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28 Jul 06 - 07:00 PM (#1795806) Subject: Lyr Req: Skarpi needs help ' Red Roses For Me ' From: skarpi hi all this is a music weekend , I have looking around for a lyric called " Red Roses For Me " its on a cd with RONNIE DREW called the HUMOR IS ON MY NOW so if some one can help ? many thanks All the best Skarpi Iceland |
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28 Jul 06 - 07:32 PM (#1795825) Subject: Lyr Add: RED ROSES FOR ME (Sean O'Casey) From: McGrath of Harlow By Sean O'Casey from a play of the same name. It's been recorded by a fair number of singers. Great song. Not a bad play either. Here are the words from this site, which has a lot of Dubliners lyrics on it. RED ROSES FOR ME Sean O`Casey A sober black shawl hides her body entirely Touched by the sun and the salt spray of the sea But down in the darkness a slim hand so lovely Carries a rich bunch of red roses for me Her petticoat simple and her feet are but bare And all that she has is but neat and scanty But stars in the deep of her eyes are exclaiming I carry a rich bunch of red roses for thee No arrogant gem sits enthroned on her forehead Or swings from a white ear for all men to see But jewelled desire in a bosom so pearly Carries a rich bunch of red roses for me |
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28 Jul 06 - 07:42 PM (#1795828) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Skarpi needs help ' Red Roses For Me From: skarpi Thank you McGrath, for this ... All thebest Skarpi Iceland |
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29 Jul 06 - 10:47 AM (#1796182) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Skarpi needs help ' Red Roses For Me ' From: An Buachaill Caol Dubh Dear Skarpi, Further to the information provided by ?"Master" McGrath, the air chosen by O'Casey for these verses is "Eamonn a Chnuic", or "Ned of the Hill", a song made by a Seventeeth-Century "ropari"/"raparee" Edmond Ryan, from Tipperary. He was one of those Gaelic gentlemen who took to the hills in order to resist the English occupation of their country, and is named "Edmund Knock Ryan" in one warrant for his arrest. "Knock" is an English phonetic approximation to the Irish "chnuic", a hill (hence "Ned of the Hill"). I've got a version in English of some of this song, as well as a nineteenth-century set of verses to the same air, if you're interested (I don't know if either is already in the Mudcat directory, but that would be easily checked). mise le meas, B.C.D. |
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29 Jul 06 - 03:00 PM (#1796332) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Skarpi needs help ' Red Roses For Me From: skarpi B.C.D yes I have interest plese do both in Gealic and English All the best Skarpi Iceland |