08 Feb 00 - 02:59 PM (#175136) Subject: Your favorite WAKE tunes and Songs From: Conrad Bladey (Peasant- Inactive) What are your favorite wake songs tunes,keens both fast and slow. Irish tradition prefered...but whatever ok.. Thanks in advance! Conrad |
08 Feb 00 - 03:52 PM (#175151) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Your favorite WAKE tunes and Songs From: Clinton Hammond2 Well... I want James Keelaghan's "Who Dies" sung at my funeral... But that's the way I feel about death... |
08 Feb 00 - 04:00 PM (#175153) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Your favorite WAKE tunes and Songs From: Amos I sang (through my tears) my mother's two favorites at her funeral; one being, of course, Finnegan's Wake; and the other a verse from "His Eye Is On The Sparrow". Her sister, at a memorial service later, also made a request for "Abide With Me" which is a really beautiful hymn. A |
08 Feb 00 - 04:49 PM (#175188) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Your favorite WAKE tunes and Songs From: GUEST,mike cahill "Look at the Coffin", A wry look at a funeral |
08 Feb 00 - 04:50 PM (#175189) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Your favorite WAKE tunes and Songs From: Snuffy I would like "What's the life of a man, any more than a leaf" for my funeral Wassail! V |
08 Feb 00 - 05:01 PM (#175195) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Your favorite WAKE tunes and Songs From: The Shambles I liked Peter Sellers Idea to play 'In The Mood', during the church service. |
09 Feb 00 - 01:27 AM (#175404) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Your favorite WAKE tunes and Songs From: alison A stor mo chroi, The Parting Glass, slainte alison |
09 Feb 00 - 11:49 AM (#175594) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Your favorite WAKE tunes and Songs From: Sorcha Definitely "Parting Glass"! At my dad's service, a pianist played all his favorites, mostly 40' and 50's C&W,for Intro music, and then read the poem that begins....."Oh Lord, I've never lived where churches grow." At mum's, my daughter requested "Will the Circle Be Unbroken" and "Wayfaring Stranger" |
09 Feb 00 - 07:20 PM (#175847) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Your favorite WAKE tunes and Songs From: alison wild mountain thyme slainte alison |
09 Feb 00 - 07:29 PM (#175853) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Your favorite WAKE tunes and Songs From: bob schwarer "Tie me kangaroo down" Bob S. |
09 Feb 00 - 07:43 PM (#175863) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Your favorite WAKE tunes and Songs From: Mbo I want ELO's "I'm Alive" played at my wake! --Mbo |
10 Feb 00 - 05:16 PM (#176339) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Your favorite WAKE tunes and Songs From: Conrad Bladey (Peasant- Inactive) Any more Irish wake tunes? Conrad |
10 Feb 00 - 05:57 PM (#176359) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Your favorite WAKE tunes and Songs From: GUEST,Rich(stupidbodhranplayer...) The Carter family had a song called "Just a Few More Days" about a dying mother leaving her child in Jesus' care. Suzanne Thomas (formerly of Dry Branch Fire Squad) does a nice version on her solo CD "DEar Friends and Gentle Hearts". I don't know who did it originally, but the Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band Used to do a song called "They Have Gone Home". I read in an issue of Treoir a few years ago about a collector of tunes who had set out (and succeeded) to not only outdo Chief O'Niell's 1001 tunes, but he collected 1002 reels. At his wake, his wife had people come over and play reels. I can't remember the man's name but I'll look it up and post it tomorrow. Rich |
10 Feb 00 - 06:35 PM (#176378) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Your favorite WAKE tunes and Songs From: Mbo There's one I've heard called "The Celtic Lament" played by a fiddler by the name of Eugene O'Donnell. Perfect for a wake. --Mbo |
10 Feb 00 - 06:45 PM (#176384) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Your favorite WAKE tunes and Songs From: Lanfranc "The Lyke Wake Dirge" ( Young Tradition, Pentangle et al) is my favourite. We had a Lyke Wake for my late father-in-law (The coffin was placed before the altar in the church for the night before the funeral). "This ae neet, this aye neet, every neet and all, Fire and fleet and candleleet and Christ receive thy saul" It' s probably in the database, if not, I'll post it |
10 Feb 00 - 06:46 PM (#176387) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Your favorite WAKE tunes and Songs From: Áine Bheir Mí Ó, Fill A Rún Ó, Gleanntáin Ghlas Ghaoth Dobhair, or An Mhaighdean Mhara would be my choices for songs. -- Áine |
10 Feb 00 - 07:14 PM (#176399) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Your favorite WAKE tunes and Songs From: Sourdough I would love to see some more verses to "Isn't it Grand, Boys, (to be Bloody Well Dead") in addition to the relatively common ones in the DT base. There must be an awful lot of them. Sourdough |
10 Feb 00 - 07:52 PM (#176421) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Your favorite WAKE tunes and Songs From: McGrath of Harlow No Irish wake would be complete without someone singing "The Old Bog Road", especially the last verse:
