Lyr Req: Galtee Farmer (from Steeleye Span)

Subject: Galtee Farmer
From: GUEST,Timbrel
Date: 29 Feb 00 - 01:32 PM

Hi folks --

Desperately seeking lyrics to "Galtee Farmer" as recorded by Steeleye Span (On Commoners Crown). I'd get 'em off the album -- but it's in storage, like the rest of my life!

Thanks...Timbrel

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Galtee Farmer
From: Martin _Ryan
Date: 29 Feb 00 - 03:10 PM

Can't remember whether that's a version of "The Galbally Farmer", on which there was a thread lately, or "Farmer Michael Hayes" which is HERE . CHeck it out and let me know.

Regards

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Galtee Farmer
From: GUEST,Timbrel
Date: 29 Feb 00 - 05:55 PM

I checked out "Farmer Michael Hayes"and that's definitely not it...is it possible to search the forums for the other title? The story of the song is that an old farmer and his son take a worn=out mare to sell at the country fair. A "Dublin boy" buys it, dresses it up a bit, and sells it back to the poor farmer & son as a retired racer, for 4 times what he originally paid...when they get home, the wife & daughter immediately see what has happened and pile on the abuse.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Galtee Farmer
From: Martin _Ryan
Date: 29 Feb 00 - 06:03 PM

Ah! That's a horse of a different colour, alright! Its not the Galbally Farmer, anyway. There are lots of versions of it around - "Well sold the cow" is, I think the general name for it. Someone will turn up the one you want more quickly than I, methinks.

Regards

Subject: Lyr Add: GALTEE FARMER (Steeleye Span)
From: Stewie
Date: 29 Feb 00 - 08:04 PM

As they appear on the record cover:

GALTEE FARMER

Oh there was an old Galtee farmer and he had an old Galtee mare
He brought her to Enniscorthy, boys, to sell her at the fair
Said the son all to the father, 'I'll do the best I can
The price is twenty guineas but I'll take one pound'

Up comes a Dublin buyer, 'For a bid I am inclined
The price of her is twenty guineas, but look I'll give one pound'
So quickly then he paid for her before time look around
And he went into a stable and he pulled her in behind
Put a saddle and a bridle and jockey all on her back
You would swear she was a racer after coming off the track

Says the son all to the father, 'There's a mare for sale close by
She looks so bright and handsome and enticing to my eye'
She looks so bright and handsome, and the jockey turned around
Said, 'The price of her is fifty guineas but, look, I'll take five pounds'

Said the son all to the father, 'Now be quick and make up your mind
The price is fifty guineas but, look, he'll take five pounds'
So quickly then they paid for her and away from the fair they went
And as they jogged along the road, they were both well content

When they came to the little cottage at the bottom of the lane
Who should run to meet them but the little daughter Jane
'Mama, mama, here comes the lads, but the mare they did not sell
But they've hogged her mane and docked her tail, but you'd know her old jog well

'Oh what did you get that mare clipped for she looks so thin and old
What did you get that mare clipped for she'll surely catch a cold
I'll sit down at the table and I'll let my temper cool
I've been married to you these forty years and you're only a born fool

--Stewie.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Galtee Farmer
From: GUEST,Timbrel
Date: 01 Mar 00 - 10:41 AM

Thanks so much! ...Needed it for a St. Patrick;s Day gig..