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Lyr Req: When Irish Eyes Are Smiling
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WHEN IRISH EYES ARE SMILING
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Lyr Add: When Irish Eyes Are Smiling (11)
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Lyr Req: When Irish Eyes Are Smiling DigiTrad: WHEN IRISH EYES ARE SMILING Related thread: Lyr Add: When Irish Eyes Are Smiling (11) |
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Subject: help need lyrics From: gravsfam@mcn.org Date: 28 Feb 98 - 11:29 AM doing saint paddys day gig need lyrics to when irish eyes are shining thanks |
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Subject: RE: help need lyrics From: Alice Date: 28 Feb 98 - 12:29 PM I emailed DT search instructions, so I hope they find it. |
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Subject: RE: help need lyrics From: Joe Offer Date: 28 Feb 98 - 12:48 PM I don't think "Irish Eyes" is in the database. I had to look around quite a bit to find it, and I finally discovered you can get it at Jen's Lyric Underground in New Zealand. You have to request it, and then I think it comes back to you by e-mail. By the way, the featured song at Jen's this week is "Old Man Atom," with lyrics kindly donated by Oldtimer, who says it was recorded by the Sons of the Pioneers. I thought that song was moderately radical, the kind of song that would get you blacklisted in the 50's. the only recording of the song that I've heard was by Sam Hinton, who DID get blacklisted. Hmmm. Seems like I've heard that name "Oldtimer" somewhere before.... -Joe Offer- |
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Subject: When Irish Eyes are Smiling From: Joe Offer Date: 28 Feb 98 - 12:57 PM Here is a link to the lyrics and MIDI. Who could ask for more? I found the lyrics at this site and another. both say "like a morning spring," and my songbook says "like a morn in spring," which makes more sense. Although it ain't what I'd call folk, here are the lyrics: When Irish Eyes Are Smiling -Joe Offer- |
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Subject: Lyr Add: WHEN IRISH EYES ARE SMILING (Olcott...) From: Ralph Butts Date: 28 Feb 98 - 01:11 PM Here's the whole thing - took me forever to find it, so it's great to share. Interestingly, Chauncy Olcott also did lyric and music for "My Wild Irish Rose" and collaborated on "Mother Machree", all about the same time.--Tiger
From the sheet music at Mississippi State University:
1. There's a tear in your eye,
CHORUS: When Irish eyes are smiling,
2. For your smile is a part |
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Subject: When Irish eyes Are Smiling From: Joe Offer Date: 28 Feb 98 - 01:19 PM Seems like every time I see a request for a song and start grumbling about it not being a folk song, somebody like Tiger comes and posts lyrics like this that nobody could ever find, anywhere. Now that we have the song in complete form, I think it should be included in the database. Hey, Dick, how 'bout it? -Joe Offer- |
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Subject: RE: help need lyrics From: dick greenhaus Date: 28 Feb 98 - 03:58 PM Twice yearly, we add 300 or more lyrics to the DT. The Mudcat Forum is one of our prime sources, though far from the only one. If a posted song doesn't make it in any particular edition, its likely because a) we're trying to keep each update fairly balanced, with respect to type of song, or b) because we don't have the tune. The DT started out as words only; when we started including melodies, we attempted to have tounes for at least half the new songs, and preferable at least two-thirds of them, so that the overall proportion of sings with tunes would steadily increase. As of October, we have 6800 lyrics and tunes for 3800 of them. Re. Irish Eyes, I happen to know the tune, and it will probably wind up in our Spring 98 edition. Jest so's you know. |
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Subject: Tune Add: WHEN IRISH EYES ARE SMILING From: Joe Offer Date: 01 Mar 98 - 03:24 AM Well, I found the tune in a Dover songbook, Dick. I gotta say something for Dover - they've saved a lot of wonderful old music with their reprints. Here's the tune. Yeah, I know the ABC is weird. Alan's working on it. -Joe Offer- MIDI file: WHENIR~1.MID Timebase: 192 Name: When Irish Eyes Are Smiling This program is worth the effort of learning it. To download the January 15 MIDItext 98 software and get instructions on how to use it click here ABC format: X:1
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