L.van Gool wrote:
>
> Dear listers,
>
> I wonder if there were ever words put to the tune "Planxty Kelly"?
>
> I know that "planxty" is a general name for a certain kind of tune but it
> isn't all together clear to me what it really is, is it a kind of jig, or
> slower, has it something to do with a harp?
> I also know that Petrie in his 'Ancient Music of Ireland' wrote about it, so
> my OED tells me, but I don't have the book and cannot look it up.
>
> I would be very grateful if someone among you could enlighten me a bit about
> this.
>
> Greetings from Antwerp, Belgium,
>
> Liesbeth van Gool
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> "one bar of sunlight does them
> all january and half february"
> (FW544.35-36)
The tune is "Hugh Kelly" in Donal O'Sullivan's, 'Carolan', #71.
O'Sullivan gives a Gaelic song which is probably the original for the
tune, II, p. 45.
Bruce Olson
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