The photo for the video is a little misleading, because this version is from their debut CD, not their Reunion CD :P This used to be my favorite Solas song. It's a really great one :)
I preferred the version that I heard today (17-03-2019) RTE Broadcast of "Sun On The Green" form a live show in 97. But, this is a good one too. Just different.
I doubt if it was done deliberately, Probably somebody in England tried to sing that terrific Irish song he heard (or vice-versa) and forgot some of the words so he put in a verse or two from another song and the cobbled-together version was the one that got remembered. So two songs get stuck together by accident. Its all part of the folk process, I guess.
No, I don't think it is based on a real person either. They hanged a lot of highwaymen in those days. My Favorite version is by a 70s Irish folk rock band called Spud. There is a very similar English song called Adieu Adieu. Fairport Convention did a nice version of that.
There is something seriously wrong with the geography of this song. The protagonist was born in Newry and is in prison in Dublin (St Stephen's Green) - but his crimes, pursuit and capture all take place in London. (Grosvenor Square, Covent Garden - 'Fielding's men' would be London's first police force, set up by Henry Fielding in the 1700s). Methinks it is two songs tacked together.
"...Give them broadsword and sweet liberty...." One of my clockwork loves, this fine song it......
The Sean Cannon version of this great song is a masterpiece but this is a different take completely & I just love it, brilliant stuff!!.
Totally lovely !!!!
Two things mil boys and girls know: "I always was a roving blade" and "give them broadswords and sweet liberty."
The photo for the video is a little misleading, because this version is from their debut CD, not their Reunion CD :P
This used to be my favorite Solas song. It's a really great one :)
great version..
:)
very nice
I preferred the version that I heard today (17-03-2019) RTE Broadcast of "Sun On The Green" form a live show in 97.
But, this is a good one too. Just different.
I doubt if it was done deliberately, Probably somebody in England tried to sing that terrific Irish song he heard (or vice-versa) and forgot some of the words so he put in a verse or two from another song and the cobbled-together version was the one that got remembered.
So two songs get stuck together by accident. Its all part of the folk process, I guess.
Is it karan Casey singin?
Yes correct
No, I don't think it is based on a real person either. They hanged a lot of highwaymen in those days.
My Favorite version is by a 70s Irish folk rock band called Spud.
There is a very similar English song called Adieu Adieu. Fairport Convention did a nice version of that.
As I said, the geography. OK, he could have moved from Newry to London but why are they hanging him in Dublin? Was Tyburn overbooked that week?
There is something seriously wrong with the geography of this song. The protagonist was born in Newry and is in prison in Dublin (St Stephen's Green) - but his crimes, pursuit and capture all take place in London. (Grosvenor Square, Covent Garden - 'Fielding's men' would be London's first police force, set up by Henry Fielding in the 1700s).
Methinks it is two songs tacked together.
Ha!
up the IRISH
You could ruin any tune like this, well done
Bad version you mean?