Tune Req: The Galway Shawl

Subject: RE: Anybody know 'Galway Shawl'?
From: Brían
Date: 02 Oct 02 - 11:45 AM

It was Joe's version which reminded me of what a great song this is. Here is a midi for RODNEY'S GLORY which I was playing this morning:

JC'S TUNEFINDER

Wow, this link creator sure makes thins easier!

Brían

Subject: RE: Anybody know 'Galway Shawl'?
From: Brían
Date: 02 Oct 02 - 11:49 AM

aughhh! But I need to remember to hit that Preview button!

That should be Makes things easier.

Brían

Subject: Lyr Add: THE GALWAY SHAWL
From: GUEST,NSC George Henderson
Date: 02 Oct 02 - 03:38 PM

I got this most beautiful version of the Galway Shawl from the late and great Fred Jordan. How a Shropshire farmer came to have this beauty in his repertoire I do not know.

Note the subtle differences in the chorus:

1st chorus "no shoes nor stockings on her feet at all."
2nd chorus "no paint nor powder on her face at all"
3rd chorus "no paint nor powder, yarra none at all."

And Brendan Behan borrowed the air for his great song the ould triangle and why not. It is beautiful.

In Oranmore in the County Galway,
One pleasant evening in the month of May,
I spied a colleen; she was fair and handsome,
Her beauty stole my heart away,

She wore no jewels, no costly diamonds
No shoes nor stockings on her feet at all,
But she wore a bonnet with a ribbon on it,
And round her shoulders hung the Galway shawl.

We kept on walking; she kept on talking,
'Til her fathers cottage it came into view,
She said, "Kind sir, won't you bide a minute,
And play for me the Foggy Dew."
She set me down all by the hearthstone,
I met her father, who was six feet tall,
And soon her mother had the kettle by me,
And all I could think of was the Galway shawl.

She wore no jewels, no costly diamonds,
No paint nor powder on her face at all,
But she wore a bonnet with a ribbon on it,
And round her shoulders hung the Galway shawl.

I played the Blackbird, and the Stack of Barley,
Rodney's Glory and the Foggy Dew,
And she sang each note like an Irish linnet,
'Til tears fell from her eyes of woe.
It was early, early, the very next morning,
I took the road for sweet Donegal,
She climbed the gate and kissed me dearly,
And wished me God speed in that Galway shawl.

She wore no jewels, no costly diamonds,
No paint nor powder, yarra none at all,
But she wore a bonnet with a ribbon on it,
And round her shoulders hung the Galway shawl.

Subject: RE: Anybody know 'Galway Shawl'?
From: GUEST,Nsc George Henderson
Date: 02 Oct 02 - 03:39 PM

Subject: RE: Anybody know 'Galway Shawl'?
From: GUEST,NSc George Henderson
Date: 02 Oct 02 - 03:41 PM

Joe perhaps you will sort this out. i doubled up on page breaks.
Didn't realise the automatic was there.

George

Subject: RE: Anybody know 'Galway Shawl'?
From: Brían
Date: 02 Oct 02 - 03:56 PM

Thanks, George. I just harvested that one.

Brían

Subject: RE: Anybody know 'Galway Shawl'?
From: GUEST,Keith A o Hertford
Date: 03 Oct 02 - 08:03 AM

In another thread I asked about the 'shoes and stockings' version but got no rssponse. I wondered if I had just picked up a one off.

Subject: RE: Anybody know 'Galway Shawl'?
From: GUEST,John Prange
Date: 10 Nov 03 - 09:55 AM

It is my understanding the song was banned because Patrick (Paddy ) Moran of Co. Roscommon sung it on the way to his hanging in 1916 or 1917. He was buried in Killmanhamn Gaol yard and dug up last year and given a State Funeral.

ANy information would be appreciated.

JAP
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Subject: RE: Anybody know 'Galway Shawl'?
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 10 Nov 03 - 11:30 AM

Banned by whom? All sorts of songs are rumoured to have been banned by someone or other at some time and place or other, but it's very rare that anyone ever produces any evidence; and I'll be astonished if any appears here. Still, you never know.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Anybody know 'Galway Shawl'?
From: GUEST
Date: 26 Apr 04 - 04:39 AM

Please can someone supply the words/ full poem "Rodney's Glory?

Thanks

June McCarthy

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Anybody know 'Galway Shawl'?
From: GUEST,Martin Ryan
Date: 26 Apr 04 - 10:16 AM

June

Better start a separate thread for that one...

Regards

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Anybody know 'Galway Shawl'?
From: Peterr
Date: 26 Aug 04 - 12:38 PM

Sang it last night, and was asked if I knew who had written it, or was it Trad Anon.
Can anyone help?

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Anybody know 'Galway Shawl'?
From: GUEST
Date: 05 Apr 11 - 11:45 AM

If any one know who to get hold of a pattern to make a Galway shawl, could you please email me at [e-mail]

Thank you

Carolyn

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Anybody know 'Galway Shawl'?
From: ossonflags
Date: 05 Apr 11 - 03:50 PM

Has any one got the chords to this song?

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Anybody know 'Galway Shawl'?
From: GUEST,Suibhne Astray
Date: 05 Apr 11 - 03:58 PM

Galway what there? Never heard of it!

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Anybody know 'Galway Shawl'?
From: Jack Campin
Date: 06 Apr 11 - 08:33 AM

I don't see any mention on this thread yet of "Boulavogue", which also uses the same tune. I always assumed "Boulavogue" was much older, but I don't actually know.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Anybody know 'Galway Shawl'?
From: MartinRyan
Date: 06 Apr 11 - 08:48 AM

"Boulavouge" is quite recent. It was written around the time of the centenary of the 1798 rebellion - and was originally sung to a different air. As far as I recall, someone sang it to the current air at a Feis Ceoil (Irish music festival/competition) in the early 20C. - and the rest is history, so to speak! Throughout the 19C. the air was known as "Youghal Harbour" and was adapted to many songs e.g. Sweet Omagh Town.

Regards

p.s. For all that, Galway Shawl always sounds closer to The Ould Triangle than to Boulavogue to me.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: The Galway Shawl
From: GUEST,noel
Date: 11 Nov 11 - 01:43 PM

hi all .does any one know how to play the do ra me notes for this song would be gratefull as im a begainer thank you