What Is Celtic? What is meant by the term "Celtic"? Ireland, Scotland, Wales, the Hebrides Islands, Brittany (a region o
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What Is Celtic? What is meant by the term "Celtic"? Ireland, Scotland, Wales, the Hebrides Islands, Brittany (a region of France), and Galicia (a region of Spain) were inhabited for many hundreds of years by a group of peoples known as the Celts. Over the last 1,000 years the Celts ceased to exist as an identifiable race. However, their culture still survives in scattered parts of the British Isles and western France. Of the six languages spoken by the ancient Celts (Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Manx, Welsh, Cornish and Breton), all but Manx and Cornish are used to this day by native speakers. In modem context, the popular use of the term "Celtic music" is quite loosely defined. In many circles it is simply a synonym for "Irish" i in others it is applied heedlessly to any music (folk, new-age, even classicall) with an Irish or Scottish flavor. This book presents a unique and diverse collection of "Celtic music." A significant attempt was made to locate and include the ancient traditional music of the Celtic countries, particularly the British Isles. There are many tunes, now otherwise lost, which were collected from native speakers in Ireland, Scotland, and the Hebrides Islands around the turn of the 20th century. More than eighty of the songs include native language other than English. Beyond authentic Celtic music this book gives particular attention to Irish musical culture. As a bonus, we have included a considerable number of "popular" Irish songs which arose in the 19th and early 20th centuries, such as those made famous by Thomas Moore, various American Tin Pan Alley composers, and other entertainers (from the Emerald Isle and elsewhere) who were influenced by the Irish. -The Editors
Contents 11
Abdul Abulbul Amir
12 11 12 13 12 14 14 13 15 16 16
Across the Western Ocean
17
As I Roved Out (11)
18 19 18 18 20 20 20 21 21 22 22 24 23 24 25 23 26 27
As I Was Going to Ballynure
27 28 28 29 29 30 30 32 31 32 41 34 35
Aignish on the Machair Aillte Alister, Son of Coli the Splendid All Through the Night Along with My Love I'll Go Altar Isle 0' the Sea ArFol Lol LolO "Are You There, MO-RI-AR-I-TY?" Arthur McBride As I Roved Out (I)
The Ash Grove At the Wave Mouth Auld Lang Syne Avondale Baloo Baleerie Baloo, Lammy The Band Played On The Banks of the Suir The Bantry Girls' Lament Barbara Alien The Bard of Armagh The Barnyards of Delgaty A Barra Love Lilt Batchelor's Walk Be Thou My Vision The Beggarman Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms The Bells of Shandon Bendemeer's Stream Beside the River loune Birds at the Fairy Fulling
.
The Black Cavalry The Blackberry Blossom Blackwater Side Blessing of the Road
33 37 38 36 38 36 39 40 40 42 44 43 42 43 44 45 44 45 46 46 47 48 49 48 49 50 50 52 52 56 54 54 51 57 55 53 57 58 58 60
The Blue Bells of Scotland The Bold Fenian Men Bold Robert Emmet The Bold Tenant Farmer Bold Thady Quill
59 60 62 61
Boney Was a Warrior The Bonniest Lass The Bonny Bunch of Roses The Bonny Earl of Murray The Bonny Ship the Diamond Boston Burglar Boulavogue The Brave Irish Lad Brennan on the Moor Broken-Hearted I'll Wander A Bunch of Thyme Bungle Rye The Butcher Boy Byker Hill The Calton Weaver
62 63 64 64 66 65 66 67 68 69 70 68 71 73 70
Cuchullan's Lament for His Son The Cuckoo Madrigal The Curragh of Kildare Curse of the Aspen Tree Dance to Your Shadow Danny Boy Darby Kelly The Dear Little Shamrock Dick Darby The Dingle Puck Goat Don't You Weep After Me The Doon The Dowerless Maiden The Dowie Dens of Yarrow Down by the Salley Gardens
72
Down Went McGinty Drowsy Maggie
Christmas Duanag
71 73 74 75 76 74 76
A Churning Lilt
77
The Earl of Moray
Clanranald's Parting Song
The Easter Rebellion
Clare's Dragoons The Cockies of Bungaree
78 79 78
The Cockle Gatherer
77
Erin! Oh Erin!
