ADD: Irish songs (lots of songs here)

Subject: RE: Seeking Irish Lyrics
From: Pene Azul
Date: 29 May 00 - 11:19 PM

Joe,

I've been using the Supersearch box. Sometimes, for some reason, it works better with all caps. In some cases, when I came up empty I searched on some of the lyrics she gave, or picked up on something in a found thread to search on.

PA

Subject: RE: Seeking Irish Lyrics
From: Joe Offer
Date: 29 May 00 - 11:16 PM

OK, Malcolm and Pene, explain this thing to me:
You guys are getting your songs from the database in a different way from mine. My way, the links only work on the Fall 99 batabase, and I'm thinking your links are more permanent. Where are you getting them.
For example, I used the blue search box for "Ballyhooley, and got this
http://www.mudcat.org/!!-song99.cfm?stuff=fall99+D+7118811
Malcoml got the same song, but this way:
http://www.mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=6530&Title=THE%20KING%20OF%20BALLYHOOLEY

So, how are you guys doing it?

Subject: Lyr Add: CLOHINNE WINDS (Briege Murphy)
From: Pene Azul
Date: 29 May 00 - 11:04 PM

From another site: Clohinne Winds (This link also has a RealAudio file.)

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I'm hoping Mbo will come and make corrections, but here are the lyrics Pene linked to. Max says that if we're linking to lyrics that would at all be of permanent interest to Mudcatters, we should POST the lyrics. Max's theory is that Mudcat is permanent, and other sites may not be.
-Joe Offer-

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Clohinne Winds

(Briege Murphy)
recorded by Naimh Parsons and the Loose Connections

The shadows fell across the room as I lay down to rest
A storm was raging deep inside my head
I fell into a restless sleep
Of crazy changing dreams
But woke to find you standing by my bed
Clohinne winds were blowing when you called me
First you spoke my name
Your voice was still the same
You beckoned me and I arose
To follow where you led
Out among the wild Clohinne hills
The mountain mist had lent an eerie whiteness to the hill
The silver spider threadings caught my face
You darted through the bracken
Trailing stardust in your wake
I knew you’d stop beside our sacred place
Clohinne winds were blowing when you called me
First you spoke my name
Your voice was still the same
You beckoned me and I arose
To follow where you led
Out among the wild Clohinne hills
You stopped upon the fairy hill
Beneath the hawthorn tree
I thought I heard a lonely banshee wail
You held you hand towards me
And I reached to touch your face
But woke to find that you were just a dream
Clohinne winds were blowing when you called me
First you spoke my name
Your voice was still the same
You beckoned me and I arose
To follow where you led
Out among the wild Clohinne hills
The years have passed
And I am growing weary of this earth
The magic of the dream alludes me still
I’ve lain beneath the fairy tree
I’ve shouted to the moon
I am the haunted woman of the hill
Clohinne winds were blowing when you called me
First you spoke my name
Your voice was still the same
You beckoned me and I arose
To follow where you led
Out among the wild Clohinne hills
Out among the wild Clohinne hills

Subject: Lyr Add: REAL OLD MOUNTAIN DEW^^
From: Pene Azul
Date: 29 May 00 - 10:55 PM

Here's a more complete Mountain Dew from another site.

REAL OLD MOUNTAIN DEW

Chorus:
Ah didlee ay dum
ah diddlee ay dum
Ah doo ray diddlee ai ay
Ah didlee ay dum
ah diddlee ay dum
Ah doo ray diddlee ai ay

Let grasses grow and waters flow
In a free and easy way
Just give me enough of that fine old stuff
that's made near Galway Bay
The police men from old Donegal
Sligo and Lietrin too
We'll give them the slip and we'll take a sip
Of that real old Mountain Dew

At the foot of the hill there's a neat little still
Where the smoke curls up to the sky
By the smoke and the smell you can plainly tell
There's poiteen brewin near by
It fills the air with a perfume rare
But betwixt both me and you
When home we go you can take a bowl
Or a bucket of the Mountain Dew

Now learned men who use a pen
Have wrote your praises high
That sweet poitin from Ireland green
is stilled from wheat and rye
Put away your pills, it'll cure all ills
Be ye christian, pagan or jew
Take off your coat and grease your throat
With a bucket of the Mountain Dew

Subject: Lyr Add: WHERE ARE YOU (Andy M. Stewart)
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 29 May 00 - 10:42 PM

Where are You?  (Andy M.Stewart)

WHERE ARE YOU
(Andy M. Stewart)

Where are you tonight I wonder
And where will you be tonight when I cry?
Will sleep for you come easy,
Though I alone can't slumber
Will you welcome in the morning
At another man's side?

