Michele McLaughlin: Sheet Music

In Irish legend, Finn McCool was a giant who dwelled on the Causeway Coastline in Northern Ireland. The Giants Causeway is an area of thousands of hexagonal basalt columns which were formed from a volcanic eruption about 60 million years ago. Legend tells that Finn McCool built the Giant's Causeway as a bridge between Scotland and Ireland so he could fight a Scottish giant who was harassing him. When the Scottish giant crossed the bridge to face Finn, Finn's wife dressed him up as a baby in a cradle and told the Scottish giant that Finn was not at home. The Scottish giant was so blown away by the size of the "baby" that he was afraid to find out how big Finn would be and decided not to fight him. He ran back to Scotland and destroyed the bridge that Finn built as he ran away so that Finn could not follow him. This song is about the exchange between the two giants, telling the story in a sort of dance like comedy, beginning with the Scottish giant harassing Finn, then sneaking across the bridge to fight Finn, seeing the enormous baby, and then running back to Scotland and destroying the bridge along the way.