Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on November 9th 2002 by alastair wilson.
This tune has been added to 69 tunebooks.
Also known as "Bhiosa La I BPort Lairge", Cups And Saucers, False Knight On The Road, The False Knight On The Road, I'll Cloot My Johnny's Breeches, Let's Pet The Pope, Little May Cullinane, O, I Courted A Farmer's Daughter, Port Lairgè, Portlairge, Portláirge.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Rose Tree, The
M: 2/4
L: 1/8
R: polka
K: Gmaj
f/e/ |: dB AF | A>B AB | d2 ed/e/ | fe ef/e/ |
dB AF | A>B AB | d2 ed/e/ | fd d2 :|
|:fe fg | a2 gf | eb ba | be ef/e/ |
dB AF | A>B AB | d2 ed/e/ | fd d2 :|
The Rose Tree
Usually played with the Dashing White Sergeant throughout England and Scotland, its not played asa polka over here but rather as something between a march and a reel. I don't know a ceilidh band anywhere on Mainland Britain that would not have this tune in their repertoire.
Noel Jackson
Angels of the North
# Posted on November 10th 2002 by noelbats
Dance Tune Sets
Also widely used in Australia with Dashing White Sergent and White Cockade
# Posted on November 10th 2002 by alastair wilson
This also sounds a great deal like the "Lilted March" on Harry Bradley's "Bad Turns and Horseshoe Bends" - especially the second strain.
# Posted on July 19th 2005 by FyfferGuy
Does anyone have the lyrics that go along with this?
# Posted on September 13th 2005 by elizab
Cups and Saucers
It's called Cups and Saucers on Bobby Gardiner's album "The Clare Shout". He lilts the tune and runs it into the song "Cups and Saucers" (of the same tune). Maybe that is song eilzab is talking about.
# Posted on January 7th 2007 by PaddyCmusic
"Portláirge"
Ó do bhíosa lá i Portláirge,
Fall dow fall dee fall-lah dad-eye-um
Bhí fíon is punch ar chlár ann,
Fall dow fall dee fall-lah dad-eye-um
Bhi lán á tígh de mhnáibh ann,
Fall dow fall dee fall-lah dad-eye-um
Agus mise ag ól a sláinte,
Fall dow fall dee fall-lah dad-eye-um
Agus d’éaluigh bean ó Rath liom,
Fall dow fall dee fall-lah dad-eye-um
Agus triúr ó Thiobraid Árann,
Fall dow fall dee fall-lah dad-eye-um
Ní raibh a muintir sásta,
Fall dow fall dee fall-lah dad-eye-um
Ní rabhadar ach leath-shásta,
Fall dow fall dee fall-lah dad-eye-um
Agus d’éaluigh bean le spreas uaim,
Fall dow fall dee fall-lah dad-eye-um
’S ní raibh sí ró-dheas liom,
Fall dow fall dee fall-lah dad-eye-um
Bhí an triúr ó Thiobraid Árann,
Fall dow fall dee fall-lah dad-eye-um
Agus tháinig siad ar ais liom,
Fall dow fall dee fall-lah dad-eye-um
Ó raghadsa ón Charraig amárach,
Fall dow fall dee fall-lah dad-eye-um
Agus tabharfad cailin bréa liom,
Fall dow fall dee fall-lah dad-eye-um
Gabhfaimid trid an Bhearnan,
Fall dow fall dee fall-lah dad-eye-um
Ó thuidh go Thiobraid Árann,
Fall dow fall dee fall-lah dad-eye-um
I remember there were also lyrics for "The Rose Tree"...
# Posted on January 8th 2007 by ceolachan
"Portláirge"
http://www.celticartscenter.com/Songs/Irish/Portlairge.html
# Posted on January 8th 2007 by ceolachan
The Clancys and Makems sang this one...
# Posted on January 8th 2007 by ceolachan
The tune is also commonly used for the Child ballad "The False Knight on the Road", where the child answers the devil's riddles.
# Posted on January 27th 2007 by GaryAMartin
Four Hand Reel used The Flowers of Edinburgh for The False Knight on the Road. I wonder which came first? The Rose Tree was always played by the majority of Ceili Bands as part of the set of tunes for The Siege of Ennis
# Posted on May 7th 2008 by Free Reed