sad that he was not given his due credit, which is part of the reason why there is so much confusion about the song.

Dear Alice,

Thank you very much for your kind remarks, I will email you soon.


Kind regards to all,
Gerard Farrelly

Subject: RE: ISLE OF INNISFREE
From: Alice
Date: 03 Oct 02 - 10:28 AM

Lyrics page for ISLE OF INNISFREE on the Farrelly web site:
http://www.stoneandfarrelly.com/songs/cd1t2.htm

Subject: RE: ISLE OF INNISFREE
From: Alice
Date: 03 Oct 02 - 10:26 AM

Link to web site for Legacy of a Quiet Man
http://www.stoneandfarrelly.com/

Subject: RE: ISLE OF INNISFREE
From: Alice
Date: 03 Oct 02 - 10:19 AM

Gerard, thank you for posting the information about your father and the true history of the song. Please join the Mudcat membership. I expect that you would have more to share that many here would find of interest. Beautiful song, talented composer, your father.

Alice Flynn in Montana

Subject: RE: ISLE OF INNISFREE
From: Brakn
Date: 03 Oct 02 - 06:30 AM

Ahhhh Getting confused with the classical piece 'Dream of Olwyn Olwen'.

Subject: RE: ISLE OF INNISFREE
From: Brakn
Date: 03 Oct 02 - 06:23 AM

That might have been a hasty post. My mother says that the "Dreams of Alwyn" is a totally different air. So I looked for it on Google and came up with "the Isle of Innishfree". Will ask my mother to play it.

Subject: RE: ISLE OF INNISFREE
From: Brakn
Date: 03 Oct 02 - 06:17 AM

The tune is nothing like the "Dreams of Alwyn".

Subject: RE: ISLE OF INNISFREE
From: Big Tim
Date: 03 Oct 02 - 05:10 AM

Gerard: is Innisfree a real place name then, if not the "Lake Isle", and if so, where is it? Somewher near Kells?

I have Joseph Locke singing it and there it IS credited to "Farrelly". How could the film people use the song without crediting it to the composer, didn't he copyright it?

All the best and thanks,
BT

Subject: RE: ISLE OF INNISFREE
From: Noreen
Date: 02 Oct 02 - 08:09 PM

Thanks for that, Gerard.

Can you explain why the tune is known as "Dreams of Alwyn", please?

Subject: RE: ISLE OF INNISFREE
From: GUEST,Gerard Farrelly - SON OF THE COMPOSER
Date: 02 Oct 02 - 07:57 PM

Gerard Farrelly
Seolta Records
19 Bayview Avenue
North Strand
Dublin 3
EIRE
E-mail [e-mail]

Re: "The Isle Of Innisfree"

I discovered this wonderful website recently and with great interest.

To everyone who has been inquiring about or posting information on the song "Isle Of Innisfree" - theme of John Ford's classic film,"The Quiet Man", please allow me to clarify some issues on the subject.

I am a professional musician, who resides at the above address and I am the son of the composer of this song. My father's name was Richard Farrelly but he was better known all his life as Dick Farrelly and he was a member of An Garda Siochana, (The Irish Police-force). He died in August 1990 at the family home in Churchtown, Dublin. My father wrote the words and music of the "Isle Of Innisfree" in 1949 on a bus journey to Dublin from his hometown of Kells,Co.Meath.
This was his most famous song. It became a huge international hit for Bing Crosby in 1952 and was chosen by John Ford as the theme music for "The Quiet Man", however, neither my father's name nor the title of the song appeared in the production credits. Victor Young was credited with the entire musical score. The publishers of the song are Peter Maurice Music Limited who are now part of EMI Music Publishing.

To find out more about my father and the history of this and other songs he wrote, please visit the website - stoneandfarrelly.com - The website is that of the Irish singer Sinead Stone and myself.

We have recently released our debut album, "Legacy of a Quiet Man", which is a collection of my father's best known songs including the "Isle Of Innisfree"; the CD is available through our website.

