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Charles Villiers Stanford - Phaudrig Crohoore

First performed at the Norwich Festival of 1896, Stanford's choral ballad sets words by the Irish poet J. Sheridan Lefanu. In this performance, broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on 11th June 1974, it is sung by the BBC Singers (director, John Poole) accompanied by the BBC Concert Orchestra (leader, Arthur Leavins) and conducted by Ashley Lawrence. The image is by the Irish painter Daniel MacDonald (1821—1853) and called variously "A Wedding Dance" or "A Country Dance". It is in the collection of the Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland. Oh, Phaudhrig Crohoore was the broth of a boy, And he stood six foot eight, And his arm was as round as another man’s thigh, ’Tis Phaudhrig was great — And his hair was as black as the shadows of night, And hung over the scars left by many a fight; And his voice, like the thunder, was deep, strong, and loud, And his eye like the lightnin’ from under the cloud. And all the girls liked him, for he could spake civil, And sweet when he chose it, for he was the divil. An’ there wasn’t a girl from thirty-five undher, Divil a matter how crass, but he could come round her. But of all the sweet girls that smiled on him, but one Was the girl of his heart, an’ he loved her alone. An’ warm as the sun, as the rock firm an’ sure, Was the love of the heart of Phaudhrig Crohoore; An’ he’d die for one smile from his Kathleen O’Brien, For his love, like his hatred, was sthrong as the lion. ‘But Michael O’Hanlon loved Kathleen as well As he hated Crohoore — an’ that same was like hell. But O’Brien liked HIM, for they were the same parties, The O’Briens, O’Hanlons, an’ Murphys, and Cartys — An’ they all went together an’ hated Crohoore, For it’s many the batin’ he gave them before...