A kindred spirit. I was first drawn into the wonderful magic of Sandys music in 1969 whilst still in school . What We Did On Our Holidays . Met her at the Redcar Jazz Club in 1972. She spoke of supernatural vibrations. I was only a shy awe stricken 17 year old and couldn't say much though I thought we'd meet again. Her music helped me through bedsit Land and beyond. I visited her grave in Putney Vale with my partner about 7 years ago. The Lady is at peace and we'll meet on the ledge. I'm so happy we were born in the same blessed musical era .
In the late seventies, I was studying education at Gipsy Hill College in Kingston upon Thames, London,Uk. When we heard that she died, there was a big wake in the bar. She was an icon, a voice so special, the best voice that came out of the British Isles. I still listen to my vinyl albums of Fairport Convention. She has a voice like no other.
I like to imagine that every era in the history of the British Isles had a voice like Sandy Denny's. How fortunate we are that we had hers to listen to.
I have listened to many, many covers of this song. Some by known artists as well as unknown artists. Some are solo artist's, some trios as well as full orchestrated arrangements, Some are very good but NONE, none come close to Sandy's incredible cover. Just cannot get over this astounding one by Sandy Denny... I never fail to be in awe of how someone can sing like Sandy did, my God to have this gift is just unbelievable beyond words..
Sandy, the purest voice of them all. So hard to believe she was only 19 when she sang this song. I have listened and listened to many versions on UA-cam of others covering this song,. none can compare to Sandy's. There are some others who do a nice version with technically good voices but there is no one can sing it like Sandy. We will miss you for all time...such sadness that you are no longer here.....
Listening to this now deep into the early hours it makes me glad, in this sorrowful and hate-filled world, to have been brought into this existence and shared the humanity that is embodied in this woman's soul.
@@pacu9 You could say that, yes. 🙂 I've recently listened to Sandy and Like An Old Fashioned Waltz, and don't think I've ever heard a more beautiful and expressive voice. Katherine Priddy, whose career is currently blossoming, shows potential though.
Her voice is like a crystal dagger through my soul. I see that Thea Gilmore has revived some old songs Sandy wrote immediately before she died that have never been heard. Thea does a good job but there will only ever be one Sandy Denny.
When Sandy died, I remember the huge sense of loss throughout traditional music circles. Every folk club had people in tears singing this song in tribute.xx
I listen to this song over and over and can never seem to get enough of Sandy's hauntingly, beautiful voice! I just love the way she expresses the word comfort in this song! "...to com fort me...." What talent! What magic in her voice! Her voice has an effect on me!
Have you read the book, "No More Sad Refrains, The Life and Times of Sandy Denny" written by Clifton Heylin. Very good book for Sandy Denny fans.I still feel sadness when I think of how she died way too young and if medical care had been given sooner, she may have lived.
I have that book. It's fucking heartbreaking. I have been listening to her for at least 3 decades. The last line of comfort in a life filled with suicidal depression.
Also...I live in Buffalo, and the connection with Sandy and Jackson C.Frank...the pain rides much deeper than most people will be willing to travel into. :'(
Perfection - lovely, lovely voice. I have listened to Sandy Denny's singing for decades. From my travels to London and going to a folk club that she sang at many years before I went there called Bunjies Folk Cellar. Started buying her LPs so long ago and I often think about what Sandy would have gone on to do with her music. It is a bittersweet thought....but this was not to be. She was gone way too young.
I agree 100 %! I have heard many, many well known singers & groups cover this song and although there are some very good versions out there - absolutely no one, no one, can come close to the stunning vocals of Sandy Denny singing this song! Just totally incredible singing!
If you’re lucky enough to have the vinyl Zeppelin gave her an ‘honorary symbol’, which they’d never given before or after. It’s on the inside sleeve. 🌸🍀
This is my first time hearing this song from Sandy.....just amazing! My gosh! To think that such a beautiful voice, with all of the soul and passion she puts into it......so long gone from this plane and just now, all these years affecting me the way it does. I could cry!
