Lyr Req: The Furey Man (Pete St. John)

Subject: The Furey Man re' Ted Furey
From: katlaughing
Date: 08 Nov 00 - 11:13 PM

Copied from a generic-named thread. Let's see if we can help Mike out, phoaks. Howabout it, anyone heard of this song? Tks, kat

Subject: somebody must know it
From: mike putt
Date: 08-Nov-00 - 08:35 PM

Hi everyone I have tried for the words to this before with no success. Its called "the Furey Man" and its about Ted Furey who was the Fureys father, the first line is, "The music man, from us is gone,piper play for me the Furey Man" Come on lads you've never let me down yet

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Furey Man re' Ted Furey
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 13 Nov 00 - 08:11 PM

The only reference I could find to "The Furey Man" was at the web site belonging to Pete St John where he has it listed under the title "Pete St John's Hit Songs of Ireland." But it isn't clear whether "Pete St John's Hit Songs of Ireland" is supposed to be the title of an album.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Furey Man re' Ted Furey
From: GUEST,mike putt
Date: 15 Nov 00 - 04:47 AM

Thanks Jim I think we are getting there. We now know that the title is "The Furey Man" and that its written by Pete St John, does anybody know of another Pete St John site out there as he wrote some great songs including the Ferryman and of course the furey man

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Furey Man re' Ted Furey
From:
Date: 24 Feb 01 - 12:48 PM

Does anybody Know of a site where I can get the words to this song, I think I have it on a Dublin City Ramblers album but I lent the album to somebody ( big mistake ) and never got it back

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Furey Man re' Ted Furey
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 24 Feb 01 - 05:22 PM

I knew I had it somewhere:

Pete St John songlist

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Furey Man re' Ted Furey
From: Sorcha
Date: 24 Feb 01 - 05:39 PM

Well, I found the CD it's on, and you can buy it here. Title of CD is The Whole Shabang.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Furey Man re' Ted Furey
From: Sorcha
Date: 24 Feb 01 - 05:41 PM

Sorry, I think that is the name of the band.....CD is "Cuttin Loose"

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Furey Man re' Ted Furey
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 24 Feb 01 - 05:54 PM

For some reason the link to the Pete St John songlist site doesn't work any more. Sorry - I tried it last week and it did then. There was a list of 80 songs written by Pete plus a picture of him 'hard at work', but I can't even remember now if there were pages showing the lyrics. Found the same address on Excite just now, and it doesn't work from there either. Maybe it's just down temporarily.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Furey Man re' Ted Furey
From: Sorcha
Date: 24 Feb 01 - 06:00 PM

Susanne, I think the URL changed. I clicked on one that did not display, then found this one.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Furey Man (Pete St. John)
From: GUEST,999
Date: 11 Sep 12 - 12:03 PM

Is there any chance this is a confusion and the song in question is Pete St John's "The Ferryman" ??

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Furey Man (Pete St. John)
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 11 Sep 12 - 03:01 PM

NO

Subject: RE: LYR ADD: The Furey Man (Pete St. John)
From: maeve
Date: 14 Sep 12 - 01:20 PM

The Furey Man", written by Pete St John

According to this link http://rec.music.celtic.narkive.com/p5xYNdBM/lost-song, some of the words appear to be:

Great piper play, play out a song,
oh oh, the road to Dunan.
The music man from us is gone
piper play for me the fury man.
The winter's cold, the snow side harsh

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Furey Man (Pete St. John)
From: maeve
Date: 14 Sep 12 - 01:23 PM

Regarding 999's question whether there is confusion between The Furey Man and The Ferry Man, they are each listed as distinct songs on Pete St. John's site, here: http://www.petestjohn.com/works/complete-song-list/

Good question, though.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Furey Man (Pete St. John)
From: maeve
Date: 14 Sep 12 - 10:43 PM

We're still searching for the lyrics beyond the five lines posted at 1:20 PM. I have written to composer Pete St. John requesting the lyrics.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Furey Man (Pete St. John)
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 15 Sep 12 - 03:32 PM

I think here's a version of it, with a short snatch of it on the website - here

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Furey Man (Pete St. John)
From: maeve
Date: 23 Sep 12 - 02:42 PM

Thank you, McGrath. That may be helpful if I don't receive a reply from Pete St. John.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Furey Man (Pete St. John)
From: GUEST
Date: 29 Dec 17 - 06:58 PM

HI there, I wonder is this thread still open? I have been searching for footage of Finbar singing this song on Rte late late show in the 1980's for years. I found out the the archive was burned in a fire. I even met Finbar himself one night and he told me he never sings this song. Anyone have any idea of what year this was?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Furey Man (Pete St. John)
From: GUEST,#
Date: 07 Apr 21 - 11:19 AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofI-8ECoogs

Red Hurley - The Furey Man

That's Pete St John's song and the lyrics are clear.