Incidentally, my father was not writing about the same place in Co. Sligo that W.B.Yeats wrote about in his poem "Lake Isle Of Innisfree". There is no connection whatsoever between the poem and the song. Also, the song is totally original and is not based on any other work.

I would be delighted to hear from anyone who may be interested in the song, my father, or our CD "Legacy of a Quiet Man". You may e-mail me at the above.

On a personal note - It is a source of great pleasure to both myself and the family that 50 years after my father composed this song and 12 years since his death, that so many people the world over so love his "Innisfree", and are still recording and performing it.

Kind regards,
Gerard Farrelly

PS: The second last line of the song is - "But though they paved the footways here with gold-dust" and not "pave the footpaths".

Subject: Lyr/Chords Add: ISLE OF INNISFREE (Dick Farrelly)
From: Genie
Date: 02 Oct 02 - 07:28 PM

Here are the corrected lyrics, with chords added.  In the DT, the lines of the first chorus are repeated and the last four lines of the second verse are omitted.

Genie
 

ISLE OF INNISFREE
Lyrics: Dick Farrelly, perhaps inspired by "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" by William Butler Yeats; tune: "Dreams of Alwyn"

                       G           G7                   C
I've met some folks who say that I'm a dreamer,
                    D                  D7                      G
And I've no doubt there's truth in what they say,
                   G         G7                 C
But, sure, a body's bound to be a dreamer
                      D             D7               G
When all the things he loves are far away.
                      G             G7                   C
And precious things are dreams unto an exile.
                       D          D7                  G
They take him o'er the land across the sea,
                  G         G7                   C
Especially when it happens he's an exile
                        D       D7             G
From that dear lovely Isle of Innisfree.

                        C                                      G
 And when the moonlight peeps across the rooftops
                     A       A7                         D  D7
 Of this great city, wondrous though it be,
                G         G7                C
 I scarcely feel its wonder or its laughter.
                  D            D7                G
 I'm once again back home in Innisfree.
 

I wander o'er green hills through dreamy valleys
And find a peace no other land could know.
I hear the birds make music fit for angels
And watch the rivers laughing as they flow.
And then into a humble shack I wander,
My dear old home, and tenderly behold
The folks I love around the turf fire gathered.
On bended knees their rosary is told.

 But dreams don't last, though dreams are not forgotten,
 And soon I'm back to stern reality.
 But, though they pave the footpaths here with gold-dust,
 I still would choose my Isle of Innsifree.

Subject: RE: ISLE OF INNISFREE
From: Genie
Date: 02 Oct 02 - 04:41 AM

Thanks for the kind words, Nathan. Come back to the Sunday jams, and we can sing it again. *G*

Genie

Subject: RE: ISLE OF INNISFREE
From: Verna
Date: 01 Oct 02 - 03:52 PM

It is definitely the theme used for the Quiet Man. I have been singing it for about 45 years!! Yes I'm that old!!

For those interested this year throuought the year there is a Quite Man 50th anniversary celebration happening at Cong in Co Mayo where the film was shot.

I have no idea if Olwen or Alwyn is going to be there but I rather doubt it.

All year there have been look alike competitions for participants in the celebrations in Mayo. More information availbale from the Irish Post newspaper published in UK.

Subject: RE: ISLE OF INNISFREE
From: GUEST
Date: 01 Oct 02 - 04:35 AM

Genie is right - there is no connection other than the one word.

Regards

Subject: RE: ISLE OF INNISFREE
From: Genie
Date: 01 Oct 02 - 03:18 AM

Mystery solved (re posting chords in the right position): if you are posting something that contains html code and text, with the html code for line breaks already in your post, UN-CHECK the "Automatic Linebreaks" box before you post!

I also just discovered the wonderful new "Preview" box. That should help us avoid many a screwed up post!

Mudcat just gets better and better!

Genie

PS, Barry, I well remember Carmel Quinn. Wonderful voice! I'm sure she did this song beautifully. And thanks for the info on the lyricist who wrote the words for this song. In previous postings of the lyrics for this song, it says it is based on Yeats's poem, but I really see little resemblance of Farrelly's lyrics to Yeat's words, except for mention of the Isle of Innisfree itself.