How easy for you the years slipped under
And left me a shadow the sun can't dispel
I built for you a tower of love and admiration
But I set you so high I could not reach myself.

I look through my window at a world filled with strangers
The face in my mirror is the one face I know
You have taken all that's in me, so my heart is in no danger
My heart is in no danger, but I'd still like to know

If there is a silence then it can be broken
If there beats a pure heart to her I will go
And time will work its healing and the spirit will grow stronger
Ah, but in the meantime I'd still like to know.

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The challenge has been interesting, but in the rush I think we've forgotten something: we haven't told Rebecca how she could have found all these things for herself!

Malcolm

Actually, Malcolm, I did give her instructions, but on the "Help" Forum. I also gave her a link to this thread. After all this work, I sure hope she finds it, and leaves us a message telling us so.
It's a fun challenge, isn't it?
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Seeking Irish Lyrics
From: Dave (the ancient mariner)
Date: 29 May 00 - 10:03 PM

If you have any that are hard to find I have found Paul Davis in Cape Breton to have a wonderfull collection of Irish songs and music. I am sure he would help. Here is his link click here Yours, Aye. Dave

Subject: RE: Seeking Irish Lyrics
From: GUEST,Dan-Nova Scotia
Date: 29 May 00 - 10:01 PM

Hello Rebecca - I don't know how much help I can be but I might be able to point you in a few directions.

Bonnie Blue-Eyed Nancy was done by the Bothy Band on either the lp "Old Hag You Have Killed Me" or "Live in Paris" (I think it is a slightly different title.

A Night Visitors Song I think was recorded by the Tannahill Weavers but on which recording I am not sure. (Again I think it was another title)

Banks of Claudy I have heard several places but I believe there are also several versions in one of Helen Creighton's books, possibly Songs and Ballads From Nova Scotia.

Thousands are Sailing was on a Planxty lp I'm not sure of the title but it was one of their later recordings before the split. I think some of the words are:

You brave Irish heroes, wherever you be I pray attention and listen to me We're(?) leaving old Ireland no longer can stay And thousands are sailing for Amerikay (spelling is as it was pronounced)

Good luck with the rest and if I see any more I'll forward on what I can.

Subject: Lyr Add: BROKEN WINGS
From: Victoria H.
Date: 29 May 00 - 09:56 PM

Cherish the Ladies have recorded a beautiful version of this song, on their CD "New Day Dawning" - available through Green linnet).......

BROKEN WINGS


Tall tree, turn and face the waves,
Are we running with the wind?
On high cliff top, we are waiting with the rains
For this journey to begin...

And these broken wings won't fly,
These broken wings won't fly,
These broken wings wont fly at all.....

See how we laugh...
Maybe we should call and beg to be excused....
We shout loudly with answers to it all,
But we have been refused...

And these broken wings won't fly,
These broken wings won't fly,
These broken wings won't fly at all.....

Girl child dancing with the wind,
Growing with the silver tree....
Your young questions, you ask me what it means,
Vut I am not at ease...

And these broken wings won't fly,
These broken wings won't fly,
These broken wings won't fly at all.....

VH

Subject: Lyr Add: HOW ARE THINGS IN GLOCCA MORRA?
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 29 May 00 - 09:48 PM

HOW ARE THINGS IN GLOCCA MORRA?

How are things in Glocca Morra?
Is that little brook still leaping there?
Does it still run down to Donny-cove?
Through Killy-begs, Kilkerry and Kildare?

How are things in Glocca Morra?
Is that willow tree still weeping there?
Does that laddie with the twinklin' eye
Come whistlin' by and does he walk away,
Sad and dreamy there not to see me there?
So I ask each weepin' willow
And each brook along the way,
And each lad that comes a whistlin'
Too-ra-lay
How are things in Glocca Morra
This fine day?

How are Things in Glocca Morra

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(words: E.Y. Harburg music: Burton Lane - 1946)
from the musical Finian's Rainbow

Subject: Lyr Add: WELCOME PADDY HOME ^^
From: Victoria H.
Date: 29 May 00 - 09:38 PM

Welcome Paddy home is an old favorite of mine too! :-) Good Luck!

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WELCOME PADDY HOME

I am a true born Irish man,
I'll never deny what I am...
I was born in the sweet Tipperary, boys,
Three thousand miles from this land...

