23 Jan 03 - 11:29 AM (#872902) Subject: Lyr Req: little known Percy French From: GUEST,Philippa I'm sitting here in the library with Brendan O'Dowda's book "The World of Percy French" and an anonymously edited "Songs of Percy French" published in Cork 1976 - and I can't remember what obscure Percy French song someone was looking for in a fairly recent thread. If you help me, I may be able to help fulfill the request. ?"McBreen's heifir"? - rings a bell, but I haven't found the relevant thread |
23 Jan 03 - 01:06 PM (#872999) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: little known Percy French From: weerover I have this in "Songs of Percy French" (pub. Ossian), an inexpensive and widely available publication. I am not at home just now, but will post when I can if someone else doesn't do it first. wr |
23 Jan 03 - 01:25 PM (#873012) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: little known Percy French From: Noreen McBreen's Heifer has already been posted in the forum, wr, so look at that before typing! |
23 Jan 03 - 01:25 PM (#873014) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: little known Percy French From: ard mhacha Correct Weerover, Widely available in Ireland , Brendan O`Dowda sings The songs of Percy French, |
23 Jan 03 - 01:33 PM (#873022) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: little known Percy French From: Noreen See: Lyrics req, McBreen's Heifer please? |
23 Jan 03 - 03:01 PM (#873110) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: little known Percy French From: weerover Sorry Ard Mhacha, I was referring to the book: words and music with a decent chunk of biographical introduction, and only a few quid. |
23 Jan 03 - 07:18 PM (#873332) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: little known Percy French From: JedMarum I was recently looking for info about Percy, while hunting down the lyrics and melody for ABDUL ABULBUL AMIR (I found the song info). I found a bit of bio info on Percy; he was professional of some sort, maybe an accountant - and an amateur song writer - durnig an economic down swing he was forced to write full time, and proved to be successful. I recently recorded his Phil the Fluther's Ball. |
24 Jan 03 - 07:00 PM (#874217) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: little known Percy French From: McGrath of Harlow This site has some interesting stuff about Percy French, who did a lot of other things as well as write songs. Including playing thh banjo. |
20 Mar 05 - 12:40 AM (#1438702) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: little known Percy French From: GUEST,Toowtie I need to find the sheet music to French's "Phil the Fluther's Ball" immeidately. And I saw that you have a copy of the book "Songs of Percy French" of which I cannot order ANYWHERE! Can anyone help me? |
20 Mar 05 - 01:23 AM (#1438718) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: little known Percy French From: Peace http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:CAggV1HLWYkJ:www.thewhistleshop.com/catalog/tutorials/irishmusicsongbooks/songsofireland/song or Google Songs of Ireland |
20 Mar 05 - 01:37 AM (#1438724) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: little known Percy French From: Peace Good News: Go to this link. http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:kitWwAexh1QJ:www.singout.org/sng-ndx2.html+%22Phil+the+Fluther%27s+Ball%22,+sheet+music&hl=en You can e-mail them (Singout magazine). Details at the top of the page. Title you require under P. |
22 Mar 05 - 08:57 PM (#1441164) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: little known Percy French From: GUEST,Toowtie Thanks much, those are all good and quite sufficient, but I am looking for a publication that has an arrangement for voice and piano accompianment. Wishful thinking? Also, as I am not familiar with Irish expressions, what does the last line mean? |
23 Mar 05 - 04:10 AM (#1441333) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: little known Percy French From: Big Tim The widow beat the company at handling the foot = best dancer. Nice little Percyism there, "handling the foot"! |
22 Sep 05 - 02:25 AM (#1568215) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: lf i was a lady From: GUEST |
