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Hello, my friends.
Today, I'm going to be learning a style of singing
that is over 800 years old.
As someone with Irish heritage,
I grew up around a lot of Irish music.
A lot of singing, a lot of tunes.
So I learned a [C] lot of these songs just by ear,
by listening to them,
but I don't know a lot about its history
and where it comes from and why it's important.
And so for that, I am turning to my friend,
Madeline Monaghan.
[Em] She is also a [Am] TikToker,
and she specializes in a style of singing called Shen Nos.
And she is truly [B] so expert at it.
[Am] I can't believe I get to learn from her.
So stick around for the end.
There's a little [E] duet coming,
but for [Am] now, let's learn together about [D] Shen Nos.
So we
he he he
lish
care
I am us
my
Tom the
give rush
all to act for
So Madeline, what is [B] Shen Nos?
Shen Nos is Irish traditional singing,
and it's thought to date [D] back to the 13th century.
It is traditionally unaccompanied.
Sometimes they'll have a drone
as a way to anchor the singer in the key,
but it's highly ornamented [A] and often tells a story.
Many of the songs are for occasions, you know,
funerals, burials, or they're comedy songs.
They're [E] like, have a plucky story that they're about
or love songs.
And they all have this storytelling purpose.
And the singer is the vessel for the story.
[Gb] So when someone begins a Shen Nos song in a pub
everyone shuts up and listens.
Sometimes the singer will close their eyes
or even go into the corner of the pub.
Go into the corner of the pub?
Yes.
That's so funny.
Cause Americans are like, I'm telling a story.
And Irish people are like, I'm telling a [N] story.
Exactly.
Yes.
They shut off the showy aspect of themselves
and rely on the voice alone to communicate the story.
Wow.
I've seen footage of some singers will require
some cajoling or like they'll hold hands with someone else.
And that person will turn their hand
as if they're winding a human music box
and they call it Cáth Árán
or turning or winding the song.
It's meant to be both like, you know, distinctively Irish
and that it is in the Irish language
but it's also very human and very accessible.
So you don't have to be like a professional singer
to sing Shen Nos.
Is that right?
Right.
And in fact, like they have a different sociology
around singing and performing in Ireland.
Everyone is expected to have a party piece
or to have a song at any occasion.
And you don't have to be trained.
I had a friend who was in Ireland and was like,
I have to take voice lessons because I'm so terrified
that I'm gonna have to get up and sing every time I learn.
The pressure.
I wanna be good when I'm called upon.
Yeah, exactly.
Because you will be.
How it's usually taught nowadays from what I gather
is you'll have the teacher sing a line
and then sing it together with the student.
And then they repeat it on their own, echo it.
And then they learn a song phrase by phrase.
There is such a reverence for these songs.
It's not just like, oh, I took a couple of days to learn it.
You're learning the phrase,
which has a lot of ornamentation,
but also you're learning the story.
You're getting the story in your body and giving it back.
So the learning is not just learning the notes
and the words.
It's deeper than that.
Everything with Shen Nos is pretty much not written down.
Like it is orally passed down.
Many singers feel that they don't wanna write a song down.
It should be passed down in the way that it always has been.
TikTok has kind of become like a way
of keeping the oral tradition alive.
It's a way of documenting
and a way of educating people about it.
Absolutely.
Which is amazing.
Yeah, I mean, technically the oral tradition
is still being passed on in a similar way
just to a much broader audience.
And so for us as Irish Americans, our pedigree is a mess.
When I was in Ireland, singing at a session,
I felt very welcomed [C] and at home there.
But at the same time, I was the American there.
Whereas over here, when I sing somewhere,
I'm the Irish girl.
You're the Irish person, yep.
You have Connaught, so Connemara, the Galway, Gweldachti.
That style is the most highly ornamented.
They will decorate every single phrase,
sometimes every single word.
And then just below that in the Southwest,
[Ab] you have Monster, so West Kerry, Corkaglena,
that's the Dingle Peninsula, that region.
