I know a band which plays the ending of "If ever you go to Dublin Town" as an instrumental piece. I'm talking about the part which usually is sung like "scibble dibble da" .
My question: Has this tune an own name?? I'm just wondering because I couldn't find any tune called "If ever you go to Dublin Town" in the database...
Are you sure it's Dublin? I think there is a song whose chorus ends "If you ever go to Yarmouth town", or "If you come down to Yarmouth town", or something like that: Yarmouth, anyway. Try Yarmouth in databases like Mudcat Cafe, and see if it doesn't get you the tune you want.
Greg, is that the patrick kavanagh song? 'If ever you go to Dublin town, in a hundred years or so....' If it's that one, i can find out. If it is, is it the end of each verse you want, or the very end of the song?
If you ever go to Dublin town
In a hundred years or so
Inquire for me in Baggot street
and what i was like to know
O he was the queer one
Fol dol the di do
He was a queer one
I tell you
My great-grandmother knew him well,
He asked her to come and call
On him in his flat and she giggled at the thought
Of a young girl's lovely fall.
O he was dangerous,
Fol dol the di do,
He was dangerous,
I tell you.
On Pembroke Road look out for my ghost,
Dishevelled with shoes untied,
Playing through the railings with little children
Whose children have long since died.
O he was a nice man,
Fol do the di do,
He was a nice man
I tell you.
Go into a pub and listen well
If my voice still echoes there,
Ask the men what their grandsires thought
And tell them to answer fair,
O he was eccentric,
Fol do the di do,
He was eccentric
I tell you.
He had the knack of making men feel
As small as they really were
Which meant as great as God had made them
But as males they disliked his air.
O he was a proud one,
Fol do the di do,
He was a proud one
I tell you.
If ever you go to Dublin town
In a hundred years or so
Sniff for my personality,
Is it Vanity's vapour now?
O he was a vain one,
Fol dol the di do,
He was a vain one
I tell you.
I saw his name with a hundred others
In a book in the library,
It said he had never fully achieved
His potentiality.
O he was slothful,
Fol do the di do,
He was slothful
I tell you.
He knew that posterity has no use
For anything but the soul,
The lines that speak the passionate heart,
The spirit that lives alone.
O he was a lone one,
Fol do the di do
Yet he lived happily
I tell you.
Yeah, it's Kavanagh's song! And again my question: Is there a special name for the instrumental part - which in fact simply is the melody of the song?? Just take the Dubliner's version for example and you'll know what I mean with the "scibble dibble"-part... *lol
Hallejuah for the mustard board. Was looking all over the internet for these lyrics and should have just came "home". Many "thanks" to "give" to dafydd.
JigsawGreg, if you read this, you are referring to "lilting" ->
"Lilting is a form of traditional celtic singing common in the Gaelic speaking areas of Ireland, and in some ways resembles scat singing and is called puirt a beul in Irish Gaelic."
The ending of "If ever you go to dublin town"
The ending of "If ever you go to dublin town"
I know a band which plays the ending of "If ever you go to Dublin Town" as an instrumental piece. I'm talking about the part which usually is sung like "scibble dibble da"
.
My question: Has this tune an own name?? I'm just wondering because I couldn't find any tune called "If ever you go to Dublin Town" in the database...
Looking forward to any helpful response!!
# Posted on July 4th 2007 by JigsawGreg
Re: The ending of "If ever you go to dublin town"
Are you sure it's Dublin? I think there is a song whose chorus ends "If you ever go to Yarmouth town", or "If you come down to Yarmouth town", or something like that: Yarmouth, anyway. Try Yarmouth in databases like Mudcat Cafe, and see if it doesn't get you the tune you want.
# Posted on July 4th 2007 by nicholas
Re: The ending of "If ever you go to dublin town"
Greg, is that the patrick kavanagh song? 'If ever you go to Dublin town, in a hundred years or so....' If it's that one, i can find out. If it is, is it the end of each verse you want, or the very end of the song?
# Posted on July 4th 2007 by copo24
Re: The ending of "If ever you go to dublin town"
If You Ever Go To Dublin Town Patrick Kavanagh
If you ever go to Dublin town
In a hundred years or so
Inquire for me in Baggot street
and what i was like to know
O he was the queer one
Fol dol the di do
He was a queer one
I tell you
My great-grandmother knew him well,
He asked her to come and call
On him in his flat and she giggled at the thought
Of a young girl's lovely fall.
O he was dangerous,
Fol dol the di do,
He was dangerous,
I tell you.
On Pembroke Road look out for my ghost,
Dishevelled with shoes untied,
Playing through the railings with little children
Whose children have long since died.
O he was a nice man,
Fol do the di do,
He was a nice man
I tell you.
Go into a pub and listen well
If my voice still echoes there,
Ask the men what their grandsires thought
And tell them to answer fair,
O he was eccentric,
Fol do the di do,
He was eccentric
I tell you.
He had the knack of making men feel
As small as they really were
Which meant as great as God had made them
But as males they disliked his air.
O he was a proud one,
Fol do the di do,
He was a proud one
I tell you.
If ever you go to Dublin town
In a hundred years or so
Sniff for my personality,
Is it Vanity's vapour now?
O he was a vain one,
Fol dol the di do,
He was a vain one
I tell you.
I saw his name with a hundred others
In a book in the library,
It said he had never fully achieved
His potentiality.
O he was slothful,
Fol do the di do,
He was slothful
I tell you.
He knew that posterity has no use
For anything but the soul,
The lines that speak the passionate heart,
The spirit that lives alone.
O he was a lone one,
Fol do the di do
Yet he lived happily
I tell you.
# Posted on July 4th 2007 by dafydd
Re: The ending of "If ever you go to dublin town"
What is wrong with 'scibble dibble da"? Go With It!
# Posted on July 5th 2007 by Farr
Re: The ending of "If ever you go to dublin town"
Yeah, it's Kavanagh's song! And again my question: Is there a special name for the instrumental part - which in fact simply is the melody of the song?? Just take the Dubliner's version for example and you'll know what I mean with the "scibble dibble"-part... *lol
Still looking forward to your answers!
# Posted on July 5th 2007 by JigsawGreg
Re: The ending of "If ever you go to dublin town"
Hallejuah for the mustard board. Was looking all over the internet for these lyrics and should have just came "home". Many "thanks" to "give" to dafydd.
# Posted on November 22nd 2007 by SWFL Fiddler
Re: The ending of "If ever you go to dublin town"
JigsawGreg, if you read this, you are referring to "lilting" ->
"Lilting is a form of traditional celtic singing common in the Gaelic speaking areas of Ireland, and in some ways resembles scat singing and is called puirt a beul in Irish Gaelic."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilting
# Posted on November 22nd 2007 by SWFL Fiddler
Re: The ending of "If ever you go to dublin town"
This was, of course, written by the Irish poet Patrick Kavanagh, who also wrote On Raglan Road.
http://www.google.com/search?q=patrick+kavanagh&hl=en&start=10&sa=N
# Posted on November 22nd 2007 by SWFL Fiddler