This dates back to the Halliard period before he was solo. Apparently they did a deal with the record company: they should do a commercially attractive LP - called "the irish in me" with lots of well known material - and only then would the record company agree to release an LP based on their much more obscure traditional english material. Its documented in the sleeve notes somewhere to one of the Halliard LPs..
Thanks! Here's a track listing of the album: 1. Seven Drunken Nights (3.40) 2. Courtin’ in the Kitchen (3.06) 3. Liverpool Lou (3.37) 4. The Zoological Gardens (3.45) 5. The Merry Ploughboy (3.52) 6. The Spanish Lady (3.24) 7. The Wild Mountain Thyme (3.36) 8. The Black Velvet Band (4.34) 9. The Minstrel Boy (instrumental) (1.17) 10. The Kerry Recruit (2.59) 11. The Mountain Dew (2.28) 12. The Wild Rover (3.34) 13. (Sailing for the) Lowlands Low (3.56) 14. The Croppy Boy (3.21)
Here are the lyrics: It was early, early in the spring The birds did whistle and sweetly sing Changing their notes from tree to tree And the song they sang was "Old Ireland's Free" It was early, early in the night The yeoman cavalry gave me a fright The yeoman cavalry was my downfall And taken was I by the Lord Cornwall 'Twas in the guard-house where I was laid And in a parlour where I was tried My sentence passed and my courage low When to Dungannon I was forced to go As I was passing my father's door My brother William stood at the door My aged father stood at the door And my tender mother her hair she tore As I was going up Wexford Street My own first cousin I chanced to meet My own first cousin did me betray And for one bare guinea swore my life away As I was walking up Wexford Hill Who could blame me to cry my fill? I looked behind, and I looked before But my aged mother I shall see no more And as I mounted the platform high My aged father was standing by My aged father did me deny And the name he gave me was the Croppy Boy It was in Dungannon this young man died And in Dungannon his body lies And you good people that do pass by Oh shed a tear for the Croppy Boy
Seamus Heaney’s collection 'Door into the Dark' .In just fourteen short lines, 'Requiem for the Croppies' summarises the blood and glory of the 1798 Rebellion in Wexford. It does so by taking a humble farmer’s crop and putting it to the forefront of the story. The bronze statue in question appears on this site..so I'm guessing its in Ireland. Sorry I can't be more specific after 40mins of data searching. But I will find it.,..Pikemen sculpture Co Wexford Pikemen of 1798, sculpture by Eamon O Doherty to commemorate battle victory of United Irishmen against crown forces...got it!!
I don't think they are much like The Newry Highwayman at all. A couple of verses have some commonality, but then so do a lot of folk songs; it is a by product of how they evolved, from oral transmission by different singers.
You're quite right, neither this song, nor its lyrics, have anything whatsoever to do with The Newry Highwayman, but the fact that the narrator in each of those songs' lyrics happens to be 'speaking from beyond the grave' and is talking about the circumstances of their own death seems, at least for me, to put both of these songs into a certain special category, one that I found moving enough to point out. I don't really know that many folk songs, so if it turns out that any other songs have more in common with either of these two or with any others in this category, I'd be more than happy to listen to them, if you could let me know.
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Still gives me chills as one of the most moving vocal performances ever.
This dates back to the Halliard period before he was solo. Apparently they did a deal with the record company: they should do a commercially attractive LP - called "the irish in me" with lots of well known material - and only then would the record company agree to release an LP based on their much more obscure traditional english material. Its documented in the sleeve notes somewhere to one of the Halliard LPs..
Thanks!
Here's a track listing of the album:
1. Seven Drunken Nights (3.40)
2. Courtin’ in the Kitchen (3.06)
3. Liverpool Lou (3.37)
4. The Zoological Gardens (3.45)
5. The Merry Ploughboy (3.52)
6. The Spanish Lady (3.24)
7. The Wild Mountain Thyme (3.36)
8. The Black Velvet Band (4.34)
9. The Minstrel Boy (instrumental) (1.17)
10. The Kerry Recruit (2.59)
11. The Mountain Dew (2.28)
12. The Wild Rover (3.34)
13. (Sailing for the) Lowlands Low (3.56)
14. The Croppy Boy (3.21)
Here are the lyrics:
It was early, early in the spring
The birds did whistle and sweetly sing
Changing their notes from tree to tree
And the song they sang was "Old Ireland's Free"
It was early, early in the night
The yeoman cavalry gave me a fright
The yeoman cavalry was my downfall
And taken was I by the Lord Cornwall
'Twas in the guard-house where I was laid
And in a parlour where I was tried
My sentence passed and my courage low
When to Dungannon I was forced to go
As I was passing my father's door
My brother William stood at the door
My aged father stood at the door
And my tender mother her hair she tore
As I was going up Wexford Street
My own first cousin I chanced to meet
My own first cousin did me betray
And for one bare guinea swore my life away
As I was walking up Wexford Hill
Who could blame me to cry my fill?
I looked behind, and I looked before
But my aged mother I shall see no more
And as I mounted the platform high
My aged father was standing by
My aged father did me deny
And the name he gave me was the Croppy Boy
It was in Dungannon this young man died
And in Dungannon his body lies
And you good people that do pass by
Oh shed a tear for the Croppy Boy
Anyone know anything about the bronze sculpture in the picture?
Seamus Heaney’s collection 'Door into the Dark' .In just fourteen short lines, 'Requiem for the Croppies' summarises the blood and glory of the 1798 Rebellion in Wexford. It does so by taking a humble farmer’s crop and putting it to the forefront of the story. The bronze statue in question appears on this site..so I'm guessing its in Ireland. Sorry I can't be more specific after 40mins of data searching. But I will find it.,..Pikemen sculpture Co Wexford
Pikemen of 1798, sculpture by Eamon O Doherty to commemorate battle victory of United Irishmen against crown forces...got it!!
You're welcome....
@@staxter6 Thanks Chris! Here's a video of the most well-known song relating to the 1798 rebellion th-cam.com/video/CTSBkR2YJNo/w-d-xo.html
I don't think they are much like The Newry Highwayman at all. A couple of verses have some commonality, but then so do a lot of folk songs; it is a by product of how they evolved, from oral transmission by different singers.
You're quite right, neither this song, nor its lyrics, have anything whatsoever to do with The Newry Highwayman, but the fact that the narrator in each of those songs' lyrics happens to be 'speaking from beyond the grave' and is talking about the circumstances of their own death seems, at least for me, to put both of these songs into a certain special category, one that I found moving enough to point out. I don't really know that many folk songs, so if it turns out that any other songs have more in common with either of these two or with any others in this category, I'd be more than happy to listen to them, if you could let me know.