[Em]
Middle ground ornamentation.
And then Ulster in the North,
Donegal, the Gweidor, Gweldacht,
that's the most [Abm] sparsely ornamented.
So very straight tone line.
[B] [E]
[D]
[Abm] And [A]
[Abm] that fourth one is Ann Rhyne in Waterford,
and that is [B] East Munster.
They have their own kind of distinct style as well.
And of course, all of these places have their own dialect
[Ab] of the Irish language as well.
I thought I'd give one verse as an example
of the Irish language.
Melismatic and intervallic ornaments.
So this is the second verse of Ar an Winsha,
which is a Galway song, so from Connacht.
It's written by a woman on her deathbed.
And she, this is a real story,
she is giving instructions to her family and community
for how she wants her send-off to go.
Wow.
So it's a very touching, beautifully written song.
Yeah, the Irish are really good [G] at dying.
They really are, they really are.
And they're excited for it.
They're stoked that when the day comes, they're ready.
So we wish care.
I am.
The.
I'm sure.
So we.
Not.
Oh, God.
So.
Didn't.
So I like this one line.
She's asking a [N] question.
So not hold a store.
I did me to weren't you young when you left the world.
So what she's asking the blessed mother.
So for that, I put it.
Store.
Didn't mean to.
Because in Irish, the when we ask a question,
it's a little bit higher in the middle of the phrase.
Didn't you leave the world at a high time when the cuckoo was singing?
I.
[E] Think.
So.
[Dm]
So I think that sounds kind of birdlike or like a cuckoo, you know?
There's little things in there [Eb] that are sort of like [D] word painting.
And I'm.
And.
[A]
So.
Scott.
Glossary.
For.
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[C] The best thing to come home to after a long day of singing.
[D] And without further ado, here's the song that Madeline taught me.
[C] [Bm] [F] Rock me shoulders, rock [B] me shins.
[G] Oh, Skyee, Hale, Yon, Niaqa, [Bm] May, and [Bb] Yur.
Oh,
[Am] [Bb] A [B]-Deen.
Oh, Ro-Ma-Kha-Rak-Khween.
Oh, [N] Oh, Ro-A -Deen.
Oh, [B]
Kha-Rak [C]
[Bb] [G]
[C]-Khween.
Oh, A-Deen.
That [E] was alright.
Yeah?
That was nice.
Yeah.
Thank you all so much for watching.
Go and follow Madeline on all of the socials down below.
My folk [D] EP with more Irish music comes out on July 16th.
You can pre-save it right now.
And a giant thank you to my Patreon family for [B] making my videos possible.
Thank you all so much for watching.
I hope you had as much
Today, I'm going to be learning a style of singing
that is over 800 years old.
As someone with Irish heritage,
I grew up around a lot of Irish music.
A lot of singing, a lot of tunes.
So I learned a [C] lot of these songs just by ear,
by listening to them,
but I don't know a lot about its history
and where it comes from and why it's important.
And so for that, I am turning to my friend,
Madeline Monaghan.
[Em] She is also a [Am] TikToker,
and she specializes in a style of singing called Shen Nos.
And she is truly [B] so expert at it.
[Am] I can't believe I get to learn from her.
So stick around for the end.
There's a little [E] duet coming,
but for [Am] now, let's learn together about [D] Shen Nos.
So we
he he he
lish
care
I am us
my
Tom the
give rush
all to act for
So Madeline, what is [B] Shen Nos?
Shen Nos is Irish traditional singing,
and it's thought to date [D] back to the 13th century.
It is traditionally unaccompanied.
Sometimes they'll have a drone
as a way to anchor the singer in the key,
but it's highly ornamented [A] and often tells a story.
Many of the songs are for occasions, you know,
funerals, burials, or they're comedy songs.
They're [E] like, have a plucky story that they're about
or love songs.
And they all have this storytelling purpose.
And the singer is the vessel for the story.
