"The Seal People" (Keagan)
MadMaxNY
Please,please,please e-mail them to me???
Abby Sale
>Does anyone have the lyrics to this Irish or Newfoundland folk song?
>Please,please,please e-mail them to me???
Do you mean "Peter Kagan & the Wind" by Gordon Bok?
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Joe Kesselman, yclept Keshlam
different cultures) of seal-people.
Heard one last year that was much closer to the original Selkie
legend than most; unfortunately I failed to write down the title
and author, but it went back to the story about how the seal
women like to come up on shore and take off their furs to dance
in human form... and how they could be entrapped if a man were
to steal their skin.
Oddly, my own effort in this direction ("Stole of the Seal", lyrics on
my webpage) has strong echos of that story -- though when I wrote
it I hadn't heard that particular plot element applied to the Selkie.
What can I say; some mythic truths seem to be unavoidable.
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>Does anyone have the lyrics to this Irish or Newfoundland folk song?
>Please,please,please e-mail them to me???
It's a REALLY long song, and I'd have to transcribe it. Try looking
for it under the title "Peter Kagen and the Wind". I'm particularly
fond of Marty Burke's version.
Nick Wagg
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> Does anyone have the lyrics to this Irish or Newfoundland folk song?
> Please,please,please e-mail them to me???
Is this a variant of the "Silkie of Sule Skerrie"? A Scottish song.
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>MadMaxNY wrote:
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>> Does anyone have the lyrics to this Irish or Newfoundland folk song?
>> Please,please,please e-mail them to me???
>
>Is this a variant of the "Silkie of Sule Skerrie"? A Scottish song.
Fisher performs this setting it to the Newfoundland tune.
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Joe Kesselman, yclept Keshlam
>Is this a variant of the "Silkie of Sule Skerrie"? A Scottish song.
aka "The Great Silkie". Another good song, though I've been told
that's actually a more recent take on the legend.
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abby...@orlinter.com (Abby Sale) wrote:
> On 26 Jul 1998 03:12:34 GMT, madm...@aol.com (MadMaxNY) wrote:
>
> >Does anyone have the lyrics to this Irish or Newfoundland folk song?
> >Please,please,please e-mail them to me???
>
>
It's not really a song. It's a story with guitar accompaniment and occasional
sung snippets.
There's also a song on another album, "Djiril's Hymn" ("Long are the days
gone, andiranda.")
Jeri
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Joe Kesselman, yclept Keshlam
of The Jungle Book...
Lee Gold
Joe Kesselman, yclept Keshlam wrote:
> Tangential, but I think Kipling had a song for seal pups in the back
> of The Jungle Book...
>
"The Beaches of Lukannan" (your spelling may vary)
went with the story of the White Seal.
Joe Kesselman, yclept Keshlam
>"The Beaches of Lukannan" (your spelling may vary)
>went with the story of the White Seal.
Dug out my Project Gutenberg copy, and there it was --
"Lukannon", described as"
This is the great deep-sea song that all the St. Paul
seals sing when they are heading back to their
beaches in the summer. It is a sort of very sad seal
National Anthem.
Theoretically, since Project Gutenberg makes it available,
it should be out of copyright... but the fine print on their
version makes me a trifle leery of quoting it here.
I haven't heard this one set to music yet, though there've
been a lot of settings of Kipling poetry. If anyone happens
to have a tune for it, I'd be interested.
Nigel Gatherer
> Does anyone have the lyrics to this...
I've just noticed a song on a Nic Jones tape called 'The Seal Children'.
Could this be the same song? If it is, I'll jot down the words - let me
know.
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Abby Sale
Keshlam) wrote:
>Dug out my Project Gutenberg copy, and there it was --
>"Lukannon", described as"
> This is the great deep-sea song that all the St. Paul
>I haven't heard this one set to music yet, though there've
>been a lot of settings of Kipling poetry. If anyone happens
>to have a tune for it, I'd be interested.
>
I haven't heard them, unfortunately, but Bob Davenport wrote tunes to &
recorded a number of Kipling songs. Notably "Frankie's Trade" but I don't
know what-all else. They may be called (and from the works of) Puck's
Songs. Tapes may be available from his estate.
Lee Gold
Abby Sale wrote:
> I haven't heard them, unfortunately, but Bob Davenport wrote tunes to &
> recorded a number of Kipling songs. Notably "Frankie's Trade" but I don't
> know what-all else. They may be called (and from the works of) Puck's
> Songs.
I think you're thinking of PUCK OF POOK'S HILL.and its sequel,REWARDS AND
FAIRIES (the source of "Frankie's Trade" which
was about Sir Francis Drake.