[PW] Re: Song - Irish Blessing

[Barbara J Bussart]

I have a copy at home somewhere - I'll see if I can find it at lunchtime.
My arrangement is by Denis Agay.

I've done this at several funerals - it's a really nice arrangement.

Barbara Bussart
Woonsocket, RI

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nina Gilbert" <ninagilbert at yahoo.com>
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Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2006 9:15 AM
Subject: [PW] Re: Song - Irish Blessing


>
>  Donna Hesson asks,
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> > Does anyone know of and have a copy of the song "Irish Blessing"?  It
begins, "May the road rise to meet you"...
> >Apparently this is a song and I have been asked to sing it at a funeral
this Saturday.
> > If anyone has the sheet music to this song could you please fax it to
me?  I am aware of the words
> >but I am not aware that it is a song.
>
> That text has certainly been set for choir several times, and I sort of
recall one or two melodies that could be considered its "tune."  If you went
to a sheet music store that sells choral octavos (in your area I would try
Dale Music in Silver Spring) and asked for "Irish Belssing," you would
probably find something where you could extract the melody.
>
> At http://www.musicanet.org, the virtual choral reference library, I see
"Irish Blessing" by about a dozen composers.  Some of those are arrangements
and some are compositions.  I can't tell from that list whether the
"arrangements" are of a more or less traditional tune.  And I'm aware of
compositions of that text by other composers too.
>
> So you can definitely find this set to music, though it may not be music
that the congregation recognizes.
>
> Note:  you don't want the choral "Irish Blessing" by my friend Dan
Gawthrop.  That's a parody text:  May those who love us, love us; And for
those who don't love us, May God turn their hearts; And if He can't turn
their hearts, May He turn their ankles, So we will know them by their
limping!
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Nina Gilbert
>
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