[Gb] So when someone begins a Shen Nos song in a pub
everyone shuts up and listens.
Sometimes the singer will close their eyes
or even go into the corner of the pub.
Go into the corner of the pub?
Yes.
That's so funny.
Cause Americans are like, I'm telling a story.
And Irish people are like, I'm telling a [N] story.
Exactly.
Yes.
They shut off the showy aspect of themselves
and rely on the voice alone to communicate the story.
Wow.
I've seen footage of some singers will require
some cajoling or like they'll hold hands with someone else.
And that person will turn their hand
as if they're winding a human music box
and they call it Cáth Árán
or turning or winding the song.
It's meant to be both like, you know, distinctively Irish
and that it is in the Irish language
but it's also very human and very accessible.
So you don't have to be like a professional singer
to sing Shen Nos.
Is that right?
Right.
And in fact, like they have a different sociology
around singing and performing in Ireland.
Everyone is expected to have a party piece
or to have a song at any occasion.
And you don't have to be trained.
I had a friend who was in Ireland and was like,
I have to take voice lessons because I'm so terrified
that I'm gonna have to get up and sing every time I learn.
The pressure.
I wanna be good when I'm called upon.
Yeah, exactly.
Because you will be.
How it's usually taught nowadays from what I gather
is you'll have the teacher sing a line
and then sing it together with the student.
And then they repeat it on their own, echo it.
And then they learn a song phrase by phrase.
There is such a reverence for these songs.
It's not just like, oh, I took a couple of days to learn it.
You're learning the phrase,
which has a lot of ornamentation,
but also you're learning the story.
You're getting the story in your body and giving it back.
So the learning is not just learning the notes
and the words.
It's deeper than that.
Everything with Shen Nos is pretty much not written down.
Like it is orally passed down.
Many singers feel that they don't wanna write a song down.
It should be passed down in the way that it always has been.
TikTok has kind of become like a way
of keeping the oral tradition alive.
It's a way of documenting
and a way of educating people about it.
Absolutely.
Which is amazing.
Yeah, I mean, technically the oral tradition
is still being passed on in a similar way
just to a much broader audience.
And so for us as Irish Americans, our pedigree is a mess.
When I was in Ireland, singing at a session,
I felt very welcomed [C] and at home there.
But at the same time, I was the American there.
Whereas over here, when I sing somewhere,
I'm the Irish girl.
You're the Irish person, yep.
You have Connaught, so Connemara, the Galway, Gweldachti.
That style is the most highly ornamented.
They will decorate every single phrase,
sometimes every single word.
And then just below that in the Southwest,
[Ab] you have Monster, so West Kerry, Corkaglena,
that's the Dingle Peninsula, that region.
[Em]
Middle ground ornamentation.
And then Ulster in the North,
Donegal, the Gweidor, Gweldacht,
that's the most [Abm] sparsely ornamented.
So very straight tone line.
[B] [E]
[D]
[Abm] And [A]
[Abm] that fourth one is Ann Rhyne in Waterford,
and that is [B] East Munster.
They have their own kind of distinct style as well.
And of course, all of these places have their own dialect
[Ab] of the Irish language as well.
I thought I'd give one verse as an example
of the Irish language.
Melismatic and intervallic ornaments.
So this is the second verse of Ar an Winsha,
which is a Galway song, so from Connacht.
It's written by a woman on her deathbed.
And she, this is a real story,
she is giving instructions to her family and community
for how she wants her send-off to go.
Wow.
So it's a very touching, beautifully written song.
Yeah, the Irish are really good [G] at dying.
They really are, they really are.
And they're excited for it.
They're stoked that when the day comes, they're ready.
So we wish care.
I am.
The.
I'm sure.
So we.
Not.
Oh, God.
So.
Didn't.
So I like this one line.
She's asking a [N] question.
So not hold a store.
I did me to weren't you young when you left the world.
So what she's asking the blessed mother.
So for that, I put it.
Store.
Didn't mean to.