22 Sep 05 - 02:57 AM (#1568223) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: little known Percy French From: Micca Freda, I think that the Final line of the first verse that you have as "The better would the music be for battherin' the flute." should read " The better would the music be for battherin' the floor". Well I am sure thats what My Uncle Neddy sang anyway!! and it seems to rhyme! |
22 Sep 05 - 04:28 PM (#1568630) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: little known Percy French From: ard mhacha What the hell did the poor oul flute do?, of course it`s battering the floor. |
22 Sep 05 - 04:41 PM (#1568633) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: little known Percy French From: Tattie Bogle Surely a reference to percussive dance? i.e,the hard shoe style very popular in Irish dance (not to mention "Riverdance"!) |
22 Sep 05 - 07:29 PM (#1568761) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: little known Percy French From: Joe Offer Must be a bad day. I opened htis thread to figure out why we'd have such a long thread on a song by Percy Faith. Forgive me.... -Joe Offer- |
22 Sep 05 - 08:26 PM (#1568808) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: little known Percy French From: GUEST " The better would the music be for battherin' the floor". Is correct. But 'floor' like the 'door' with which it rhymes should be pronounced with a long 'O', i.e. to rhyme with 'moor','poor' or 'boor'. |
23 Sep 05 - 05:51 PM (#1569519) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: little known Percy French From: MartinRyan .. and "whore"! Regards |
23 Sep 05 - 07:42 PM (#1569560) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: little known Percy French From: McGrath of Harlow But of course, those words rhyme just as well when they are all pronounced with a short "O" - that's the trouble with using rhyme as a guide to pronunciation. (NB I'm not disagreeing about the long 'O' being correct here.) |
23 Sep 05 - 07:48 PM (#1569563) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: little known Percy French From: GUEST,JTT ...though in Ireland "whore" is pronounced to rhyme with Moor. Battering, by the way, means doing complicated steps that are something like tap-dancing, which are part of certain dances, for instance the Connemara Set, whose stamp-step=step-shuffle-shuffle-stamp I've never been able to master. |
24 Sep 05 - 12:51 AM (#1569671) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: little known Percy French From: Jim Martin "Hard shoe" could also mean boots. I've often heard of sparks flying from the hob-nails of dancers' boots on the flag-stone floors of country houses ("round the house and mind the dresser")! I doubt very much whether the old country folk could either afford or have access to proper dance shoes in the days well before the "Riverdance" phenomenom. JTT's comments about battering are correct. It was usually only done by men, spontaneously when the urge overcame them and would have given great lift to the proceedings, sometimes competing with each other in a friendly and jocular (or possibly not!) way; sometimes to win the affection of a local lady. Today, many people, inluding the ladies, batter (pounding, some people say) away all the time to the same boring, repetitious pattern, some of the old-timers must be turning over in their graves! Larry Lynch's seminal book, "Set Dances of Ireland - Tradition and Evolution" published in 1989 by Seadna Books in collaboration with Dal gCais Publications (ISBN 0-9514848-0-X [R.O.I.], ISBN 0-9623366-0-2 [U.S.A.] tells you just about everything you want to know on the subject. He had the good fortune to meet many old-timers in the S.W. of Ireland in his crusade to collect as much as possible from them before they passed on. |
24 Sep 05 - 04:39 AM (#1569694) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: little known Percy French From: John MacKenzie Anybody else with the image of a deep fried Michael Flatley in their mind's eye, or is it just me? G. |
24 Sep 05 - 04:58 AM (#1569697) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: little known Percy French From: GUEST,Guest, Big Tim The title of this thread is a misnomer: "Fluther" is one of Percy's greatest and best-known songs. btw, he is credited with the tune too. Any thoughts on that? I have a book of all his published lyrics, so if anyone can provide a clue to the little known song, I can probably give the complete lyrics. |
