Lyr/Tune Req: Killarney

Subject: lyric/music request, By Killarney's lake
From: Paul Evenden
Date: 15 Jan 98 - 03:28 PM

Looking for Lyric and music for an irish song. I have the following words: By Killarney's lakes and dells, Emerald Isle and winding dales, Purple Hills and mountain streams, ever singing Killarney.

Lyrics and/or links can go to [e-mail]; if you have a music file, please send to [e-mail]

Thanks.

Subject: Lyr Add: KILLARNEY
From: Wolfgang Hell
Date: 19 Jan 98 - 10:21 AM

Paul, here are the lyrics taken from "50 beauties of Erin"

Killarney

1. By Killarney's lakes and fells,
Emeralds Isle and winding bays,
mountain paths and woodland dells,
mem'ry ever fondly strays,
bounteous nature loves all lands,
beauty wanders everywhere
footprints leave on many strands
but her home is surely there.
Angels fold their wings and rest
in that Eden of the West;
beauty's home, Killarney,
heav'ns reflex, Killarney.

2. No place else can charm the eye,
with such bright and varied tints,
ev'ry rock that you pass by,
verdure broiders or besprints.
Virgin there the green grass grows,
ev'ry morn Spring's natal day,
bright hued berries daff the snows,
smiling winters' frown away!
Angels often pausing there
doubt if Eden were more fair,
beauty's home, Killarney,
heav'ns reflex, Killarney.

In case you'd like to have a photocopy of the (piano) setting, mail me: [e-mail]

No further information on author is given in my source, a piano book. I even cannot say if there are more than two verses, for in this book the number of verses printed is limited to what fits on the rest of the page.

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: lyric/music request, By Killarney's lake
From: Allan C.
Date: 15 Feb 04 - 05:53 PM

The book I have, "Heart Songs Dear to the American People"; 1909, Chappele Publishing Co. Ltd. Boston, shows the song title of, "Killarney" and further notes it as "M. W. Balfe's last song". It lists the verses above (with only minor changes in the last lines,) as first and third. The second and fourth are as follows:

Innisfallen's ruined shrine may suggest a passing sigh;
But man's faith can ne'er decline such God's wonders floating by;
Castle Lough and Glenabay; Mountains Tore and Eagle's Nest'
Still at Mucrsoss you must pay tho' the monks are now at rest.
Angels wonder not that man there would fain prolong life's span,
Beauty's home Killarney, ever fair, Killarney.

Music there for echo dwells, makes each sound a harmony;
Many voic'd the chorus swells, 'till it faints in ecstasy.
With the charmful tints below, seems the heav'n above to vie
All rich colors that we know tinge the cloud wreaths in that sky.
Wings of angels so might shine, glancing back soft light divine,
Beauty's home Killarney, ever fair Killarney.

Subject: RE: lyric/music request, By Killarney's lake
From: Joe Offer
Date: 15 Feb 04 - 06:30 PM

I've crosslinked the Digital Tradition entry and the other threads on this song. In the process, I got sidetracked and came across this picture of Killarney's lakes. They are beautiful, indeed. We saw them on a grey, misty day, but they were still remarkable.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: lyric/music request, By Killarney's lake
From: masato sakurai
Date: 15 Feb 04 - 10:35 PM

From the Levy collection (click here):

Title: Songs of the Day. Killarney.
Composer, Lyricist, Arranger: The Last Song. by M.W. Balfe.
Publication: Louisville, KY: n.p., n.d..
Form of Composition: strophic with chorus
Instrumentation: piano and voice
First Line: By Killarney's lakes and fells, Em'rald isles and winding bays
First Line of Chorus: Beauty's home Killarney, ever fair Killarney

From American Memory:

Killarney / by Balfe
Boston: Ditson, Oliver, 1883.

Killarney / by M. W. Balfe
Cincinnati: Church & Co., John, 1882.

Killarney / by E. Mack [for the piano]
Philadelphia: Lee & Walker, 1875.

Killarney [and] Last rose of summer / by Balfe [brass band music score]
Philadelphia: Coleman, Harry, 1883.

Killarney fantasie / by Charles Grobe [for the piano]
Philadelphia: Lee & Walker, 1874.

Killarney / by Geo. W. Persley [with guitar accompaniment]
Philadelphia: Lee & Walker, 1873.

Killarney / by Walter Emerson [for the cornet and piano]
Boston: White, Smith & Co., 1880.

Killarney galop / by A. Sedgwick [arranged for the piano]
New York: Daly, John J., 1874.

Killarney Waltz / by G. Operti [arranged for the piano]
New York: Peters, J. L., 1870.

Killarney / by J. S. Cox [arranged for the cornet and piano]
Philadelphia: Pepper, J. W., 1881.