|
28 Oct 09 - 07:09 PM (#2754416) Subject: Lyr Req: Molehill From: Tcherlach Does anyone know the lyrics to a song entitled "Molehill" sung by Martin Carthy way back when....? I can remember only a few of the lyrics, - "A regiment of soldiers come to Molehill O,A regiment of soldiers come to Molehill O,and the Captain on parade he fell in love with a pretty maid and the name that she was called was handsome Polly O"......"Will you list in the army handsome Polly O" .... "For I ne'er intend to roam into any foreign shore nor to marry any soldier in the army O" That's all I can remember of the song which I think I heard back in the 70's but it's hard to tell these days. Can anyone help? |
|
30 Oct 09 - 12:37 PM (#2755761) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Molehill From: Jim Dixon The song apparently belongs to a family of related songs called BONNIE LASS OF FENARIO PRETTY PEGGY OF DERBY, O. BONNIE LASS OF FYVIE, O PRETTY PEGGY-O |
|
30 Oct 09 - 01:29 PM (#2755813) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Molehill From: Matthew Edwards Thomas Moran of Mohill Co. Leitrim sang this for Seamus Ennis in 1954 and Martin Carthy subsequently recorded it on Shearwater. Malcolm Douglas posted the complete lyrics here: Handsome Polly-O. Matthew Edwards |
|
01 Nov 09 - 04:29 PM (#2757461) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Molehill? / Mohill / Handsome Polly-O From: Tcherlach Thank you very much. That's the song, tnat's the one |
|
01 Nov 09 - 04:32 PM (#2757465) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Molehill? / Mohill / Handsome Polly-O From: Tcherlach Thank you Jim Dixon. I'd always known of the assocation of Mohill with these other songs it just irritated me that I could not remember the exact lyrics - if such a thing as exact lyrics for folk song exists. Thank you |
|
01 Nov 09 - 04:41 PM (#2757471) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Molehill? / Mohill / Handsome Polly-O From: GUEST Thomas Moran recorded some wonderful stuff for Ennis. A few tracks were issued on vinyl and are well worth hearing. |
|
01 Nov 09 - 05:03 PM (#2757497) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Molehill? / Mohill / Handsome Polly-O From: Reinhard Thomas Moran's version is on the LP A Soldier's Life for Me, volume 8 of the Caedmon/Topic series The Folk Songs of Britain from the 1960s. The album notes say: “Handsome Polly-O sung by Thomas Moran, Mohill, Co. Leitrim; recorded by Seamus Ennis (BBC Sound Archive) This tale of the love-lorn captain still enjoys widespread popularity in the English-speaking world. It was published in Cecil Sharp's English Folk Song of the Southern Appalachians under the title of Pretty Katie-O and in Scotland it is generally sung as The Bonnie Lass of Fyvie to the air Kelvin Grove.” |
|
01 Nov 09 - 05:16 PM (#2757510) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Molehill? / Mohill / Handsome Polly-O From: GUEST Bit of thread drift, I know, but there's an MP3 of Moran singing "The Jolly Tinker" HERE, currently. |