Fiddler's Green (a.k.a) Fiddlers Glen (John Connolly, often thought of as Traditional)

I was thinking about Mr. Dressup ... so I figured I would dress up for kicks. I chose to perform Fiddler's Green.

It is NOT my best vocal performance, but I did it for fun.

I was also working off of the Dubliner's version. They play i with a CAPO on V, I put a CAPO on III as it is closer to my vocal range.
However, it's was about 24 degrees celcious outside and I was wearing my raingar, I think I lost 5 pounds in th taping on this tune.

NOTE: Due to a common misconception, I labelled this song as a traditional Irish tune, but from what I understand from My. Raymond Crooke (http://www.youtube.com/user/raymondcrooke) this is no quite true, from his notes I retrieved the following information:
Written in 1968 by John Connolly, this song rapidly became part of the folk process, with many, including myself, believing it was a much older traditional song. It appears to be based on the song "Wrap me Up in my Tarpaulin Jacket" or "The Handsome Young Airman," and describes a seaman's version of Heaven.

Thank again to Mr. Crooke!

I hope you enjoy it, its is really a wonderful song with an interesting history, here are the details of FIddler's Green (however reliable they may be) from Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiddler%27s_Green):

Fiddler's Green is the afterlife imagined by sailors, and later adopted by U.S. Cavalry, where there is perpetual mirth, a fiddle that never stops playing, and dancers who never tire. There is some evidence to support that the major propagators of this belief were pirates who, knowing they would never meet the criteria for entry into Christian heaven, simply created a religion of their own.[citation needed]

History

Fiddler's Green features in an old Irish legend that a sailor can find the paradisaical village by walking inland with an oar over his shoulder until he finds a place where people ask him what he's carrying. This legend may have some of its origin in Tiresias' prophecy in Homer's Odyssey, in which he tells Odysseus that the only way to appease the sea god Poseidon and find happiness is to take an oar and walk until he finds a land where he is asked what he is carrying, and there make his sacrifice.

U.S. cavalry had a story of Fiddler's Green published anonymously in a 1923 U.S. Cavalry Manual, and is still used in modern cavalry units to memorialize the deceased. The name has also had other military uses. Fiddler's Green was the name of an artillery Fire Support Base in Military Region III in Vietnam in 1972 occupied principally by elements of 2nd Sqdn., 11th Armored Cavalry, and the name of the Navy's enlisted mens club in Sasebo, Japan in the early 1960s. Fiddlers Green is also the name of the stable and pasture used by Parsons Mounted Cavalry at Texas A&M University in College Station Texas, and the name of the bar at the Leaders Club in Fort Knox Kentucky.

A song based on Fiddler's Green was written and is copyrighted by John Connolly, a Lincolnshire songwriter in England Copyright 1970 for the World, March Music Ltd SOF, and has since passed into tradition and is sung worldwide in nautical and Irish traditional circles. Fiddler's Green is also a song by Canadian rock band The Tragically Hip, released in 1991. Fiddler's Green is also a road in Ancaster, Ontario.

The cavalryman's poem is as follows:

Halfway down the trail to Hell,
In a shady meadow green
Are the Souls of all dead troopers camped,
Near a good old-time canteen.
And this eternal resting place
Is known as Fiddlers' Green.

Marching past, straight through to Hell
The Infantry are seen.
Accompanied by the Engineers,
Artillery and Marines,
For none but the shades of Cavalrymen
Dismount at Fiddlers' Green.

Though some go curving down the trail
To seek a warmer scene.
No trooper ever gets to Hell
Ere he's emptied his canteen.
And so rides back to drink again
With friends at Fiddlers' Green.

And so when man and horse go down
Beneath a saber keen,
Or in a roaring charge of fierce melee
You stop a bullet clean,
And the hostiles come to get your scalp,
Just empty your canteen,
And put your pistol to your head
And go to Fiddlers' Green.

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[Hirtlemabob]

HEYY Mr Hatcher its Matt (8-3)

I like this song, you did a good job on it(Like the dressing)

[TravisTricky]

Thanks Matt, I've certainly sang this one better before but sadly the camera wasn't rolling. Dressing up for it seemed like a good idea but not so much on a 25 degree day, I nearly baked like a potato in that get up.

[smcgregor72]

dont try and be anyone else bro,you grand as you are,one of the bouys

[TravisTricky]

haha, I never do usually but I was feeling in a particularly goofy mood when I recorded this one, it was WAY too hot to do again though!

[banditgreen1]

Halfway down the trail to hell in a shady meadow green,

are the souls of dead troopers camped near a good ole' time canteen.

And this eternal resting place is known as Fiddler's Green

[GambleD13]

I enjoyed it, it was a nice straight forward performance, good job!

[TravisTricky]

@Delcine95205 Thanks for the spam, next time bring bread so I can make a sandwich.

[TravisTricky]

Thanks for taking the time :)

[laget1995]

hey its devin!, good music!! :)

[Schnucki1991]

LIKE IT ;)

[TravisTricky]

Even better!