Mis-heard session tune titles.

Subject: RE: Mis-heard session tune titles.
From: Ebbie
Date: 21 Sep 04 - 01:05 AM

"when a Canadian female fiddle playing friend of mine innocently requested the planxty "fanny power" at a session in Edinburgh all the guys gave her a hard time about it as fanny has a rather different meaning in the uk. She never asked for it again. cheers. Petr "

Petr, has the meaning evolved markedly since the 17th century? Or did Turlough O'Carolan have a different name for the tune originally?

Subject: RE: Mis-heard session tune titles.
From: GUEST,Gigix
Date: 21 Sep 04 - 04:52 AM

Ages ago we often performed "The frog is all over" before some good guy told us the sad truth.

Subject: RE: Mis-heard session tune titles.
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 21 Sep 04 - 05:04 AM

Merrily Kiss the Quaker becomes Merrily Kiss the Waiter.

Vin Garbutt's song ' Valley of Tees ' is known round here as the ' tin of salmon song ' because of the line ' Pink salmon once swam in the clear crystal Tees '

Fanny Power ie. Miss Frances Power.

eric

Subject: RE: Mis-heard session tune titles.
From: vectis
Date: 21 Sep 04 - 06:11 PM

The 'Blue Eyed Stranger' became The 'Blue Eyed Strangler' locally until one lass misheard it as 'The Blue Hydrangea'. She'll never live it down...

Subject: RE: Mis-heard session tune titles.
From: Chris Green
Date: 21 Sep 04 - 06:17 PM

I though I'd misheard when an all-girl band announced they were going to play Fanny Power.

Subject: RE: Mis-heard session tune titles.
From: GUEST,Anne Croucher
Date: 21 Sep 04 - 09:39 PM

Although not the title I was told that 'tyumun' was a dialect word for empty.

It was being used in a written song about children working in the pits.

I asked if there were any other songs with the word in and the singer said yes - the one with the chorus 'Jowl Jowl and listen lad and hear the coal face working'So I got out my song book and looked for this word.

Eventually I realised that it was the line 'Whilst the putter shoves t'empty uns', presumably misheard by someone unfamiliar with t'explosive t's

Anne

Subject: RE: Mis-heard session tune titles.
From: Fliss
Date: 21 Sep 04 - 10:12 PM

Cough to tell a hernia - Off to California

Re Fanny Power
This tune is also called Mrs. Trench. Fanny (Frances) Power was an heiress, daughter of David and Elizabeth Power of Coorheen, Loughrea (for whom Carolan wrote Carolan's Concerto or Mrs. Power). In 1732 Fanny married Richard Trench of Gerbally, County Gallway. The tune was probably composed before her wedding because the second verse (the Gaelic lyrics) Carolan expresses hope he will live to dance at her wedding. From the Contemplators website
http://www.contemplator.com/carolan/carolmid.html#poer

Subject: RE: Mis-heard session tune titles.
From: Terry K
Date: 22 Sep 04 - 02:16 AM

Re Fanny Power, the DT ascribes the poem to Yeats but surely it would be a Carolan original?

Apparently Carolan preferred his poems to his music and wrote the words first and added a tune. It would seem unlikely that the Carolan original would be scrapped in favour of a later poem by Yeats.

And I can't find anything to link it to Yeats at all. Anyone know?

cheers, Terry

Subject: RE: Mis-heard session tune titles.
From: GUEST,The Scone Fairy
Date: 30 Sep 04 - 11:54 AM

I was once asked to play the march "The Bonny Wee Highlanders" - Bonawe Highlanders

Subject: RE: Mis-heard session tune titles.
From: muppett
Date: 01 Oct 04 - 11:20 AM

Try this web page - www.amiright.com/misheard/index.shtml

Subject: RE: Mis-heard session tune titles.
From: moocowpoo
Date: 01 Oct 04 - 11:26 AM

In Circles in Canberra (It's all circles there,well.. crescents)
'drowsy maggie' is known as 'mousey druggie'...
'Varnish me foreskin' seems to be an international one.