The Songs of Percy French

This great collection has 44 of the best known songs by Percy French. At the turn of the century French, a noted scholar, wrote some of the best known Irish folk songs and ballads and these have made an ever lasting impression on the Irish traditional music tradition

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The Songs of Percy French

44 Complete Songs with Words, Music and Chords

See song listing and biography of Percy French below.

Selected by James N. Healy

See Song Listing and biography of Percy French below.

Details

• Condition: NEW,
• Pages:80 pages
• Size: A5 size
• Publisher: Ossian

Song Listing

Abdulla Bulbul Ameer - Sweet Marie - Rafferty's  undefined undefined undefined undefinedRacin' Mare - The Hoodoo - The Oklahoma Roae - Phil the Fluter's Ball - Come Back Paddy Reilly - Shlathery' Mounted Fut - Andy McElroe - Fighting McGuire - The Girl on a Big Black Mare - Mat Hannigan's Aunt - Little Brigid Flynn - Mick's Hotel - The Mountains of Mourne - When Erin Wakes - McBreen' Heifer - The Fortunes of Finnegan - Mulligan's Masquerade - The Night that Miss Cooney Eloped - Drumcolliher - Jim Wheelahan's Automobeel - 'Are Ye Right There, Michael ? - Eileen Oge - Donegan's Daughter - Father O'Callaghan - Maguire's Motor Bike - Phistlin' Phil McHugh - No More of Yer Golfin' for Me - The Darlin' Girl from Clare - Pretency Land - Mrs Brady - Flaherty's Drake - A Sailor Courted a Farmer's Daughter - Tullinahaw - The Emigrant's Letter - 'Who Said the Hook Never Hurt the Worms?' - Kitty Gallagher - Flanagan's Flying Machine - The Killyran Wrackers - I Fought a Fierce Hyena - Larry Mick McGarry - TheMary Ann McHugh - The Kerry Courting

Percy French

A member of the Irish gentry, William Percy French, after taking his degree in engineering at Trinity College Dublin, turned to the life of a strolling entertainer, becoming a most prolific writer of comedy songs, many of which are not accepted as part of the Irish folk song heritage. Who will ever grow weary of 'The Mountains of Mourne', 'Phil the Fluter's Ball', or 'Eileen Oge'

James N. Healy has brought together for the first time all the known songs of Percy French with interesting notes as to how they came ot be written.

Here is a volume that should provide a welcome addition to the musical library of the professional and amateur singer, and lovers of Irish traditional songs and ballads.