Lyr Req: Sound the Pibroich (Makem & Clancy)

Subject: Sound the Pibroich (Makem & Clancy)
From: Norbert
Date: 11 Dec 99 - 05:36 PM

Does anybody know the words and maybe the chords of the song "Sound The Pibroich" sung by Tommy Makem and Liam Clancy All wht Iknow is that it starts with the words: "Sound the pibroich loud and high...." I hope that somebody could help me.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sound the Pibroich (Makem & Clancy)
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 11 Dec 99 - 05:56 PM

Norbert, you've got one letter too many. If you put 'pibroch' in the search box in the top right corner, the song will come up first in the list. Viel Erfolg! - Susanne

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sound the Pibroich (Makem & Clancy)
From: Mary
Date: 11 Dec 99 - 08:34 PM

this is a great song...I heard it originally with the following verse...

there on the barren hills they lie their funeral dirge the eagles cry and mountain breezes o'er them sigh the ones that died for Charlie

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sound the Pibroich (Makem & Clancy)
From: Blackcat2 (home pc)
Date: 11 Dec 99 - 09:56 PM

Terricif song - one of the most powerful Bonnie Prince Charlie songs and the one I use to finish my B.P.C. mini-set.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sound the Pibroich (Makem & Clancy)
From: Murray on Saltspring
Date: 12 Dec 99 - 01:18 AM

SOUND THE PIBROCH LOUD ON HIGH Mrs. Norman Macleod, Snr. In Greig Scots Minstrelsie VI.336 (+ m., "Old Highland Melody"). 5x4 lines + cho. -- English burden: "Rise and follow Charlie". Greig compares the tune (esp. the cho.) to that of "Owre the Muir Amang the Heather". In the Macleod-Boulton Songs of the North I.168, omitting st. 3, "From ev'ry hill and ev'ry glen"; Bayley &Ferguson Lyric Gems, 202, which tells us the last st. ("No more we'll see such deeds again") is by Dr. Norman MacLeod. Cf. John MacDonald's "Ailean Muideartach" in Moffat Minstrelsy of the Scottish Highlands,etc. The chorus is in Gaelic: Tha tighin fodham, fodham, fodham [ter], Tha tighin fodham eirigh(pronounced "Ha cheen fo-am, fo-am, fo-am, Ha cheen fo-am ay-rie"), = "It comes upon me ... to arise [and follow Charlie]." I haven't seen the other stanza quoted.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sound the Pibroich (Makem & Clancy)
From:
Date: 12 Dec 99 - 04:38 AM

Only one problem people. It doesn't refer to the Charlie you are thinking about. At least the original Gaelic song was not. This English one may well be. The original was written in 1715, and would have been about Bonnie Price Charlie's Grand-dad.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sound the Pibroich (Makem & Clancy)
From: John in Brisbane
Date: 12 Dec 99 - 09:12 AM

I have notated this tune recently, but am unaware whether I have submitted to this forum. In any event, given its antiquity, I suspect that Bruce O probably has already done the work. I'll check my files. Regards, John. (My version would have come from Songs Of The North Volume 1.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sound the Pibroich (Makem & Clancy)
From: Murray/ SS
Date: 13 Dec 99 - 01:32 AM

George S: where do you get the 1715 date from?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sound the Pibroich (Makem & Clancy)
From:
Date: 13 Dec 99 - 10:53 AM

I believe it was given in the Gesto Collection.

Will check when I get home.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sound the Pibroich (Makem & Clancy)
From: Blackcat2
Date: 13 Dec 99 - 11:03 AM

I'd be interested in seeing the original Gaelic and any more info you have on it. I assumed that the Clancy Brothers were correct in their info on the song. I realize they could be wrong, but they seem share specific info during their concerts only when their sure.

Actually, that may make an interesting thread - "Are the Clancy Brothers always right (when telling the history of a song)?"

I know I've often wished they would share with their listener the authors or the songs they sing - at least in the liner notes.

hmmmmmmmmmmm

pax yall

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sound the Pibroich (Makem & Clancy)
From: paddymac
Date: 13 Dec 99 - 02:27 PM

Wouldn't it have been great if the Clancey Bros and others of their time had been able to tap in to the resources of the 'Cat?