I'm sorry, I should have a been a bit more specific!
I refer to the G major waltz tune called The South Wind, posted on The Session website. There are three verses, of four lines each . . . except verse three has three lines! Thank you for looking, glauber - the lyrics you found, although not the ones I meant, are gorgeous anyway. Is there a tune that goes with them as well?
Yes, i don't know it, but that seems to be the Web site of a band, and this seems to be one of the tunes they recorded. Sorry, i don't know the other one either.
Jonathan, I sing South Wind, and also know of two other sets of lyrics to the tune. I added the old Thomas Moore lyrics under comments, "I've a Secret to Tell Thee", and a link to getting the newer version called "All The Tunes In the World", which is about the session experience.
I like Archie Fisher's recording of South Wind. In the CD notes he writes, "Donal O'Sullivan from the translation of the song by 'a native of Irrul, County Mayo, named Domhnall Meirgrach Mac Con Mara (Freckled Donal MacNamara)'" and published in Sullivan's "Songs of the Irish" (Crown, New York, 1960).
The tune is very old, as Thomas Moore set his poems to old traditional tunes. In the Hyperion recording of Thomas Moore's music, where the tune is played just as an instrumental, Timothy Robert writes, "The instrumental tracks were based on the piano versions of Edward Bunting published in 1796..." Moore's main sources were the first two parts of Bunting's collection, 1796 and 1809, and the Smollet Holden "Collection of Old Established Irish Slow and Quick Tunes" (c1807).
By the way, Moore also wrote lyics to the tune that many of you would recognize - The Butterfly (tune originally called Bob and Joan). Moore's song to the Butterfly is "Fill The Bumper Fair". As with most of his songs, the language is so archaic that listeners today would have a hard time following the meaning.
The South Wind lyrics
The South Wind lyrics
This is not so much a discussion as a request.
Could bsykes62 please provide the last line to the last verse of lyrics, because I would love to learn the song. Thanks!
Jonathan.
# Posted on April 25th 2002 by Jonathan
Re: The South Wind lyrics
Is it this one?
http://www.navan.org/lyrics/a_ghaoth_aneas.html
# Posted on April 25th 2002 by glauber
Re: The South Wind lyrics
I'm sorry, I should have a been a bit more specific!
I refer to the G major waltz tune called The South Wind, posted on The Session website. There are three verses, of four lines each . . . except verse three has three lines! Thank you for looking, glauber - the lyrics you found, although not the ones I meant, are gorgeous anyway. Is there a tune that goes with them as well?
Jonathan.
# Posted on April 25th 2002 by Jonathan
Re: The South Wind lyrics
Yes, i don't know it, but that seems to be the Web site of a band, and this seems to be one of the tunes they recorded. Sorry, i don't know the other one either.
# Posted on April 25th 2002 by glauber
Re: The South Wind lyrics
I've found the missing lines! The last verse should end:
But this land I'd gladly leave behind
With your Connacht pipes to greet me.
Found at: www.argonet.co.uk/users/paw/tunes/southw.htm
Maybe Jeremy could add this to the poem where it appears in the "comments" about the tune.
Jonathan.
# Posted on April 25th 2002 by Jonathan
Re: The South Wind lyrics
Jonathan, I sing South Wind, and also know of two other sets of lyrics to the tune. I added the old Thomas Moore lyrics under comments, "I've a Secret to Tell Thee", and a link to getting the newer version called "All The Tunes In the World", which is about the session experience.
I like Archie Fisher's recording of South Wind. In the CD notes he writes, "Donal O'Sullivan from the translation of the song by 'a native of Irrul, County Mayo, named Domhnall Meirgrach Mac Con Mara (Freckled Donal MacNamara)'" and published in Sullivan's "Songs of the Irish" (Crown, New York, 1960).
The tune is very old, as Thomas Moore set his poems to old traditional tunes. In the Hyperion recording of Thomas Moore's music, where the tune is played just as an instrumental, Timothy Robert writes, "The instrumental tracks were based on the piano versions of Edward Bunting published in 1796..." Moore's main sources were the first two parts of Bunting's collection, 1796 and 1809, and the Smollet Holden "Collection of Old Established Irish Slow and Quick Tunes" (c1807).
By the way, Moore also wrote lyics to the tune that many of you would recognize - The Butterfly (tune originally called Bob and Joan). Moore's song to the Butterfly is "Fill The Bumper Fair". As with most of his songs, the language is so archaic that listeners today would have a hard time following the meaning.
Alice Flynn
# Posted on April 26th 2002 by aliceflynn
Re: The South Wind lyrics
Lyrics to "All the Tunes In the World" by Ewan McVicar, to the tune of South Wind, are posted in comments under the tune South Wind.
alice
# Posted on April 26th 2002 by aliceflynn