Coli Nurse's Lilt
80 80 81 82 81 83 83 84 84 84 86 85 86 87 87 88 88
An Eriskay Love Lilt
The Campbells Are Coming Captain MacDonald's Favourite Jig Carrickfergus Caristiona The Chanty That Beguiled the Witch Charlie Is My Darling The Christ-Child's Lullaby
Columbus Was an Irishman Come Back to Erin Come Sit Down Beside Me Come to the Hills Comin' Through the Rye Convict of Clonmel Cooley's Reel The Cork Leg Cosher Bailey's Engine The County of Mayo The Courting of the King of Erin's Daughter Cradle Spell of Dunvegan Credhe's Lament for Cail The Croppy Boy The Cruiskeen Lawn
A Druid of the Isles The Dublin Stage Duffy's Blunders Dumbarton's Drums A Dunvegan Dirge Eamann an Chnoic
Eileen Aroon Eileen Oge
An Eriskay Lullaby Ethne's Croon to Her Child Columba The Fair Hills of Eire O! Fair Harvard A Fairy Plaint A Fairy's Love Song Farewell, Nancy Farewell to the Maigue The Fate Croon Father Murphy Felix, the Soldier The Fenian Man 0' War The Fenians of Cahirciveen Filimiooriooriay Finnegan's Wake The First Swallow
89 90 90 91 92 92 93 93 94 94 95 96 96 97 98 98 100 99 95 100 102 101 102 103 103 104 104 105 105 105 106 106
Flora Macdonald's Love Song Flow Gently, Sweet Afton The Flower of Sweet Strabane The Flying Cloud Foggy Dew Follow Me Up to Carlow For I Had a Spirit Above My Degree The Four Marys From the Cold Sod That's O'er You From Erin's Shores The Galbally Farmer Galway City The Galway Piper The Galway Races The Galway Shawl The Gaol of Clonmel The Garden Where the Praties Grow Garryowen Gin I Were The Girl I Left Behind Me The Girls of Coleraine The Golden Jubilee The Great Silkie The Green Fields of America Green Grow the Rashes, 0 Green Grows the Laurel The Harp of Dunvegan The Harp That Once The Harper Harrigan Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly? Has Sorrow Thy Young Days Shaded?
107 108 108 110 109 110 109 111
The Hat My Father Wore Hieland Laddie
112 111 113 112 113 114 115
I Know My Love
A Highland Lad My Love Was Born The Hills of Kerry The Hounds of Filemore Hunting the Hare Hurret! Hurroo I Had Fifteen Dollars in My Inside Pocket I Know Where I'm Going I Never Will Marry "I Thank You, Ma'am," Says Dan I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen I'll Tell My Ma I'm a Poor Stranger
114 116 115 116 118 118 117 117 119 119 120 120 121 122 121 123 124 123 123 124 125 126 127 126 128 128 129 130 130 131 132 134 133 134 135 137 136 136 137 138 138 139 140 141 140 142 142 143
I've Got Rings on My Fingers In Glendalough Lived a Young Saint In Scartaglen There Lived a Lass Irish Astronomy The Irish Girl The Irish Rover The Irish Washerwoman The Irish Wedding The Irishman's Epistle The Irishman's Shanty John Riley Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye Jug of Punch Kathleen Mavourneen Kelly, the Boy from Killann The Kerry Cow The Kerry Dance The Kerry Reel Kevin Barry Kilgary Mountain Killarney Kirsteen Kishmul's Galley Kitty of Coleraine The Lambs on the Green Hills Lanigan's Ball The Lark in the Clear Air The Lark in the Morning The Lay of Diarmad Let Erin Remember the Days of Old Let Him Go-Let Him Tarry Limerick Is Beautiful A Little Bit of Heaven The Little Bunch of Rushes The Little Saucepan Loch Leven Love Lament
144 144 145 143 145 146 148 146 147 148 149 150 150 152 152 151 153 153 154 154 156 155 155 156 157 158 158 159 160 160 162 161 162 164 159 164
Loch Lomond Lochbroom Love Song The Lost Child Lough Sheelin's Side Love at My Heart The Love-Wandering Lovely Leitrim The Low-Backed Car The Lure of the Fairy Hill MacPherson's Farewell Macushla The Magic Mist
163 166 165 166 167 168 168 169 169 170 170
Maid of Fife-E-O The Maid of Slievenamon The Maid of the Sweet Brown
Kno~
