Songs of Erie

Description

Fiddlers Green
..adapted from a 19th century sea shanty. Fiddlers Green is “ a place I heard tell, where fishermen go if they don’t go to hell.”
Molly Malone
…a fictitious street fish vendor in “Dublin’s fair city, “crying cockles and mussels alive, alive-o.” A statue of Molly Malone and her fish cart is on permanent display on a Dublin street.
Danny Boy
..a well-known traditional song, Londonderry Air, with lyrics by Frederic Weatherly in 1910.
The Irish Washerwoman
…possibly a tune of English origin, it was originally called “The Washerwoman.” The addition of “Irish” was added outside of Ireland to identify its origin.
The Last Rose of Summer
…a poem written in 1805 by the Irish poet Thomas Moore, set to a traditional song, “The Young Man’s Dream” transcribed by Edward Bunting in 1792. It has also been used by Beethoven, Glinka, Mendelssohn and others.