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Lyr Req: various songs (mostly Irish)
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Subject: Please help me From: Camilla Date: 25 Apr 99 - 11:16 PM I have been looking for lyrics for those songs, but I couldn't find them anywhere: "The Shores of Lough Bran" "The Cliffs of Moher" "The Hills of Sweet Mayo" Could anyone help me with the lyrics? Another question: I heard this song once in a pub in Ireland and don't know the name of it. I only remember two lines of it, and they goes something like this:
.................... ...Never more my green valley to see.." Please help me... Camilla
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Subject: RE: Please help me From: Rick Fielding Date: 25 Apr 99 - 11:43 PM Hi Camilla, excuse the joke in your other thread. "Mona" is Ewan MacColl and my friend Glen Reid wrote "My Green Valleys". I've asked him to post it. |
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Subject: RE: Please help me From: Joe Offer Date: 26 Apr 99 - 01:01 AM Well, Camilla, I think maybe I found one - enter [lovely Johnny] in the search box on this page, and you'll come up wiht several songs with that phrase (but not that title - titles are deceiving). Can't find any of the others - you pose some good puzzlers. Here's Lifeboat Mona -Joe Offer |
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Subject: RE: Please help me From: Brakn Date: 26 Apr 99 - 04:13 AM For Lough Bran previous requestLough Bran Mick Bracken |
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Subject: Johnny / Courting pleasure From: Philippa Date: 27 Apr 99 - 12:10 PM sorry to be so tantalising, Joe, but the song Mick posted does indeed have a lovely air. I sing it starting with another verse: The high walls of Derry are distant and grey So is lovely Johnny he has gone far away He is gone to South[far] America [he is gone to bonny Scotland] some sweetheart to see May the high powers above bring him safe home to me I question the virtue of remaining true to deceiving Johnny, but I usually sing the verse about the blue ribbons and forget-me-nots as I learned it. I don't remember who I heard it from but the song's common enough in singing circles in the north of Ireland. I think the song is published in a compilation by Robin Morton (a Boys of the Lough founder) and that Ann Brolly sings it (?). I know this song by the title "The High Walls of Derry". The song I thought of when I saw Camilla's request IS in the database THE BANTRY GIRLS LAMENT I have slightly different words, such as "Johnny's gone a thrashing the dirty king of Spain". Dolores Keane, Máire Ní Chathasaigh and Jimmy Crowley all sing that one. which, if any, of these songs meets your requirements Camilla? Don't forget the other [lovely Johnny]entries in the database. Courtin's a Pleasure is another problematic title - "Courting's a pleasure but parting's a grief/A false hearted lover is worse than a thief" or "Courting is a pleasure between my love and I...." I can't recall the next line of the second song, a version of handsome Molly with lines such as "drink thee of the cup, love, leave the bottom unto me/For there's wagers made and money laid that married we ne'er shall be" recorded by Kevin Mitchell. I leave the obligatory lecture on thread titles and contents to A. Nother. |
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Subject: RE: Please help me From: Brakn Date: 27 Apr 99 - 01:54 PM Philippa, what is the air? Mick Bracken |
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Subject: RE: Please help me From: Bev Lawton Date: 28 Apr 99 - 09:11 AM Nic Jones recorded (possibly wrote) Courting is a Pleasure. Bev Lawton |
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Subject: RE: Please help me From: Wolfgang Date: 28 Apr 99 - 11:47 AM Camilla, I only know Cliffs of Moher as an instrumental (in the realm of music, I mean), how about Cliffs of Doneen (a long shot) in the DT? Wolfgang |
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Subject: RE: Please help me From: Wolfgang Date: 28 Apr 99 - 11:59 AM well, I found one 'Cliffs of Moher'. Can't believe you mean this bit, but just in case look there Wolfgang |
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Subject: RE: Please help me From: John Wood Date: 30 Apr 99 - 07:47 PM Hi Camilla. I think I can help you with a couple of the songs you requested. ``Shores of Lough Bran.´´ I've got a tape with that one on.Tape's called ``All the best from Ireland´´ 49 Great Irish Tracks,and it's played by De Dannen.I have a copy of the words ,but I,m not quite sure how I can send them-----(new machine and I'm not certain which buttons to push!!). The other song is ``Courting is a pleasure´´´ I've got that one on a CD called ``Phoenix´´by the group ``Any Old Time´´(Matt Cranitch,Mick Daly,Dave Hennessy).Sean Keane also has a very good version,but he calls it ``Meeting is a pleasure´´(that one's on his ``Turn a Phase´´album.I have the texts to both versions, but.......these buttons,these buttons!! I'll have to get back to you soon as I get my act together. P.S.The song is also known uder the title ``Loverly Molly´´ Greetings John from Norway. |
