Will Ye Go, Lassie Go ( Wild Mountain Thyme ) The Clancy Bros. w/ Tommy Makem

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  • @MichaelMartinNYL
    @MichaelMartinNYL 5 місяців тому +22

    Don’t worry about the people who give thumbs down, they will never be remembered. This group is still celebrated across the world even today in 2024 by generations of Irish music fans.

  • @user-jk8zo1ch2j
    @user-jk8zo1ch2j Місяць тому +3

    The first time I saw the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem was in Madison, Wisconsin in 1964. Their music is timeless and I miss them so much. Rest in peace, lads…rest in peace.

  • @bernadettemeade7259
    @bernadettemeade7259 5 років тому +40

    Sang this at my Mum's funeral service unaccompanied, my parents married 62 years. 💔

  • @rohankhtrapal7889
    @rohankhtrapal7889 4 місяці тому +7

    Love this song, I am gen-Z and found this in 2024

  • @lloyddavis7601
    @lloyddavis7601 4 роки тому +35

    if this doesn't stir something in your soul, you don't have one...

  • @SmartStart24
    @SmartStart24 4 роки тому +42

    I remember I was in middle school when I discovered The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem. When I was about 13 Tommy was playing the Milwaukee Irish Fest and I begged my mom to take me. We took the train up and it was a rainy day but we made it and sat in our ponchos and watched Tommy play. It was so fascinating to me. I was too scared to ask to meet him, which I sort of regret. He died shortly after that. May he and the Clancy bros rest in peace. Their music is timeless.

    • @SteppingRaven56
      @SteppingRaven56 3 роки тому +2

      Saw Tommy solo at the Ann Arbor Folk Fest in the 80s. Unforgettable.

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      @robertoandrew9360 3 роки тому

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  • @thomasegan9851
    @thomasegan9851 5 років тому +19

    They are all gone now. Rest in peace lads

  • @williamc.1198
    @williamc.1198 2 роки тому +11

    In my veins flows the blood of Ireland. Though this is a song originally from Scotland; I love it!

    • @maureenfreeborn108
      @maureenfreeborn108 11 місяців тому

      Snap.

    • @dubblek253
      @dubblek253 Місяць тому

      Sure and this song was written and fist performed by Francis McPeake, born in Belfast and a native of Northern Ireland... but the Scots do like it, for sure!

  • @samyandkitty8399
    @samyandkitty8399 3 роки тому +9

    This was the song my dad sang me every night when I was a little girl in the early 70s, he was in the suez crisis and Panama and in Cuba too, I was some hoes kid but he absolutely adored me and nobody has ever came close . I am 51 my dad passed away only a few years older I hope I can get away from this shit life soon.I miss you so much dad but I will be with u again soon. I can’t stand this life

    • @lylebutler447
      @lylebutler447 2 роки тому +1

      God bless you Samy. He’s looking down at you❤️

  • @Pihasanddunes1
    @Pihasanddunes1 12 років тому +20

    Beautiful is too small a word for this. Respect to the brothers and Tommy. This is music.

  • @sonnymaher2113
    @sonnymaher2113 4 роки тому +15

    My God never appreciated this when I was young but could listen forever now what memories it brings

  • @LHMCB
    @LHMCB 12 років тому +15

    Tommy Makem looked so young...but he was truly ageless, and a towering voice in Irish music.

  • @Cat-hc4jy
    @Cat-hc4jy 3 роки тому +12

    Great Scottish folk song.

    • @dubblek253
      @dubblek253 Місяць тому

      Sure and this song was written and fist performed by Francis McPeake, born in Belfast and a native of Northern Ireland... but the Scots do like it, for sure!

  • @kathleenhannan
    @kathleenhannan 3 роки тому +20

    I have loved and sung this song my whole life. My family learned it from early recordings of the Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem. But I had never till tonight heard/seen this version. Gosh. This is the pure essence of this song...the fiddler, though not seen on camera, is giving gorgeous support to the singers' heart filled voices. And the audience singing along brings me memories of singing this with so many groups of people over the years. I am imagining that the fact this was a reunion concert might have something to do with the beauty of it. Thank you so much for posting it.

