Tune Req: The Ferry Bagpiper / Ferrybank Piper

Subject: THE FERRY BAGPIPER
From: MMario
Date: 26 Jun 02 - 01:29 PM

Ferry Bagpiper

a scan? photocopy? abc? midi? solfage?

Subject: RE: Tune Req: THE FERRY BAGPIPER
From: Zhenya
Date: 26 Jun 02 - 02:08 PM

I know this tune by the name "Ferrybank piper" and it's on Robbie O'Connell's album "Close to the Bone." (Green Linnet.) Are you trying to get hold of the music? I wasn't sure what you were asking about...And those lyrics need to be corrected!

Subject: RE: Tune Req: THE FERRY BAGPIPER
From: MMario
Date: 26 Jun 02 - 02:21 PM

If you know a more correct version of the lyrics - then please post them.

and I am trying to get the tune in a format that can be transmitted other then aurally. (I can't transcribe by ear.)

Subject: RE: Tune Req: THE FERRY BAGPIPER
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 26 Jun 02 - 04:35 PM

I thought it was The Fairy Bagpiper.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: THE FERRY BAGPIPER
From: Zhenya
Date: 26 Jun 02 - 05:24 PM

I only meant that the title part of the lyrics needs to be corrected! The rest looks fine. I don't know of any printed source for the music. I did a quick internet search but didn't find anything helpful. Sorry.

Subject: Lyr Add: THE FERRYBANK PIPER (Robbie O'Connell
From: radriano
Date: 26 Jun 02 - 06:35 PM

MMario, the title is "The Ferrybank Piper" composed by Robbie O'Connell. I have a recording of the author singing the song - if you like I can include a copy with that other item I was going to send you.

The words in the link you posted aren't that far off but since the author is still alive I guess we should try to be more accurate. Here are the lyrics as I know them. I think they're pretty close to the original.

The Ferrybank Piper
Composed by Robbie O'Connell

By the river in the evening a piper used to play
And down along the railway tracks he'd play songs sad and gay
His pipes were always well in tune and people used to say
The sounds would echo on the evening tide and carry miles away

Chorus:
So here's to the Ferrybank Piper
May his sad tunes never die
May his gay tunes raise your weary hearts
Til in your grave you lie

Sometimes he'd pipe a haunting tune, sometimes he'd hum a song
But always a crowd would gather round and follow him along
And the sound of their voices in the evening sky would rise and linger long
But no more is there the echo on the evening tide, now that he is gone

And now when I walk down that lane and hear the river flow
I think of that old piper and the songs he used to know
A happy tune runs through my head, I sing it soft and low
And I hear the echo on the evening tide like the days of long ago

Regards,
Radriano