I'll Take You Home Again Kathleen lyrics and chords
The sheet music is included which is suited to the flute,. Written by Thomas Paine Westendorf who wrote this song for his wife ''Jennie'' in 1875. Thomas was a school teacher from Indiana America. It featured in a John Ford western ''Reo Grande with John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara and sang by ''The Sons Of The Pioneers, Joseph Locke recorded the song in 1947. This was a typical song that was well suited to the voice of Joseph Locke who also had a hit with If We Only Had Old Ireland Over Here song. . Also recorded by Daniel O'Donnell, Celtic Thunder The Furey Brothers And Davie Arthur [ songs ]on the album ''The Fureys Finest''. Although the version of the sheet music for tin whistle says the key of G Major, it was actually worked out for the D whistle. The guitar chords are in chordpro .I'll take you home again Kathleet sheet music notes in Solfege do re me format now included plus a PDF File of the piano score..
Song Words And Easy Chords In D Major
[A7]I'll[D] take you[Em] home a[A7]gain, Kath[D]leen,
Across the[A7] ocean[G] wild and[D] wide
To[D] where your[Em] heart has[A7] ever[D] been,
Since[E] you were first my bonnie[A] bride.
The[G] roses all have left your[D] cheek.
I've[A7] watched them fade away and[D] die;
Your[Bm] voice is sad when e'er you speak,
And[E] tears bedim your loving[A7] eyes.
Chorus:
Oh![D] I will[Em] take you back, Kath[D]leen,
To where your[A7] heart will[G] feel no[D] pain,
And[D7] when the[G] fields are fresh and[A] green,
I'II[D] take you[Em to your[A7] home again Kath[Gm]leen,,[D]
I know you love me, Kathleen, dear,
Your heart was ever fond and true.
I always feel when you are near
That life holds nothing, dear, but you.
The smiles that once you gave to me
I scarcely ever see them now,
Though many, many times I see
A dark'ning shadow on your brow.
Chorus.
To that dear home beyond the sea
My Kathleen shall again return.
And when thy old friends welcome thee
Thy loving heart will cease to yearn.
Where laughs the little silver stream
Beside your mother's humble cot,
And brightest rays of sunshine gleam
There all your grief will be forgot.
[A7]I'll[D] take you[Em] home a[A7]gain, Kath[D]leen,
Across the[A7] ocean[G] wild and[D] wide
To[D] where your[Em] heart has[A7] ever[D] been,
Since[E] you were first my bonnie[A] bride.
The[G] roses all have left your[D] cheek.
I've[A7] watched them fade away and[D] die;
Your[Bm] voice is sad when e'er you speak,
And[E] tears bedim your loving[A7] eyes.
Chorus:
Oh![D] I will[Em] take you back, Kath[D]leen,
To where your[A7] heart will[G] feel no[D] pain,
And[D7] when the[G] fields are fresh and[A] green,
I'II[D] take you[Em to your[A7] home again Kath[Gm]leen,,[D]
I know you love me, Kathleen, dear,
Your heart was ever fond and true.
I always feel when you are near
That life holds nothing, dear, but you.
The smiles that once you gave to me
I scarcely ever see them now,
Though many, many times I see
A dark'ning shadow on your brow.
Chorus.
To that dear home beyond the sea
My Kathleen shall again return.
And when thy old friends welcome thee
Thy loving heart will cease to yearn.
Where laughs the little silver stream
Beside your mother's humble cot,
And brightest rays of sunshine gleam
There all your grief will be forgot.
I'll take you home again Kathleet sheet music notes in Solfege do re me format. Suitable for the flute.
PDF File of the piano score.
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I'll take you home again Kathleen sheet music in the key of D Major.
Below is the list of sheet music and tin whistle songs that are in my ebooks. This is the largest collection of tin whistle songs ever put together.[over 900 songs ] Including folk, pop and trad tunes plus German And French songs along with Christmas Carols.
All of the sheet music tabs have been made as easy to play as was possible.
The price of the ebooks is €7.50, I'll Take You Home Again Kathleen tin whistle notes included.
All of the sheet music tabs have been made as easy to play as was possible.
The price of the ebooks is €7.50, I'll Take You Home Again Kathleen tin whistle notes included.
I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen Words and music by Thomas Paine Westendorf It may be surprising that John McCormack never recorded I Take You Home Again, Kathleen, since it is so generally thought of as an Irish ballad. As a matter of fact there is really nothing Irish about it unless it be the heroine's name. Thomas P Westendorf was the son of a German who came to America to escape military service and settled in Bowling Green, Virginia, probably about 1848, the year Thomas was bom. The family moved to Chicago some eight or nine years later, where the young man was educated in law and music. Most of his life was spent as a bandmaster and music teacher in various reform schools.