  • @lynnmast4988
    @lynnmast4988 3 роки тому +10

    I don't understand why people have to give someone else's heritage a thumbs down but they don't understand that is someone else's love irish music like me because that is part of my heritage

    • @galoglaich3281
      @galoglaich3281 3 роки тому +1

      Lynn Mast i would bet that at least half those dislikes are actually from irish people of the cosmopolitan progressive hipster type sadly.There is a debate about this song whether its irish are scottish,while it was adapted from a song written by a scottish poet ,this version was written by an irish man francis McPeake in the 50s

    • @Arsenogenics
      @Arsenogenics 6 місяців тому

      This song is Scottish.

    • @francismcgachy6913
      @francismcgachy6913 4 місяці тому

      It's a Scottish song 100%too many Scottish words phrases but all celtic music at end of day and all Irish singers and Scottish can sing it and pull it off cos we sing same stuff slainte 😪🇨🇮🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

  • @sergiodario58able
    @sergiodario58able 8 років тому +13

    just one word: RESPECT!!! from an Italian (Neapolitan) man...Love to all...

  • @keithsmith4780
    @keithsmith4780 2 роки тому +6

    Great songs often have joy and sadness braided together.

  • @paullinnane4396
    @paullinnane4396 5 років тому +8

    May the four of them rest in peace

  • @richarddoyle8699
    @richarddoyle8699 10 років тому +18

    This song warms the soul everytime.

  • @jakus55
    @jakus55 12 років тому +13

    This brings tears to my eyes. GOD BLESS

  • @risasb
    @risasb 11 років тому +9

    It's their mama knit those sweaters, bless her.

  • @ghisjolly763
    @ghisjolly763 2 роки тому +5

    Love this song. 💚

  • @celticgypsy11
    @celticgypsy11 8 років тому +5

    Grew up listening to them because of my dad. Met Liam's son in Ennis ... some things remain beautiful.

  • @rossmcl177
    @rossmcl177 10 років тому +31

    Yep. Tom in '90, Paddy in '98, Tommy in '07, Liam in '09.
    All singing together again now though.

    • @stanleyjohnstone2867
      @stanleyjohnstone2867 6 років тому +5

      rossmcl177 lived full and meaningful lives. Left a legacy to be remembered.

    • @Blueboyo1
      @Blueboyo1 4 роки тому +2

      @@stanleyjohnstone2867 Yes. they did........And still I' miss them. It was a pleasure to know they were in the world with us.

    • @mollymaguire1391
      @mollymaguire1391 3 роки тому +2

      Knew Tommy brief like..met on Cape Cod via a good friend of his. Great soul and artist.

  • @MaxTheCutePom
    @MaxTheCutePom 9 років тому +4

    We saw them got their autographs and even wore knitted Irish sweaters which my Aunt made for us. Miss These Special Guys and My Aunt Dearly

  • @bsbpjb
    @bsbpjb 8 років тому +6

    surely no prettier music this side of Heaven

  • @carolemccarthy7305
    @carolemccarthy7305 8 років тому +9

    beyond awesome! Liam & the Clancys, miss you!!

  • @stephenlisson1994
    @stephenlisson1994 8 років тому +8

    This one of the great tunes that the lads and I would sing, when we got together at functions for the Football team (soccer for you North Americans)that I played for.

  • @francismcgachy6913
    @francismcgachy6913 4 місяці тому

    Just came out partick train station in glasgow n a old busker was playing /singing this on an acoustic his voice was sweet as I nearly wept n I've not wept in thirty years so am here os gonna do coer on guitar n need the words cead mile failte agus slainte var vor😥😪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇨🇮🍺

  • @ethanmengelberg4434
    @ethanmengelberg4434 9 років тому +19

    Why would anyone dislike this? It is calming.

    • @Somuchcooleronline1
      @Somuchcooleronline1 7 років тому +1

      Maybe because they're not in a "calming" mood?