A Man of Double Deed Mary Fair Master McGrath McCaffery McPherson's Lament McSorley's Twins Men of Harlech The Men of the West The Merchant's Daughter Mermaid Song The Mermaid's Croon Michael Roy of Brooklyn City Mick McGuire Milking Croon Milking Song The Minstrel Boy Mr. Moses Ri-Tooral-i-ay Mrs. McGrath Mrs. Murphy's Chowder Mo Ghra-sa mo Dhia Molly Bawn Molly Brannigan
Molly Malone (Cockles and Mussel Morgan Magan Morrissey and the Russian Sailor Mother Machree Mountains of Mourne Mull Fisher's Love Song The Mulligan Guard My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean My Luve Is Like a Red, Red Rose My Mary of the Curling Hair My Name Is Kelly (But I'm Livin the Life of Reilly) My Wild Irish Rose Nell Flaherty's Drake The Next Market Day No Irish Need Apply None Can Love Like an Irishman Nora Norah O'Neale
o love, 'fis a Calming Starry Night oWoman Washing by the River O'Donnell Aboo O'Hara's Cup
172
Oft in the Stilly Night
200
172
Oh Rowan Tree
172
229
The 23rd of June
196
Sea Sorrow Sea-Sounds
230
Uist Cattle Croon
Oiche Nollag
201
The Seagull of the Land-Under-Waves
230
Ullapool Sailor's Song
171
The Old Crone's Lilt
201
The Seal-Wo man's Croon
231
Van Diemen's Land
173
The Old Orange Flute
202
The Sentry Box
231
Wae's Me for Prince Charlie
174
The Old Triangle
202
The Seven Irishmen
232
A Wandering Shade
173
The Old Turf Fire
204
The Shan Van Vocht
232
The Wearing of the Green
174
On the Banks of Allan Water
203
She Moved Through the Fair
234
Weaving Lilt
175
On the Banks of the Roses
204
The Ship at Sea
233
Weela Wallia
176
O'Rourke's Revel Rout
205
233
The West's Awake
175
Over the Moor to Maggie
205
The Shores of Amerikay Shule Agra
234
176
Owen C6ir
207
Silkie
What Would You Do If You Married a Soldier?
178
Paddy Doyle's Boots
206
Since I've Been in the Army
236
When He Who Adores Thee
179
Paddy Upon the Canal
207
Since James Put on High Collars
235
When Irish Eyes Are Smiling
178
The Palatine's Daughter
208
Since Maggie Went Away
236
When We Were Boy and Girl
179
The Parting Glass
208
Skibbereen
238
Where the River Shannon Flows
180
Pat Malloy
209
The Skua-Gulls
238
Whiskey, You're the Devil
180
210
Skye Fisher's Song
237
Who Threw the Overalls in Mistress Murphy's Chowder
182
The Peacock March Peg 0' My Heart
210
The Skye Steersman's Song
182
240
Why, Liquor of Life, Do I Love You So?
Peggy Gordon
211
Skye Water-Kelpie's Lullaby
239
The Wild Colonial Boy
181
Phil the Fluter
212
Sleeps the Noon in the Deep Blue Sky
241
The Wild Rover
183
Portlairge
213
Slieve Gallen Braes
240
Will Ye Go, Lassie?
184
The Portuguese Sailor
212
Slievenamon
242
Will Ye No' Come Back Again?
184
214
The Snowy-Breasted Pearl
185
The Praties, They Grow Small The Pretty Girl Milking Her Cow
The Soft Deal Board
242 243
Will You Come to the Bower
215
The Wind on the Moor
185
Pulling the Sea-Dulse
216
The Son of a Gambolier
244
The Wind That Shakes the Barley
186
Pulse of My Heart
216
243
187
Witchery Cantrips
Putting Out to Sea
The Song of Niamh of the Golden Tresses
186
Putting the Taunt
217
The Song of the Woods
244
Witchery Croon
The Sons of Liberty
The Witchery Fate Song
The Queen of Connemara
213
245
187
A Soothing Croon from Eigg
Witchery Graces
Raglan Road
217
245
188
The Spanish Lady
The Witchery Milking Croon
Rake and Rambling Boy
218
248
188 189
218
Spinning Song
246
Real Old Mountain Dew
The Women Are Worse than the Men
Reynard the Fox
Spinningwheel Song
The Work of the Weavers
189
219
247
A Rich Irish Lady
220
Spreading the Sea-Wrack
246
191
The Wren Song
The Rising of the Moon
The Star of County Down
Ye Banks and Braes 0' Bonnie Doon
190 190
220
249
221
Sweet Rosie O'Grady
250
The Yellow Bittern
The Road to the Isles
Tam Pierce
The Yellow Ponee
The Rocks of Bawn
222
248
191
The Tanyard Side
