20 Apr 02 - 06:12 AM (#694218) Subject: The Star of Sunday's Well From: Mac Tattie I recently heard part of this song this song on radio and was reminded of a singer who I heard quite regularly, years ago, arround folk clubs. Any one know the words ? cheers |
20 Apr 02 - 07:15 AM (#694236) Subject: Lyr Add: THE STAR OF SUNDAY'S WELL From: masato sakurai THE STAR OF SUNDAY'S WELL [Air: 'Hugh Reynolds', I.S.B. No. 64.]
Ye damsels of Castalia, Melpomene and Thalia,
Expressly fabricated for to be venerated
This matron subsidises both Beamish's and Wise's,
All through the summer weather, two lovers linked together,
W.B. GUINEY in The Cork Examiner, 1870.
(From: Colm O Lochlainn, More Irish Street Ballads, The Three Candles, 1968, pp. 258-259; text only) ~Masato |
20 Apr 02 - 09:32 AM (#694306) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Star of Sundays Well From: Mac Tattie Manny thanks masato sakurai. Perhaps you should submit this to the DT lyric list as well. cheers |
20 Apr 02 - 01:43 PM (#694425) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Star of Sundays Well From: Emma B Jimmy Crowley, who lived in Sunday's Well, gives an almost identical version in his book ISBN 0 85342 773 9 published by The Mercier Press set to a 'tradional' tune. He also attributes the words to W Guiney but gives the date of publication in The Cork Examiner as 1874. I'm afraid I can't do ABC music (can someone out there help) otherwise I'd send you the tune Jiimmy used |
20 Apr 02 - 06:50 PM (#694549) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Star of Sundays Well From: Noreen Jimmy Crowley used the same tune as that mentioned above, Little Mo, also known as the tune to The Lament of Hugh Reynolds (She's the dear maid to me). If this tune is not to be found anywhere I could supply it. Noreen |
20 Apr 02 - 11:40 PM (#694680) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Star of Sundays Well From: Malcolm Douglas I.S.B. no.64 in Masato's post refers to O Lochlainn's Irish Street Ballads (first volume), where The Lamentation of Hugh Reynolds is given with its tune. A midi made from the notation in that book will go, in time, to Mudcat Midis; until then, it can be heard via the South Riding Folk Network site:
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21 Apr 02 - 12:30 AM (#694686) Subject: Lyr Add: THE LAMENTATION OF HUGH REYNOLDS From: masato sakurai Thanks, Malcolm. The song in my edition is numbered 66, instead of 64.
THE LAMENTATION OF HUGH REYNOLDS
My name it is Hugh Reynolds I come of honest parents,
Young men and tender maidens, throughout this Irish nation,
For now my glass is run, and my last hour is come,
Adieu, my loving father, and you, my tender mother,
Now, I can say no more; to the Law-board I must go,
(From: Colm O Lachlainn, Irish Street Ballads, The Three Candles, [1939], 1967, No. 66, pp. 132-133; with music)
The lyrics are also HERE (Donagh MacDonagh song collection) & HERE, with minor differences. SHE'S A DEAR MAID TO ME is probably sung to the same tune. ~Masato |
21 Apr 02 - 08:34 AM (#694801) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Star of Sundays Well From: Malcolm Douglas It's "66" in my edition, too, now that I look again. Presumably, "64" was a typo. |
29 Apr 08 - 05:26 PM (#2329054) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Star of Sundays Well From: The Sandman I have been told that this song[star of sundays well ]was written as as a reply in the Cork Examiner. somebody had stated publicly that the irish mangled the english language,the star of sundays well was the Erudite reply. I believe your singer might have been DonalMaguire |
30 Apr 08 - 04:37 AM (#2329482) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Star of Sundays Well From: Sandra in Sydney strangely enough, I was only playing this CD yesterday! Donal Maguire The Star of Sunday's Well, 1979, remastered 2003 by Rossendale Records note to track 12 - The Star of Sunday's Well This song adequately thumbs it's nose at the purveyors of all those stories which portray the Irish as a race of semi-literate inarticulate numbskulls. Undoubtedly written with tongue-in-cheek by W.B. Guiney, it appeared in the Cork Examiner in 1871.It is a masterpiece of rhetoric and abounds with flowery language, a legacy of the post-Penal Law 'Hedge School' classics teaching which often accompanied the ubiquitous 'three R's' I first heard it sung by singer John Gregson a specialist in comic songs, in a Warrington folk club. The action takes place in Cork city, and this must surely be the most eloquent put-down of amorous intent one is likely to hear! sandra |
27 Feb 09 - 05:40 AM (#2577070) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Star of Sunday's Well From: GUEST,Donal O'Danachair This was sung by Jimmy Crowley and is on his CD "Camphouse Ballads". It's deleted but you may be able to get a secondhand one from Amazon |