Lyr/Tune Req: Butcher Boy & others

02 Jul 99 - 03:22 PM (#91765)
Subject: lyrics and music
From: bridgetcollins (inactive)

I just joined this discussion group to get some help with Irish lyrics and music. I am looking for the music to several Irish folk tunes and I have had no luck on the Web. I am looking for:The rising of the moon, the parting glass, molly malone, the foggy dew, among others. Can anyone help me? I am also looking for the lyrics to: Butcher Boy, City of Chicago. I have tried the data base here without luck. Thanks. bridgetcollins

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02 Jul 99 - 03:56 PM (#91775)
Subject: Lyr Add: THE BUTCHER BOY (from Clancy Bros.) ^^^
From: Tiger

Hi, Bridget....

Here's how the Clancys do Butcher Boy. It's one of those old ones where there are countless versions and variants, such as Wild Goose Grasses (The Weavers). The theme occurs over and over again. Try searching past threads and you'll probably find much more.

....Tiger

THE BUTCHER BOY -- performed by The Clancy Brothers

In London city, where I did dwell,
A butcher boy I loved right well;
He courted me my life away,
But now with me he will not stay.

I wish, I wish, I wish in vain,
I wish I was a maid again;
A maid again I ne'er will be
'Till cherries grow on an ivy tree.

"I wish my baby it was born
And smiling on its daddy's knee;
And me, poor girl, to be dead and gone,
With the long green grass growing over me."

She went upstairs to go to bed,
And calling to her mother, said,
"Give me a chair till I sit down
And a pen and ink till I write down."

At every word she dropped a tear,
At every line cried, "Willie, dear,
Oh, what a foolish girl was I,
To be led astray by a butcher boy."

He went upstairs and the door he broke;
He found her hanging from a rope.
He took his knife and he cut her down,
And in her pocket these words he found:

"Oh, make my grave large, wide and deep.
Put a marble stone at my head and feet;
And in the middle, a turtledove,
That the world may know that I died for love." ^^^

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02 Jul 99 - 04:10 PM (#91782)
Subject: RE: lyrics and music
From: Joe Offer

Hi, Bridget - you may find some of those songs if you look a little harder, and also if you try our Forum Search (top of the main page for the Forum). The "body" search of the forum isn't working, but the "subject" search is. I've been changing subject titles on messages with lyrics to make them easier to find. Alice posted Butcher Boy (click here) in the Women's Song Circle thread, and I changed the "subject" of her message to the title of the song. I hope she doesn't mind (I will do the same for Tiger's post above, and hope he doesn't mind). The others you mentioned are readily available, and may have already been posted. the only one I'm not familiar with is "City of Chicago" - can you tell us more about that song so we can help you find it?
It's up to you to find "Foggy Dew" yourself in the database. Just put [foggy dew] in square brackets in the search box on this page, and choose from the many versions we have. Several have a "click here to play" link on the bottom of the page so you can play the tune. If you click with your right mouse button, you can download the song and print the music from Noteworthy composer or other MIDI programs.
Same with PARTING GLASS (click). Ya gotta look a little harder.
RISING OF THE MOON? Same thing.
MOLLY MALONE, too.
-Joe Offer-

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02 Jul 99 - 04:58 PM (#91797)
Subject: RE: lyrics and music
From: bridgetcollins (inactive)

Thanks for the help!!!

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02 Jul 99 - 05:09 PM (#91802)
Subject: RE: lyrics and music
From: bridgetcollins (inactive)

Oh, The City of Chicago is a Christy Moore song about immigrants coming to America after the Famine. Thanks.

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02 Jul 99 - 05:48 PM (#91806)
Subject: Lyr/Chords Add: CITY OF CHICAGO (Barry Moore)^^
From: Joe Offer

Aha! All I needed was that one tidbit of information, Bridget! I found the lyrics at The Christy Moore Website (clicky).

Posted at Mudcat (click).

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07 Jul 99 - 12:21 PM (#93126)
Subject: RE: lyrics and music
From: Wolfgang

I just want to add that City of Chicago has been written by Barry Moore aka Luka Bloom

Wolfgang

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07 Jul 99 - 08:12 PM (#93261)
Subject: RE: lyrics and music
From: Mick Lowe

Bridget,
You might want to try here as well Prof's Traditional Irish Music Pages Mick

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08 Jul 99 - 12:19 AM (#93312)
Subject: RE: lyrics and music
From: Big Mick

Hey, Mick.

Great to see you.

Mick

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