Because in Irish, the when we ask a question,
it's a little bit higher in the middle of the phrase.
Didn't you leave the world at a high time when the cuckoo was singing?
I.
[E] Think.
So.
[Dm]
So I think that sounds kind of birdlike or like a cuckoo, you know?
There's little things in there [Eb] that are sort of like [D] word painting.
And I'm.
And.
[A]
So.
Scott.
Glossary.
For.
Before we perform some shun those for you, I want to thank today's sponsor of the video.
[C] Hello, fresh.
Let's make some chili.
Hello, fresh offers a selection [D] of delicious [Bm] recipes and premeasured [D] ingredients
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If you're getting bored of [D] making that same recipe every week,
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and [Dm] putting new spins on old [D] favorites.
Dinner is on the table in about 30 minutes, and [C] the meal I'm making now is a one pan,
[D] which is amazing.
I save time on cooking, plus the 40 minutes or so
that it would have taken me to go to the grocery store.
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What?
Plus free shipping.
That's [D] HelloFresh.com code M A L I N D A 1 4.
[C] The best thing to come home to after a long day of singing.
[D] And without further ado, here's the song that Madeline taught me.
[C] [Bm] [F] Rock me shoulders, rock [B] me shins.
[G] Oh, Skyee, Hale, Yon, Niaqa, [Bm] May, and [Bb] Yur.
Oh,
[Am] [Bb] A [B]-Deen.
Oh, Ro-Ma-Kha-Rak-Khween.
Oh, [N] Oh, Ro-A -Deen.
Oh, [B]
Kha-Rak [C]
[Bb] [G]
[C]-Khween.
Oh, A-Deen.
That [E] was alright.
Yeah?
That was nice.
Yeah.
Thank you all so much for watching.
Go and follow Madeline on all of the socials down below.
My folk [D] EP with more Irish music comes out on July 16th.
You can pre-save it right now.
And a giant thank you to my Patreon family for [B] making my videos possible.
Thank you all so much for watching.
I hope you had as much
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Hello, my friends.
Today, I'm going to be learning a style of singing
that is over 800 years old.
As someone with Irish heritage,
I grew up around a lot of Irish music.
A lot of singing, a lot of tunes.
So I learned a [C] lot of these songs just by ear,
by listening to them,
but I don't know a lot about its history
and where it comes from and why it's important.
And so for that, I am turning to my friend,
Madeline Monaghan.
[Em] She is also a [Am] TikToker,
and she specializes in a style of singing called Shen Nos.
And she is truly [B] so expert at it.
[Am] I can't believe I get to learn from her.
So stick around for the end.
There's a little [E] duet coming,
but for [Am] now, let's learn together about [D] Shen Nos.
_ So we
he he he _
lish
care
I am us _
my
Tom the
give rush
all to act for
_ _ So Madeline, what is [B] Shen Nos?
Shen Nos is Irish traditional singing,
and it's thought to date [D] back to the 13th century.
It is traditionally unaccompanied.
Sometimes they'll have a drone
as a way to anchor the singer in the key,
but it's highly ornamented [A] and often tells a story.
Many of the songs are for occasions, you know,
funerals, burials, or they're comedy songs.
They're [E] like, have a plucky story that they're about
or love songs.
And they all have this storytelling purpose.
And the singer is the vessel for the story.
[Gb] So when someone begins a Shen Nos song in a pub
everyone shuts up and listens.
Sometimes the singer will close their eyes
or even go into the corner of the pub.
Go into the corner of the pub?
Yes.
That's so funny.
Cause Americans are like, I'm telling a story.
And Irish people are like, I'm telling a [N] story.
Exactly.
Yes.
They shut off the showy aspect of themselves
and rely on the voice alone to communicate the story.
Wow.
I've seen footage of some singers will require
some cajoling or like they'll hold hands with someone else.
And that person will turn their hand
as if they're winding a human music box
and they call it Cáth Árán
or turning or winding the song.