Ah! Life's a weary puzzle,
Followed by a general chorus of "Sure, he/she always loved that one..." and a round of fresh drinks and reminiscences. |
10 Feb 00 - 09:06 PM (#176454) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Your favorite WAKE tunes and Songs From: Conrad Bladey (Peasant- Inactive) wonderful keep em comming Conrad |
10 Feb 00 - 09:26 PM (#176461) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Your favorite WAKE tunes and Songs From: GUEST "Nelly coming home from the wake" |
10 Feb 00 - 10:33 PM (#176506) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Your favorite WAKE tunes and Songs From: Guy Wolff Is flowers of the forest Scotish??? It is beautiful..I have always played Ireane good night and May the circle be unbroken at local gatherings of this kind. Not Irish sorry but well loved here in Connecticut farm country..All the best, Guy |
10 Feb 00 - 10:49 PM (#176512) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Your favorite WAKE tunes and Songs From: Pete Peterson last summer at my mother's funeral we sang some of the songs she had liked hearing my friends sing: I'll Fly Away and Anchored in Love Divine. (Carter Family) I have told these same friends should they need to arrange mine, please sing Northfield (155 in the 1991 Sacred Harp book) Not quite "wake songs" but -- hasn't anybody mentioned Finnegans' yet? |
10 Feb 00 - 11:00 PM (#176515) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Your favorite WAKE tunes and Songs From: Mbo Or what about "Rosin The Beau"? --Mbo |
11 Feb 00 - 12:39 AM (#176544) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Your favorite WAKE tunes and Songs From: JamesJim Paddy Murphy "Oh the night that Paddy Murphy died, we never shall forget - We all got stinkin' drunk that night and some ain't sober yet - But the only thing we did that night that filled my heart with fear - We took the ice right off the corpse and put it on the beer. And that's how we paid our respect to Paddy Murphy - That's how we showed our honor and our pride - That's how we paid our respect to Paddy Murphy - On the night ol' Paddy Murphy died." |
11 Feb 00 - 12:41 AM (#176545) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Your favorite WAKE tunes and Songs From: GUEST,Bruce O. "Since Flowers of the Forest" was written by a Scotswoman in Scotland it's undoubtably Scottish. Taken from her own MS, it's in the Scarce Songs 1 file on my website [with both the old and new (c 1740) tunes as ABCs] |
11 Feb 00 - 12:58 AM (#176547) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Your favorite WAKE tunes and Songs From: wysiwyg There was a really beautiful one I actually heard on a county station some years ago called, "If You Could See Me Now" by a male solo artist whose name escaped me. It was about how lovely heaven is, how well the deceased is now feeling, how he will wait as long as God gives for the widow to get there someday, how they'll have all eternity together... how the body torn by pain and disease is not the real man, and the real man is fine... I don't think I'll ever find that song, but if I did that's what I would want. At a funeral my husband conducted earlier this year, for a girl killed in her car weeks from her college graduation, the last song played before he entered to conduct the service was... Spirit in the Sky. The parents had honored her quirky sense of fun and subjected this very staid, grief-outraged crowd to the whole thing, long intro with spacy effects and all. They were rockin' by the second riff, it was something. Thank you Bobbi Jo! |
11 Feb 00 - 08:57 AM (#176625) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Your favorite WAKE tunes and Songs From: Mary in Kentucky My husband likes Finlandia, but I would have to go with a medley of my 50 favorite Scotch/Irish songs. (played on the piano of course because the bagpipes just don't seem appropriate in KY). Mary |
11 Feb 00 - 09:02 AM (#176632) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Your favorite WAKE tunes and Songs From: bob schwarer By Michael Simmons RELEASE: SNAKEFARM: SONGS FROM MY FUNERAL (RCA) Snakefarm's Songs from My Funeral is a collection of classic American folk songs, like "Tom Dooley," "Frankie and Johnny," and "John Henry," which have been deconstructed and reassembled using the techniques of electronica and trip-hop. Along with the banjos, Dobros, and acoustic guitars, Anna Domino and her partner Michel Delory also use synthesizers, drum machines, and a variety of electronic effects to create a new sonic landscape for these tales of death, murder, and loneliness. This is not folk music as Woody Guthrie or Leadbelly knew it but a surprisingly effective modern interpretation. The spooky synth tones and long, echoing reverbs serve these songs well. The noises may have been created by twiddling the knobs on a bunch of electronic boxes, but the feeling behind the music is organic. Songs from My Funeral is not for everyone. If you are one of those people who think Dylan should never have picked up an electric guitar, you should pass this by. But if you want to hear an intriguing new way of singing old songs, you might want to give this a listen.
