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looking for a tune i heard

i heard a song, not actually a tune, at a john doyle concert. its not anythign of his albums he just played it. he tolde me was called "a pound of weak rise" but i could have missunderstood him. im looking for a recording if anyone can help me out. then there was one about a rabbit and coarsing, but i cant remmember the name. lyrics "my heart talleyho..."

# Posted on May 15th 2006 by AO'Donnell

Re: looking for a tune i heard

Is it this one: 'On Yonder Hill' from the cd Corner Boys by Patrick Street (suits your description). It's about a hare though, not a rabbit ;)

# Posted on May 15th 2006 by Henk Bos

Re: looking for a tune i heard

Didn't Geordie Hanna record that song on an LP many years ago?

"Singin' Ho, Brave Boys Hey Ho" - or words to that effect!

# Posted on May 15th 2006 by Ptarmigan

Re: looking for a tune i heard

FOUND IT!

Geordie Hanna & Sarah Anne O'Neill
'On the Shores of Lough Neagh'
Traditional Songs of a Tyrone Family

1978 on Topic 12TS372 [ in STEREO :-) ]

Track Two, first side: 'On Yonder Hill there sits a Hare'

John Moulden wrote the sleeve notes for this LP & for this track he starts:

"This seems to me the finest of all Ulster's hunting songs and known only from Geordie who has heard it from no-one but his father and Uncle George."

If you want the words or more background on the song, you can contact John Moulden at:
http://members.aol.com/jmoul81075/ulstsong.htm

# Posted on May 15th 2006 by Ptarmigan

Re: looking for a tune i heard

Must be the same one or at least from the same source as the one I pointed out

# Posted on May 15th 2006 by Henk Bos

Re: looking for a tune i heard

Track 8:

http://www.thesession.org/recordings/display/502

I think it was written by an English singer/songwriter called Ed Pickford.

# Posted on May 15th 2006 by Kenny

Re: looking for a tune i heard

thanke sai

# Posted on May 24th 2006 by AO'Donnell