17 Sep 11 - 05:47 AM (#3224564) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: little known Percy French From: GUEST,Rafting Down The Rio In Those Old Jamaica Da I borrowed a book about Percy French from the library years ago - found the lyrics to above and wrote a tune to go with it as apparently there was no known tune. I'm wanting to record song but can't find the lyrics now.. does anyone have them?? |
17 Sep 11 - 04:53 PM (#3224819) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: little known Percy French From: Sandy Mc Lean There is a great musical documentary about Percy French here: Percy French |
17 Sep 11 - 06:12 PM (#3224874) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: little known Percy French From: terrier Thanks for the link, Sandy, I've just spent the last fifty minutes absolutely entranced by that programme. |
30 Oct 13 - 06:31 AM (#3571352) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: little known Percy French songs From: GUEST,frank words of "Carmody's Mare" anyone? |
30 Oct 13 - 06:50 AM (#3571356) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: little known Percy French songs From: GUEST There's the saddlin' bell ringing! - the numbers are up, Oh, man dear! I must see the race for the Cup. Push up on that plank there! hi! gimme a hand Oh, man! this is better than any Grand Stand. There's high fliers payin' a shillin' - an' two That hasn't the half, nor the quarther the view. Hi! Peter! McGinty! McGinty me son Come up here an' see the big race bein' run. Not room for another? Oh, now you be civil - Come up here me haro! - An' you to the divil! Look Peter from' here you can see the whole Course - Aye, call up a policeman, call up the whole Force! There's the bank an' the hurdles an' there's the stone wall An there's the big water jump, best o' them all. Who am I backin'? Well, now I declare I've got all me money on Carinody's mare! - Last night it was Carmody gave me the tip - (You'll he over the rail if ye give any 'lip') - He told me the ring men were at him agin To pull the bay mare - but he's riding to win Thirty pounds if he pulled her! - aye, that's what they said An' let "Queen o' the May" come and romp in instead, But he'll not take their money, he means to ride fair. An' that's why me shirt is on Carmody's mare. There's Carmody! gallopin' down on the bay, There's Dimpsey, the robber! on "Queen o' the May," There's Flynn on "The Firefly" - Burke on "Red Fox," There's Mangan on "Merry-Legs" - see the white socks, There's Sweeny on "Swanshot" - There's Major Tom Goff! He's linin' them up, boys! - Begorra they're off! Sit down you in front there! well take off that hat, I'll take off yer head, if ye give any chat! Where is he, Peter? Well up in the front? Oh, don't say that's him at the heel o' the hunt! Ah, sure, I know why he is keepin' her in, Yer goin' too fast at the bank, Mr. Flynn. Didn't I tell you, that lep is too wide No sensible horse, 'ill take that in his stride. Ah! look at Carmody - Carmody knows Hop and go lightly an' over he goes! What's that yer sayin' there? - Heavens above! Was there ever a race where a man didn't shove? Fall off an' he hanged to you, little I care, As long as Ned Carmody sticks to his mare. Where is he, Peter? - the Hurdles! well done! Now, see him off like the shot from a gun! WILL you sit down, there, I must see the race. Ye want the contints o' me fist in yer face. Where is he, Peter? Oh! the stone wall, Ah, Mr. Sweeney, you're out of it all. Don't let her race at it! Keep her in check! Or ye'll break her two legs and' yer own silly neck! Ah! look at Carmody, sinsible chap! Look at him goin' where Flynn made the gap. What's that yer talkin' of? What's that you say? The race is a mortal for "Queen o' the May!" Oh, bedad! look at her, sailin' away, Now, Carmody, Carmody, let out the bay, Slash at her, slaughter her, into her now, 'Tis the bay mare that's under you, 'tisn't a cow. Hustle her, bustle her, drive her across, 'Tis the bay mare that's under you, 'tisn't an ass, Now, for the Water Jump, grip wid yer thighs, Rise themare over it - over she flies! Look at the two o' them into the straight. Carmody gains on him! isn't he great? Now, for a touch o' the spur in her flank, D'ye think ye've the lease o' this dirty old plank? WILL ye go home, and take care o' yer twins. A thousand pounds level, that Carmody wins! Didn't I tell ye, ye ignorant calf, Carmody wins by a lingth an' a half, Didn't I tell it ye, Peter me son, Carmody wins, an' I got five to one! An' now me good people, I'm just goin' down. Down to the Bookie to get - me Half-crown. |