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11 Feb 00 - 11:16 AM (#176692) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Your favorite WAKE tunes and Songs From: Gervase There's a wonderful Sankey hymn on one of the Waterson/Carthy albums, 'Sleep on Beloved, as sung in the Bahamas, which is a near-relation to the north-east funeral song 'I Bid You Goodnight'. It really is a belter! |
11 Feb 00 - 11:50 AM (#176715) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Your favorite WAKE tunes and Songs From: GUEST,JohnB Isn't It Grand Lyrics These come from Ray Austin. They differ from the DT lyrics. I like them better. Enjoy Look at the casket, bright golden handles Look at the preacher, bloody fine fellow Look at the flowers, all bloody withered Look at the choir boys, all bloody tonsils Look at the mourners, bloody great drunkards Look at the tombstone, bloody great boulder Look at the guiness, half bloody water Look at the widow, bloody great female See the mortician, fat bloody billfold Look at the luncheon, dry and so tasteless from Fribourg Folk Club singing, 1973 |
11 Feb 00 - 06:04 PM (#176859) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Your favorite WAKE tunes and Songs From: Conrad Bladey (Peasant- Inactive) This is fantastic! Keep up the good work! Conrad |
11 Feb 00 - 07:40 PM (#176891) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Your favorite WAKE tunes and Songs From: McGrath of Harlow We're drifting from songs for a wake to songs for a funeral. Which is very logical, that's the right order to have thigs in. People sometimes talk about the party after a funeral as being a wake, but it's not, it's the night before, preferably in the locality of the deceased.
Funeral should have songs that represent what the person being buried or burned stood for, if they stood for anything.
So for example:
Funerals tend to have much better songs than weddings. Good wakes are much more life enhancing than stag parties and hen nights. As I said "You can't beat death!"
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11 Feb 00 - 07:44 PM (#176892) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Your favorite WAKE tunes and Songs From: wysiwyg "I Will Meet You in the Morning (just inside the eastern gate)" Where the Roses Never Fade Never Grow Old The Great Divide (Kate Wolf) |
11 Feb 00 - 10:00 PM (#176946) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Your favorite WAKE tunes and Songs From: DougR It isn't Irish, but I'm a bit surprised no one has mentioned "Amazing Grace." Bach wrote a beautiful choral piece, "Come Soothing Death," and I'd attempt to write it in German as it should be buy my German Mudcat friends wouldn't be able to read it. (I think is it "Kum Susser Toad but I'm probably gonna regret writing that.) DougR |
12 Feb 00 - 08:09 AM (#177074) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Your favorite WAKE tunes and Songs From: Conrad Bladey (Peasant- Inactive) Ok My old list- I am still seeking lyrics and tunes for these any one have them? Songs of Connemara: Baile Ui Li (Ballylee), An Muilleoir Bán (The White Miller), Bhi Triúr Mac Agam (I had Three Sons), Oileán Éide (Edie Island), Buchaill na Gruaige Doinne The Brownhaired Boy), An Caillin Rua, (The Redhaired Girl) Sile Ni Ghadhra (The Cottage Maid), The Streams of Bunclody and Don't Marry |
12 Feb 00 - 09:00 AM (#177093) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Your favorite WAKE tunes and Songs From: Conrad Bladey (Peasant- Inactive) Looking for abc for The flowers of the Forest it is in the dt but not abc Many thanks! Conrad |
12 Feb 00 - 10:01 AM (#177121) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Your favorite WAKE tunes and Songs From: Áine Dear Conrad, Click here for the lyrics to An Cailín Rua. -- Áine |
12 Feb 00 - 10:24 AM (#177132) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Your favorite WAKE tunes and Songs From: Conrad Bladey (Peasant- Inactive) Thanks now I am searching for the abc for An Cailin Rua I might be writing it so look here....soon... Conrad |
12 Feb 00 - 07:35 PM (#177357) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Your favorite WAKE tunes and Songs From: Conrad Bladey (Peasant- Inactive) nope cailin rua notation not in my one book of connemara sean nos songs. Anyone got the title of a good sean nos songbook? Conrad |
