lyrics: Road to Lisdoonvarna ??
Ross Frederick Blakeney
hello all, I'm not even sure if I spelled Lisdoonvarna correctly <g>,
my friend taught me the above song out of the fiddler's fake book, but it
has no words to it. I really enjoy playing it, and it could possibly be
one of my favorites to play, but if there are words <BEG>... I could sing
it also.
If you know the words, or have a copy of them, it would be greatly
appreciated if you could e-mail them direct. many thanks in advance!!!!!
Ross
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Deborah Ann Simon
If it is, the words are fantastic - don't remember which album but I'm sure yo
can find it at your local tower records. You may need someone from Clare to
translate for you though... good luck.
szwa...@chip.ucdavis.edu
Two different songs... The Road to Lisdoonvarna is a traditional (I
think) fiddle tune with no words as far as I know. Christy Moore wrote
his about a music festival, it's a completely different tune.
Bill Wagman
U.C. Davis
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GalenL
traditional Irish tunes. These tunes are commonly called *dance* tunes as
they are written around and catagorized by the Irish (et.al.) step dance
whose meter and patern they follow (i.e. jig, reel, slide, slipjig, fling,
etc.).
I'm sorry to say, words don't come into play. Every now and then, someone
will take an existing poem or something they have written and set it to an
Irish *tune* but this is a very small percentage of irish tunes. It has
been my experience that the more it is know who composed a particular
tune, the more likely there may have been words for it from the beginning
(such as some O'Carollan tunes).
I do know several tunes that have words (Little Red Headed Beggar Boy, The
Keel Row, Rocky Road to Dublin, etc.) but that doesn't even compare to the
number of tunes that are only *session* and *dance* tunes.
Keep learning tunes out of that Fake Book! It's a pretty good source.
Also start going to sessions and you'll be more likely to hear some of the
tunes that do have words. (If Road to Lisdoonvarna is your favorite tune,
I guarantee it won't hold that status long once you start learning some of
the really twisty Irish tunes).
Best of luck,
Galen
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