You Can Tell That I'm Irish
223
That Tumble-Down Shack in Athlone
252
192
Roddy McCorl~y Rory O'Moore
222
251
192
You Can't Deny You're Irish
194
The Rose of Allendale
226
That's an Irish Lullaby
224
They Know Not My Heart
194
The Rose of Tralee
193
Rosin the Beau
225
Throw Him Down, McCloskey
195
The Sailor's Hornpipe
224
'Tis the Last Rose of Summer
195
Scots Wha Hae
226
Tipperary Recruiting Song
196 197
Sea-Bird to Her Chicks
228
Tourelay
Sea Moods
227
The Tread on the Tail 0' Me Coat
198
The Sea-Quest
228
The Trooper and the Maid
Song Index by Nationality IRISH FOLKSONGS 12 14 13 15 16 16 17 18 20 21 22 24 23 26 27 28 29 30 30 41 34 35 33 38 39 40 40 42 44 43 42 43 44 45 50 50 54 51 55 53 57 58 60
Across the Western Ocean Along with My Love I'll Go ArFol Lol LolO "Are You There, MO-RI-AR-I-TY?" Arthur McBride As I Roved Out (I) As I Roved Out (11) As I Was Going to Ballynure Avondale The Banks of the Suir The Bantry Girls' Lament The Bard of Armagh Be Thou My Vision The Beggarman The Bells of Shandon Beside the River Loune The Black Cavalry The Blackberry Blossom Blackwater Side Bold Robert Emmet The Bold Tenant Farmer Bold Thady Quill Boney Was a Warrior The Bonny Bunch of Roses Boulavogue The Brave Irish Lad Brennan on the Moor Broken-Hearted I'll Wander A Bunch of Thyme Bungle Rye The Butcher Boy Byker Hill Captain MacDonald's Favourite Jig Carrickfergus Clare's Dragoons The Cockies of Bungaree Come Sit Down Beside Me Come to the Hills Convict of Clonmel Cooley's Reel The Cork Leg The County of Mayo Credhe's Lament for Cail
62 61 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 68 70 71 74 76
The Croppy Boy
77
The Earl of Moray
78 79 78 82 81 84 84 86 85 86 87 88 90 91 92 92 93 94 94 95 96 96 97 98 98 100 99 100
The Cruiskeen Lawn The Cuckoo Madrigal The Curragh of Kildare Danny Boy
102 101 103 104 106
The Girls of Coleraine
110 109 112 113 112 114 115 116 115 118 118 117 119 120 120 121 121 123 123 123 124 126 128 129 130 134 137 138 138 140 141 143 144 144 145 143 146 148
The Hills of Kerry
Darby Kelly The Dear Little Shamrock Dick Darby The Dingle Puck Goat Don't You Weep After Me The Doon Down by the Salley Gardens Drowsy Maggie The Dublin Stage Eamann an Chnoic The Easter Rebellion Eileen Aroon Eileen Oge The Fair Hills of Eire O! Fair Harvard Farewell, Nancy Farewell to the Maigue Father Murphy Felix, the Soldier The Fenian Man 0' War The Fenians of Cahirciveen Finnegan's Wake The Flower of Sweet Strabane The Flying Cloud The Foggy Dew Follow Me Up to Carlow For I Had a Spirit Above My Degree From the Cold Sod That's O'er You From Erin's Shores The Galbally Farmer Galway City The Galway Piper The Galway Races The Galway Shawl The Gaol of Clonmel The Garden Where the Praties Grow Garryowen The Girl I Left Behind Me
The Golden Jubilee The Green Fields of America Green Grows the Laurel Has Sorrow Thy Young Days Shaded? The Hounds of Filemore I Know My Love I Never Will Marry "I Thank You, Ma'am," Says Dan I'll Tell My Ma I'm a Poor Stranger In Glendalough Lived a Young Saint In Scartaglen There Lived a Lass The Irish Girl The Irish Rover The Irish Washerwoman The Irishman's Epistle John Riley Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye Jug of Punch Kelly, the Boy from Killann The Kerry Cow The Kerry Reel Kevin Barry Kilgary Mountain Kitty of Coleraine The Lambs on the Green Hills The Lark in the Clear Air The Lark in the Morning The Little Bunch of Rushes The Lost Child Lough Sheelin's Side Love at My Heart Lovely Leitrim The Low-Backed Car The Magic Mist Maid of Fife-E-O The Maid of Slievenamon The Maid of the Sweet Brown Knowe A Man of Double Deed Master McGrath McCaffery
146
McPherson's Lament
189
Real Old Mountain Dew
240
Will Ye Go, Lassie?
