Origins: Connemara Rose

Subject: Info Request: Connemara Rose
From:
Date: 28 Feb 00 - 05:02 PM

Some musician friends of mine gave me a tune called Connemara Rose which they learned from someone else, etc... I'm trying to find out if it's actually trad. Has anyone heard of it? It sounds very much like 'The Banks of Clary' or 'The Roving Galway Boy'.

Thanks for any help! Pamela

Subject: RE: Info Request: Connemara Rose
From: Boston Bill
Date: 04 Jul 00 - 05:58 PM

Connemara Rose where are your Lyrics? Help!!! BB

Subject: Lyr Add: CONNEMARA ROSE (from Mick Flavin)
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 22 Mar 08 - 02:20 PM

Transcribed from a video at YouTube, where Mick Flavin sings it:

CONNEMARA ROSE

CHORUS: Well, I met a girl in Connemara, far west from Galway town.
Her blue eyes glow with beauty and her red hair flowin' down.
She lives among the mountains where the wild, wild heather grows,
And her name is Kate O'Hara. She's my Connemara rose.

Well, I knew when first I met her on the road near Oughterard (?)
That somehow, someday, some way, she'd be tennant of my heart
She'd be waiting as she promised when I came back to propose,
And to ask her father for the hand of my Connemara rose.

CHORUS: Well, she comes from Connemara….

Tomorrow we will walk the aisle in that little church at Man (?)
And there we'll take the vows for life to live and work as one.
We'll raise our children gracefully where the wild, wild heather grows,
And I know that they'll be proud like me of their Connemara rose.

CHORUS: Well, she comes from Connemara….

Subject: RE: Origins: Connemara Rose
From: Sandy Mc Lean
Date: 15 Jan 09 - 06:48 AM

This link may work better:
Connemara Rose

I never heard this before. It's a good song. Thanks!
          Sandy

Subject: RE: Origins: Connemara Rose
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 15 Jan 09 - 09:22 PM

Written by Dermot O'Brien, apparently. Well, the words; the tune pre-dates him by a fair bit.

Subject: RE: Origins: Connemara Rose
From: MartinRyan
Date: 06 Nov 09 - 01:26 PM

In the last verse, I reckon the church is at Maam, rather than Man.

Regards

Subject: RE: Origins: Connemara Rose
From: Suegorgeous
Date: 06 Nov 09 - 04:16 PM

Those links don't work now, and can't find the song on Youtube...

Subject: RE: Origins: Connemara Rose
From: skarpi
Date: 06 Nov 09 - 05:47 PM

me neither , I have been lookin

all the best Skarpi