It's meant to be both like, you know, distinctively Irish
and that it is in the Irish language
but it's also very human and very accessible.
So you don't have to be like a professional singer
to sing Shen Nos.
Is that right?
Right.
And in fact, like they have a different sociology
around singing and performing in Ireland.
Everyone is expected to have a party piece
or to have a song at any occasion.
And you don't have to be trained.
I had a friend who was in Ireland and was like,
I have to take voice lessons because I'm so terrified
that I'm gonna have to get up and sing every time I learn.
The pressure.
I wanna be good when I'm called upon.
Yeah, exactly.
Because you will be.
How it's usually taught nowadays from what I gather
is you'll have the teacher sing a line
and then sing it together with the student.
And then they repeat it on their own, echo it.
And then they learn a song phrase by phrase.
There is such a reverence for these songs.
It's not just like, oh, I took a couple of days to learn it.
You're learning the phrase,
which has a lot of ornamentation,
but also you're learning _ the story.
You're getting the story in your body and giving it back.
So the learning is not just learning the notes
and the words.
It's deeper than that.
Everything with Shen Nos is pretty much not written down.
Like it is orally passed down.
Many singers feel that they don't wanna write a song down.
It should be passed down in the way that it always has been.
TikTok has kind of become like a way
of keeping the oral tradition alive.
It's a way of documenting
and a way of educating people about it.
Absolutely.
Which is amazing.
Yeah, I mean, technically the oral tradition
is still being passed on in a similar way
just to a much broader audience.
And so for us as Irish Americans, our pedigree is a mess.
When I was in Ireland, singing at a session,
I felt very welcomed [C] and at home there.
But at the same time, I was the American there.
Whereas over here, when I sing somewhere,
I'm the Irish girl.
You're the Irish person, yep. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ You have Connaught, so Connemara, the Galway, Gweldachti.
That style is the most highly ornamented.
They will decorate every single phrase,
sometimes every single word.
And then just below that in the Southwest,
[Ab] you have Monster, so West Kerry, Corkaglena,
that's the Dingle Peninsula, that region. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _
_ _ Middle ground ornamentation.
And then Ulster in the North,
_ Donegal, the Gweidor, Gweldacht,
that's the most [Abm] sparsely ornamented.
So very straight tone line.
[B] _ _ [E] _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _
[Abm] And _ _ _ [A] _ _
[Abm] that fourth one is Ann Rhyne in Waterford,
and that is [B] East Munster. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ They have their own kind of distinct style as well.
And of course, all of these places have their own dialect
[Ab] of the Irish language as well.
I thought I'd give one verse as an example
of the Irish language.
Melismatic and intervallic ornaments.
So this is the second verse of Ar an Winsha,
which is a Galway song, so from Connacht.
It's written by a woman on her deathbed.
And she, this is a real story,
she is giving instructions to her family and community
for how she wants her send-off to go.
Wow.
So it's a very touching, beautifully written song.
Yeah, the Irish are really good [G] at dying.
They really are, they really are.
And they're excited for it.
They're stoked that when the day comes, they're ready.
_ So we _ wish care.
I am.
_ The.
I'm sure.
_ So we. _ _ _ _ _
_ Not.
Oh, God.
So. _
_ Didn't.
_ So I like this one line.
She's asking a [N] question.
So not hold a store.
I did me to weren't you young when you left the world.
So what she's asking the blessed mother. _
So for that, I put it.
_ _ _ Store.
Didn't mean to.
Because in Irish, the when we ask a question,
it's a little bit higher in the middle of the phrase.
Didn't you leave the world at a high time when the cuckoo was singing? _ _ _ _
I.
_ _ [E] Think.
So.
[Dm] _
So I think that sounds kind of birdlike or like a cuckoo, you know?
There's little things in there [Eb] that are sort of like [D] word painting. _ _
And I'm.
And.
_ [A] _ _
So.
_ _ _ Scott. _
_ _ _ _ Glossary.
