Key signature: Dmajor
Submitted on July 7th 2004 by Will CPT.
This tune has been added to 32 tunebooks.
Also known as Baidin Feilimi, Baidin Feilimid, Baidin Feilimidh, Baidin Fheilemi, Baidin Fheilimi, Baidin Fheilimidh.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Baidin Fheilimi
M: 12/8
L: 1/8
R: slide
K: Dmaj
|: A2 D FED ABc d2 B | A2 D FED GEE EFG |
A2 D FED ABc d2 c |1 d2 B ABG FDD D2 B :|2 d2 B ABG FDD D2 A ||
|: d2 ef2 dg2 e fed | B2 cd2 B ABG FED |
d2 ef2 dg2 e fed |1 B2 d ABG FDD D2 A :|2 B2 d ABG FDD D2 B ||
Felini's Boat Song?
I just learned this off Kim McKee, who plays it on accordion but can't remember where she heard it. Says it's been stuck in her head for quite some time, and she has a vague recollection that it's called Felini's Boat Song. Lol. Maybe it's one of Gian Marco's tunes.
Anyway, I really like this simple little melody, and it works nice at a slow tempo as well as at more customary slide speed. Fits well on fiddle and whistle/flute.
Anyone recognize it and have a more likely name for it?
# Posted on July 7th 2004 by Will CPT
Lanigan's?
Lots of similarities to the jig/song 'Lanigan's Ball'
# Posted on July 11th 2004 by swisspiper
Baidin Fheilemi
it's a speeded up version of an irish kid's song
X:1
T:Báidín Fheidhlimidh
R:waltz
S:Croabh Naithi Tunebook #1, page 1
M:3/4
L:1/8
K:D
A4 D2|F3 E D2|A2 B2 c2|d4 B2|\
A4 D2|F3 E D2|G2 E2 E2 |E6|\
A4 D2|F3 E D2|A2 B2 c2|d4 B2|\
d4 B2|A3 B G2|F2 D2 D2 |D6||\
d4 e2|f4 d2|g4 e2|f4 d2|\
B4 c2|d4 B2|A3 B G2|F3 E D2|\
d4 e2|f4 d2|g4 e2|f4 d2|\
B4 d2|A3 B G2|F2 D2 D2|D6||
# Posted on July 12th 2004 by Alancorsini
Thanks Alan! Kim remembered that it went with a song, but the details were foggy.
# Posted on July 12th 2004 by Will CPT
Baidin Fheilemi
That's not (only) a kid 's song. It's a sean-nos song with some mystic in it - a fisherman rowing between this world and the otherworld...
# Posted on July 12th 2004 by swisspiper
Lyrics
That's the version as sung by the famous sean nos singer Sinead O'Connor
Baidin Fheilimi, d'imigh go Gabhla,
Baidin Fheilimi ' s Feilimi ann,
Baidin Fheilimi D ' imigh go Gabhla
Baidin Fheilimi 's, Feilimi ann.
Baidin bideach, baidin beosach, Baidin boidheach,
baidin Fheilimi,Baidin direach, baidin deontach,
Baidin Fheilimi 's Feilimi ann.
Baidin Fheilimi d ' imigh go Trocaigh,
Baidin Fheilimi 's Feilime ann.
Baidin Fheilimi d ' imigh go Trocaigh,
Baidin Fheilimi 's Feilime ann.
Baidin bideach, baidin beosach, Baidin boidheach,
baidin Fheilimi,Baidin direach, baidin deontach,
Baidin Fheilimi 's Feilimi ann.
Baidin Fheilimi briseadh i dToraigh,
Baidin Fheilimi ' s Feilimi ann.
Baidin Fheilimi briseadh i dToraigh,
Baidin Fheilimi ' s Feilimi ann.
Baidin bideach, baidin beosach, Baidin boidheach,
baidin Fheilimi,Baidin direach, baidin deontach,
Baidin Fheilimi 's Feilimi ann.
Baidin bideach, baidin beosach, Baidin boidheach,
baidin Fheilimi,Baidin direach, baidin deontach,
Baidin Fheilimi 's Feilimi ann.
# Posted on July 12th 2004 by swisspiper
So is Baidin Fheilimi just a person's name?
# Posted on July 13th 2004 by Will CPT
Baidin = little boat
Fheilimi = Feilim's
Feilim was the name of the guy in the little boat.
Some of the kids around here got fed up with playing this tune ad nauseam and re-christened it Bodgy Dodgy, after which it never felt the same again. For me the words of the song are just a little too boring to have any mysticism.
But basically not a bad little tune.
# Posted on July 13th 2004 by Donough
Thanks for the translation!
# Posted on July 14th 2004 by Will CPT
Different Lyrics?
Why do the lyrics on "Celtic Pride" sound so different than these?
# Posted on May 21st 2006 by Marykatherine
An English translation of this lullaby is available at:
www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=18074&messages=12
next year on Tory!
# Posted on September 30th 2006 by birlibirdie