149
The Men of the West
189
Reynard the Fox
242
Will You Come to the Bower
150
The Merchant's Daughter
191
A Rich Irish Lady
244
The Wind That Shakes the Barley
150
Mermaid Song
190
The Rising of the Moon
246
The Women Are Worse than the Men
151
Mick McGuire
191
The Rocks of Bawn
246
The Wren Song
154
Mr. Moses Ri-Tooral-i-ay
192
Roddy McCorley
250
The Yellow Bittern
156
Mrs. McGrath
194
The Rose of Allendale
248
The Yellow Ponee
155
Mo Ghra-sa mo Dhia
193
Rosin the Beau
157
Molly Brannigan
195
The Sailor's Hornpipe
158
Molly Malone (Cockles and Mussels)
202
The Sentry Box
158
Morgan Magan
202
The Seven Irishmen
159
Morrissey and the Russian Sailor
204
The Shan Van Vocht
160
Mountains of Mourne
203
She Moved Through the Fair
159
My Mary of the Curling Hair
205
The Shores of Amerikay
166
Nell Flaherty's Drake
205
Shule Agra
165
The Next Market Day
206
Since I've Been in the Army
166
No Irish Need Apply
208
Since Maggie Went Away
167
None Can Love Like an Irishman
208
Skibbereen
168
Nora
213
Slieve Gallen Braes
168
Norah O'Neale
212
Slievenamon
169
214
The Snowy-Breasted Pearl
169
o Love, 'tis a Calming Starry Night oWoman Washing by the River
215
The Soft Deal Board
170
O'Donnell Aboo
216
The Son of a Gambolier
170
O'Hara's Cup
216
172
Oiche Nollag
The Song of Niamh of the Golden Tresses
173
The Old Orange Flute
217
174
The Old Triangle
173
The Old Turf Fire
175
On the Banks of the Roses
176
O'Rourke's Revel Rout
175
Over the Moor to Maggie
176
Owen C6ir
178
Paddy Doyle's Boots
178
The Palatine's Daughter
179
The Parting Glass
180
SCOlTISH FOLKSONGS 18
Auld Lang Syne
20
Baloo Baleerie
20
Baloo, Lammy
22
Barbara Alien
23
The Barnyards of Delgaty
31
The Blue Bells of Scotland
37
The Bonniest Lass
36
The Bonny Earl of Murray
38
The Bonny Ship the Diamond
44
The Calton Weaver
45
The Campbells Are Coming
47
Charlie Is My Darling
57
Comin' Through the Rye
73
The Dowie Dens of Yarrow
76
Dumbarton's Drums
The Song of the Woods
90
Flow Gently, Sweet Afton
213
The Sons of Liberty
93
The Four Marys
218
The Spanish Lady
95
Gin I Were
219
Spinningwheel Song
102
The Great Silkie
220
The Star of County Down
103
Green Grow the Rashes, 0
222
The Tanyard Side
108
Hieland Laddie
224
They Know Not My Heart
108
A Highland Lad My Love Was Born
226
Tipperary Recruiting Song
109
Hurree Hurroo
229
The 23rd of June
111
I Know Where I'm Going
231
Van Diemen's Land
136
Loch Lomond
233
Weela Wallia
142
MacPherson's Farewell
The Peacock March Peggy Gordon
233
The West's Awake
162
182
My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean
Phil the Fluter
234
What Would You Do If You Married a Soldier?
164
181
My Luve Is Like a Red, Red Rose
183
Portlairge
172
Oh Rowan Tree
236
When He Who Adores Thee
174
184
The Portuguese Sailor
On the Banks of Allan Water
236
When We Were Boy and Girl
190
The Road to the Isles
184
The Praties, They Grow Small
238
Whiskey, You're the Devil
186
195
Scots Wha Hae
Pulse of My Heart
240
207
187
Silkie
The Queen of Connemara
Why, Liquor of life, Do I Love You So? The Wild Colonial Boy
Tarn Pierce
Raglan Road
239
222
188 188
Rake and Rambling Boy
241
The Wild Rover
228
The Trooper and the Maid
231
Wae's Me for Prince Charlie
234 242 247 249
Weaving Lilt Will Ye No' Come Back Again? The Work of the Weavers Ye Banks and Braes 0' Bonnie Doon
FoIksongs from the Hebrides Though the Hebrides Islands are now part of Scotland, they have a unique musical culture.