Subject: Lyr Add: ISLE OF INNISFREE
From: Genie
Date: 01 Oct 02 - 03:09 AM

Joe, I'm trying this again with the "add line breaks" box UN-checked.  If this comes out screwed up, too, please just delete it.  If not, we will have figured out the source of the problem.

Genie

ISLE OF INNISFREE
From "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" by William Butler Yeats; tune: "Dreams of Alwyn"

I've met some folks who say that I'm a dreamer,
And I've no doubt there's truth in what they say,
But, sure, a body's bound to be a dreamer
When all the things he loves are far away.
And precious things are dreams unto an exile.
They take him o'er the land across the sea,
Especially when it happens he's an exile
From that dear lovely Isle of Innisfree.

 And when the moonlight peeps across the rooftops
 Of this great city, wondrous though it be,
 I scarcely feel its wonder or its laughter.
 I'm once again back home in Innisfree.
 
 
I wander o'er green hills through dreamy valleys
And find a peace no other land could know.
I hear the birds make music fit for angels
And watch the rivers laughing as they flow.
And then into a humble shack I wander,
My dear old home, and tenderly behold
The folks I love around the turf fire gathered.
On bended knees their rosary is told.

But dreams don't last, though dreams are not forgotten,
And soon I'm back to stern reality.
But, though they pave the footpaths here with gold-dust,
I still would choose my Isle of Innsifree.

Subject: RE: ISLE OF INNISHFREE
From: Barry T
Date: 01 Oct 02 - 01:41 AM

The song was written by Dick Farrelly, formerly a Dublin policeman, who died in 1990. As for decent recordings I'd recommend the singer to whom Farrelly passed his new song in or about 1950... Carmel Quinn (www.carmelquinn.com). It was she who made it popular in North America, when she performed it on the Arthur Godfrey Show. Her rendition is superb! (BTW... I was floored to find one of my midis playing in the background when I visited her website! 'Made my day!)

As for Dreams of Alwyn, I recall having quite a discussion with a correspondent who wanted me to sequence the tune. Believing it to be copyrighted, I was reluctant to do so, but she found references to Mr. Farrelly having based his melody on the older, traditional tune. Based on that I sequenced the tune but omitted the lyrics, which are definitely Mr. Farrelly's creation.

I've never been able to find evidence of Dreams of Alwyn since that early discussion (about five years ago) and, quite frankly, I still have doubts as to its existence.

Subject: RE: ISLE OF INNISHFREE
From: Amergin
Date: 30 Sep 02 - 11:26 PM

hmm...wouldn't mind a decent recording of this song....as hearing genie sing it....it is loverly...

Subject: RE: ISLE OF INNISHFREE
From: Joe Offer
Date: 30 Sep 02 - 11:23 PM

Try Barry Taylor's tune for Isle of Innisfree. Genie, who's the songwriter?
-Joe Offer-

Subject: Lyric Correction: ISLE OF INNISHFREE
From: Genie
Date: 30 Sep 02 - 11:19 PM

Sorry. It is lines 17 through 20 which have been omitted in the DT, not lines 13 through 16.

Genie

Subject: RE: Lyr Correction: Add: Isle Of Innisfree
From: Genie
Date: 30 Sep 02 - 10:58 PM

Dang! I used the same technique for posting chords which I usually do (format in Netscape Composer, copy from Source View, and paste into the thread). It's worked reliably in the past, but not today.

And sorry the chords decided to play musical chairs en route to the forum.

Genie

(I wonder if the changes in Mudcat formatting had anything to do with things that used to work not working now. Is it back to the drawing board?)

