Tune Req: Grace: 'as we gather in the chapel...'

Subject: Tune Req: Grace........as we gather in the chapele
From: GUEST,Martin McCabe Dubai
Date: 05 Oct 04 - 05:56 PM

I work in The Irish Village in Dubai and I keep getting asked for a song called Grace. I can find the lyrics but I can't find the tune on winmx or anything like that. Does anyone have the dots or some means for me to get a hold of the melody? Amazed to find my sister Anne contributing here...Thanks for the lyrics for High Dunne, I had lost a verse so I can put it in the act now!!!!The words were a little different from the way my brother did it in the Livingstones but not much. ps If anyone has copies of their 2 albums I would be greatly interested!

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Grace........as we gather in the chapele
From: Kenny B (inactive)
Date: 05 Oct 04 - 07:37 PM

Hi Martin
If you can wait a few day i can send you the track off a CD as a file attachment or the Dots & words,
If you join Mudcat and pm me you email address we can arrange something
Kenny Baxter
PS I am off to the wilds of Fife for a few days

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Grace........as we gather in the chapele
From: GUEST,paddymac, temporarily cookieless
Date: 05 Oct 04 - 10:32 PM

This is an incredible song, IMHO. There is a wealth of info about in the data base from the nemerous chats that have gone on about it. Just plug in the title in the search box up top and while away a few hours.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Grace........as we gather in the chapele
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 05 Oct 04 - 10:58 PM

Start with the lyrics in the DT. The threads can be linked there. There is a midi in Mudcat midis.

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Click to play

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Grace........as we gather in the chapele
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 05 Oct 04 - 11:07 PM

If you are a beginner here- Just enter - grace - in the Lyrics and Knowledge Search box. Then click on the name Grace in the list that shows up. Threads will be listed above the lyrics.

(The authors, Frank and Sean O'Meara, are not credited in the DT)
Thread 5041 has the most information: Grace

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Grace........as we gather in the chapele
From: Sorcha
Date: 05 Oct 04 - 11:39 PM

Martin, to find the MIDI file, go to the Quick Links drop down menu, top right of the page. Click the down arrow...scroll down to MudCat MIDIS.....then choose G. Find Grace and click on the title. Hope this helps.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Grace........as we gather in the chapele
From: GUEST,Martin
Date: 06 Oct 04 - 11:28 AM

Cheers chaps...will do as you say!!Thanks

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Grace........as we gather in the chapele
From: GUEST
Date: 30 Nov 04 - 12:30 PM

Anthony kearns sings it the best HANDS DOWN! It is on the Irish Tenors Dublin C.d.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Grace........as we gather in the chapel
From: GUEST,Bill Frambach
Date: 06 Feb 07 - 11:52 AM

Does anybody know where I can buy the sheet music to "Grace?"

Sheet music to Grace

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Grace........as we gather in the chapel
From: Scrump
Date: 06 Feb 07 - 11:57 AM

I think the version I have is by Jim McCann, but I can't check at the moment.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Grace........as we gather in the chapel
From: Joe Offer
Date: 06 Feb 07 - 12:50 PM

Hi, Bill-
My usual place for buying sheet music online is Sheet Music Plus, and they didn't have the song.

I think the song is in a number of songbooks published by Walton's (Dublin) - I found it in Volume 2 of a 4-paperback set called Pat Conway Presents the Very Best Irish Songs and Ballads. I think I'm the one who transcribed our MIDI, and I believe I got it from that Walton's book.

Click to play (right-click to download)

There are many software programs that you can use to convert the MIDI to notation. If you have trouble, contact me by e-mail.

-Joe Offer-
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Subject: RE: Tune Req: Grace........as we gather in the chapel
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 06 Feb 07 - 12:54 PM

Click on "Grace" to hear Anthony Kearns sing this wonderful song

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Grace........as we gather in the chapel
From: Rabbi-Sol
Date: 07 Feb 07 - 12:56 PM

I have a midi-karaoke file of this song playable with the free VanBasco program as well as an MP3 sung by Tony Kenney. If you PM me with your e-mail address I can send you either one or both free of charge.
                                                 SOL

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Grace........as we gather in the chapel
From: JedMarum
Date: 08 Feb 07 - 11:58 AM

If you go to this page and click on the title GRACE in the jukebox player of the left column, you'll find a quick loading, sound sample with the melody.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Grace........as we gather in the cha
From: GUEST,JTT
Date: 08 Feb 07 - 07:33 PM

Grace was more than the romantic image portrayed by the song. She helped her widowed sister Muriel (wife of Tomás MacDonagh) after their husbands were executed - Muriel was left with two young children, three-year-old Donagh, the future poet, and one-year-old Barbara - and when Donagh broke his back and became very ill, Grace was a staunch help.

Then when Muriel had a heart attack while swimming the next year, Grace and her sister Nellie (who had been 'out' in the College of Surgeons as a sergeant in the Citizen Army in 1916) took care of the children until family disputes had them snatched from them.

And when Grace discovered the children again some years later, she made sure that they were sent to good schools, and did her best to keep loving contact with them.

She also had interesting literary and artistic contacts - search in various online indices for 'Grace Gifford' and 'Grace Plunkett' and she comes up in surprising contexts.