fairy tunes
fairy tunes Years ago an Irishman moved to Branch. He settled, however, a few miles from the place, in a place that came to be known as Dick's Path. This man must have been a musician, or at least he knew many unfamiliar songs, for the people believed that he learned these songs from the fairie...
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| Language: | English |
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| Online Access: | http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/27595 |
| Summary: | fairy tunes Years ago an Irishman moved to Branch. He settled, however, a few miles from the place, in a place that came to be known as Dick's Path. This man must have been a musician, or at least he knew many unfamiliar songs, for the people believed that he learned these songs from the fairies. He let them believe that the fairies talked to him and his songs came to be called "fairy tunes." I asked my father about this afterwards. He said he re- membered his uncles and other older men requesting the fiddlers of the place to play 'fairy tunes'. These were tunes that were passed down from father to son but had been first learned from Dick, the Irishman. JH FEB 1972 DNE-cit Used I Used I Used I |
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