Certainly none of our familiar songs has been more encrusted with legend. Few have questioned that it was autobiographical. One version had it that Kathleen wanted to go back to Germany, and that her husband finally took her there, only to find it was not the land she remembered for thought she did). And so they retuned and lived out their lives in the States. The true facts in the case are the subject of a fascinating article by Richard S. Hill in the Music Library Association's "Notes" (June 1948: "Get- ting Kathleen Home Again"). In the first place the lady's name was not Kathleen. Jennie Mor row was married to Westendorf in Plainfield. Indiana. in July 1875 Shortly thereafter she wanted to visit her family in Ogdensburg, New York, but her husband was unable to get leave from the school where he was teaching While she was gone he wrote the famous ballad as an answer to a song by his friend George W. Brown (who used the pseudonym George W Persley) called Barney Take Me Home Again! Brown's song was dedicated to Westendorf.
"It would take an odd husband of two months," says Hill. "to tell his bride that he had watched the roses leave her cheek Of course. as a young husband left to his song writing after only two months, Jennie was probably not long out of Westendorf's mind. Absent wives have undoubtedly produced greater creative efforts in poets and musicians than ever they did when present in the flesh. Except in some such sense, however, there seems to be remarkably little connection between Jennie Morrow Westendorf and her husband's most famous song"
So famous, indeed. did Kathleen become that her creator was kept busy for years sup- plying publishers with songs that they vainly hoped would duplicate her success. Hill concludes: "When one remembers that of all his large output only Kathleen survived long enough to have its copyright renewed twenty- eight years afterwards, it is easy to see that Westendorf was not a very vital composer..." Unfortunately his truly very valuable work in the reform schools has not been so generally re- membered. "It sometimes happens that the true facts of a case are essentially more romantic than sentimentalized fiction, and it would be very fitting if occasionally Thomas Paine Westendorf could be given the credit really due him."
Ireland Forever Album
Close your eyes and allow the music to transport you across the ocean, far away to a distant time and place to the shores of Ireland. The music is magical in recalling the country's turbulent history of political and religious wars and the economic tragedies that have wreaked havoc on its people. One of the most significant events to affect the message of many of the songs-particularly the ballads was the potato famine that began in 1845 and peaked in 1848-1849. Not only was there a great deal of suffering, starvation and death, reflected in the music, but an extreme emigration ensued which also affected much of the lyrical content. Many of the songs lament the homeland with a great yearning to be united for just one final breath with bonny Ireland. The forced separation also instilled great pride in the people's ancestry which surely accounts for the fierce determination to immortalize their heritage. Music is always a mirror of society and for the Irish, the motivation was even deeper-to keep Ireland alive, vital and remembered for generations to come. With IRELAND FOREVER!, a magical combination of traditional Irish music and more contemporary pieces written in America, the preservation of this rich musical heritage becomes possible, co juring images of the green rolling hills of the countryside, the rhythmic dances, shamrocks and leprechauns. Laden with jigs (a 4/4 rhythm, usually fast) and reels (in 6/8, derived from the European gigues), as well as laments for a homeland far away, IRELAND FOREVER! treats us to a collection that is felt, as well as heard.
Dennis Day, once a featured singer on the Jack Benny Show opens the CD with the Irish treated march, "St. Patrick's Day Parade." Marching drums and pipes will warm the cockles of your heart as Day's brogue sings of the "twinkle in me eye," and "the shamrock in my buttonhole." Written in 1950 by Lange and Heath, Henri Rene produced this track in 1951 using his own orchestra on this and on "B'Gilly, B'Golly, B'Gorrah," a fun Irish waltz by Sunny Skylar that Day recorded in 1950. Day's passionate tenor laments "A Shawl of Galway Grey" produced by Charles Grean. The Ray Charles Singers lend background vocals to the song, written in 1949 by Hamilton Kennedy. One can also celebrate Christmas in the picturesque town of Killarney, situated in Ireland's southwest corner, in Day's rendition of "Christmas in Killarney. The song, which became a best-seller for Day in 1951, will have you dreaming of Santa Claus and leprechauns playing together in the holly green.