For. _
_ _ Before we perform some shun those for you, I want to thank today's sponsor of the video.
[C] Hello, fresh.
Let's make some chili.
Hello, fresh offers a selection [D] of delicious [Bm] recipes and premeasured [D] ingredients
delivered right to your doorstep [Am] every week in recycled or recyclable packaging.
If you're getting bored of [D] making that same recipe every week,
Hello [C] Fresh has been wonderful for [D] introducing me to new dishes
and [Dm] putting new spins on old [D] favorites.
Dinner is on the table in about 30 minutes, and [C] the meal I'm making now is a one pan,
[D] which is amazing.
I save time on cooking, plus the 40 minutes or so
that it would have taken me to go to the grocery store.
So for fresh, [C] scrumptious meals and a deal just for [G] you, go to HelloFresh [D].com
and use code Melinda 14 to get 14 free meals.
What?
Plus free shipping.
That's [D] HelloFresh.com code M A L I N D A 1 4.
[C] The best thing to come home to after a long day of singing.
[D] And without further ado, here's the song that Madeline taught me. _
_ _ [C] _ [Bm] _ [F] Rock me _ shoulders, rock [B] me shins. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[G] Oh, _ Skyee, Hale, Yon, _ Niaqa, [Bm] May, and [Bb] Yur.
Oh, _
_ [Am] _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ A [B]-Deen.
_ Oh, Ro-Ma-Kha-Rak-Khween.
Oh, _ _ [N] Oh, Ro-A _ _ _ -Deen.
_ Oh, _ _ [B] _
Kha-Rak [C] _ _ _ _ _ _
[Bb] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
_ _ [C]-Khween. _ _ _
Oh, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ A-Deen.
_ _ That [E] was alright.
Yeah?
That was nice.
Yeah.
Thank you all so much for watching.
Go and follow Madeline on all of the socials down below.
My folk [D] EP with more Irish music comes out on July 16th.
You can pre-save it right now.
And a giant thank you to my Patreon family for [B] making my videos possible.
Thank you all so much for watching.
I hope you had as much
Today, I'm going to be learning a style of singing
that is over 800 years old.
As someone with Irish heritage,
I grew up around a lot of Irish music.
A lot of singing, a lot of tunes.
So I learned a [C] lot of these songs just by ear,
by listening to them,
but I don't know a lot about its history
and where it comes from and why it's important.
And so for that, I am turning to my friend,
Madeline Monaghan.
[Em] She is also a [Am] TikToker,
and she specializes in a style of singing called Shen Nos.
And she is truly [B] so expert at it.
[Am] I can't believe I get to learn from her.
So stick around for the end.
There's a little [E] duet coming,
but for [Am] now, let's learn together about [D] Shen Nos.
_ So we
he he he _
lish
care
I am us _
my
Tom the
give rush
all to act for
_ _ So Madeline, what is [B] Shen Nos?
Shen Nos is Irish traditional singing,
and it's thought to date [D] back to the 13th century.
It is traditionally unaccompanied.
Sometimes they'll have a drone
as a way to anchor the singer in the key,
but it's highly ornamented [A] and often tells a story.
Many of the songs are for occasions, you know,
funerals, burials, or they're comedy songs.
They're [E] like, have a plucky story that they're about
or love songs.
And they all have this storytelling purpose.
And the singer is the vessel for the story.
[Gb] So when someone begins a Shen Nos song in a pub
everyone shuts up and listens.
Sometimes the singer will close their eyes
or even go into the corner of the pub.
Go into the corner of the pub?
Yes.
That's so funny.
Cause Americans are like, I'm telling a story.
And Irish people are like, I'm telling a [N] story.
Exactly.
Yes.
They shut off the showy aspect of themselves
and rely on the voice alone to communicate the story.
Wow.
I've seen footage of some singers will require
some cajoling or like they'll hold hands with someone else.
And that person will turn their hand
as if they're winding a human music box
and they call it Cáth Árán
or turning or winding the song.
