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28 Mar 03 - 08:44 PM (#920927) Subject: cranberry isles From: GUEST,mpfein@attbi.com Lyrics for an old gaelic song? "I wish I were in the cranberry isles, where the diamonds are often seen...." I would also like to know anything about this song. |
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28 Mar 03 - 08:47 PM (#920929) Subject: RE: cranberry isles From: mg me too. I work for a cranberry research station. mg |
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29 Mar 03 - 08:38 AM (#921156) Subject: RE: cranberry isles From: Charley Noble Well, there's a set of Cranberry Isles off the coast of Maine which was well known as a base for fishing and trading schooners, and folksongs associated with such. I'll check and see if that song was one they sang. Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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29 Mar 03 - 02:22 PM (#921311) Subject: RE: cranberry isles From: Charley Noble Well, there is one song from our Cranberry Isles which may have been based on the one you're interested in but it's all now a local story with not a diamond to be seen (from Minstrelsy of Maine): There was a wealth Irishman On Cranberry Isles did dwell, He had a handsome daughter, Old Joe he loved her well. Chorus: And sing ti-re-um, sing tu-re-um, Sing ti-ro-edle-o-a. With many more verses about an older man marrying a much younger woman. Not very helpful, I'm afraid. Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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29 Mar 03 - 04:22 PM (#921362) Subject: RE: cranberry isles From: GUEST,mpf Here are the words: I wish I were in the cranberry isles, where the diamonds are often seen. I'd sit her doon beside of me and dress her in a goon o' green (gaelic chorus that I know only by sound) Her hair was like the thr'ads of gold, her beauty wove' on nature's loom. Her face was like the morning sun, and wi'out her I am undone. (Chorus) So I know these two verses and the melody, but the Gaelic I know only by the sounds --- from a childhood lullaby as remembered by my mother from her Gaelic-speaking nurse (circa 1900). I would love to know about this song: are there more verses? Where is it from? Were the Isles actually some other Isles, and my mother only remembered "cranberry"? Or was this a Nova Scotia Scottish song and these are theMaine Cranberry Isles? |
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30 Mar 03 - 12:59 AM (#921572) Subject: RE: cranberry isles From: mg cranberries are native to North America...but who knows? mg |
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30 Mar 03 - 07:32 AM (#921659) Subject: RE: cranberry isles From: GUEST If my mother somehow "heard" cranberry, when the isles of the song were actually other isles, does anyone recognize the lyrics as belonging to some other "isles"? The phrase "her face was like the morning sun, and without her, I am undone" seems as if someone might recognize it? |
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30 Mar 03 - 02:24 PM (#921915) Subject: RE: cranberry isles From: GUEST,Q The European cranberry, Oxycoccus, pink flowers and red berries, grows in Britain. Another related plant, but usually called "cowberry," also grows in Great Britain. Then there is the bush cranberry, Viburnum opulus, which grows both in Europe and North America. The bog cranberry, Oxycoccus macrocarpus, which shows up with turkey at Thanksgiving, is North American, but there is no reason to equate the Cranberry Isles of the song to this plant. |
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30 Mar 03 - 04:48 PM (#921988) Subject: RE: cranberry isles From: GUEST,mpf Thankyou very much for this posting. Can anyone tell me if there would be anyplace in Scotland or elsewhere in Britain that would be called the Cranberry Isles? I always assumed that the Scottish nurse was singing A Scottish Gaelic song -- so this posting means a lot to me. |
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30 Mar 03 - 05:27 PM (#922008) Subject: RE: cranberry isles From: Charley Noble Looks like we're closing in! Charley Noble |