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19 Jun 02 - 04:41 PM (#733157) Subject: Brendan, holy Brendan From: GUEST,Ulf Svensson svensson.u@telia.com
Dear , I'm searching for the lyrics for Brendan holy Brendan a folktune from Ireland sung by Tommy Makem |
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19 Jun 02 - 06:19 PM (#733209) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Brendan, holy Brendan From: The Pooka Guest Ulf, I've searched www.makem.com and can't find it there. Google search also fails, though it finds a few other St. Brendan songs (including a medieval hymn), and a St. Brendan "home page"! / But I've got that Makem song on a recording somewhere, & if I can find it I'll transcribe it. Unless somebody else locates the lyrics first. (Masato! Help!! :) |
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19 Jun 02 - 06:40 PM (#733227) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Brendan, holy Brendan From: masato sakurai No lyrics so far. "Brendan" is a song about a sixth-century saint known as Brendan the Navigator because of his love of the sea. It is on Rolling Home by Tommy Makem (Click here for sound clip). ~Masato |
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19 Jun 02 - 09:27 PM (#733330) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Brendan, holy Brendan From: The Pooka I'm sure that's the song requested, Masato. Begorrah, you *always* come through! I don't think that album is listed in Makem's website discography. Now, if I can just (a) find that album in the rubble of my humble abode, and (b) coax the damn CD player to work....I just watched PBS "In Search of Ancient Ireland" (see thread so titled), episode 2, "Saints" --- including a segment re St. Brendan --- so I am inspired. / Well. For the moment anyway. :) |
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19 Jun 02 - 10:20 PM (#733353) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Brendan, holy Brendan From: The Pooka No luck yet. A dark suspicion forms, that my 20-yr-old son Brendan (no kidding), who pokes gentle fun at "Dad's Irish crap" but actually loves it (it's genetic I think), "borrowed" the CD. Fine behavior for a Saint's namesake. I'll send him off to Iceland in a curragh...nonono. I'll keep looking. |
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20 Jun 02 - 06:02 AM (#733497) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Brendan, holy Brendan From: GUEST,Philippa If you are interested in other songs about St Brendan, see St Brendan's Voyage |
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06 Nov 04 - 01:32 AM (#1318618) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Brendan, holy Brendan From: GUEST Guest, Ulf Svennson, posted a request for the song Brendan, as sung by Tommy Makem. It is on unanswered requests, so probably hasn't been supplied yet. I have the cd, I don't think it would be hard to find, and I could transcribe the lyrics if anyone still wants it. MJ |
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07 Nov 04 - 11:55 AM (#1319596) Subject: Lyr Add: BRENDAN (from Tommy Makem) From: Jim Dixon Copied from the discussion forum at the Makem website. BRENDAN Our mast and keel were made of oak. We had cowhide all around. She was fitted right, she was watertight, And we were outward bound. Our sails were white in the morning light, The Celtic cross our sign. By Brendan blessed we were headed west, And the land fell far behind. We'd a favoring wind for weeks on end And we could take our ease (?) One cloudy morn it suddenly turned And brought us mountainous seas. Between the waves was darkened caves (?) And Brendan brought us through. He wrote a prayer that the Lord might spare Our ship and all its crew. CHORUS: Brendan, holy Brendan. He sailed uncharted waters; he discovered lands unknown. Brendan, holy Brendan. He was a saintly sailor, and he steered us safely home. We saw strange sights both days and nights And Brendan wrote them down: Fish that fly and a rainbow sky, And a floating crystal town, And a giant thing that could swim and sing, Blew water through its head, And a fish that talked and on water walked, And a crew that was damn near dead. We had nearly died when Brendan cried: "There's land full near ahead! An albatross our bow has crossed And we're approaching land!" We ran aground on the land newfound And we rested many days. Spirits were good, fresh water and food, And we all sang Brendan's praise. CHORUS It was turning cold, and it might take hold And we headed out once more. We were southward bound and the only sound Was the wind and the water's roar. We had no storm, and the sun turned warm And we once again made land, With fruits to eat, all fresh and sweet, A paradise for man. Now we're home again through the wind and rain And homeland hills look green, And Brendan's charts map out the parts Where no one else had been. Now winter nights by the firelight, I live it all again, How a saintly man with a prayer and a plan Had charted the western main. CHORUS [Recorded by Tommy Makem on "Rolling Home," Shanachie CD #52021, 1989, which is available from Red Biddy Records.] |
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07 Nov 04 - 07:30 PM (#1319985) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Brendan, holy Brendan From: Q (Frank Staplin) Well worth hearing is "The Brendan Voyage," an orchestral suite for uillean pipes, composed by Shaun Davey. The pipes are played by Liam O'Flynn, orchestra conducted by Noel Kelehan. Tara cd 3006. "The Brendan Voyage," a book by Tim Severin, was the inspiration for the suite. |