Lyr Req: The Drunken Piper

Subject: The Drunken Piper
From: skarpi Iceland
Date: 13 Jul 99 - 08:40 AM

Hallo everyone, does enyone have the lyric of the deunken piper? if so let me know. bless skarpi Iceland

Subject: RE: The Drunken Piper
From: skarpi Iceland
Date: 13 Jul 99 - 08:41 AM

Arrrrrrrrrg it is drunken piper. soory. skarpi Iceland

Subject: RE: The Drunken Piper
From: Jeri
Date: 13 Jul 99 - 09:41 AM

Don't know about lyrics, but there's an abc at this place
Joe-does this beat your record?

Subject: RE: The Drunken Piper
From: Jeri
Date: 13 Jul 99 - 09:56 AM

Just to explain, I've never known this tune to have words. Have you heard someone sing a song called "The Drunken Piper?" Do you remember any of it?

(Joe, I don't think you have to worry about the record - it only counts if you provide an answer.)

Subject: RE: The Drunken Piper
From: MMario
Date: 13 Jul 99 - 10:07 AM

I don't remember any one ever singing "The drunken Piper" but I DO seem to recall someone singing a song TO the tune. Just wish the Almost-hiemer's would let up enough for me to remember what it was....

Subject: RE: The Drunken Piper
From: Mbo
Date: 13 Jul 99 - 07:29 PM

You're probably thinking of Natalie MacMaster & Cookie Rankin's duet "The Drunken Piper" which is a tune set containing the tunes "The Drunken Piper," "The Primrose Lasses" and "Father John Angus Rankin" which Natalie plays on her fiddle and THE SCOTS GAELIC SONG "Far Am Bi Mi Fhin" which Cookie sings. You can get the lyrics to "Far Am Bi Mi Fhin" at: www.geocities.com/Area51/Zone/6338/far_am.html

Subject: RE: The Drunken Piper
From: Dale Rose
Date: 13 Jul 99 - 07:53 PM

Just what I was going to say, but I figured George would beat us all to the answer. (That's his website)

For a recording, check out Natalie's No Boundaries CD, Warner Canada 15697, 1996. Also available in the US on Rounder and on various other labels in the rest of the world.

Subject: RE: The Drunken Piper
From: MMario
Date: 13 Jul 99 - 08:48 PM

nope - this woulda been a live performance - at georgia or KRF ren-faires....cuz I remember what I was wearing...and it was definately a folky type song to the tune of drunken piper.

Subject: RE: The Drunken Piper
From:
Date: 13 Jul 99 - 11:38 PM

Thanks Dale and Mbo. I would have, except I was at the Fiddles of the World Festival all day.

I am not sure if I've ever come across an English song of that title. I will ask of some pipers to see if they know anything of one.

Subject: RE: The Drunken Piper
From: HåvardR
Date: 14 Jul 99 - 06:27 AM

I've heard a drunken piper. That, however, was outside my flat in Edinburgh's Cowgate, 4.am in the morning, playing "Flowers of Scotland" (and just barely out of reach of my bucket of water)

Håvard