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Lookign for the sheet music to Dark Ineosghan sung by Deanta

Lookign for the sheet music to Dark Ineosghan sung by Deanta

Can anyone help i am looking for the sheet mucis to Dark Ineosghan by Deanta - i would love to sing it but dont want to breech copyright. Is is written by them or is it a traditional song
Thanks
Katie

# Posted on March 19th 2010 by kkatieot

Re: Lookign for the sheet music to Dark Ineosghan sung by Deanta

Have you got a recording?

# Posted on March 19th 2010 by ...

Re: Lookign for the sheet music to Dark Ineosghan sung by Deanta

Dark Iniseoghain

The maidens of beauty and swains so forlorn
That carelessly wander away from your home
I am off by the moonlight and break of the morning
I'll be found in the mountains of dark Iniseoghain

I strayed to a place they call sweet Clonmany
In search of a fair one that I might adore
But a maiden to love me, I couldn't find any
From Meendoran Bridge to the Gap of Mamore

Many's the Colleen I cast my eye over
From Mary of Malin to the Rose of Moville
All sweet were their smiles and eyes filled with laughter
But sure in the end was myself waiting still

At the Bay of Culdaff where the wild waves are breaking
Carndonagh with forest-clad mountains and hills
I sat, but in vain with a heart that was aching
For one whom my dreams of a bride would fulfill

But then in the shades of old Barnan I found you
That valley o'ershadowed by mountains so grand
And I prayed that God's angels would ever protect you
And I placed a keepsake in your little white hand

And now I am stationed in County Fermanagh
Far from the fair one that I do adore
But when I return it will be to my dear one
That I left in the mountains of dark Iniseoghain

# Posted on March 19th 2010 by MacCruiskeen

Re: Lookign for the sheet music to Dark Ineosghan sung by Deanta

I suspect that the reasons llig asks if you have a recording are;
1) so that he can tell you to learn it by ear, and;
2) because any decent recording should list the tracks by composer or otherwise, so it should say on the packaging. You're not listening to it on a bootleg I trust ?
However, once a song, or a tune, is out on the ether it's up for grabs, but you MUST, whenever called upon to do so, whether with a PRS form at a gig, or on an album sleeve, give full credit to every known composer of material you are performing; that way they get their fair dues back.
From the text Flossie has given I suspect it may well be trad., anon.

# Posted on March 19th 2010 by Guernsey Pete

Re: Lookign for the sheet music to Dark Ineosghan sung by Deanta

Dark Inis eoghain is a traditional Irish song and therefore there is no copywrite on it.

# Posted on March 20th 2010 by sligeach

Re: Lookign for the sheet music to Dark Ineosghan sung by Deanta

Lyric request threads on mudcat;
http://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=13326&messages=8
http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=17534
more info;
http://www.movilleinishowen.com/history/poems/dark_inishowen_campbell.htm

# Posted on March 20th 2010 by Ben Steen

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