(Chorus)
Hooray me boys hooray,
No more do I wish for to roam,
For the sun it will shine in the harvest time,
To welcome Paddy home

Now the Scotsman may boast of the thistle,
The English may boast of the rose,
Ah, but Paddy can boast of the Emerald Isle,
here the dear little shamrock grows
(chorus)

In came the unwelcome stranger,
And settled all over the land,
The horse and the plough, the ox and the sow,
Fell into the stranger's hands
(Chorus)

Now the girls they're young and they're frisky,
They'll take you by the hand,
Saying 'Jimmy Mchree, won't ye come with me,
And welcome Paddy home
(chorus)

VH

Subject: RE: Seeking Irish Lyrics
From: Joe Offer
Date: 29 May 00 - 09:34 PM

Dang, that Pene's fast!
Huff, huff...
-Joe, trying to keep up...

Subject: Clohinne Winds
From: Joe Offer
Date: 29 May 00 - 09:17 PM

Say, I see from this message (click) that Mbo should know "Clohinne Winds." Somebody go wake him up and get him to post, willya?
-Joe Offer-

Mbo wakeup message sent....

Subject: RE: Seeking Irish Lyrics
From: Joe Offer
Date: 29 May 00 - 09:13 PM

Good idea, Pene - maybe we can meet in the middle. That one called "Broken Wing" (tall tree turn and face the waves) has me troubled. I'm sure Bok-Muir-Trickett sang something very close to that, but sometimes I'm sure about thisngs that aren't so sure... Anybody?
Pene, keep posting in separate messages, and I'll transfer your information into the first one and then delete your messages.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Seeking Irish Lyrics
From: Pene Azul
Date: 29 May 00 - 08:44 PM

Joe, I'll start at the bottom and work my way up.

PA

Subject: Seeking Irish Lyrics
From: Joe Offer
Date: 29 May 00 - 08:31 PM

This list was in the Help Forum. I wondered if anybody might be able to help with this list. I'll add line breaks and clean it up a bit.
-Joe Offer-

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Subject: trouble finding lyrics
From: Rebecca
Date: 29-May-00 - 08:11 PM

I've recently become interested in Irish folk music and I have been racking my memory for the lyrics and melodies of songs that my grandmother used to sing to me. I'm happy to report that your website has been of tremendous help as well as my college's library. However there are still some songs that I just can't find. I can remember the melodies and thankfully I had the sense to write down the titles. Unfortunately I didn't have the sense to write down the words and thus have forgotten some of the lyrics. I am tired of mumbling through them. Please help. Following is a list of song titles and first lines (I think there're right). Bear with me because the list is quite long. Please help me find the rest of these songs.