12 Feb 00 - 07:57 PM (#177363) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Your favorite WAKE tunes and Songs From: Áine Dear Conrad, I could send you a sound file of An Cailín Rua if that would do. -- Áine |
12 Feb 00 - 10:03 PM (#177421) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Your favorite WAKE tunes and Songs From: alison conrad... start a different thread for each of the ones you are looking for.. that way people will know you're looking.. the requests get buried otherwise.... slainte alison |
13 Feb 00 - 12:50 AM (#177478) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Your favorite WAKE tunes and Songs From: Conrad Bladey (Peasant- Inactive) will do.... I have sound need notation.... I shall answer the people here then generally I post right away to another thread.... Conrad |
13 Feb 00 - 01:48 AM (#177490) Subject: Lyr Add: SONG ABOUT LIFE (Robert Oneman Johnson)^^ From: reggie miles My friend Robert Oneman Johnson has a great song called "Song About Life".
She's a rough one,
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13 Feb 00 - 07:01 AM (#177529) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Your favorite WAKE tunes and Songs From: Conrad Bladey (Peasant- Inactive) A wonderful song! Keep up the good work..... and someday we shall have a wake right here! Conrad |
13 Feb 00 - 08:46 AM (#177552) Subject: Lyr Add: SLEEP ON, BELOVED^^ From: Grey Wolf As Gervase has mentioned there's a cracking funeral song on the first, self titled Waterson:Carthy album. They sing it unaccompanied, but I've included chords for anyone interested.
C F C Until the shadows from this earth are cast Until made beautiful by love divine Until we meet again before the throne Martin Carthy's sleeve notes: Wolf |
13 Feb 00 - 09:09 AM (#177556) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Your favorite WAKE tunes and Songs From: Willie-O OK it's Scottish. In my book it's good for wakes or funerals. No more, no more ************* But for a wake, definitely Paddy Murphy's. And whatever songs were important to the deceased in life. And me, I like "Box of Rain" by the Grateful Dead. Willie-O |
03 Mar 03 - 06:33 PM (#902743) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Your favorite WAKE tunes and Songs From: wilco What are some of the older wake songs of previous generations? I'm in Tennessee (USA), and I have many family lines from Ireland. |
04 Mar 03 - 02:00 PM (#903332) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Your favorite WAKE tunes and Songs From: Genie For serious/somber memorial service songs, my favorites include: Abide With Me His Eye Is On The Sparrow Be Thou My Vision (tune: Slane) Rock Of Ages and Thomas A. Dorsey's Bill Staines also has a great, appropriate song called, IIRC, Crossing The River For a more celebratory wake, I like what the New Orleans jazz folks do with and I'll Fly Away is good, too. |
04 Mar 03 - 02:16 PM (#903350) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Your favorite WAKE tunes and Songs From: GUEST,Geordie How Can I keep From Singing..and Bruce Cockburn's Festival of Friends. |
05 Mar 03 - 05:59 AM (#903843) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Your favorite WAKE tunes and Songs From: cetmst Who Will Sing for Me, Carter Stanley/John McCutcheon Your Long Journey, Doc and Rosalie Watson Midnight Prayerlight, Cathie Fink |
05 Mar 03 - 06:37 AM (#903852) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Your favorite WAKE tunes and Songs From: Nigel Parsons Eli Jenkins Prayer TTTO Troyte's Chant. Not Irish, but a beautiful setting of Dylan Thomas. Full four part harmony makes this popular in Wales Nigel |
05 Mar 03 - 06:39 AM (#903854) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Your favorite WAKE tunes and Songs From: Nigel Parsons Just to clarify, thet's his evening prayer quoted by Jon Freeman in the thread. Nigel |
05 Mar 03 - 03:03 PM (#904157) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Your favorite WAKE tunes and Songs From: CraigS A thought for funerals ... the dreaded William Shatner LP ... not to be played, but made up as part of the wreath and cremated with the deceased! |