16 Jan 00 - 01:14 AM (#163761) Subject: LYR req: Yet ANOTHER 'Johnny' From: Sorcha I'm gonna put this up, then go to be. My daughter is searching for words to a tune called "Johnny, Lovely Johnny" This is the title, and it is sung by Dolores Keane. We have the CD, but CANNOT get the words from it..(don't know if it's the accent or the dialect) One phrase is-"when you came to my window to steal me away" Yes, I looked in Ceolas. |
16 Jan 00 - 02:38 AM (#163776) Subject: RE: LYR req: Yet ANOTHER 'Johnny' From: paddymac Well at least he didn't come lately (too cold?). :>) |
16 Jan 00 - 12:24 PM (#163859) Subject: Lyr Add: BANKS OF THE ROSES From: Jeremiah McCaw It's in the DT under a different title. There's an alternate version listed as well. The Barra McNeils do it on one of their earlier CDs.
BANKS OF THE ROSES
O when I was a young man, I heard my father say
O then I am no runaway and soon I'll let them know
And if ever I get married, twill be in the month of May
DT #513
Note: in other versions he kills her.See DT 311 versions recorded by Redpath, Buffy Ste Marie, and Clancy Bros. |
16 Jan 00 - 06:33 PM (#163980) Subject: Lyr Add: JOHNNY LOVELY JOHNNY^^ From: Susanne (skw) This is what Dolores sings on 'Broken Hearted I'll Wander'. Searching for 'high walls of Derry' didn't find it in the DT so I'll post it. It seems to be a different song from the one Jeremiah McCraw posted. The high walls of Derry look dismal and grey
Oh Johnny lovely Johnny do you mind the day
Oh Annie lovely Annie it was all but a jest
The first time I met you 'tis well I do own
A bunch of blue ribbons I'll tie up and wear
Hope this is it. - Susanne |
16 Jan 00 - 07:32 PM (#163992) Subject: RE: LYR req: Yet ANOTHER 'Johnny' From: Sorcha YES!! Susanne, that's it!! I knew it wasn't Banks of Roses, or Bantry Girls Lamen. THANK YOU!! |
16 Jan 00 - 07:44 PM (#163996) Subject: RE: LYR req: Yet ANOTHER 'Johnny' From: Metchosin As a note regarding The Banks of the Roses, my grandmother sang a slightly different version that seems to be a link between this and the ones at DT 311, so I'll post another "Johnny song". |
17 Jan 00 - 02:16 AM (#164166) Subject: RE: LYR req: Yet ANOTHER 'Johnny' From: Barry Finn There was a thread on this a quite awhile ago & I think the version Susanne posted was in it, can't recall if there was any info on the song itself. If you can't find a song in the DT there's usually a fair short of it being buried among the threads. Barry |