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27 Dec 04 - 02:25 PM (#1365239) Subject: Origins: The Galway Races From: DonMeixner "The Men with the long garters what they call the "Chick o the loop" So what is the Chick o the Loop? Don |
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28 Dec 04 - 06:14 AM (#1365746) Subject: RE: Origins: The Galway Races From: Dave Hanson I've just looked at the Galway Races in two song books Soodlums and Ossian and I can't find this line, are you sure you've got the right song. eric |
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28 Dec 04 - 08:07 AM (#1365807) Subject: RE: Origins: The Galway Races From: DonMeixner Hi Eric, Thanks for looking. I'm assuming it is a game from old time fairs. It is in the version sung by the Corries and a few others I have heard. Don |
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28 Dec 04 - 01:43 PM (#1366047) Subject: RE: Origins: The Galway Races From: MartinRyan Probably "trick-o-the-loop". I'll get back Regards |
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28 Dec 04 - 02:13 PM (#1366071) Subject: RE: Origins: The Galway Races From: MartinRyan The older versions of the song, from broadsides, have the line as: "It's there you'll see the gamblers, the thimbles and the garters And the sporting Wheel of Fortune with the four and twenty quarters" ... which is no help, really! Sounds like your set is slightly modernised... A quick Google on "trick of the loop" will give an idea of what's involved. Regards |
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23 Apr 10 - 04:23 AM (#2892585) Subject: RE: Origins: The Galway Races From: GUEST,James Molloy Galway Races instiiitiued at Ballybrit, Galway in 1869 and still galloping strong. At Galway Races was a poem written in 1908 by William Butler Yeats, but is has nothing to do with the song. The Irish Music Archive at 73 Merrion Square, Dublin informs me that it is of 19th Century origin "traditional". I'd like to know wrote the words and music Ha |