Key signature: Eminor
Submitted on February 17th 2004 by LCorinth.
This tune has been added to 236 tunebooks.
Also known as The Foggy Dew March.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Foggy Dew, The
M: 2/4
L: 1/8
R: polka
K: Emin
B d | e2 d B | e2 d B | A2 B2 | D2 E F |
G B A G | E2 D2 | E4-|E2 B d | e2 d B | e2 d B |
A2 B2 | D2 E F | G B A G | E2 D2 | E4-|E2 F2 |
G2 B2 | d2 c B | A2 A2 | B2 G A | B2 g f|
e d B d | e4-| e2 B d|e2 d B | e2 d B |
A2 B2 | D2 E F | G B A G | E2 D2 | E2 z2|
The Foggy Dew
Well, this doesn't look like it did when I submitted it. In fact, I'd call it a march, not a polka. It should be in 4/4 or cut time. I had submitted it as a reel, but I see it got changed by the website. As it is, it sounds too clipped, at least when the Session's midi player plays it...
Daniel Petrie
# Posted on February 17th 2004 by LCorinth
Definitely a March!!
This is a very old Irish rebel song going back to the War of Independence. I think the best version was by the late, great Luke Kelly with the Dubliners in the 1960s who would always deliver a song with unbounded passion.
# Posted on February 18th 2004 by Bannerman
Also sounds great in D major
Great tune, I agree! I first learned this tune in E minor, but I've been playing it as part of our set list, and it also sounds spectacular in D major. I usually start on an F sharp and follow the melody from there. (Might be B aeolian in that case....hmmm. We'll let the purists rule on that) I still like this key when playing it alone, but in D it's easier to blend with whistle and guitar. Just food for thought
# Posted on February 20th 2004 by lovelylydia
Wrong type of classification
Who ever classified the tune as a polka, I wonder why. The Foggy Dew is a slow ballad and not a polka. Have any of you tried to sing "The Foggy Dew" in hornpipe tempo. I am curious who did classify it as a polka and who ever did please comment on it.
# Posted on December 10th 2004 by cor
Because there's no such thing as a "slow ballad" classification on this site, as this is technically a dance music site. Read the first post in the thread!
# Posted on December 10th 2004 by Zina Lee
The Foggy Dew
this is an absolute 'class song' of the highest order and i know i think i know but i know i'm right . . . (at least this time)
_a good point of interest arrises with the other old song of this name in Palmer's 'English Country Songbook' (1979) :
'A great deal of time and ink has been expended in attempting to explain the meaning of the phrase, 'the foggy dew'. Perhaps it is best left as mysteriously evocative. One likely idea, however, seems to be that it is a corruption of 'bugaboo' or 'bogle bo', meaning ghost.'
whatever
# Posted on January 18th 2005 by lisaniska
Classification of The Foggy Dew
Hi all !
(am a new member)
In regard to The Foggy Dew - tis a air.
A very good rendition can be found on "na Filí 3", where they first play the whistle and fiddle to the air and then blend it with a reel called "Fear a Tí (man of the house)" featuring the uilleann pipes. The two go very well together.
# Posted on March 27th 2005 by Red-haired lass
Wrong "Foggy Dew"
Hi, "Red-Haired Lass" - as a new member, welcome to "The Session". I had a listen to the "Na Fili" track you mentioned. The only problem, is that this tune posted - which incidentally, is a march - isn't the tune "Na Fili" play with the "Man Of The House".
That's a different tune altogether. "The Fiddler's Companion" website list 4 tunes with the title "The Foggy Dew". This tune posted is their #1, and "Na Fili" play #2.
# Posted on March 29th 2005 by Kenny
Lyrics?
i heard that there is a lyric for this tune... knows anybody more?
# Posted on October 13th 2005 by Joon
Lirycs for The foggy dew
http://www.celtic-lyrics.com/forum/index.php?autocom=tclc&code=lyrics&id=201
Here there are. There are more versions but theese ones fit very well whit the music
# Posted on January 9th 2006 by eduard
October Browne
There is a very different version of the lyrics from Newfoundland. It's a love song, recorded by October Browne on her eponymous CD.
# Posted on January 18th 2007 by DuncanCameron
"The Foggy Dew" ~ another melody, played as an air & march
Key signature: G Major
Submitted on February 26th 2007 by Falkbeer.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/6862
# Posted on March 11th 2007 by ceolachan
Lyrics
It has always surprised me how much the lyrics of this type of patriotic Irish songs remember me Argentina's History.
This song, particulary remembers me the War of Malvinas Islands. (I completely refuse to call them "Falklands")
I don't know if this is just my impression or if this has any explanation!
And I love this song.
# Posted on July 21st 2007 by MBAC