Thank you, Rebecca

• "Ta Mo Chleamhnas A Dheanamh" (click and follow links within the thread) - Ta mo chleamhnas a dheanamh inniu agus inne (I found the Gaelic words but not the English ones)
• "Willie Taylor" or "William Taylor" - Willie Taylor and his youthful lover or William Taylor was a brisk young sailor (Click for Billy Taylor)
• "Gathering Pace" - It's on a day like today
• "There was a Lady" - There was a lady in her father's garden (check these -click)
  (See "There Was A Maid In Her Father's Garden" )
• "Dark Iniseoghain" - The maidens of beauty and sweet so forlorn
  (improved version)
• "The Galway Rover" (click) - I've the face of the stranger with the smile of the rover
• "I Once Knew a Pretty Girl" - Once I knew a pretty girl
• "Bonny Blue-Eyed Nancy" - How can I lay upon the top of a mountain
• "Carrigdhoun" - Uncharacter (?) 'neath his brow
• "A Night Visitor's Song" - I must away, love, I can no longer tarry
• "I Know my Faith is Worth Much More than Me" - I put my trembling hand upon my aching heart
• "Song in F" - Last night I heard your voice
• "Where are You?" - Where are you tonight? I wonder/And where will you be tonight when I cry?
• "Broken Wings" - Tall tree, turn and face the waves
• Clohinne Winds" - The shadows fell across the road
• "My Own Native Land" - There's a dear little isle in the westerly ocean
• "Banks of Claudy" - It was a summer's morning
  (Another version posted below by jayohjo)
• "When I Was a Fair Maid" - When I was a fair maid about 17
• "I'd Cross the Wild Atlantic" - Ah me, I must mourn my true love ever more
• "The Boys of Barr na Sraide" - O the tower (?) climbs the mountain and looks out upon the sea
• "O Ro Song of the Sea" - Out on the ocean deep, full sails, up, away (maybe Bheir Me O???)
• "High on a Mountain" (& click) - As I looked at the valley down below
• "The Humors of the King of Ballyhooley" (click) - I'll tell you how it was with me if to listen you are willing
• "Stor mo Chroi" - A Stor mo Chroi when you're far away
• "Blackwaterside" (check here also here but neither starts like your example) - I am a roving Irishman, you need not know my name
• "P for Patty" - As I rode out upon the May morning for to take a pleasant walk
• "The Rollicking Boys of Tandaragee" - Good luck to all here, my bar (?) and my cat
• "A Bucket of the Mountain Dew" - I'm on the little hill with a mean little still [also Real Old Mountain Dew]
• "The Song of the Riddles" - A gentleman's fair daughter stepped out that narrow lane
• "John Reilly" - Standing in yon flowery garden, a handsome young man, he passed me by
• "The Maid of Culmore" - Leaving sweet lovely Derry for fair London town
• "Mattie" - Mattie walk out on a frozen night, he was heading for the pub and he had no delight
• "Lone Shanakyle" - Far, far from the isle of the holy and grand
• "Shamrock Shore" - Ye brave young sons of Erin's isle, I hope you will attend awhile
• "Thousands are Sailing" - You brave Irish heroes wherever you be
• "To Welcome Paddy Home" - I am a true born Irishman, I'll never deny what I am
• "Erin's Lovely Home" - My father, he been a farmer, raised to industry
• "Paddy's Green Shamrock Shore" - O farewell thee well to Ireland, my own dear native land
• "Farewell and Remember Me" - Our ship is ready to bear away, come, come rage o'er the stormy sea (Farewell My Love and Remember Me
• "Fare Thee Well (Marianne)" - O fare thee well, my darling true, I'm leaving for Stower (?) o'er the morn
• "I'm Going Back" - There was a stand of oak trees beside my father's house
• "Shores of Amerikay" - I'm bidding farewell to the land of my youth
• "Wild Wind" At the foot of the mountain stands a high, high tree
• "Blackthorn" - So many men think that I am theirs because I sit with them, because I drink with them
• "Take it Down from the Mast" - You have murdered brave Lelan Rory (?), you have butchered young Richard and Joe
• "The Man from the Daily Mail" - O Ireland is a very funny place, sir, it's a strange and troubled land
• "Dungannon" - Some men went to Dungannon town to __? for the __?
• "British Army" - When I was young, I had a twist/For punching babies with me fist/And then I thought I would enlist/And join the British army (more verses & discussion)
• "James Larkin" - In Dublin city in 1913, the boss was boss and the poor were slaves
• "The Fluter's Ball" - Have you heard of Billy Fluter from the town of Ballymuck [better here (click)]
• "How are Things in Glocca Morra?" - I hear a bird, a Glocca Morra bird/It well may be he's bringing me a cheering word
• "Ireland, Mother Ireland" - O land of love and beauty to you, our hearts are wed
• "To Ladies' Eyes" - The ladies' eyes around o we can't refuse, we can't refuse
• "Bushes and Briars" - Through bushes and through briars, I lately took my way
• "Are Eirinn Ni Neosfainn Ce hi (For Ireland I won't Tell her Name) - There's a home by the wide evermore (?) that's sweep o'er the broad open sea

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I guess that's the longest single list of requests I've seen. I'll look around and see what I can find, and change the ones I found into clickable links. Anybody else?
-Joe Offer-

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Major contributions were made by

• Pene Azul, Blues Pianist (home of the bilingual pun)
• Malcolm Douglas
• Victoria H
• Mbo (who promised he'd post, but didn't - but he had really good intentions)
• Noreen
• Dan Milner, brother of Liam
• Philippa R.
• Wolfgang H.
• Jim C.
• Dan in Nova Scotia and Dave (the ancient mariner) - who gave sage advice

...Careful not to overlap, gang. We're starting to duplicate....

Subject: RE: Help: Irish Songs in Midi
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 22 Feb 00 - 11:06 PM

Check out the links listed at this site. (Click on "links" at top of this page.) Check out "Folk Music of England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales & America" and "Taylor's Traditional Tunebook." If that's not enough, follow the links at those sites. Then there are links at the Ceolas site, etc.

Subject: Irish Songs in Midi
From: tremodt
Date: 22 Feb 00 - 08:05 PM

does any one have any sites for Irish and Scottish songs in a downoadable midi format

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