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Lyr Req: Rock On Rockall (Brian Warfield)

17 Nov 97 - 10:40 AM (#16291)
Subject: Rock On Rockall
From: Harald

We discussed that song sooner.
But I´m not sure about it´s location. The song mentions the Isle of Man and refers to it by it´s making by Finn McCool. But there´s another place called rockall - an island west of the outer Hebrides. And that´s where natural gas has been found. And that´s what the song is about. So: which Rock on Rockall is meant ?

Greetings, Harald


17 Nov 97 - 10:54 AM (#16295)
Subject: RE: Rock On Rockall
From: The Fenian

Is this song in the folksong database The Fenian(one of Finn MacCool's men)


17 Nov 97 - 11:11 AM (#16297)
Subject: RE: Rock On Rockall
From: Harald

I don´t know, but it´s here


19 Nov 97 - 06:11 AM (#16380)
Subject: RE: Rock On Rockall
From: Benjamin Bodhra/nai

harald,

Fionn MacCumhaill threw a sod of grass which became the Isle of Man and a pebble which became Rockall, and yes it is the one just off the Hebrides. Check the link you gave for my quote of The House Bands description from their Album Rockall

Sla/n

Benjamin