Key signature: Dmajor
Submitted on October 26th 2002 by lazyhound.
This tune has been added to 282 tunebooks.
Also known as At The Top Of Cork Road, At The Top Of The Cork Road, Father O'Flynn's, On The Top Of Cork Road, The Rollicking Irishman, Rollocking Irishman, Top Of Cork Road, The Top Of Cork Road, Top Of The Cork Road, The Top Of The Cork Road, Yorkshire Lasses, The Yorkshire Lasses.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Father O'Flynn
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Dmaj
|:d|dAF DFA|Bed cBA|dcd ede|faf ecA|
dAF DFA|Bed cBA|dcd ede|fdd d2:|
|:g|fdf fga|ece efe|dcd fed|cAA A2=c|
BGB Bcd|AFA ABc|dcd efg|fdd d2:||
A lively session tune. One of the first I learnt.
# Posted on October 26th 2002 by lazyhound
Played by Sean Keane
On one of his solo albums, can't remember which one...
# Posted on April 18th 2003 by pchaffee
Father O´Flynn
I came across this snippet of information whilst reading "Goodbye to All That", autobiography of the poet, Robert Graves.
Graves had an Irish connection and his parents first met in Limerick in the 1890s.
RG's father, also a poet, had written the words of the song Father O'Flynn which he put to the traditional jig tune The Top of Cork Road, which he remembered from his boyhood.
Sir Charles Stanford supplied a few chords for the setting of the song.
Graves's father sold the complete rights of the song for one guinea (one pound and one shilling). Boosey, the publisher, made thousands and Sir Charles Stanford, who drew a royalty as the composer, also collected a very large sum.
# Posted on April 2nd 2005 by murfbox
isnt farther o flyn the name of the priest in joyces dubliners in the sotry the sisters
# Posted on July 25th 2006 by S.McMullen
Father O'Flynn
The Top of Cork Road before the words were added. An excellent double jig to play for solo dancers.
# Posted on July 11th 2007 by Free Reed
Lyrics
Just came across the lyrics here for this jig.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qo0tgb0cPxw
# Posted on September 30th 2008 by upmine3
Lyrics - a Transcription
Reckon that this priest must have been the inspiration for "Father Ted"
... and here is a transcription:
Instructions for use:
1) Print out the lyrics below.
2) Put hardcopy in your instrument case.
3) The next time you are at a session where the tune is played, sing along with it ...
Of priests we can offer a charmin' variety,
Far renown'd for learnin' and piety;
Still, I'd advance ye widout impropriety,
Father O'Flynn as the flow'r of them all.
cho: Here's a health to you, Father O'Flynn,
Slainte and slainte and slainte agin;
Pow'rfulest preacher, and tenderest teacher,
And kindliest creature in ould Donegal.
Don't talk of your Provost and Fellows of Trinity,
Famous forever at Greek and Latinity,
Dad and the divils and all at Divinity
Father O'Flynn 'd make hares of them all!
Come, I venture to give ye my word,
Never the likes of his logic was heard,
Down from mythology into thayology,
Truth! and conchology if he'd the call.
Och Father O'Flynn, you've a wonderful way wid you,
All ould sinners are wishful to pray wid you,
All the young childer are wild for to play wid you,
You've such a way wid you, Father avick.
Still for all you've so gentle a soul,
Gad, you've your flock in the grandest control,
Checking the crazy ones, coaxin' onaisy ones,
Lifting the lazy ones on wid the stick.
And tho quite avoidin' all foolish frivolity;
Still at all seasons of innocent jollity,
Where was the playboy could claim an equality,
At comicality, Father, wid you?
Once the Bishop looked grave at your jest,
Till this remark set him off wid the rest:
"Is it lave gaiety all to the laity?
Cannot the clergy be Irishmen, too?"
# Posted on November 18th 2008 by Mix O'Lydian