12-string Guitar: The Bould Thady Quill (Including lyrics and chords)

Soodlum's Irish Ballad Book is an invaluable source of songs from that country which you might have gathered is a favourite of mine. Songs from Ireland are melodic and tell stories in different ways. Some are slow and mournful, others lively and full of humour. This is one of the latter. The protagonist is a man with the name Thady Quill who seems too good to be true from his antics as reported in the song. According to Soodlum: 'This song was written in the early part of the 20th century and originated in County Cork. Thady Quill is rumoured to have lived in the Mushra Mountains near Macroom, Co Cork. I have heard Tommy Makem and the Clancy Brothers sing this song, but as I did not have the lyrics available to me it is one that I have never sung before and it took nearly 60 attempts before I managed to produce this video.

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• The
• Bould
• Thady
• Quill
• threelegsoman
• Irish
• Folk
• Song
• Lyrics
• Chords
• 12-string
• Acoustic
• Guitar
• Strumming
• Style

[raymondcrooke]

The tune seems a little different but you can see the similarity. I'm sending mine as a video response, so they can easily be compared.

5* for this one.

[threelegsoman]

Like a friend of mine says Irish tunes are used in at least two and a half songs. While they may not be exactly the same, there is a great similarity.

[kilgore9096]

U SHOULD DO THE DAVEY CROCKETT SONG!

[threelegsoman]

Do you mean the one that starts  Born on a mountain top in Tennessee?

[Accordionman331]

This is brilliian tune.

Great playing.

Godbless

Kev

[STUTREE]

another great song.

[Roselyne18]

Hello my friend Tony, thank you for sharing your song!

5 stars *****

I wish you a beautiful and peaceful day!

All the best for you, Rosy