Lyr Req: Red Roses for Me (Sean O'Casey)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Skarpi needs help ' Red Roses For Me
From: skarpi
Date: 29 Jul 06 - 03:00 PM

B.C.D yes I have interest plese do both in Gealic and English


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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Skarpi needs help ' Red Roses For Me '
From: An Buachaill Caol Dubh
Date: 29 Jul 06 - 10:47 AM

Dear Skarpi,

Further to the information provided by ?"Master" McGrath, the air chosen by O'Casey for these verses is "Eamonn a Chnuic", or "Ned of the Hill", a song made by a Seventeeth-Century "ropari"/"raparee" Edmond Ryan, from Tipperary. He was one of those Gaelic gentlemen who took to the hills in order to resist the English occupation of their country, and is named "Edmund Knock Ryan" in one warrant for his arrest. "Knock" is an English phonetic approximation to the Irish "chnuic", a hill (hence "Ned of the Hill"). I've got a version in English of some of this song, as well as a nineteenth-century set of verses to the same air, if you're interested (I don't know if either is already in the Mudcat directory, but that would be easily checked).

mise le meas,

B.C.D.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Skarpi needs help ' Red Roses For Me
From: skarpi
Date: 28 Jul 06 - 07:42 PM

Thank you McGrath, for this ...

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Subject: Lyr Add: RED ROSES FOR ME (Sean O'Casey)
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 28 Jul 06 - 07:32 PM

By Sean O'Casey from a play of the same name. It's been recorded by a fair number of singers. Great song. Not a bad play either.

Here are the words from this site, which has a lot of Dubliners lyrics on it.

RED ROSES FOR ME
Sean O`Casey

A sober black shawl hides her body entirely
Touched by the sun and the salt spray of the sea
But down in the darkness a slim hand so lovely
Carries a rich bunch of red roses for me

Her petticoat simple and her feet are but bare
And all that she has is but neat and scanty
But stars in the deep of her eyes are exclaiming
I carry a rich bunch of red roses for thee

No arrogant gem sits enthroned on her forehead
Or swings from a white ear for all men to see
But jewelled desire in a bosom so pearly
Carries a rich bunch of red roses for me

Subject: Lyr Req: Skarpi needs help ' Red Roses For Me '
From: skarpi
Date: 28 Jul 06 - 07:00 PM

hi all this is a music weekend ,

I have looking around for a lyric called " Red Roses For Me "
its on a cd with RONNIE DREW called the HUMOR IS ON MY NOW

so if some one can help ? many thanks

All the best Skarpi Iceland