It's meant to be both like, you know, distinctively Irish
and that it is in the Irish language
but it's also very human and very accessible.
So you don't have to be like a professional singer
to sing Shen Nos.
Is that right?
Right.
And in fact, like they have a different sociology
around singing and performing in Ireland.
Everyone is expected to have a party piece
or to have a song at any occasion.
And you don't have to be trained.
I had a friend who was in Ireland and was like,
I have to take voice lessons because I'm so terrified
that I'm gonna have to get up and sing every time I learn.
The pressure.
I wanna be good when I'm called upon.
Yeah, exactly.
Because you will be.
How it's usually taught nowadays from what I gather
is you'll have the teacher sing a line
and then sing it together with the student.
And then they repeat it on their own, echo it.
And then they learn a song phrase by phrase.
There is such a reverence for these songs.
It's not just like, oh, I took a couple of days to learn it.
You're learning the phrase,
which has a lot of ornamentation,
but also you're learning _ the story.
You're getting the story in your body and giving it back.
So the learning is not just learning the notes
and the words.
It's deeper than that.
Everything with Shen Nos is pretty much not written down.
Like it is orally passed down.
Many singers feel that they don't wanna write a song down.
It should be passed down in the way that it always has been.
TikTok has kind of become like a way
of keeping the oral tradition alive.
It's a way of documenting
and a way of educating people about it.
Absolutely.
Which is amazing.
Yeah, I mean, technically the oral tradition
is still being passed on in a similar way
just to a much broader audience.
And so for us as Irish Americans, our pedigree is a mess.
When I was in Ireland, singing at a session,
I felt very welcomed [C] and at home there.
But at the same time, I was the American there.
Whereas over here, when I sing somewhere,
I'm the Irish girl.
You're the Irish person, yep. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ You have Connaught, so Connemara, the Galway, Gweldachti.
That style is the most highly ornamented.
They will decorate every single phrase,
sometimes every single word.
And then just below that in the Southwest,
[Ab] you have Monster, so West Kerry, Corkaglena,
that's the Dingle Peninsula, that region. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _
_ _ Middle ground ornamentation.
And then Ulster in the North,
_ Donegal, the Gweidor, Gweldacht,
that's the most [Abm] sparsely ornamented.
So very straight tone line.
[B] _ _ [E] _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _
[Abm] And _ _ _ [A] _ _
[Abm] that fourth one is Ann Rhyne in Waterford,
and that is [B] East Munster. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ They have their own kind of distinct style as well.
And of course, all of these places have their own dialect
[Ab] of the Irish language as well.
I thought I'd give one verse as an example
of the Irish language.
Melismatic and intervallic ornaments.
So this is the second verse of Ar an Winsha,
which is a Galway song, so from Connacht.
It's written by a woman on her deathbed.
And she, this is a real story,
she is giving instructions to her family and community
for how she wants her send-off to go.
Wow.
So it's a very touching, beautifully written song.
Yeah, the Irish are really good [G] at dying.
They really are, they really are.
And they're excited for it.
They're stoked that when the day comes, they're ready.
_ So we _ wish care.
I am.
_ The.
I'm sure.
_ So we. _ _ _ _ _
_ Not.
Oh, God.
So. _
_ Didn't.
_ So I like this one line.
She's asking a [N] question.
So not hold a store.
I did me to weren't you young when you left the world.
So what she's asking the blessed mother. _
So for that, I put it.
_ _ _ Store.
Didn't mean to.
Because in Irish, the when we ask a question,
it's a little bit higher in the middle of the phrase.
Didn't you leave the world at a high time when the cuckoo was singing? _ _ _ _
I.
_ _ [E] Think.
So.
[Dm] _
So I think that sounds kind of birdlike or like a cuckoo, you know?
There's little things in there [Eb] that are sort of like [D] word painting. _ _
And I'm.
And.
_ [A] _ _
So.
_ _ _ Scott. _
_ _ _ _ Glossary.
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