Origins: Where the Blarney Roses Grow

Subject: Lyr Req. Blarney Roses
From: Alice
Date: 15 Jun 98 - 11:13 PM

"Can anybody tell me where the Blarney Roses grow..."

Can anybody tell me all the lyrics?? Thanks.

Alice in Montana

Subject: RE: Lyr Req. Blarney Roses
From: Frank Maher
Date: 16 Jun 98 - 02:08 PM

Hi Alice, A Friend of Mine has The Blarney Roses Lyrics.I'll have them for You soon All the best, Frank

Subject: Lyr Add: Blarney Roses^^
From: Mick Lowe
Date: 16 Jun 98 - 06:11 PM

Volume four of "Folksongs & Ballads popular in Ireland" gives the following version:

Chorus:
  Can anybody tell me where the Blarney Roses grow?
  It may be down in Limerick town or over in Mayo
  It's somewhere in the Em'rald Isle but this I want to know
  Can anybody tell me where the Blarney Roses grow?

Verses:
Twas over in ould Ireland near the town of Cushendall
One morn I met a damsel there, the fairest of them all
Twas with my young affections and my money did she go
And she told me she belonged to where the Blarney Roses grow

Her cheeks were like the roses, her hair a raven hue
Before that she was done with me, she had me raving too
She left me sorely stranded, not a coin she left you know
And she told me she belonged to where the Blarney Roses grow

They've roses in Killarney, and the same in County Clare
But 'pon my word those roses, boys, I can't see anywhere
She blarney'd me and by the powers she left me broke ho, ho
Did this damsel that belonged to where the Blarney Roses grow

Acushla gra-machree me boys, she murmured soft did she
"If you belong to Ireland, it's yourself belongs to me"
Her Donegal come-all-ye-brogue, it captured me you know
Bad scram to her and that same place, where the Blarney Roses grow.


Needless to say you stick the chorus in after every verse.
Happy singing and mind the thorns

Mick

Subject: RE: Lyr Req. Blarney Roses
From: Alice
Date: 16 Jun 98 - 07:30 PM

Thanks, Mick, you're a peach.... (that's a complement, son.) "Bad scram"... do people still use that slang, or is it old-fashioned sounding?

alice

Subject: RE: Lyr Req. Blarney Roses
From: Mick Lowe
Date: 16 Jun 98 - 07:44 PM

I don't know but from the neck of the woods I come from it would probably mean horrible food as scram is a slang word we've adopted meaning food. I don't know whether this comes from Liverpool or Scotland. No doubt someone will tell us. I hope soon to have my own domain set up with a list of all the Irish songs & ceilidh tunes / sheet music in jpeg format at www.prof.co.uk . Hopefully by the end of the month so I can let you have not only the lyrics but the tadpoles as well

Mick

Subject: RE: Lyr Req. Blarney Roses
From: Frank Maher
Date: 16 Jun 98 - 10:33 PM

Hi Alice, I couldn't,for some reason get on the Mudcat Site so I emailed You the Words,But I see that You already have them. Would You like to have the Song on a Tape??? Frank

Subject: RE: Lyr Req. Blarney Roses
From: Alice
Date: 17 Jun 98 - 12:25 AM

Thanks, Frank. Check your email. I replied there.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req. Blarney Roses
From: PKD on Teesside
Date: 17 Jun 98 - 02:33 AM

Hi People,

I have never heard this particular last line. The way it is always sung round here is "Bad luck to her and bugger the place where the Blarney Roses grow".

Obviously, if you don't like that, sing something else - that's what an oral tradition is all about.

Cheers

Paul

Subject: RE: Lyr Req. Blarney Roses
From: Frank Maher
Date: 17 Jun 98 - 09:04 AM

Here's the last Line taken from an Old Connie Foley Record....

There's Roses in Killarney and there's some in County Clare,
But 'pon My Word these Roses Boys I can't find anywhere,
She Blarneyed Me and by the Power She broke My Heart You know,
Did This Coleen that belonged to where the Blarney Roses grow.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req. Blarney Roses
From: Martin Ryan.
Date: 17 Jun 98 - 03:44 PM

Penguin Dictionary of Historical Slang gives "scran" with a number of meanings - mostly referring to food, as Mick suggests above.

It then speicifally glosses "bad scran to " as follows:
"Bad luck to! Anglo-Irish colloquialism; from ca. 1840."

Can't say I've ever heard it in practice - in or out of the song.

Regards.

Subject: Where the Blarney Roses Grow
From:
Date: 19 Apr 00 - 09:47 AM

Hi folks -

I've got a CD by Harry O'Donaghue "It'll Be Alright On The Night", and I'd like to find the lyrics for the songs on it. In particular, I'd like the lyrics to "Where the Blarney Roses Grow".

Any help is appreciated..

George

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Where the Blarney Roses Grow
From: George Arnett-Hutto
Date: 19 Apr 00 - 09:55 AM

Okay, I found some of it in the Favourite Celtic Songs thread, but the words are, as always, a trifle different. Does anyone have the lyrics a little closer to Mr. O'Donaghue's version?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Where the Blarney Roses Grow
From: Alice
Date: 19 Apr 00 - 09:58 AM

They are in the forum, have been posted before. I'll create a link to the thread. You can find them by putting the work Blarney in the filter box and setting refresh to 3 years.

Alice

Subject: RE: Lyr Req. Blarney Roses
From: Alice
Date: 19 Apr 00 - 09:59 AM

refresh

Subject: RE: Origins: Where the Blarney Roses Grow
From: Joe Offer
Date: 21 Jun 21 - 04:40 PM

Joe - needs work