11 12 13 14 18 24 29 32 46 46 48 49 48 49 52 52 60 59 62 64 66 71 73 74 80 80 81 83 83 84 89 104 105 126 127 130 137 136
Aignish on the Machair Aillte Alister, Son of Coli the Splendid Altar Isle 0' the Sea At the Wave Mouth A Barra Love Lilt Birds at the Fairy Fulling Blessing of the Road Caristiona The Chanty That Beguiled the Witch The Christ-Chi Id's Lullaby Christmas Duanag A Churning Lilt Clanranald's Parting Song The Cockle Gatherer Coli Nurse's Lilt The Courting of the King of Erin's Daughter Cradle Spell of Dunvegan Cuchullan's Lament for His Son Curse of the Aspen Tree Dance to Your Shadow The Dowerless Maiden A Druid of the Isles A Dunvegan Dirge An Eriskay Love Lilt An Eriskay Lullaby Ethne's Croon to Her Child Columba A Fairy Plaint A Fairy's Love Song
139 140 145 152 153 153 162 171 185 187 186 196 197 198 200 196 201 201 204 209 210 210 211 212 217 218 220 230 230 232 243 243 244 245 245 248
The Love-Wandering
IRISH POPULAR SONGS
The Lure of the Fairy Hill
Most date from the 19th and early 20th centuries and were composed to fit a particular popular genre. Many are American 11n Pan Alley songs, but others come from Ireland, England, Scotland and elsewhere.
Mary Fair The Mermaid's Croon Milking Croon Milking Song Mull Fisher's Love Song The Old Crone's Lilt Pulling the Sea-Dulse Putting Out to Sea Putting the Taunt Sea-Bird to Her Chicks Sea Moods The Sea-Quest Sea Sorrow Sea-Sounds The Seagull of the Land-Under-Waves The Seal-Wo man's Croon The Ship at Sea The Skua-Gulls Skye Fisher's Song The Skye Steersman's Song Skye Water-Kelpie's Lullaby Sleeps the Noon in the Deep Blue Sky A Soothing Croon from Eigg Spinning Song Spreading the Sea-Wrack Uist Cattle Croon Ullapool Sailor's Song A Wandering Shade The Wind on the Moor Witchery Cantrips Witchery Croon The Witchery Fate Song Witchery Graces The Witchery Milking Croon
The Fate Croon Flora Macdonald's Love Song The Harp of Dunvegan The Harper Kirsteen Kishmul's Galley The Lay of Diarmad Loch Leven Love Lament Lochbroom Love Song
WELSH FOLKSONGS 12 19 58 110 135 148
All Through the Night The Ash Grove Cosher Bailey's Engine Hunting the Hare The Little Saucepan Men of Harlech
11 21 25 27 28 32 36 56 54
Abdul Abulbul Amir The Band Played On Batchelor's Walk Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms Bendemeer's Stream The Bold Fenian Men Boston Burglar Columbus Was an Irishman Come Back to Erin
72
Down Went McGinty
75
Duffy's Blunders
77
Erin! Oh Erin!
87 88 105 105 106 107 111 113 114 116 117 119 122 124 125 128 131 132 134 133 142 147 152 154 155 156 160 161
Filimiooriooriay The First Swallow The Harp That Once Harrigan Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly? The Hat My Father Wore I Had Fifteen Dollars in My Inside Pocket I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen I've Got Rings on My Fingers Irish Astronomy The Irish Wedding The Irishman's Shanty Kathleen Mavourneen The Kerry Dance Killarney Lanigan's Ball Let Erin Remember the Days of Old Let Him Go-Let Him Tarry Limerick Is Beautiful A Little Bit of Heaven Macushla McSorley's Twins Michael Roy of Brooklyn City The Minstrel Boy Mrs. Murphy's Chowder Molly Bawn Mother Machree The Mulligan Guard
54
My Name Is Kelly (But I'm Livin the Life of Reilly)
53 72 79 30 32 35 32
My Wild Irish Rose Oft in the Stilly Night Paddy Upon the Canal Pat Malloy Peg 0' My Heart The Pretty Girl Milking Her Cow Rory O'Moore
34
The Rose of Tralee
)7 21 23 26 25 24 28 27 32 35 38 37
Since James Put on High Collars
)1 )2
You Can Tell That I'm Irish
Sweet Rosie O'Grady That Tumble-Down Shack in Athlone That's an Irish Lullaby Throw Him Down, McCloskey 'lis the Last Rose of Summer Tourelay The T'read on the Tail 0' Me Coat The Wearing of the Green When Irish Eyes Are Smiling Where the River Shannon Flows Who Threw the Overalls in Mistress Murphy's Chowder You Can't Deny You're Irish
)NGS IN GAELIC :lic' refers generically to the Celtic languages ch are native to Ireland, Scotland and es. These include Irish, Scottish Gaelic, IX, Cornish and others.
