John McDermott (Canadian) - Song for the Mira
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- Опубліковано 18 лип 2008
- Your ratings and comments are welcome! This video is from John McDermott's live DVD "A Time to Remember" (2002) where he sings a nice rendition of "Song for the Mira". This folk song is about the Mira River in Nova Scotia Canada, and also mentions the community of Marion Bridge. The song was originally written by a local songwriter named Allister MacGillivray, and has also been recorded by Nova Scotia native Anne Murray. The studio (not live) version of this song is also on the CD (also released in 2002) that has the same title as the DVD. This DVD version omits one chorus and the third and fourth verses of the song:
"Out on the Mira on soft summer nights,
The bonfires blaze to the children's delights.
They dance 'round the flames, singing songs with their friends-
I wish I was with them again.
And over the ashes the stories are told,
Of witches and werewolves and Oak Island gold.
The stars on the river, they sparkle and spin-
I wish I was with them again."
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"JOHN CHARLES McDERMOTT is a Canadian tenor best known for his rendition of "Danny Boy." Born the ninth of twelve children to Irish parents in Glasgow Scotland in 1955, John and his family moved to Canada in 1965. Growing up in a musical family, his only formal musical training was at St. Michael's Choir School in Toronto, Ontario in 1971 and 1972."
John may have spent the majority of his life I'm Canada and be a Canadian.citizen but he's.still a.Scotsman born and bred and proud of it
I miss my home... I've traveled alot of the world, and I haven't seen anything like the Mira at the crack of dawn. We would jump of Marion Bridge every summer, and swim in the Gut.
This song and singer are world famous now.
I was taken back to when I was little girl and growing up loving to hear my dad play the fiddle. Dad was from New Waterford Cape Breton and through him I received the importance and love of music. <3
We made a point of crossing Marion Bridge on our vacation to Cape Breton from Montana last August.
Mom explained to me that flowers of the forest meant that the men who died were buried on the spot where they fell. I know that this happened back in Scotland's history but I'm not sure if it occurred anywhere else. We are Clan MacDonald. The MacDonalds & the Campbells fought it out in Scotland.
one of the most beautifull songs about Cape Breton
Brilliant.
I am from the maritimes, only miles from the Mira. Very well done. Anyone who doesn't get that may not know the Mira so well.
Mary
This is a great song by Allister McGillivray, a wonderful Nova Scotia songwriter. His work deserves to be better known.
Such a great song about life on the Mira in Cape Breton ,sung by the awesome voice of John McDemott and his wonderful background music.Thanks for sharing .
I am truly shocked at the comments by Lighttheway. This is a beautiful song by an excellent, Canadian singer. Keep up the good work, John!
This song makes me homesick for a place I've never been
My most fav "down east" song!
Lord, this is absolutelly priceless. Song for the Mira. Simplicity and beauty. What else can one say?
luv your songs JOHNMcDERMOTT as my sister is Myra too..
The first time I heard this song was in 1978, when I saw John Allan Cameron perform it on Julie Amato's CTV network variety series in Canada that year (I saw that show in my youth hometown of Cleveland Heights, OH, USA, when CTV affiliate CKCO-TV, on, I think, its Chatham/Sarnia, Ontario signal on channel 42, came in one night, and I basically recorded the show on audio cassette).
Cape Breton is beautiful, this song is beautiful...and John McDermott does them both justice.
Love this song. Reminds me of home, a small martime community in Ontario. When I was young I was surrounded by family, aunties, uncles, cousins and this song brings them back to me. Like the song one day I will be with them again.
Hi again. Thanks for responding. I'm sorry that you & others suffered through the traumas of war. My dad fought in the battle of anzio, WW2. He never talked much about it, was wounded, & had post traumatic stress disorder. His best friend died alongside him, first taking a bullet through the chin, then the head. Dad wished to remember him by naming me after him. His name was Terence, mine Terena(female). Like Terence, I am called Terry.
John McDermott : Sure has struck a nerve with this particular song. More so for my generation, who can relate to such memories. Thank you for posting this.