Subject: Lyr Add: ISLE OF INNISFREE (Richard Farrelly)
From: Genie
Date: 30 Sep 02 - 10:53 PM

The lyrics in to this song in the DT are still wrong. Lines 9 through 12 are repeated, and lines 13 through 16 are omitted. Since I'm posting this as a lyric correction, I went ahead and added omitted punctuation such as the periods at the ends of sentences. I've also put the chords in, just for the heck of it (since I already had it formatted that way in my files).

Genie

ISLE OF INNISFREE
From "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" by William Butler Yeats; tune: "Dreams of Alwyn"

I've met some folks who say that I'm a dreamer,
And I've no doubt there's truth in what they say,
But, sure, a body's bound to be a dreamer
When all the things he loves are far away.

And precious things are dreams unto an exile.
They take him o'er the land across the sea,
Especially when it happens he's an exile
From that dear lovely Isle of Innisfree.

And when the moonlight peeps across the rooftops
Of this great city, wondrous though it be,
I scarcely feel its wonder or its laughter.
I'm once again back home in Innisfree.

I wander o'er green hills through dreamy valleys
And find a peace no other land could know.
I hear the birds make music fit for angels
And watch the rivers laughing as they flow.

And then into a humble shack I wander
My dear old home, and tenderly behold
The folks I love around the turf fire gathered.
On bended knees their rosary is told.

But dreams don't last, though dreams are not forgotten,
And soon I'm back to stern reality.
But, though they pave the footpaths here with gold-dust,
I still would choose my Isle of Innsifree.

Subject: Lyr Add: THE LAKE ISLE OF INNISFREE (Yeats)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 30 Sep 02 - 10:03 PM

We have the MIDI, but I couldn't find the lyrics/poem at Mudcat.
-Joe Offer-

---

THE LAKE ISLE OF INNISFREE
By William Butler Yeats

I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made;
Nine bean rows will I have there, a hive for the honeybee,
And live alone in the bee-loud glade.
And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,
Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;
There midnight's all a-glimmer, and noon a purple glow,
And evening full of the linnet's wings.

I will arise and go now, for always night and day
I hear the water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements gray,
I hear it in the deep heart's core.

1892

Subject: RE: ISLE OF INNISHFREE
From: GUEST,Argenine
Date: 11 Mar 02 - 03:32 AM

Hereis a link to a parody version of the song based on the "Guinness free" idea.

Arge

Subject: RE: ISLE OF INNISHFREE
From: DougR
Date: 08 Mar 02 - 06:16 PM

Sorcha: I'm glad you got your question answered satisfactorily. I tried to download several of those files but could not download a single one of them to Real Player.

DougR

Subject: Dreams of Alwyn/Isle of Innisfree
From: Genie
Date: 08 Mar 02 - 02:11 PM

I meant to change the subject line above, so the thread would link to "Alwyn" and "Innisfree," but I screwed up, so this post will accomplish that.

Genie

Subject: RE: ISLE OF INNISHFREE
From: MMario
Date: 08 Mar 02 - 02:10 PM

genie - they get sent to Joe Offer, or Dick Greenhaus

Subject: RE: ISLE OF INNISHFREE
From: Genie
Date: 08 Mar 02 - 02:04 PM

BTW, the lyrics to "Innisfree" in the DT need correcting. This part of the second verse has been left out:

And then into a humble shack I wander
My dear old home, and tenderly behold
The folks I love around the turf fire gathered
On bended knees their rosary is told.


And the second half of the first verse is repeated, as though it were a chorus or bridge.
I forgot whom I'm supposed to send corrections to--I think it's Jeff or Max, but I'm not sure>

Also, I learned from some of those MIDI sites that the tune is also the tune for "Dreams of Alwyn."

Genie

Subject: RE: ISLE OF INNISHFREE
From: Genie
Date: 08 Mar 02 - 12:22 PM

Thanks, Tiger. Even though I got the tune from the links Jeff posted, I'd love to hear Foster & Allen sing it, so I'll PM you my email address.

Genie

Subject: RE: ISLE OF INNISHFREE
From: Genie
Date: 08 Mar 02 - 12:07 PM

Thanks so much, Jeff! (Love ya forever, ya know!)

Genie §;-)