19 Jun 05 - 08:51 PM (#1504666) Subject: Lyr Req: Cease my son, your grassy chewing From: GUEST,salarm Looking to find what this song is....and the rest of the words. Apparently, it's Irish: Cease my son, your grassy chewing Let us take shelter in your break For I feel a storm is brewing By the way my old bones ache. Dear old Dad, the clumsy carthorse Some so praise doesn't suit our days But remember, that the smart horse must survive this motor craze. Thanks. |
19 Jun 05 - 10:23 PM (#1504714) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Cease my son, your grassy chewing From: Gypsy Oooooooohhhhh, i like it. hope someone can help, otherwise, i'll just lift this one up higher. |
20 Jun 05 - 12:44 AM (#1504768) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Cease my son, your grassy chewing From: Peace I am unable to find anything. |
20 Jun 05 - 08:41 AM (#1505003) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Cease my son, your grassy chewing From: Mooh Well, I tried it to the tune of All Through The Night (Welsh, ain't it?) but it doesn't fit very well, though it easily could with a few changes. Otherwise no hits. Peace, Mooh. |
22 Jun 05 - 11:00 PM (#1507646) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Cease my son, your grassy chewing From: Jim Dixon I tried Googling with several phrases from the above quote, and found nothing. It sounds more like a poem than a song to me, though of course it could be both. |
23 Jun 05 - 04:21 AM (#1507768) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Cease my son, your grassy chewing From: GUEST This reads to me like an exercise in metrical composition with the unusual stress pattern, complex rhyme scheme and the extensive use of alliteration. It may be intended to illustrate some type of Irish poetic or even bardic composition, but there is nothing otherwise to suggest an Irish origin. It doesn't feel much like a song, though it could be sung I suppose to Praise my soul the King of Heaven. |
23 Jun 05 - 09:01 AM (#1507917) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Cease my son, your grassy chewing From: Snuffy Or to It's The Same The Whole World Over |
15 Dec 10 - 03:44 PM (#3054205) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Cease, my son, your grassy chewing From: Jim Dixon When I search in Google Books for "Cease my son, your grassy chewing," it brings up the book Song Catalogue, Volume 3 by British Broadcasting Corporation. Central Music Library, (London: British Broadcasting Corporation, 1966), page 213. Unfortunately, we can't see the book online. However, if I follow that link and then click "Find in a library" it shows me that the book is in a library 14 miles from here. Somebody else might do better. |
15 Dec 10 - 05:54 PM (#3054282) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Cease, my son, your grassy chewing From: Matthew Edwards Thanks to Jim Dixon yet again for his untiring efforts in following up outstanding queries; this poem, or song, rings a very faint bell and, if the Irish attribution is correct, I'd bet on Oliver St. John Gogarty as being the author - or possibly his tutor at Trinity College Dublin, J P Mahaffy. I think that GUEST of 23 June 2005,04.21AM, is right to describe this as a metrical exercise, although I'd go a bit further and call it a sort of scholarly jape. The phrase in the first line "grassy chewing" is so bizarre that I'm sure it must be some kind of play on words. The only likely source I can find through Google is a c.16th century poem 'The Court of Love' formerly attributed to Chaucer, which contains the lines:- "By mine advise kneel down and ask him grace, Eschewing perill and adversite" Also the first line of the poem, and most of the following lines, scan as pure trochaic tetrameter; (four feet of two syllables each, where the first syllable is more strongly stressed than the second) which is a classical metre in Greek drama. This would certainly have been familiar to Gogarty, and he would have thoroughly enjoyed hiding it in a fake "traditional" song. Matthew |