12 12 14 19 18
49 48 49 52 52 60
Aillte All Through the Night Altar Isle 0' the Sea The Ash Grove At the Wave Mouth
~4
A Barra Love Lilt
19 12 16 16 18
Birds at the Fairy Fulling Blessing of the Road Caristiona The Chanty That Beguiled the Witch The Christ-Child's Lullaby
59 62 64 66 71 73 74 80 80 81 82 83 83 84 84 89 94 98 104 105 110 126 127 130 134 135 137 136 139 140 145 148 152 153
Christmas Duanag A Churning Lilt Clanranald's Parting Song The Cockle Gatherer Call Nurse's Lilt The Courting of the King of Erin's Daughter Cradle Spell of Dunvegan Cuchullan's Lament for His Son Curse of the Aspen Tree Dance to Your Shadow The Dowerless Maiden A Druid of the Isles A Dunvegan Dirge An Eriskay Love Lilt An Eriskay Lullaby
153 162 169 170 171 176 178 186 187 186 196 197 198 200 196 201
Ethne's Croon to Her Child Calumba The Fair Hills of Eire O! A Fairy Plaint A Fairy's Love Song Farewell to the Maigue The Fate Croon Flora Macdonald's Love Song From the Cold Sod That's O'er You The Gaol of Clonmel The Harp of Dunvegan The Harper Hunting the Hare Kirsteen Kishmul's Galley The Lay of Diarmad The Little Bunch of Rushes The Little Saucepan Loch Leven Love Lament Lochbroom Love Song The Love-Wandering The Lure of the Fairy Hill Mary Fair Men of Harlech The Mermaid's Croon Milking Croon
201 204 209 210 210 211 214 215 217 218 230 230 232 240 243 243 244 245 245 248 250 248
Milking Song Mull Fisher's Love Song
o Woman Washing by the River O'Hara's Cup The Old Crone's Lilt Owen C6ir The Palatine's Daughter Pulse of My Heart Putting Out to Sea Putting the Taunt Sea-Bird to Her Chicks Sea Moods The Sea-Quest Sea Sorrow Sea-Sounds The Seagull of the Land-Under-Waves The Seal-Wo man's Croon The Ship at Sea The Skua-Gulls Skye Fisher's Song The Skye Steersman's Song Skye Water-Kelpie's Lullaby The Snowy-Breasted Pearl The Soft Deal Board A Soothing Croon from Eigg Spinning Song Uist Cattle Croon Ullapool Sailor's Song A Wandering Shade Why, Liquor of Life, Do I Love You So? The Wind on the Moor Witchery Cantrips Witchery Croon The Witchery Fate Song Witchery Graces The Witchery Milking Croon The Yellow Bittern The Yellow Ponee
INTRODUCTORY GAELIC PRONUNCIATION GUIDE Many of the songs in this book are presented in their native Gaelic tongue, the language of the Celts, Irish, Picts, Scots, and Welsh. While the dialects vary, they do share one common trait: the spoken Gaelic language is as beautiful and majestic as its homeland-especially in song. Gaelic has a unique spelling system quite different from English, but don't let that intimidate you. As with any language, it takes time and practice to become accustomed to new sounds and spellings. The following pronunciation summary is meant only as an introductory guide to help you through the lyrics. The English sounds used to describe the Gaelic pronunciation are sometimes only approximate-especially considering dialectical differences-but always reasonably close.
Foghraiocht (Pronunciation) from John Gleeson, Coordinator of Irish Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Gaelic
English
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English
a
like "a" in father (but not quite)
r
like "ee" in bee
a
like "a" in call
ae
like "a" in lay
ao
like "a" in lay or "ee" in bee, depending on dialect
m
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mb
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bh
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ph
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like "a" in cat
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ABDUL ABULBUL AMIR
Words and Music by William Percy French
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7. Quoth Ivan, "My friend, your remarks, in the end, Will avail you but little, I fear, For you ne'er will survive to repeat them alive, Mr. Abdul Abulbul Amid"
10. The sultan drove by in his red-breasted fly, Expecting the victor to cheer; But he only drew nigh to hear the last sigh Of Abdul Abulbul Amir.
8. They fought all that night, 'neath the pale yellow moon; The din, it was heard from afar; And great multitudes came, so great was the fame of Abdul and Ivan Skivar.
11. There's a tomb rises up where the blue Danube flows; Engraved there in characters clear; "Ah stranger, when passing, please pray for the soul Of Abdul Abulbul Amir."
9. As AbduI's long knife was extracting the life In fact, he was shouting "Huzzah!" He felt himself struck by that wily Kalmuck, Count Ivan Skavinsky Skivar.