    • @lynnmast4988
      @lynnmast4988 3 роки тому

      Thank you my point being

    • @SteppingRaven56
      @SteppingRaven56 3 роки тому

      Beats hell out of me.

    • @MountainHomeJerrel
      @MountainHomeJerrel 2 роки тому +1

      When tears runneth from your eyes, it is difficult to see which button is the thumbs up.

    • @nannye211
      @nannye211 2 роки тому

      Carrying my Irish/Scottish heritage forever

  • @tonyr3784
    @tonyr3784 12 років тому +3

    love them'''''' great song's like the dubliners ''''my 18 year son told me about them and a can not get this song out my head .... i love the irish songs .. and i love ireland been there 22 times

    • @jamestodd1104
      @jamestodd1104 5 років тому

      tonyr3784 this is of Scottish origin. But these chaps are as Irish as they come.

  • @MariaMaria-dq4kd
    @MariaMaria-dq4kd 9 років тому +7

    We still believe in you lads nice work

  • @nickwyatt3243
    @nickwyatt3243 2 роки тому +1

    The sweetest song.

  • @alesjamsek2324
    @alesjamsek2324 3 роки тому +1

    Beautiful*Beautiful*Beautiful

  • @janemunez746
    @janemunez746 4 роки тому +1

    Thank you Jeremy 🐭😘😘😘❤️❤️❤️ so beautiful song 🐭🐱

  • @lucass.martins1091
    @lucass.martins1091 5 років тому +5

    "If my true love won't come with me
    Then I would surely find another"
    I love how this song is one of the rare types that gives more importance to things like journey, objectives or the feeling of life than the banallities of sex

  • @lornamccarthy6970
    @lornamccarthy6970 3 роки тому +3

    Love this ❤

  • @michaelcushing430
    @michaelcushing430 9 років тому +16

    It's Braes O Balquhidder written as a poem by Robert Tannahill (1774-1810) - the Lochan is in fact Loch Voil and is twinned with Loch Doine. Like most of our songs they originate from real places , people and events

    • @James-rn6lo
      @James-rn6lo 4 роки тому +1

      michael cushing A lot off nonsense,the McPeak family wrote the lyrics to this song and were the first to sing it.Funny how people are coming up with poems from the eighteen hundreds,and not one Scottish singer sang the song before the Mc Peaks in the early fifties.

    • @cecircinn2908
      @cecircinn2908 3 роки тому +1

      @@James-rn6lo ua-cam.com/video/6tUyj9vCi94/v-deo.html
      Alma Gluck singing 1914
      Alma Gluck was a Romanian-born American soprano.so the song must have spread for her to sing it in New York in 1914
      Tannnahil wrote the lyrics and died in 1810 It was published in Robert Archibald Smith's Scottish Minstrel in 1821 It is worth comparing the lyrics to this song ...it even starts "Let us go, lassie, go "and has "Wi' the wild mountain thyme" in the lyrics ...
      "I will twin thee a bow'r
      By the clear silver fountain
      And I'll cover it o'er
      Wi' the flooers o' the mountain....
      Remember written by a man who died in 1810 (140 years BEFORE the 1950's )
      Lyrics
      Let us go, lassie, go
      Tae the braes o' Balquhidder
      Whar the blueberries grow
      'Mang the bonnie Hielan' heather
      Whar the deer and the rae
      Lichtly bounding thegither
      Sport the lang summer day
      On the braes o' Balquhidder
      I will twin thee a bow'r
      By the clear silver fountain
      And I'll cover it o'er
      Wi' the flooers o' the mountain
      I will range through the wilds
      And the deep glens sae dreary
      And return wi' their spoils
      Tae the bow'r o' my dearie
      Let us go, lassie, go
      Tae the braes o' Balquhidder
      Whar the blueberries grow
      'Mang the bonnie Hielan' heather
      When the rude wintry win'
      Idly raves roun' oor dwellin'
      And the roar o' the linn
      On the nicht breeze is swellin'
      So merrily we'll sing
      As the storm rattles o'er us
      Till the dear shielin' ring
      Wi' the licht liltin' Let us go, lassie, go
      Tae the braes o' Balquhidder
      Whar the blueberries grow
      'Mang the bonnie Hielan' heather
      Noo the summers in prime
      Wi' the flooers richly bloomin'
      Wi' the wild mountain thyme
      A' the moorlan's perfumin'
      Tae oor dear native scenes
      Let us journey thegither
      Whar glad innocence reigns
      'Mang the braes o' Balquhidder
      Let us go, lassie, go
      Tae the braes o' Balquhidder
      Whar the blueberries grow
      'Mang the bonnie Hielan' heather
      Whar the deer and the rae
      Lichtly bounding thegither
      Sport the lang summer day
      On the braes o' Balquhidder

