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Subject: Lyr Req: Banks of the Callan From: TradFan984 Date: 02 Aug 09 - 11:15 AM Hi Would anyone know the lyrics and/or the origins for the Banks of the Callan. It's an Armagh song and was sung by (I think) Sarah Makem. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Banks of the Callan From: Joe Offer Date: 02 Aug 09 - 09:02 PM This Google Search makes me think the song is quite well-known, but I can't find the lyrics. I'm sure if you watch this thread, somebody will post the song. The most interesting entry was this one (click) from a book called The Companion to Irish Music, by Fintan Vallely:
Theree's a Banks of the Callan CD, a collection of traditional songs from County Armagh. "Banks of the Callan (Keady Town)" has also been recorded by Pat Woods, who calls himself "The Bard of Armagh" (and who apparently has recorded a Jerry Rasmussen song). Also note this:
The area upstream of Armagh has many former linen mills that were built to use the waterpower of the river. There is also a viaduct at Tassagh that once carried the railway line from Armagh to Keady.
-Joe- |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Banks of the Callan From: TradFan984 Date: 04 Aug 09 - 01:28 PM Thanks Joe. I know I did a google search too but couldn't find the lyrics. Thanks for the background info. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Banks of the Callan From: TradFan984 Date: 07 Aug 09 - 01:33 PM Would anyone know where to find the lyrics? Thanks |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Banks of the Callan From: Joe Offer Date: 07 Aug 09 - 10:59 PM Sure seems like somebody would know this song. If you don't get a response in the thread, send a personal message to Martin Ryan (click) and put him on the case. He'd been known to search for years for songs (so have I). -Joe- |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Banks of the Callan From: Peace Date: 07 Aug 09 - 11:03 PM http://www.selectmp3music.com/blackthorn/swift-and-sloe_133299/# Available as a download--price reasonable, imo. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Banks of the Callan From: MartinRyan Date: 10 Aug 09 - 04:11 AM I might get a chance to check out the Traditional Music Archive in Dublin tomorrow... Regards p.s. Joe: it's not so much that I search for years... rather that, with the company I keep (between people and books), I'll almost inevitably fall over a song eventually! |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Banks of the Callan From: GUEST,mrsmac Date: 10 Aug 09 - 07:27 AM This would have been a popular enough song around Armagh at a time - probably the reason why i never learnt it. The 1st verse goes something like As i went a walking one evening in June The black feathered songsters their notes they did tune I spied a fair damsel as the sun it went down on the banks of the Callan near sweet keady town |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Banks of the Callan From: MartinRyan Date: 11 Aug 09 - 08:45 AM Oddly enough, a first pass through the ITMA archive drew a blank. I'm working on it... Regards |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Banks of the Callan From: MartinRyan Date: 12 Aug 09 - 12:49 PM Got it! The song is, in fact, usually called Sweet Keady Town - which I should have realised earlier, given the verse supplied. Words are promised. Regards |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Banks of the Callan From: TradFan984 Date: 13 Aug 09 - 06:10 AM Thanks very much MartinRyan, that's great! It's been a hard song to find the words for and I am really keen to learn it. |
Subject: Lyr Add: BANKS OF THE CALLAN From: GUEST Date: 13 Aug 09 - 09:56 AM As promised, words and notes from a CD by Pat Prunty: _______________________________________________ BANKS OF THE CALLAN As I went a-walking one evening in June For to view the green fields and the meadows in bloom I espied a wee lassie as the streams they ran down On the banks of the Callan near Sweet Keady Town Well I stood in delight while this fair one did sing The hills and the valleys with echo did ring The thrush and the blackbird their notes they did sound For t welcome this fair one to Sweet Keady Town I stepped up to her and I asked her her name I asked her her dwelling and where from she came Young man, she made answer, my dwelling is found On the banks of the Callan near Sweet Keady town Says I my wee lassie if you will agree We will both join in wedlock and married we'll be I'll dress you in rich attire, your joys I will crown On the Banks of the Callan near Sweet Keady Town To marry, to marry kind sir I am too young Like all other young men you have a false flattering tongue And my aged parents, on me they would frown If I go and leave them in Sweet Keady Town Now since you won't marry will you tell me your name You have told me your dwelling and where from you came And some other evening when I'm strolling round I'll chance for to meet you in Sweet Keady Town To praise this wee lassie I feel much inclined She is neat, tall and handsome both comely and fine With hair o'er her shoulders in ringlets hang down I will style her the primrose of all Keady Town To bring to a finish I will now bid adieu To the fields around Keady and Swet Annvale too It's true that I love her, I will make her my bride And we both will be happy on the old Callanside. Words from the handwriting of song collector, Rachel Cornett, deceased, of Moss Road, Darkley – probably written down from the singing of a co-worker in Darkely Mills in 1950's or earlier. ________________________________________________ Posted by Martin Ryan cookie-less___________________________ |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Banks of the Callan From: GUEST Date: 15 Aug 09 - 05:39 PM Thanks very much for posting the lyrics, it's much appreciated. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Banks of the Callan From: GUEST Date: 19 Oct 09 - 04:10 PM If you need the air of the song check out Catherine Grimley (Ulster Scor Champion 2009) singing "The Banks of the Callan" at the Tommy Makem Festival. You can find it on you tube! |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Banks of the Callan From: MartinRyan Date: 05 Nov 09 - 03:15 AM Click here for a link to Catherine Grimley's video. Regards |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Banks of the Callan From: GUEST,Guest Date: 06 Nov 09 - 06:41 AM 2009 Ulster Scór Champion Catherine Grimley from Madden Co Armagh has made the song her own in the past year. Check out her performances on You Tube and also a website all about her: http://catherinegrimley.yolasite.com/ |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Banks of the Callan From: MartinRyan Date: 12 Oct 11 - 10:33 AM Sarah Makem's version has just been reissued on the Musical Traditions set of her songs - as CD1 Track 14. Click here for the sleeve notes and lyrics. Regards |
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