Never heard this song, sung so beautifully sing some of her songs myself. My neighbour Roger Hill (late of the Chris Barber Band), toured with Fairport replacing Richard Thompson in 1971, and his old friend JB remebered her too, both introducing me to her music. They too are now past. Sandra (Clarettheband)
Her father was Scottish and her grandmother was fluent in Gaelic and very musical. Sandy may not be singing in the original language but she sure had a Celtic soul.
Don't know what 'Celtic soul' means, I'm not sure it means anything. She sings in a plummy English accent and she hasn't got the tune quite right. Still, she deserves credit for doing this at a time when most Scots, never mind English, couldn't even have pronounced the title...not sure they could even now, tbh.
it was Irish Gaels who brang Gaeilge Gaelic to Scotland and Isle of man all native Irish Gaeltacht speakers know every words spoken by Fellow Gael from Albain.. The Scottish were pics from picland . the Irish Gaels named it Albain Mac Mc Ó all ó Ghaeil na hÉireann 🇮🇪🏴
Sandy wiecznie żywa i niezapomniana.... była równie wielka jak Joplin, Morrison, Hendrix, Buckley, Drake - i równie nieodżałowana. Sandy Denny lives forever !
I never met or seen this lady but she knows my heart through her songs lyrics, it's heartfelt soulful, I love it she was gifted God bless her soul, Paul p Birmingham England x
Sandy Denny had a beautiful voice! I have heard the song by many others but have never heard it in English before. Not all songs translate to a foreign language well, this did. Lovely song!
This song can not express itself so clearly as it does in the gaelic language in which it was written.I do enjoy the way Sandy Denny has done this..Moran taing a'shandaidh.
I just heard her for the first time this morning, and fell immediately fell in deep love, and now I'm told she has left us... ?? I am so broken......... :'(
Damn I love Pentangle, the thought of them bubbled to the surface and sure old UA-cam gave me 3hrs of bliss. And thanks to the uploader as well, forgot to check your name. Also, we share the admiration for the best version of the much covered "Mattie Groves". g'nite now
Ah yes! Pentangle! That takes me back to my mis-spent - but thoroughly enjoyed - youth. Pentangle: simply superb - were able to truly capture drama in song.
Wenn i was young boy, i was so in love with her.. many woman since than used my heart as a tent, to only sleep in, and still the wind is blowing cold, but if i think of sandy i am not in need of blankets, wenn she died she took part of me with her, i will ask it back in heaven and listen on and on to her music there, as i do here.
Some folk travel through life never truly understood on a profound level, and I suspect Sandy to be one of them. (Was she even understood by anyone during her final years on a spiritual / emotional level?) The first thing for me which stands out about Sandy is her fast brain and acute intelligence. Likely she never made a show of it, and so perhaps it was never fully recognised? She was a mixer, not an aloof person. I very much like 'Fhir a Bhata' as Sandy reveals traces of the romantic / whimsical / mystical sides of her nature. Although clearly well read I also feel that spiritual mystery was a close companion. Perhaps never able to fully comprehend it, she nevertheless beautifully captured such within the breezes of some of her songs. She would have made a great duet with Bob Dylan singing 'Blowin' in the Wind.'
Tradition has always been me vetterin' the "R" runes, that of travellor. I could never hear enough of the lyrics, her voice from first ever in 1967 thru 1978 in studying Ecology and socialism was perfect in tones. The folks-scene Britain was partly stoic, but her voice carried as remnants of pastime in space-Time; even thruout London on my 1980-- visit there. The folks people gathered somewhere in the countryside, and the Ecology group were there fRom Berkeley CAL. They did a wondrous skit, lots of singing and someone falling downstairs, fit 'n drunk--as they had supposed she'd been from what they'd known of her. Years before, 1973-4, the same Ecology gRoup, tried to hear her in LOS, but she yelled into the microphone, as we knew she'd ruined that once-in-a-lifetime voice, that we'd so admired in her like a queen's parlor overture-- she'd so delicately developed in her teens...and ohh what a voice to fall in love with her was about!