    • @wits1end0
      @wits1end0 6 місяців тому

      My mother, as child, remembers her father singing this in the 1930s while my grandmother played the organ. My great grandfather was from Glasgow.

    • @francismcgachy6913
      @francismcgachy6913 4 місяці тому +1

      Ta for the info mate love it new it was very old but wasn't sure who wrote it cead mile failte🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇨🇮😥

  • @paulcoveney5310
    @paulcoveney5310 11 років тому +4

    pure class

  • @StoneLeafUnfoundDoor
    @StoneLeafUnfoundDoor 4 роки тому +4

    "it's too nice to stop here"

  • @ADoyle131
    @ADoyle131 13 років тому +1

    Respond to this video...
    what! best singer out of them all..unique barratone!!!!!!

  • @maxpower1337
    @maxpower1337 11 років тому +4

    rip to them all

  • @johnmccormack9383
    @johnmccormack9383 3 роки тому

    Super group weel never see their likes again.

  • @robertsullivan7680
    @robertsullivan7680 3 роки тому +1

    i saw themin,boston greatmshow, also got to see them in Leeds, Uk my wife chased them down,from a pub and get paddy’s autograph..

  • @charleneanne7595
    @charleneanne7595 2 роки тому

    RIP dear friend. KGM

  • @mr.timjohnston546
    @mr.timjohnston546 5 років тому +6

    12 more insane ppl with their thumbs down!

  • @michaelcushing430
    @michaelcushing430 9 років тому +2

    Wild Mountain Thyme - where I met Catriona - Braes O Balquiddher - north of the Highland Line - where we've put to rest her family by the wee Kirk and lochan surrounded by these braes rising up over 3000ft Alba Scotland

    • @lynnmast4988
      @lynnmast4988 3 роки тому

      Michael i agree this is part of my family terdishin

  • @222022200
    @222022200 10 років тому +1

    well said.

  • @tommyobrien84
    @tommyobrien84 15 років тому +1

    1984 (Ulster Hall, Belfast)

  • @SteppingRaven56
    @SteppingRaven56 3 роки тому

    Ever nice eh

  • @VickersV
    @VickersV 10 місяців тому

    Jim Mcann version is brill aswell

  • @alesjamsek2324
    @alesjamsek2324 3 роки тому

    Hielon=Hieronimom=sant Jeronim.(medieval).

  • @volkerwinkens3658
    @volkerwinkens3658 Місяць тому

  • @ADoyle131
    @ADoyle131 13 років тому

    @padraicohare

  • @brendanrules1234567
    @brendanrules1234567 14 років тому

    @padraicohare hahaha what? that made no sence bro

  • @roberthansen6001
    @roberthansen6001 4 місяці тому

    Wonderful…

  • @KeshHarp
    @KeshHarp Рік тому

    The melody taken from an old Scot ballad, but these lyrics were written by Frankie McPeak of Belfast. The family still performs even today. God rest ye gentle, wee Frankie!

    • @DG-mv6zw
      @DG-mv6zw Рік тому +1

      Not quite. Francis McPeake had stated that the melody was taken from a preexisting Scottish folk tune. The lyric was lifted heavily from the poem "The Braes of Balquidder" by the Scottish poet Robert Tannahill from Paisley. Despite the McPeake's having the copywrite, It would be disingenuous to call this Irish - whether melody or lyric, although credit should be given to the McPeakes for popularizing the song.