Phil Regan contributes four songs to this collection. In the mid '30's Regan guested on several radio shows, becoming a regular on Ken Murray's Show in 1936. He went on to enjoy roles in several films, his most important being 1950's Three Little Words. He recorded numerous albums, several in the Irish genre. IRELAND FOREVER! includes his version of the riotous recitation of those feisty Irish names in "Dear Old Donegal." Written by Steve Graham in 1942, the track was produced nine years later by Hugo Winterhalter with an orchestra conducted by Norman Leyden. That same year, Regan recorded the 1948 classic "You're Irish and You're Beautiful" by Charles Tobias and A1 Lewis. A year earlier in 1950, he had recorded "Along the Rocky Road to Dublin" with Lou Bring and His Orchestra and the Jud Conlon Singers while he crooned visions of Ireland in "When You Look in the Heart of a Shamrock" in 1949.
Few remember that Marv Griffin came up the ranks as a singer, initially entering talent contests, singing on San Francisco's local radio station KFRC and later touring with Freddy Martin and his Orchestra. Although today his name is synonymous with the brains behind the two most popular game shows in television syndication history, "Wheel of Fortune" and "Jeopardy," Griffin, the singer, was signed to RCA in the early 50's. He has been known to bemoan the fact that he became lost in the shuffle at the label with Elvis Presley's signing. He turned his energies to TV, finally hosting his own talk show in the 60's, on which he often sang.
Of Irish decent, himself, Griffin's musical propensity was nurtured at 14 in church in San Mateo, California where he grew up. He describes the parish priest, Father Lyon, as a "powerfully built Irishman" who gave him complete cre- ative control over the music used in mass. It's no surprise that Griffin recorded quite a bit of Irish music later on. Griffin offers up seven of the songs on the album, all produced by Hy Grill, including the well-loved "I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen" that he recorded in 1952. Often mistaken as an authentic Irish piece, this composition was writ- ten by Thomas P. Westendorf, a Plainfield, Indiana teacher, in 1876. Allegedly, Westendorf was inspired when he and his wife, whose name was actually Jennie, were temporarily separated. Supposedly he wrote the piece in the form of an answer to the then popular ballad, "Barney, Take Me Home Again."
"Galway Bay" was written in 1926 as a tribute to the beautiful green meadows and clear air of Galway, becoming a classic right beside "Danny Boy" and "Wearin' of the Green." It is ironic that the song seems to denounce Ireland's British domination, as the composer, Dr. Arthur Colahan, a prominent neurologist, was, in fact, British. Alongside the lament for "The Hills of County Clare," Griffin jigs with the best of them in "The Kerry Dance," painting a picture of youthful nostalgia as he sings "Oh the days of the Kerry dance, oh the ring of the pipers tune." Me also offers up the traditional epic "The Wild Colonial Boy," as well as the lighthearted "Mush-Mush-Mush-Tural-l- Addy.
Leo McCaffrey treats us to three rousing tunes - "Killeater Fair," "Irish Jaunting Car" and "Typical Irishman," all recorded with The Pride of Erin Ceili Band. These most traditional of selections will prompt your feet to move along with the bounce of the melodies while his frolicking vocals evoke the spirit that embodies Irish music at its most danceable.
"Look to the Rainbow," written by E.Y. Harburg and Burton Lane in 1946 is from the musical production of Finian's Rainbow. It was an interesting play that mixed Irish mythology with a commentary on American social and political life. The romantic "Look to the Rainbow" was one the songs that helped the show win several prestigious awards and in 1950 Fran Warren cut the track with Hugo Winterhalter and his Orchestra. This song is not the norm for Warren, a big band singer who preferred swing to pop and got her start at 18 years old singing with Art Mooney and broadcasting on the radio three nights a week.
She replaced Kay Starr in Charlie Barnet's group, ultimately moving on to sing with Claude Thornhill's orchestra. Their first record together, "A Sunday Kind of Love" became her sig- nature tune, but in the mid-50's it seemed that her theatrical work gave her more of an appreciation for pop music. In fact, it was after playing the lead in Finian Rainbow's road show that Warren recorded this song.
The other female contributor to this CD is Carmel Quinn who was actually born in Ireland. Holding the distinction of having been the only artist to ever appear at Carnegie Hall for 25 consecutive years, Quinn began her career as a regular on Arthur Godfrey's early television show. In fact, her first album came out on Columbia in 1955 with his endorsement as Arthur Godfrey Presents. Having worked on many Irish projects throughout her career and earning a Grammy nomination along the way, her "We're Painting the Town Green for the Irish" adds a delightful patriotic bounce to this collection.
Offering the gamut of feelings, IRELAND FOREVER! is a musical travelogue rich with history and emotion. Whether it's a return or a visit anew to the Emerald Isle's Donegal, Galway, Dublin, Clare, Kerry, and Killarney, IRELAND FOREVER! will move you to tears, laughter, and dance, warming the cockles of your heart. And that's no blarney!
-Robyn Flans
Track list from the album.