My sister almost named her son (Scott) Tam Lin based on Sandy Denny/Fairport Convention's song. This is a pretty tune. I've been listening to other versions, including the original gaelic. She has such a fine voice here. We were born in the same year, 11 months apart.
I first heard her in the hopeful '60s -- I am 84 years old -- and from that first moment knew hers as the most exquisitely beautiful human voice I would ever hear. It has always seemed to me it was as if she were reincarnated from some unfathomably ancient past to give us a haunting glimpse of the indescribable loveliness we have lost to patriarchy -- that her life was so tragically short because she found the intensifying darkness of this dreadful era ultimately unbearable.
"Fhir A Bhata" means The Boatman. The singer is haunting the highest hilltops scanning the sea for the return of their beloved boatman whom they hope to marry. The song is meant to be sung by a woman which rather implies a female voice. This Sandy Denny version is an unusual interpretation of the song. If you wish to hear a more traditional version, search for " Fear a' Bhàta" - CAPERCAILLIE ". You should find it sung by Karen Matheson in the original Scottish Gaelic, live in Scotland.
@@andrewmcculloch7891 Except if she is going to change the original "Fear" to "Fhir", then shouldn't it be "A Fhir"? I don't mind too much - its good that she at least attempted the Gaelic for the chorus.
LYRICS PART 2: There's not a hamlet, too well I know it, Where you go wandering or stay awhile But all its old folk you win with talking And charm its maidens with song and smile Doth thou remember the promise made me, A token plead, a silken gown That ring of gold with your hair and portrait That gown and ring I will never own
Rachel Aspögård Alcohol, in her case. Her story is well told in a chapter of an excellent book, Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain's Visionary Music by Rob Young.
Agreed. She captures something timeless. The first solo album, The North Star Grassman and the Ravens is a favourite, and a live recording of Bruton Town is to my mind the most powerful version I've ever heard of a widely recorded song/tragedy - available on the deluxe 2-cd issue of the above, and on a big collection called Who Knows Where the Time Goes.
Listened to this on train journey from Derry to coleraine with the beautiful views of the mountains and lock foyle northern ireland.pure magic.thankyou I'll not forget that.xx
Well, strictly no. "Fear a' bhàta" (the phrase used by the lady who originally composed this song in the 18th century) means just Man of the Boat, or Boatman. There is no possessive pronoun in it. Also, its nominative case, not vocative. Sandy tried to change it to a vocative case, but didn't quite get it right - she should have sung "A fhir a' bhàta", not Fhir a bhàta". But anyway, she sings it beautifully, and thank you for posting it.
No one has ever sung like Sandy Denny. No one ever will. She had a voice like no one else.
❤
the best female voice ever!
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You said it so good... thanks
monica törnell
A kindred spirit. I was first drawn into the wonderful magic of Sandys music in 1969 whilst still in school . What We Did On Our Holidays . Met her at the Redcar Jazz Club in 1972. She spoke of supernatural vibrations. I was only a shy awe stricken 17 year old and couldn't say much though I thought we'd meet again. Her music helped me through bedsit Land and beyond. I visited her grave in Putney Vale with my partner about 7 years ago. The Lady is at peace and we'll meet on the ledge. I'm so happy we were born in the same blessed musical era .
Beautiful sentiments.
Spent some happy nights at the Redcar Jazz Club.
In the late seventies, I was studying education at Gipsy Hill College in Kingston upon Thames, London,Uk. When we heard that she died, there was a big wake in the bar. She was an icon, a voice so special, the best voice that came out of the British Isles. I still listen to my vinyl albums of Fairport Convention. She has a voice like no other.
Yo también soy sandydennista..de siempre y para siempre..
british isles ...?
