Lyr Req: Lough Erne Shore

Subject: Lough Erne Shore
From: GUEST,Pejotka
Date: 31 Mar 00 - 10:00 AM

I´m looking for the words of a Eithne Ni Uallachain Song (trad.) Lough Erne Shore. Can anybody help? Thank you Pejotka from Germany

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lough Erne Shore
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 31 Mar 00 - 12:01 PM

Is that the one that begins One morning as I went a-fowling?  I have the version that Paddy Tunney used to sing, and will post it here if nobody comes up with Eithne's version.

Malcolm

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lough Erne Shore
From: Pejotka
Date: 02 Apr 00 - 07:37 AM

Hello Malcolm, that´s how the song begins "One morning as I went a-fowling".... I´m waiting on your Paddy Tunney version. Thank you. Pejotka

Subject: Lyr Add: LOUGH ERNE SHORE (from Paddy Tunney)^^
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 02 Apr 00 - 09:31 AM

LOUGH ERNE SHORE

One morning as I went a-fowling
Bright Phoebus adorned the plain;
'Twas down by the shores of Lough Erne,
I met with this wonderful dame.
Her voice was so sweet and so pleasing,
These beautiful notes she did sing;
The innocent fowl of the forest
Their love unto her they did bring.

It being the first time I saw her,
My heart it did leap with surprise;
I thought that she could be no mortal,
But an angel who fell from the skies.
Her hair it resembled gold tresses,
Her skin was as white as the snow;
And her cheeks were as red as the roses
That bloom around Lough Erne shore.

When I found that my love was eloping,
These words unto her I did say:
"O take me to your habitation,
For Cupid has led me astray."
"For ever I'll keep the commandments;
They say that it is the best plan.
Fair maids who do yield to men's pleasure,
The Scripture does say they are wrong."

"Oh Mary, don't accuse me of weakness,
For treachery I do disown.
I'll make you a lady of honour,
If with me this night you'll come home.
O had I the lamp of great Aladdin,
His rings and his genie, that's more,
I would part with them all for to gain you,
And live upon Lough Erne shore."

Paddy Tunney's version, taken from his book The Stone Fiddle.  A midi of the tune goes to Alan's Mudcat Midi Site.

Malcolm^^

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lough Erne Shore
From: Alan of Australia
Date: 02 Apr 00 - 09:55 AM

G'day,
Thanks to Malcolm the tune can be found here at the Mudcat MIDI site.

Cheers,
Alan^^

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lough Erne Shore
From: Pejotka
Date: 03 Apr 00 - 05:36 PM

Hello Malcolm, hello Alan, thanks so much for the words and the tune of Lough Erne Shore. It was a fine birthday present for me today. Pejotka from Germany

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lough Erne Shore
From: GUEST,Annraoi
Date: 03 Apr 00 - 08:41 PM

Interesting. Try singing these words to "The Pretty Girl Milking the cow". they fit perfectly. Annraoi

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lough Erne Shore
From: Sandy Paton
Date: 03 Apr 00 - 09:44 PM

It's on Paddy Tunney's Folk-Legacy "custom cassette" (C-7), sung beautifully by Paddy about thirty-five years ago.

Sandy

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lough Erne Shore
From: Alice
Date: 05 Dec 00 - 11:47 AM

Interesting connection to The Pretty Girl Milking the Cow, especially that phrase regarding the lamp of Alladin in common with both songs.

Alice

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lough Erne Shore
From: Noreen
Date: 06 Dec 00 - 10:37 AM

Note that Paddy Tunney pronounces Aladdin with the stress on the first syllable: Al -addin, and in the second verse he pronounces 'leap' as 'lep'; both of which I also do when I sing it, just because it doesn't feel right otherwise...

Thanks for asking for this, Pejotka- good to get it into the DT.

Noreen

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lough Erne Shore
From: Gabriel
Date: 26 Jun 17 - 07:34 PM

The second line of the second verse it is give as "My heart it did leap with surprise". In the book it is "My heart it did lep with surprise" that is actually printed in the text. And "lep" is actually what Paddy sings in his recordings of the song. "Lep" means the same as "leap" and is in common usage in the North of Ireland. It is rather more than merely a matter of pronunciation

Interestingly the versions recorded by Paddy are abbreviated to three verses by mixing the third and fourth verses printed above. He also sings slightly different wordings in the recordings.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lough Erne Shore
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 27 Jun 17 - 02:49 AM

A local County Clare storyteller used to be known as "Eddie the Leper" because of his habit of leaping about as he told his stories
Jim Carroll