----- Original Message ----- From: <Irishcolleen45@aol.com> To: <IRISH-AMERICAN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, July 30, 2004 5:17 PM Subject: [Irish-American] Re: Irish songs > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <Irishcolleen45@aol.com> > Subject: [Irish-American] Re: Irish songs > > > Thanks, Judy and AnneMarie. I'm going to ask my friend who introduced me > to > > "Irish Soldier Boy" if she knows anything about its roots. > > > > Nora > > > > > > JUDYSPHIL@aol.com writes: > > > > > > We knew you meant Andy Cooney not Rooney. I only find that song listed > > under > > "traditional". I guess we will have to investigate further --- perhaps > it > > was taken from the traditional and arranged by someone during the 1960's. > > Judy > > {who once ended an email to an overweight friend with: you go, gut! > instead > > of you go, guy!} > > > > ______________________________ > > > > > From: Nanaannemarie@aol.com > > > Subject: Re: [Irish-American] Irish songs > > > > > In a message dated 7/28/2004 9:50:10 AM Eastern Standard Time, > > JUDYSPHIL@aol.com writes: > > > > > I guess we will have to investigate further --- perhaps it > > > was taken from the traditional and arranged by someone during the > 1960's > > > > I have a book my parents picked up in Ireland, "Old Favorite Irish songs" > > reproduced from an old Irish Song Book by Tom Sexton. The Irish Soldier > Boy > > is > > not in it, but I do have wonderful memories of Rockaway Beach, and the > > concerts > > at Jones Beach. > > > > Thanks for a few moments of reminiscing, > > > > > > AnneMarie Dunne George > > searching DUNNE< MCMANUS, leonard and gallagher in ireland > > _the_researcher@btopenworld.com_ (mailto:the_researcher@btopenworld.com) > writes: > > Would this be the same song > > One dark and stormy winters night > As the snow lay on the ground > A youthfull Irish soldier boy > To the mountains ,he was bound > > His mother stood beside him > Saying my son have no fear > And with trembling hands, around his waist > She tied his bandolier > Raymond > > > Yes, Raymond. That's the song. I e-mailed my friend and she told me she > had heard it from her father in growing up in the 1950s. So I must have > misheard at the concert. > > Thanks all. > > Nora Hopkins FitzGerald > Hopkins - Castlebar, Co. Mayo/New York City > Grant - Drumboniff, Co. Down/NYC > > > ==== IRISH-AMERICAN Mailing List ==== > The IRISH-AMERICAN Mailing List Website and Lookup Service > http://www.connorsgenealogy.com/IrishAmerican/ > Use this to unsub, change your subscription, links, etc. > > Well my friend if thats the song, it would be around longer than 50 years ago, the song had to do with the troubles, in Ireland probaly around the earlier 1900s, Raymond