Dennis Day St. Patrick's Day Parade
Phil Regan Dear Old Donegal
Mery Griffin Galway Bay
Leo McCaffrey Killeater Fair
Phil Regan You're Irish And You're Beautiful
Merv Griffin The Hills Of County Clare
Merv Griffin The Kerry Dance
Fran Warren Look To The Rainbow (From the musical production "Finian's Rainbow")
Phil Regan Along The Rocky Road To Dublin
Leo McCaffrey Irish Jaunting Car
Merv Griffin The Wild Colonial Boy
Dennis Day A Shawl Of Galway Grey
Carmel Quinn We're Painting The Town Green For The Irish
Mery Griffin - Mush-Mush-Mush-Tural-I-Addy
When You Look In The Heart Of A Shamrock
Merv Griffin I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen
Leo McCaffrey - Typical Irishman
Merv Griffin The Isle Of Innesfree
Dennis Day B'Gilly, B'Golly, B'Gorrah (Mary McCairin)
Dennis Day- Christmas In Killarney
Close your eyes and allow the music to transport you across the ocean, far away to a distant time and place to the shores of Ireland. The music is magical in recalling the country's turbulent history of political and religious wars and the economic tragedies that have wreaked havoc on its people. One of the most significant events to affect the message of many of the songs-particularly the ballads was the potato famine that began in 1845 and peaked in 1848-1849. Not only was there a great deal of suffering, starvation and death, reflected in the music, but an extreme emigration ensued which also affected much of the lyrical content. Many of the songs lament the homeland with a great yearning to be united for just one final breath with bonny Ireland. The forced separation also instilled great pride in the people's ancestry which surely accounts for the fierce determination to immortalize their heritage. Music is always a mirror of society and for the Irish, the motivation was even deeper-to keep Ireland alive, vital and remembered for generations to come. With IRELAND FOREVER!, a magical combination of traditional Irish music and more contemporary pieces written in America, the preservation of this rich musical heritage becomes possible, co juring images of the green rolling hills of the countryside, the rhythmic dances, shamrocks and leprechauns. Laden with jigs (a 4/4 rhythm, usually fast) and reels (in 6/8, derived from the European gigues), as well as laments for a homeland far away, IRELAND FOREVER! treats us to a collection that is felt, as well as heard.
Dennis Day, once a featured singer on the Jack Benny Show opens the CD with the Irish treated march, "St. Patrick's Day Parade." Marching drums and pipes will warm the cockles of your heart as Day's brogue sings of the "twinkle in me eye," and "the shamrock in my buttonhole." Written in 1950 by Lange and Heath, Henri Rene produced this track in 1951 using his own orchestra on this and on "B'Gilly, B'Golly, B'Gorrah," a fun Irish waltz by Sunny Skylar that Day recorded in 1950. Day's passionate tenor laments "A Shawl of Galway Grey" produced by Charles Grean. The Ray Charles Singers lend background vocals to the song, written in 1949 by Hamilton Kennedy. One can also celebrate Christmas in the picturesque town of Killarney, situated in Ireland's southwest corner, in Day's rendition of "Christmas in Killarney. The song, which became a best-seller for Day in 1951, will have you dreaming of Santa Claus and leprechauns playing together in the holly green.
Phil Regan contributes four songs to this collection. In the mid '30's Regan guested on several radio shows, becoming a regular on Ken Murray's Show in 1936. He went on to enjoy roles in several films, his most important being 1950's Three Little Words. He recorded numerous albums, several in the Irish genre. IRELAND FOREVER! includes his version of the riotous recitation of those feisty Irish names in "Dear Old Donegal." Written by Steve Graham in 1942, the track was produced nine years later by Hugo Winterhalter with an orchestra conducted by Norman Leyden. That same year, Regan recorded the 1948 classic "You're Irish and You're Beautiful" by Charles Tobias and A1 Lewis. A year earlier in 1950, he had recorded "Along the Rocky Road to Dublin" with Lou Bring and His Orchestra and the Jud Conlon Singers while he crooned visions of Ireland in "When You Look in the Heart of a Shamrock" in 1949.
Few remember that Marv Griffin came up the ranks as a singer, initially entering talent contests, singing on San Francisco's local radio station KFRC and later touring with Freddy Martin and his Orchestra. Although today his name is synonymous with the brains behind the two most popular game shows in television syndication history, "Wheel of Fortune" and "Jeopardy," Griffin, the singer, was signed to RCA in the early 50's. He has been known to bemoan the fact that he became lost in the shuffle at the label with Elvis Presley's signing. He turned his energies to TV, finally hosting his own talk show in the 60's, on which he often sang.
