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'''YELLOW COW.''' AKA | |f_annotation='''YELLOW COW.''' AKA and see: “[[Is Trua gan Peata 'n Mhaoir agam (1)]]," "[[Mother and Child Reel (The)]]," "[[Peata Beag is a Mháthair]]," "[[Your Mother’s Fair Pet]]." Irish, Air and Reel. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB’. The tonality is at times ambigiuous, shifting from D Major to A Mixolydian. It is derived from a "dandling" song, or a kind of nonsense song sung to an infant (hence one of the alternate titles, "Mother and Child"). However, there are a number of variants of both tune and song, including reel settings (most noticeable in the first strain)--see note for "[[annotation:Our House at Home]]" for more. | ||
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"Yellow Cow" is a version of an Irish song called "[[I Wish the Shepherd's Pet Was Mine]]" (printed by Joyce as "[[I wish I had the shepherd’s lamb]]" in his '''Old Irish Folk Music and Songs''', 1909, No, 426) in which the protagonist wishes for the shepherd's lamb and a yellow cow: | |||
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'' | ''I wish 1 had the yellow cow,''<br> | ||
<br> | ''The yellow cow, the yellow cow, ''<br> | ||
<br> | ''I wish I had the yellow cow ''<br> | ||
< | ''And welcome from my darling. ''<br> | ||
< | </blockquote> | ||
'' | and whose chorus (in translation by P.W. Joyce) goes: | ||
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<br> | ''And Oh! I hail thee, I hail thee!''<br> | ||
< | ''My heart's love without guile are thou.''<br> | ||
''And Oh! I hail thee, I hail thee,''<br> | |||
''The fair pet of thy mother.''<br> | |||
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|f_recorded_sources=GIFT 10007, Arty McGlynn & Nollaig Casey – “Lead the Knave.” | |||
|f_see_also_listing=Alan Ng's Irishtune.info [https://www.irishtune.info/tune/1347/]<br> | |||
Alan Ng's Irishtune.info [https://www.irishtune.info/tune/1347/]<br> | }} | ||
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Latest revision as of 01:37, 16 December 2021
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YELLOW COW. AKA and see: “Is Trua gan Peata 'n Mhaoir agam (1)," "Mother and Child Reel (The)," "Peata Beag is a Mháthair," "Your Mother’s Fair Pet." Irish, Air and Reel. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB’. The tonality is at times ambigiuous, shifting from D Major to A Mixolydian. It is derived from a "dandling" song, or a kind of nonsense song sung to an infant (hence one of the alternate titles, "Mother and Child"). However, there are a number of variants of both tune and song, including reel settings (most noticeable in the first strain)--see note for "annotation:Our House at Home" for more.
"Yellow Cow" is a version of an Irish song called "I Wish the Shepherd's Pet Was Mine" (printed by Joyce as "I wish I had the shepherd’s lamb" in his Old Irish Folk Music and Songs, 1909, No, 426) in which the protagonist wishes for the shepherd's lamb and a yellow cow:
I wish 1 had the yellow cow,
The yellow cow, the yellow cow,
I wish I had the yellow cow
And welcome from my darling.
and whose chorus (in translation by P.W. Joyce) goes:
And Oh! I hail thee, I hail thee!
My heart's love without guile are thou.
And Oh! I hail thee, I hail thee,
The fair pet of thy mother.