12. A Muscovite maiden her lone vigil keeps, 'Neath the light of the pale polar star; And the name that she murmurs as oft as she weeps Is Ivan Skavinsky Skivar.
AIGNISH ON THE MACHAIR Folksong from the Hebrides
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AILLTE Folksong from the Hebrides
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7. They both shook hands, walked round the ring, commencing then to fight. It filled each Irish heart with joy for to behold the sight. The Russian, he floored Morrissey up to the eleventh round, With English, Russian and Saxon cheers the valley did resound.
9. Up to the thirty-seventh round 'twas fall and fall about, Which made the burly sailor to keep a sharp lookout. The Russian called his second and asked for a glass of wine. Our Irish hero smiled and said, ''The battle will be mine."
8. A minute and a half our hero lay before he could rise. The word went all around the field: "He's dead," were all their cries. But Morrissey raised manfully, and raising from the ground, From that until the twentieth the Russian he put down.
10. The thirty-eighth decided all. The Russian felt the smart When Morrissey, with a fearful blow, he struck him o'er the heart. A doctor he was called on to open up a vein. He said it was quite useless, he would never fight again.
11. Our hero conquered Thompson, the Yankee Clipper too; The Benicia boy and Shepherd he nobly did subdue. So let us fill a flowing bowl and drink a health galore To brave Jack Morrissey and Paddies evermore.
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THE MULLlGAN GUARD Words by Edward Harrigan Music by David Braham
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MULL FISHER'S LOVE SONG (0 Mhairead Og!) Folksong from the Hebrides
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MY LUVE IS LIKE A RED, RED ROSE Scottish folksong Words by Robert Burns
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red rose, my dear,
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deep fare
in luve thee weel
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MY NAME IS KELL Y (But I'm Livin' the Life of Reilly) Words and Music by Harry Pease, Edward G. Nelson and Neuman Fier
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when down she
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166
NELL FLAHERTY'S DRAKE Irish folksong
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may the or
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my ty's Nell Nell Nell
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NONE CAN LOVE LIKE AN IRISHMAN Irish folksong
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tur gay Lon
baned Mon don
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NORA Words and Music by Sean 0' Casey
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charm breeze
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and
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and
through sang
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tree, _ _ _ _ be, _ _ _ __
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NORAH O'NEALE Irish folksong
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lone
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to
love
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night,
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ceal, knew
your voice Was learned
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love
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love,
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Neale. Neale.
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169
o LOVE, 'TIS A CALM STARRY NIGHT
Irish folksong
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way, fro go
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at the door all at rest si - lent tears!
no base My
breath _ stirs the leaves churl, _ with his taunt heart _ it is all
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go. fro, woe.
Then to For
down and read - y world's_
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far, and stilI _ _ wealth how
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down to me my dar - Iing,and abus - y mouse keep rust - ling to and world's _ wealth I'd nev - er from you
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be - low. and blow! in a glow.
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and my ship is by this shore. on Iy you that I love best 0, ___ cease your maid - en fears!
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love, 'tis a calm _ star - ry night, guar - dian is sleep - ing a - bove soft you come steal - ing down the stair!
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we'll and you
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wash - ing _ by fair y _ _ court thios ar _ _ bhruach
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woe - ful there are dtuig - eann
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riv - er, hush - a hold - en and there is tsru - tMin. Sea hU
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wilt_ of _ _ a __
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year this man - y 's a bliain
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green _ hill haired gold rug - adh is-
fort girls teach
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sho sea
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heen,_ hin._
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sho sea
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babe sad sea
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with
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babe not _ mine. To the man - Iy __ gra - ces sea hU _ lea. 'S do
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trees _ shiv - er, hush- a ing_ tres - ses there moth - ers an __ chnoc - din. hit Sed
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mine. A not en - fold - en. How lea. 'S gur hU
babe bonds sea
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day there Id
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O'DONNELL ABOO Irish folksong by Michael Joseph McCann
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1. Proud Iy Iy 2. Prince 3. Wild - Iy 4. Sa - cred
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the note of the trum - pet 0' - Neill to our aid is o'er Des - mond the war wolf the cause that Clan - con - nell's
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'ry moun-tain - eer! a heart shall quail 'ry stal- wart hand, 0' - Don- nell, then,
Stran un hack fight
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to the and old
night and fear; coat of mail; bat - tle- brand, fight a - gain;
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THE OLD CRONE'S LILT Folksong from the Hebrides
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7. The day was dying and the wind was sighing, As I lay crying in my prison cell, And the old triangle went jingle, jangle Along the banks of the Royal Canal.
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