Of Irish decent, himself, Griffin's musical propensity was nurtured at 14 in church in San Mateo, California where he grew up. He describes the parish priest, Father Lyon, as a "powerfully built Irishman" who gave him complete cre- ative control over the music used in mass. It's no surprise that Griffin recorded quite a bit of Irish music later on. Griffin offers up seven of the songs on the album, all produced by Hy Grill, including the well-loved "I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen" that he recorded in 1952. Often mistaken as an authentic Irish piece, this composition was writ- ten by Thomas P. Westendorf, a Plainfield, Indiana teacher, in 1876. Allegedly, Westendorf was inspired when he and his wife, whose name was actually Jennie, were temporarily separated. Supposedly he wrote the piece in the form of an answer to the then popular ballad, "Barney, Take Me Home Again."
"Galway Bay" was written in 1926 as a tribute to the beautiful green meadows and clear air of Galway, becoming a classic right beside "Danny Boy" and "Wearin' of the Green." It is ironic that the song seems to denounce Ireland's British domination, as the composer, Dr. Arthur Colahan, a prominent neurologist, was, in fact, British. Alongside the lament for "The Hills of County Clare," Griffin jigs with the best of them in "The Kerry Dance," painting a picture of youthful nostalgia as he sings "Oh the days of the Kerry dance, oh the ring of the pipers tune." Me also offers up the traditional epic "The Wild Colonial Boy," as well as the lighthearted "Mush-Mush-Mush-Tural-l- Addy.
Leo McCaffrey treats us to three rousing tunes - "Killeater Fair," "Irish Jaunting Car" and "Typical Irishman," all recorded with The Pride of Erin Ceili Band. These most traditional of selections will prompt your feet to move along with the bounce of the melodies while his frolicking vocals evoke the spirit that embodies Irish music at its most danceable.
"Look to the Rainbow," written by E.Y. Harburg and Burton Lane in 1946 is from the musical production of Finian's Rainbow. It was an interesting play that mixed Irish mythology with a commentary on American social and political life. The romantic "Look to the Rainbow" was one the songs that helped the show win several prestigious awards and in 1950 Fran Warren cut the track with Hugo Winterhalter and his Orchestra. This song is not the norm for Warren, a big band singer who preferred swing to pop and got her start at 18 years old singing with Art Mooney and broadcasting on the radio three nights a week.
She replaced Kay Starr in Charlie Barnet's group, ultimately moving on to sing with Claude Thornhill's orchestra. Their first record together, "A Sunday Kind of Love" became her sig- nature tune, but in the mid-50's it seemed that her theatrical work gave her more of an appreciation for pop music. In fact, it was after playing the lead in Finian Rainbow's road show that Warren recorded this song.
The other female contributor to this CD is Carmel Quinn who was actually born in Ireland. Holding the distinction of having been the only artist to ever appear at Carnegie Hall for 25 consecutive years, Quinn began her career as a regular on Arthur Godfrey's early television show. In fact, her first album came out on Columbia in 1955 with his endorsement as Arthur Godfrey Presents. Having worked on many Irish projects throughout her career and earning a Grammy nomination along the way, her "We're Painting the Town Green for the Irish" adds a delightful patriotic bounce to this collection.
Offering the gamut of feelings, IRELAND FOREVER! is a musical travelogue rich with history and emotion. Whether it's a return or a visit anew to the Emerald Isle's Donegal, Galway, Dublin, Clare, Kerry, and Killarney, IRELAND FOREVER! will move you to tears, laughter, and dance, warming the cockles of your heart. And that's no blarney!
-Robyn Flans
Track list from the album.
Dennis Day St. Patrick's Day Parade
Phil Regan Dear Old Donegal
Mery Griffin Galway Bay
Leo McCaffrey Killeater Fair
Phil Regan You're Irish And You're Beautiful
Merv Griffin The Hills Of County Clare
Merv Griffin The Kerry Dance
Fran Warren Look To The Rainbow (From the musical production "Finian's Rainbow")
Phil Regan Along The Rocky Road To Dublin
Leo McCaffrey Irish Jaunting Car
Merv Griffin The Wild Colonial Boy
Dennis Day A Shawl Of Galway Grey
Carmel Quinn We're Painting The Town Green For The Irish
Mery Griffin - Mush-Mush-Mush-Tural-I-Addy
When You Look In The Heart Of A Shamrock
Merv Griffin I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen
Leo McCaffrey - Typical Irishman
Merv Griffin The Isle Of Innesfree
Dennis Day B'Gilly, B'Golly, B'Gorrah (Mary McCairin)
Dennis Day- Christmas In Killarney
