De Dannan song with 'Heng Heng'

Subject: De Dannan song with 'Heng Heng'
From: GUEST,Michal Weintraub
Date: 04 Sep 21 - 08:06 AM

De Dannan had a song, almost a cappella, something with water, with a recurring "Heng Heng". If I remember correctly, it was in English.
Rings a bell with anyone?

Would be grateful

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Subject: RE: De Dannan song with 'Heng Heng'
From: GUEST,Peter Laban
Date: 04 Sep 21 - 09:07 AM

You may be thinking of Dolores Keane's mouthmusic. Not sure though she recorded it with Dedannan though although she may have done it in concert with them. It's on one of her older recordings.

Subject: RE: De Dannan song with 'Heng Heng'
From: Felipa
Date: 04 Sep 21 - 10:39 AM

I thought the same as Peter. Dolores Keane and John Faulkner. Now that I've found a recording to listen to it again, I'm sure that's what Michal is looking for
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YKWXJyrZGg

Has anyone emailed him?

Subject: RE: De Dannan song with 'Heng Heng'
From: meself
Date: 04 Sep 21 - 11:14 AM

Didn't the Bothy Band record a version of this? Or ... was it DeDannan? One of the bands of that ilk did, back in the '70s ....

Subject: RE: De Dannan song with 'Heng Heng'
From: Felipa
Date: 04 Sep 21 - 11:57 AM

not that I recall meself, Meself.
Are you thinking of Bothy Band's Fionnaghuala

https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=1219#5457

Here is another recording of "Horo Haradalda" by Dolores Keane and John Faulkner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TK9CTi3e_z4
Craig Cockburn writes: "The name of this song is "Dance to Your Shadow" words Kenneth Macleod, arranger Marjorie Kennedy-Fraser, tune anonymous and collected in Eigg from Marion Macleod, Kenneth’s elder sister."

As Sung by Christine and Matthew Weir
Horo haradala horo
haradala horo haradal heingi handan.
Dance to your shadow when it's good to be living lad
Dance to your shadow when there's nothing better near x2

Horo haradala horo
haradala horo haradal heingi handan.

I've never thought this song sounds very Scottish; the vocables sound Oriental to me!

Hin hin haradala hin hin haradala hin hin haradal hin haradal ho x2
There are tunes in the River Otter, pools in the river Water
pools in the river, and the river calls him x2

Hin hin haradala hin hin haradala hin hin haradal hin haradal ho x2

Horo haradala horo
haradala horo haradal heingi handan

Subject: RE: De Dannan song with 'Heng Heng'
From: Felipa
Date: 04 Sep 21 - 11:58 AM

lyrics, including Gaelic lyrics were posted on Mudcat in the past
Dance to your Shadow

Subject: RE: De Dannan song with 'Heng Heng'
From: meself
Date: 04 Sep 21 - 03:45 PM

You're right; that's the one I was thinking of. But I am familiar with this one from someone's recording, of that era ....

Subject: RE: De Dannan song with 'Heng Heng'
From: GUEST,M'bozza Ritchie
Date: 04 Sep 21 - 03:51 PM

When Dolores and John Faulkner recorded this, the band was called "The Reel Union". It's on the recording "Broken Hearted I'll Wander".
Nothing at all to do with the Bothy Band, nor De Danann.

https://youtu.be/b6eil0vnSvg

Subject: RE: De Dannan song with 'Heng Heng'
From: GUEST,Michal Weintraub, the originator
Date: 05 Sep 21 - 11:48 AM

People, thank you! You are the bestest! The earworm identified, can listen/see Dolores & hubby anytime, my soul is peaceful

Thank you again!

Michal in Sweden.