( Waltz ) Lyrics and Music by Richie Kavanagh
John Tyndall was born in Carlow and a quar thing I’ll tell now to you.
He was the first man in all of the world to explain why the sky it is blue.
Born in the village of Leighlin his homestead is standing there still.
His good friend and teacher John Conwill, thought him there in the school on the hill.
John Tyndall was born in Carlow and a quar thing I’ll tell now to you.
He was the first man in all of the world to explain why the sky it is blue.
John was a great man of science and also a skilled mountaineer.
From humble beginnings in Leighlin, the science world he would domineer.
John Tyndall was born in Carlow and a quar thing I’ll tell now to you.
He was the first man in all of the world to explain why the sky it is blue.
Now his life it was full of adventure and he lived nearly three score and ten.
Many books he had written and published, sure he was a great man with a pen.
John Tyndall was born in Carlow and a quar thing I’ll tell now to you.
He was the first man in all of the world to explain why the sky it is blue.
He was a great man of learning and a great educationalist too.
About the Song,….. John Tyndall.
John Tyndall, the Carlow physicist, is remembered by many as the man who first explained why the sky is blue. This discovery, known as the Tyndall effect, proves the skies blue colour, results from the scattering of the Suns rays, by molecules in the atmosphere.