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Subject: Lyr Add: COURTING IS A PLEASURE / LOVELY MOLLY^^ From: John Wood Date: 05 May 99 - 05:05 PM Hi Camilla.Here's the text to: Courting is a Pleasure(Lovely Molly). Courting is a pleasure between my love and I, And it's down in yonder valley I'll meet her by and by It's down in yonder valley she is my hearts delight And it's with you lovely Molly I would stay 'til the broad daylight. < I first produce a bottle and held it in my hand Saying here's to you my lovely Molly for our courtship is at an end. So raise your glass lovely Molly,leave the bottom dry to me For there are ten guineas wagered that married we ne'er shall be. While going to church last Sunday my love she passed me by, I knew her mind was changing by the roving of her eye, I knew her mind was altered to a man of high degree And it's Molly,lovely Molly your looks have wounded me. Never court a wee lassie with a dark and a roving eye Just kiss her and caress her, never tell her the reason why, Just kiss her and caress her,it will cause her heart to yeild, For a faint-hearted soldier never gained the battlefield. Oh I wish I was in London,in Kilburn or in Camden Town I would call for liquor of the best and I'd pay my money down, I'd call for the finest liquor and I'd pay before I would go And I'd roll my Molly in my arms let the wind blow high or low. Fare thee well Tipperary and likewise farewell Mayo, For a thousand times my lovely Molly wherever you may go, America is far away across the ocean blue, But it's there I'd go my lovely Molly and again would I ne'er see you. This is the version by ``Any Old Time´´.Sean Keane's version is very similar,except he calls it ``Meeting Is A Pleasure´´,and he leaves out verse 5. Greetings John. |
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Subject: RE: Please help me From: BeauDangles Date: 24 Aug 99 - 05:26 PM Hi Camilla, I know Johnny Lovely Johnny from the singing of Dolores Keane. You will find it (with the High Walls of Derry verse) onone of the finest traditional recordings I have ever heard, Broken Hearted I Will Wander by Dolores Kean and John Faulkner. Every track on that recording is a flawless gem, even if it did take me ten years to understand all of the lyrics. On this song in particular, for the line "with my white apron round us" I would sing "with my white hair pulled round us" ! There is also a very good piece of Lowland Scots mouoth music, which I still can't figure out what they are singing! Any help out there. I may start a new thread..... Beau |
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Subject: Lyr Add: SHORES OF LOCH BRAN (from Dolores Keane) From: Richard Adrianowicz (San Francisco) Date: 24 Aug 99 - 07:05 PM I believe one of the songs you want is "The Shores of Loch Bran". It was recorded by Dolores Keane. THE SHORES OF LOCH BRAN Dolores Keane Sit you down, loyal comrades Sit you down for awhile 'Til I spend my last hours Around Erin's green isle Come fill up your glasses And we'll drink hand in hand For tomorrow I'll be leavin' The shores of Logh Bran There's my father and mother You can now hear them cry With their tears, be willin' Would moisten your eye But I will assist them Please, God, if I can Far away from lovely Erin And the shores of Loch Bran In the end, come in mourning I will bid you adieu To (Lithra, Drum Shamble) And sweet Kerry too But no matter what fortune I might make far away My thoughts shall be with you By night and by day My thoughts shall be with you While ice course is spanned Far away from lovely Erin And the shores of Loch Bran Note: Words in parentheses are ones I couldn't quite make out. |
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Subject: High Walls of Derry From: Philippa Date: 04 Sep 99 - 07:06 PM Thanks Alison. Several lyrics on on this thread. Most of the words for the song which goes with this tune were posted by Mick Bracken on 26 Apr and I added a verse the following day. |
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Subject: RE: Please help me From: Jeremiah McCaw Date: 05 Sep 99 - 11:24 AM "My Green Valleys" Glen's computer is often eccentric. If he doesn't get a chance to post it, I'll do so myself once I've had a chance to sit down and transcribe the lyrics. Glen actually gave me a tape with 3 recordings of it; one by him, one with "Brannigan's Boys" and one by the "Irish Rovers" (on their 25th anniversary album, or silver anniversary album - think there were 2 such albums). I understand the "Wolftones" have recorded it as well. Guess I'd better get my tail in gear and learn the darned song! |
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Subject: Lyr Add: MY GREEN VALLEYS (Glen Reid)^^ From: Jeremiah McCaw Date: 06 Sep 99 - 02:54 AM Here it be ... MY GREEN VALLEYS Glen Reid Oh the seagulls are callin' and the wind is in the sails And she's fast moving out to the sea On a ship bound for St. Johns three thousand miles away A human cargo: my comrades and me It hurts me to think of the things I left behind 'Though the famine has blackened the land And to look now for something that I may never find It's a problem that's now close at hand chorus: Fare thee well, green valleys, God keep you the same If only in my mind you'll be I'm sailing dark waters for far Amerakay And never more my green valleys to see There's a fever a-ragin' and the winds have died away And our journey may no longer be 'Though the plague is a shadow that lingers night and day Warmer thoughts of green valleys I see chorus twice and repeat last line Lyrisc posted by Glen here (click) Added to DT. |
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Subject: RE: Please help me From: Jeremiah McCaw Date: 06 Sep 99 - 03:00 AM Phooey! And I thought I had the line breaks figured out. I occurs to me to ask, does anyone have a copy of Glen Reid's album "Hard Rock Miner". It's long out of circulation, and I don't think even Glen has a copy of the cassette around anymore. If anyone has such a beastie, I would love to make a copy thereof (and never fear, I'll get Glen his share, this being an infringement-free zone) |
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Subject: RE: Please help me - various songs From: GUEST Date: 11 Feb 04 - 04:19 PM |
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Subject: RE: Please help me - various songs From: Joe Offer Date: 11 Feb 04 - 04:32 PM I think I'll close this thread and copy the songs into separate threads. Threads discussing multiple songs can be devastatingly confusing. -Joe Offer- |
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