Fiddler's Green is a kind of "sailor's heaven," where sailors go when they die. Downie sticks with the nautical metaphor by suggesting that the child has "gone alee" (downwind) and comparing his heart failure with the sinking of a wooden ship.
There's not much else to say about what this "means."
Folk singer John connolly did a song called "Fiddler's Green" in 1970, which includes these lines:
Now Fiddler's Green is a place I've heard tell
Where fishermen go when they don't go to Hell
Where the weather is fair and the dolphins do play
And the cold coast of Greenland is far, far away
Then there's "Final Trawl" by folk singer Archie Fisher:
And when I die, you can stow me down
In her rusty hold, where the breakers sound
Then I'll make the haven and the Fiddler's Green
Where the grub is good and the bunks are clean
But the traditional idea of Fiddler's Green is much older than that. It was coopted by landlubbers and appears in an old post-Civil-War U.S. Cavalry song:
Halfway down the trail to hell
In a shady meadow green,
Are the souls of all dead troopers camped
Near a good old-time canteen
And this eternal resting place
Is known as Fiddler's Green.
This song is an elegy for a dead child.
Fiddler's Green is a kind of "sailor's heaven," where sailors go when they die. Downie sticks with the nautical metaphor by suggesting that the child has "gone alee" (downwind) and comparing his heart failure with the sinking of a wooden ship.
There's not much else to say about what this "means."
Folk singer John connolly did a song called "Fiddler's Green" in 1970, which includes these lines: Now Fiddler's Green is a place I've heard tell Where fishermen go when they don't go to Hell Where the weather is fair and the dolphins do play And the cold coast of Greenland is far, far away
Then there's "Final Trawl" by folk singer Archie Fisher: And when I die, you can stow me down In her rusty hold, where the breakers sound Then I'll make the haven and the Fiddler's Green Where the grub is good and the bunks are clean
But the traditional idea of Fiddler's Green is much older than that. It was coopted by landlubbers and appears in an old post-Civil-War U.S. Cavalry song: Halfway down the trail to hell In a shady meadow green, Are the souls of all dead troopers camped Near a good old-time canteen And this eternal resting place Is known as Fiddler's Green.
I think "wonderdog" is related to someone in the Hip. Or is an actually member.
I think "wonderdog" is related to someone in the Hip. Or is an actually member.