On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, mary umbarger wrote: > Thank you for this information. Our band, The Front Porch Strings, has been > playing this for several years. Someone heard it somewhere and knew the > name was My Lily. Now we have the rest of the story.
> > From: "Nigel Gatherer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Found it in Jerry Holland's Collection as "My Lily", and air to a > > Gaelic song. Jerry adapted it for fiddle from the playing of Joan The song, which is mentioned here is known as Mo Shuil ad Dheigh. this literally translates as "My Eyes at Your Back". I have the Gaelic lyrics here, along with a bit of the history of the song: http://www.geocities.com/george_seto.geo/mo_shuil.html Another title some people give it is "Of Thee I Dream". The English lyrics along wiht the Gaelic, AND a great MIDI file of the tune by Barry Taylor from Vancouver Island is found here: http://www.bardstown.com/~mtipton/scottish/moshuil.html http://www.bardstown.com/~mtipton/scottish/moshuil.mid Hope you enjoy them. ------------------------------------------ Oh yes, a friend of mine, Melanie Breen, wrote a song a number of years ago, and called it Front Porch Songs. It is about the times while growing up where she, her family and friends would sit on the front porch (new homes don't have these, did you notice?), and play and sing for hours and hours, having tons of fun. Bidh mi 'gad fhaicinn!!! IWK Children's Hospital Telethon - June 1st and 2nd, 2002 $4.1 Million for 2002 - Thanks!!! <<<<< An ni\ a thig leis a' ghaoith, falbhaidh e leis an uisge. >>>>> George / Seo\ras Seto e-mail address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] e-mail address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GeoCities address [EMAIL PROTECTED] url: http://www.geocities.com/george_seto.geo | My stuff url: http://www.corvuscorax.org:8080/~gseto/creighton | Helen Creighton Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
