Lyr Req: Ireland's Green Shore (from Tim O'Brien)

Subject: Lyr Req: Ireland's green shore
From: GUEST,Jeremie
Date: 17 Dec 02 - 05:26 AM

Hello you all !

I am looking for lyrics of the song : "Ireland's green shore" sung by Tim O'Brien. No trace here : am I wrong ?

Thanks a lot !

Jeremie

Subject: Lyr Add: IRELAND'S GREEN SHORE
From: masato sakurai
Date: 17 Dec 02 - 06:02 AM

IRELAND'S GREEN SHORE
From The Crossing
(P.D., arr Tim O'Brien (Howdy Skies Music/Forerunner Music, Inc., ASCAP))

One evening for pleasure I rambled
On the banks of some cold purling stream
I set down on a bed of primroses
And I gently fell into a dream
I dreamt that I saw a fair female
Her equal I never saw before
And I sighed for the laws of our country
As we stray there on Ireland's green shore

Her cheeks were like two bloominÂ' roses
Her teeth were like ivory so white
Her eyes shone like two sparkling diamonds
Or the stars on some cold frosty night
She was dressed in the richist attire
And green was the mantle she wore
All bound down with the hemlocks and the roses
As we stray there on Ireland's green shore

Transgression of joy I awoken
I found this was only a dream
That pretty fair female had fled me
I longed to be slumbering again
May the heavens above be her guardian
Though I know I'll never see her anymore
May the goldliest sunbeam shine upon her
As she lies sleeping on IrelandÂ's green shore

One evening for pleasure I rambled
On the banks of some cold purling stream
I set down on a bed of primroses
And I gently fell into a dream

(From HERE)

~Masato

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tim O'Brien
From: BanjoRay
Date: 17 Dec 02 - 07:17 AM

That's a superb song with a gorgeous melody. I first heard it by Maggie Hammons (where, I think, Tim O'brien got it) on the wonderful folkways double CD of the Hammons Family from West Virginia, recorded by Dwight Diller back in the seventies. It has wonderful songs, fiddle tunes, banjo tunes and family reminiscences from Maggie, Burl Sherman and Lee Hammons.
Cheers
Ray

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tim O'Brien
From: nutty
Date: 17 Dec 02 - 07:33 AM

There's an original copy here in the Bodleain Library

Erin's Green Shore


Printer:   Walker, G. (Durham)
Date:    between 1797 and 1834
   
          Imprint: Walker, Printer, Durham. Printer's Series: (6).
          Ballads on sheet: 2
         
            
Copies:
          Firth b.26(456)
          Harding B 11(1085)
          Johnson Ballads 1589
          Johnson d.1773(p. 122v)
   
            
Ballads: 1.Erin's green shore("One evening of late as I strayed ..")             Subject: Ireland

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tim O'Brien
From: masato sakurai
Date: 17 Dec 02 - 08:03 AM

"Erin's Green Shore" (2 songs) is in the DT. There's a previous thread on the song: Erin's Green Shore.
~Masato

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tim O'Brien
From: GUEST
Date: 19 Dec 02 - 07:56 AM

Thanks a lot to all of you !!!

Jeremie