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Tune Req: The Ballad of Biddy Early
| Susan-Marie | 26 Sep 01 - 03:45 PM | |
| wysiwyg | 26 Sep 01 - 05:36 PM | |
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| McGrath of Harlow | 26 Sep 01 - 06:12 PM | |
| Susan-Marie | 27 Sep 01 - 08:32 AM | |
| wysiwyg | 27 Sep 01 - 12:00 PM | |
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Tune Req: The Ballad of Biddy Early
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Subject: Ballad of Biddy early From: Susan-Marie Date: 26 Sep 01 - 03:45 PM A friend came back from Ireland saying he'd heard about a great song called the Ballad of Biddy Early. I have found links to a poem and several books, but no music. I'm thinking my friend may have misheard or been misinformed, and that this is not a song but just a poem. Anyone know for sure? Susan-Marie |
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Subject: RE: Tune Req: Ballad of Biddy early From: wysiwyg Date: 26 Sep 01 - 05:36 PM See The Ballad of Biddy Early, (Knopf 0-394-88414-0, Sep '89, $13.95, unpaginated, hc) Children's collection of poetry telling the Irish story of the Wise Woman of Clare, illustrated with watercolors by Barry Moser. The ballad itself is here: It's 13 pages long-- YOU post it, someone can add the line breaks for you, OK? ~Susan
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Subject: RE: Tune Req: Ballad of Biddy early From: wysiwyg Date: 26 Sep 01 - 06:01 PM More background (no tune found yet): Edmund Lenihan, In Search of Biddy Early, (Mercier Press, 1987), review is HERE. I also found numerous mentions of a Black-eyed Biddy, and here is one: CLICK. ~S~
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Subject: RE: Tune Req: Ballad of Biddy early From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 26 Sep 01 - 06:12 PM Eddie Lenihan is a great storyteller. Hee's a link to anither colection, which includes a picture of him.
If you ever get a chance to hear him, don't miss it. Biddy Early was a real person. |
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Subject: RE: Tune Req: Ballad of Biddy early From: Susan-Marie Date: 27 Sep 01 - 08:32 AM Thanks everyone. Looks like it is meant to be recited, not sung. thanks for confirming that. |
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Subject: RE: Tune Req: Ballad of Biddy early From: wysiwyg Date: 27 Sep 01 - 12:00 PM It may very well be that someone has done up a tune for it, but that it has not been recorded yet and so would not show up in a web search. Or it may be an old ballad with tune that has simply not been entered into Mudcat, and that no one who knows it, here, has seen the thread yet. And there's no reason why a tune could not be created, eh? ~S~ |
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