Help needed with two songs

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Coming home the other evening I turned on the radio and a song was playing, I'm pretty sure Paul Brady was the main voice and a female was dueting with him. The only lines that my memory managed to hold went something like this;

Fare thee weel (well?) my best and fairest
Fare thee weel my first and dearest

Or something pretty similar to that. It sounded like a Scottish song, there were a few 'nays' and such in the lyrics. Anyhow, the phone in the carkit rang before the end and cut off the radio automatically before the end of the song, thus I never got the title.

As I'm posting this thread, help with another song I partially remember from a few years ago would be appreciated. It was a trio of male voices singing in harmony, the basic gist of the song was a jilted young man coming to his sweetheart's house one night to see her. She told him to go and find another girl as her father didn't approve of him and I think her mother thought that he was too good for her. The only line I remember from this (I'm pretty sure this is verbatim) is;

And what other neighbours have 'round their gardens
The same my darling you will have with me

Any ideas on either would be greatly appreciated, other avenues of exploration have proved fruitless. If Cav gets the hippy hat on, he may be able to help. :D
 
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7. The Cocks Are Crowing : Trad arr. P Callery (IMRO) N O'Callnáín (peermusic)(Irl) Ltd.

The cocks are crowing, daylight is appearing
Its drawing night to the break of day.
Arise my darling out of your slumber.
Arise my darling and come away.

And when he came to his love's window
He kneeled low down on a stone.
And through the window whispered softly
Arise my darling and let me in

Oh! who is that that is at my window
And who is that that gives me no rest?
'Tis I, 'Tis I a poor wounded lover
Who fain would speak with you love a while.

Oh go away then and ask your Daddy
If he would have you my bride to be
And if he says no then return and tell me
For this is the last time I will trouble.

Oh my dada he is in his bedchamber
He is fast asleep on his bed of ease
And in his pocket there lies a letter
Which reads much a darling unto your dispraise.

Oh what dispraise can he do unto me?
A faithful husband to you I'd be
And what other neighbours have round their houses
The same, my darling you will have with me.

Oh go away then and ask your mammy
If she will have you my bride to be
And if she says no then return and tell me
For this is the last time I will trouble thee.

My mama she is an old age woman
And scarce can hear, love, a word I'd say
But she bids you go love and court some other
For I'm not a fitting love your bride to be.

Oh I may go but I'll court no other,
My heart my linked all in your charms
I would have you wed, love, and leave your mammy
For you're just fit to lie in your love's arms.

I will go to the wild mountains
Where I'll see nothing but the wild deer
And I'll eat nothing but the wild herbs and
I'll drink nothing but my true love's tears.

If the Killyboyne it were mine in the chorus
And the green felds they were mine in white
And if my pen were made of the tempered steel
Sure my true love's praises I could never write.

A song from a wonderful man, the late great Eddie Butcher, Magilligan, Co. Derry
 
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Armada, thanks a million! I feel rather embarrassed that I didn't google the phrase, didn't even think of it. Must go learn it off now.
 
Have just googled the lines from the other song and it worked. :eek:
For anyone interested in a beautiful song (there seem to be a few versions of it, listening to Eddi Reader now), its called 'Ae Fond Kiss'.
 
Now that "The Banks" are heading for NAMA... are you looking for a new Cork anthem???
 
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