Chord Req: Queen of Connemara

Subject: Chord Req: Queen of Connemara
From: jeffp
Date: 06 Mar 01 - 12:50 PM

I'm doing Queen of Connemara at a St. Patrick's Day gig and I'm not satisfied with the chords that I've been using. I'm doing a I-IV-V type of thing that works OK, but doesn't sound quite right. Can anybody suggest something that sounds better?

Thanks in advance,

jeffp

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Queen of Connemara
From: GUEST
Date: 06 Mar 01 - 02:41 PM

Something new. I didn't know it could be sung with instrumental accompaniment.

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Queen of Connemara
From: jeffp
Date: 06 Mar 01 - 05:06 PM

Clancy and Makem did it with accompaniment on one of their albums. I'm at work right now, so I'm not sure which one. Surely someone must have some idea. Anonymous guest, maybe we're thinking of different songs?

jeffp

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Queen of Connemara
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 06 Mar 01 - 05:08 PM

I've never heard it sung at all!  There are some simple chords for it here, if that's any use to you:  Queen of Connemara

Malcolm

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Queen of Connemara
From: jeffp
Date: 06 Mar 01 - 05:20 PM

Malcolm, that may just do it! Thanks ever so much! I'll try it tonight and see how it works for me.

jeffp

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Queen of Connemara
From: Deckman
Date: 06 Mar 01 - 06:01 PM

This is a GREAT SONG. I learned it from the late David Spence in Los Gatos California about 1963. Good Luck ... Bob

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Queen of Connemara
From: GUEST
Date: 06 Mar 01 - 06:35 PM

It's on 'Delia Murphy, the Queen of Connemara', LP, Irish 35002, c 1960 [she died in 1971].

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Queen of Connemara
From: Liam's Brother
Date: 06 Mar 01 - 06:53 PM

"The Queen of Connemara" would be an obvious song for instrumental accompaniment. The author was Frank Fahy.

All the best,
Dan Milner

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Queen of Connemara
From: GUEST
Date: 06 Mar 01 - 07:10 PM

Thanks, I didn't know it was a 'written' song. Folk songs are rarely collected from singers in the USA that accompanied them selves on instrument, and that doesn't seem to have happened yet in the British Isles.

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Queen of Connemara
From: jeffp
Date: 07 Mar 01 - 08:42 AM

I tried the chords that Malcolm found last night, and with one change, they work much better than what I had been doing. Thanks so much! I'll be doing the song for a friend from County Roscommon who will be listening.

jeffp

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Queen of Connemara
From: GUEST,Years Later.
Date: 12 Apr 05 - 01:06 PM

Years later, that poor link is broken. Might anyone be able to help me out.

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Queen of Connemara
From: jeffp
Date: 12 Apr 05 - 01:08 PM

I think I still have it printed out at home. If I can find it I'll post it.

jeffp

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Queen of Connemara
From: sylverdollar
Date: 12 Apr 05 - 01:12 PM

I'd be much obliged. :-D

Subject: Lyr Add: QUEEN OF CONNEMARA (Francis A. Fahy)
From: jeffp
Date: 13 Apr 05 - 12:56 PM

Here is the way I do it:

Queen of Connemara
By Francis A. Fahy

(C) Oh! My boat can safely float in the (F) teeth of wind and (C) weather
And (Am) outrace the fastest (C) hooker between (Am) Galway (D) and Kin-(G)sale
When the (C) black floor of the ocean and the (F) white foam rush togeth-(C)er
High she (F) rides, in her (C) pride, like a (F) seagull in a (C) gale

Chorus:

(C) Oh she's neat! Oh she's sweet! She's a (F) beauty in ev'ry (C) line!
The (G) Queen of (C) Conne-(F)mara is that (C) bounding (G) barque of (C) mine.

When she's loaded down with fish till the water lips her gunwale
Not a drop she'll take on board her that would wash a fly away;
From the fleet she'll slip out swiftly like a greyhound from her kennel,
And she'll land her silvery store the first at ould Kinvara quay.

Chorus…

There's a light that shines afar, and it keeps me from dismaying
When the skies are ink above us and the sea runs white with foam,
In a cot in Connemara there's a wife and wee ones praying
To the One who walked the waters once, to send us safely home.

Chorus…

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Queen of Connemara
From: sylverdollar
Date: 15 Apr 05 - 06:50 AM

Yaaay!
That last verse always gives me goosebumps. I cant wait to wrap myself up in this one. Thanks!

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Queen of Connemara
From: Reiver 2
Date: 29 Mar 07 - 12:25 AM

This is one of my favorite songs. I got it from a CD by Cherish the Ladies called "The Girls Won't Let the Boys Alone." The CD notes say it's "a fishing song composed by Francis Fahy from Kinvara in County Galway during the early 1900s." The group brought in Mattie Connolly the father of one of the "Ladies", Dierdre Connolly, to do the lead vocals. The other "Ladies" on this recording are Mary Coogan, Donna Long, Joanie Madden, Mary Rafferty and Liz Knowles. Their lyrics vary only slightly from thos posted above by jeffp:

Oh, my boat can safely float in the teeth of wind and weather/
And outrace the fastest hooker between Galway and Kinsale/
Where the white foam of the ocean and the dark clouds roll together/
There she rides, in her pride, like a seagull over the waves.

CHO: Oh, she's neat! Oh, she's sweet! She's a beauty, every line/
    The Queen of Connemara is that bounding barque of mine.

When she's loaded down with fish 'till the water laps the gunwale/
Not a drop she'll take on board her that would drive a fly away/
Like a ship she'll sail out gladly like a greyhound from her kennel/
And she'll land her silver store the first at old Kinvara quay.

CHO:

There's a light shines out afar, and it keeps me from dismaying/
When the skies are ink above us and the sea runs white with foam/
In a cot in Connemara there's a wife and wee one praying/
To the One who walked the waters once, to send us safely home.

CHO:

Listening to the song you can almost feel the Queen under your feet, riding with pride through the waves.

Reiver 2