Tanyard/Slaney Side modern recording

Subject: RE: Tanyard/Slaney Side modern recording
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 29 May 21 - 03:15 PM

i remember a man in newfoundland singing it several times. never heard it before or since.. same tune of course as by the liffy side

Subject: RE: Tanyard/Slaney Side modern recording
From: Steve Gardham
Date: 28 May 21 - 11:00 AM

Thanks all
If there are none in the last 5 years I will just use the 3 latest.

Subject: RE: Tanyard/Slaney Side modern recording
From: cnd
Date: 28 May 21 - 12:12 AM

"The Green Fields Of America" recorded the song in 2009 on their eponymous album -- that's the most recent I've found.

Subject: RE: Tanyard/Slaney Side modern recording
From: Steve Gardham
Date: 27 May 21 - 05:22 PM

Hi all
Thanks for these suggestions.
Reinhard, your website is my first port of call and as I said I have sufficient trad singer references.

I am trying to include as up-to-date recordings as possible but where these don't exist I will go back to about 2000.

Clive, snap!

Subject: RE: Tanyard/Slaney Side modern recording
From: Felipa
Date: 26 May 21 - 04:50 PM

Seán Ó Sé Down By the Tanyard Side https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfFkYf_X-wY
lyrics posted below recording:

Down by the Tanyard Side

I am a rambling hero
And by love I am betrayed,
Near to the town of Baltinglass,
There dwells a lovely maid,
She's fairer than Hypatia bright,
And she's free from earthly pride.
She's a darlin' maid, her dwelling place
Is down by the Tanyard side.

Her lovely hair in ringlets rare
Lies on her snow-white neck,
And the tender glances of her eyes
Would save a ship from wreck.
Her two red lips so smiling
And her teeth so pearly white
Would make a man become her slave
Down by the Tanyard side.

I courteously saluted her
And I viewed her o'er and o'er,
And I said, "Are you Aurora bright
Descending here below?"
"Oh, no, kind sir, I'm a maiden poor,"
She modestly replied,
"And I daily labour for my bread
Down by the Tanyard side.'

So for twelve long years I courted
Her till at length we did agree
For to acquaint her parents
And married we would be.
But 'twas then her cruel father
To me proved most unkind
Which makes me sail across the sea
And leave my love behind.

Farewell, my aged parents,
To you I bid adieu.
I'm crossing the main ocean
All for the sake of you.
But whenever I return
I will make her my bride
And I'll roll her in my arms again
Down by the Tanyard side.
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Mick Maloney and others, "The Green Fields of America" group - on Topic records https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8N-KVZFw0I8

Jim McCann (ah, that's why I thought it had been recorded by the Dubliners), Down by the Slaney Side https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LBisuo73lU also Topic Records Lyrics very similar to those given above

artists mentioned by Reinhard can also be heard on youtube

Subject: RE: Tanyard/Slaney Side modern recording
From: Reinhard
Date: 25 May 21 - 09:25 AM

I have these recordings of The Tanyard Side / Roud 1021. More than half of them are traditional singers, only four are more ore less recent ones:

Sam Larner: The Tanyard Side
Cruising Roud Yarmouth (Musical Traditions MTCD369/70, 2014)

Phoebe Smith: The Tan Yard Side
Once I Had a True Love (Topic 12T193, 1970)
My Father's the King of the Gypsies (VotP 11, Topic TSCD661, 1998)

Frank Quinn acc. fiddle: The Tan Yard Side
Who's That at My Bed Window? (VotP 10, Topic TCSD660, 1998)

Tom & Chris Willett: Down by the Tanyard Side
I'm a Romany Rai (VotP 22, Topic TSCD672D, 2012)
A-Swinging Down the Lane (Forest Tracks FT2CD KS1, 2013)
Adieu to Old Ongland (Musical Traditions MTCD261-2, 2013)

Tom & Mary-Ann Willett: The Tanyard Side
A-Swinging Down the Lane (Forest Tracks FT2CD KS1, 2013)

Robbie O'Connell: The Tanyard Side
Irish Songs from Old New England (Folk-Legacy CD-132, 2003)

Jim Causley: Down By the Tan-Yard Side
Fruits of the Earth (WildGoose WGSCD326CD, 2005)

Sam Lee: The Tanyard Side
Ground of Its Own (Noest Collective TNRC001CD, 2012)

Nick Dow: Down by the Tanyard Side
The Devil in the Chest (Old House OHM 808, 2016)

Subject: RE: Tanyard/Slaney Side modern recording
From: GUEST,Clive Pownceby
Date: 25 May 21 - 09:15 AM

Jim Causley did Tanyard Side on his 'Fruits Of The Earth' album though that was in 2005! Is that recent Steve? I'm of an age when I can regard stuff that I think recent, only to find it was in the last century!

Subject: Tanyard/Slaney Side modern recording
From: Steve Gardham
Date: 25 May 21 - 08:55 AM

Hi all,
Anyone know of a recent album recording of Slaney Side or Down by the Tanyard Side? I just need the details from the album. I don't need a copy.
I have plenty of references to traditional singers so I'm just looking for revival singers.

Thanks.