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19 Oct 00 - 12:16 AM (#322451) Subject: King of the Fairies From: GUEST,summerblues47 Looking for Irish Rovers lyrics to "King of the Fairies" |
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19 Oct 00 - 02:20 AM (#322491) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: King of the Fairies From: Joe Offer Hi - You'll find a thread here (click) which has links to the tune and lyrics. -Joe Offer- |
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19 Oct 00 - 02:20 AM (#322492) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: King of the Fairies From: BigDaddy "Up the airy mountain, down the rushy glen, we daren't go a hunting for fear of little men. Wee folk, good folk trooping all together. Green jacket, red cap and white owl's feather. By the craggy hillside and through the mosses bare, they've planted thorntrees for pleasure here and there. If anyone's so daring as to dig them up in spite, he'll find the sharpest thorns in his bed at night." This is based on a poem by William Allingham. He had his folklore "down." The same warning about damaging thorn trees was given to me 25 years ago by a lovely red-haired Irish lass. Check here for the complete original text Slainte, J. |
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19 Oct 00 - 12:09 PM (#322550) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: King of the Fairies From: McGrath of Harlow The William Allingham words don't really fit the tune too well, I think. I'd like to know a tune thtat would fit them, because they're good words. I'm sure I've heard them sung though, and wasn't to the King of the Fairies.
I'd think the Red Buckled Shoes would have been writtten to the existing tune, or the tune would be called that; so maybe there is a King of the Fairies set of words that gave it the name. In which case it'd be great to have them.
King of the Fairies works best if you start it pretty slow, and work up the speed as you go. |
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19 Oct 00 - 09:50 PM (#323028) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: King of the Fairies From: Malcolm Douglas I'm not familiar with "The Irish Rovers" (they'd be American, perhaps?) so I don't know which set of lyrics we're talking about; "The Girl with the Buckles on her Shoes" or "The Fairies" (as mentioned by "BigDaddy" above). If the latter, then the point is that Allingham wrote his poem (as a poem, not as a song) a long time ago -it was first published in 1850, and it was never intended to be sung to the "King of the Fairies" setdance tune. The version on the DT is garbled and incomplete, and evidently posted by somebody who copied it from a record (describing it as "Irish Traditional"; it's nothing of the kind!) I've said before that if somebody actually has sung it to the dance tune, they must have used a very large shoehorn to force it to fit. He didn't call it "The King of the Fairies", either, but "The Fairies". Aarrgghh. More fake tradition... Rant over. Malcolm |
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19 Oct 00 - 09:53 PM (#323035) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: King of the Fairies From: alison I put the "girl with the buckles on here shoes " into a thread a few months back.... I'll try to find it slainte alison |
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19 Oct 00 - 10:00 PM (#323048) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: King of the Fairies From: alison The girl with the buckles on her shoes lyrics are halfway down this thread slainte alison |
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19 Oct 00 - 10:04 PM (#323055) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: King of the Fairies From: Alice I refreshed if while you were linking to it. I had it traced to my personal page... on my list to learn. Thanks for the words, alison. Alice |
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19 Oct 00 - 10:13 PM (#323064) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: King of the Fairies From: alison thanks Alice slainte alison |
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20 Oct 00 - 02:08 PM (#323439) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: King of the Fairies From: McGrath of Harlow Still hoping for a real King of the Fairies set of words. |
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20 Oct 00 - 05:35 PM (#323563) Subject: Lyr Add: THE FAIRIES (William Allingham) - part From: Jimmy C Sorry for not responding earlier, I was a little confused by the title "King of the Fairies." As far as I know the "King of the Fairies" is an instrumental for a set dance. By chance I happen to know a little poem from my schooldays, and I think it may be the one you want. When we learned it the title was "Up the Airy Mountain." It's the same as "Big Daddy's" submission with the first verse repeated. The third verse I got from an earlier thread.
Up the airy mountain, down the rushy glen,
Up the craggy hillside, through the mosses bare,
High up on the hilltop the old king sits.
Up the airy mountain, down the rushy glen, |
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20 Oct 00 - 06:31 PM (#323612) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: King of the Fairies From: JTT I don't think the tune has words. It's a traditional tune which is supposed to have been picked up by a fiddler who overheard it played in a rath by those of the otherworld. |
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21 Oct 00 - 06:16 AM (#323874) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: King of the Fairies From: McGrath of Harlow The Good People might have had some words to it though... |