No luck with the adv search... it's played as a slow air in D major. "_" is when a long note from the previous bar cuts into the next and fills that part of it. This is all I can remember accurately of the tune (first part)...
I’ve met some folks who say that I’m a dreamer
And I’ve no doubt there’s truth in what they say
But sure a body’s bound to be a dreamer
When all the things he loves are far away.
And precious things are dreams onto an exile
They take him o’er the land across the sea
Especially when it happens he’s an exile
From that dear lovely Isle of Innisfree.
And when the moonlight peeps across the rooftops
Of this great city wondrous tho’ it be
I scarcely feel its wonder or its laughter
I’m once again back home in Innisfree.
I wander o’er green hills thro’ dreamy valleys
And find a peace no other land could know
I hear the birds make music fit for angels
And watch the rivers laughing as they flow.
And then into a humble shack I wander
My dear old home, and tenderly behold
The folks I love around the turf fire gathered
On bended knees their rosary is told.
But dreams don’t last
Tho’ dreams are not forgotten
And soon I’m back to stern reality
But tho’ they paved the footways here with gold dust
I still would choose the Isle of Innisfree.
Whiddler - I haven't looked at your incomplete abc, but if kifarboy's response is correct, I believe that your tune is one that is more commonly known as "Inisheer".
Tune name?
Tune name?
No luck with the adv search... it's played as a slow air in D major. "_" is when a long note from the previous bar cuts into the next and fills that part of it. This is all I can remember accurately of the tune (first part)...
Ade |: f3f | f3/2f/ed | gB4 | _ded | C3A | G3/2A/ BG | FA4 | _Ade
|: f3f | f3/2f/ed | gB4 | _ded | C3A | G3/2A/ C/e3/2 | d5 |
# Posted on January 9th 2009 by Whiddler
Re: Tune name?
The Isle of Innisfree?
I’ve met some folks who say that I’m a dreamer
And I’ve no doubt there’s truth in what they say
But sure a body’s bound to be a dreamer
When all the things he loves are far away.
And precious things are dreams onto an exile
They take him o’er the land across the sea
Especially when it happens he’s an exile
From that dear lovely Isle of Innisfree.
And when the moonlight peeps across the rooftops
Of this great city wondrous tho’ it be
I scarcely feel its wonder or its laughter
I’m once again back home in Innisfree.
I wander o’er green hills thro’ dreamy valleys
And find a peace no other land could know
I hear the birds make music fit for angels
And watch the rivers laughing as they flow.
And then into a humble shack I wander
My dear old home, and tenderly behold
The folks I love around the turf fire gathered
On bended knees their rosary is told.
But dreams don’t last
Tho’ dreams are not forgotten
And soon I’m back to stern reality
But tho’ they paved the footways here with gold dust
I still would choose the Isle of Innisfree.
# Posted on January 9th 2009 by Prof. Prlwytzkofski
Re: Tune name?
Thank you so much! Shame nobody's added it yet, but I found it on youtube.
# Posted on January 9th 2009 by Whiddler
Re: Tune name?
Whiddler - I haven't looked at your incomplete abc, but if kifarboy's response is correct, I believe that your tune is one that is more commonly known as "Inisheer".
It's been here on the db since 2001!
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/211
# Posted on January 10th 2009 by Mix O'Lydian
Re: Tune name?
The Isle of Inishfree and Inisheer are unrelated
# Posted on January 10th 2009 by Prof. Prlwytzkofski