The whole of the UK. England Scotland Wales ireland and associated islands@@mikmcd2075
I remember Gypsy Hill in the late 70s! Wasn’t into Sandy Denny then but have ‘found’ her since. Lovely voice.
@@jamespope4792 They were great days. I miss them.
I like to imagine that every era in the history of the British Isles had a voice like Sandy Denny's. How fortunate we are that we had hers to listen to.
How many times have I cried, and wished her back to life !
As have I! Her voice is so moving!
As have I….
I have listened to many, many covers of this song. Some by known artists as well as unknown artists. Some are solo artist's, some trios as well as full orchestrated arrangements, Some are very good but NONE, none come close to Sandy's incredible cover. Just cannot get over this astounding one by Sandy Denny...
I never fail to be in awe of how someone can sing like Sandy did, my God
to have this gift is just unbelievable beyond words..
True.,🙏🏼🌸
Sandy, the purest voice of them all. So hard to believe she was only 19 when she sang this song. I have listened and listened to many versions on UA-cam of others covering this song,. none can compare to Sandy's. There are some others who do a nice version with technically good voices but there is no one can sing it like Sandy.
We will miss you for all time...such sadness that you are no longer here.....
Listening to this now deep into the early hours it makes me glad, in this sorrowful and hate-filled world, to have been brought into this existence and shared the humanity that is embodied in this woman's soul.
You like this one, then?
@@pacu9 You could say that, yes. 🙂 I've recently listened to Sandy and Like An Old Fashioned Waltz, and don't think I've ever heard a more beautiful and expressive voice. Katherine Priddy, whose career is currently blossoming, shows potential though.
You and me both, my brother.
Today (6th January 2023) marks the 76th anniversary of the birth of Sandy Denny. Astoundingly beautiful voice.
Her voice is like a crystal dagger through my soul.
I see that Thea Gilmore has revived some old songs Sandy wrote immediately before she died that have never been heard. Thea does a good job but there will only ever be one Sandy Denny.
I come back to it every night, to shed a tear unashamedly.
When Sandy died, I remember the huge sense of loss throughout traditional music circles. Every folk club had people in tears singing this song in tribute.xx
Best voice ever that came out of the British Isles. As voted too by the main musical press.
I listen to this song over and over and can never seem to get enough of Sandy's hauntingly, beautiful voice! I just love the way she expresses the word comfort in this song! "...to com fort me...." What talent! What magic in her voice! Her voice has an effect on me!
When I heard Sandy had died. I fell down on the sidewalk and cried. Never met her. Somehow she got inside me.
Have you read the book, "No More Sad Refrains, The Life and Times of Sandy Denny" written by Clifton Heylin. Very good book for Sandy Denny fans.I still feel sadness when I think of how she died way too young and if medical care had been given sooner, she may have lived.
I have that book. It's fucking heartbreaking. I have been listening to her for at least 3 decades. The last line of comfort in a life filled with suicidal depression.
Also...I live in Buffalo, and the connection with Sandy and Jackson C.Frank...the pain rides much deeper than most people will be willing to travel into. :'(
Such sad stories, Sandy and especially Jackson...must have been something special when they sang/played together...
wow
Perfection - lovely, lovely voice. I have listened to Sandy Denny's singing for decades. From my travels to London and going to a folk club that she sang at many years before I went there called Bunjies Folk Cellar. Started buying her LPs so long ago and I often think about what Sandy would have gone on to do with her music.
It is a bittersweet thought....but this was not to be. She was gone way too young.
I agree 100 %! I have heard many, many well known singers & groups cover this song and although there are some very good versions out there - absolutely no one, no one, can come close to the stunning vocals of Sandy Denny singing this song! Just totally incredible singing!
I've never heard about Sandy Denny before watching this video 2 minutes ago. This song is enough to say that her death was an immeasurable loss.
Suburban Patriot She is the second voice on Led Zeppelin's Battle of evermore.
@@ggoannas didn't know that, I'm not familiar with Led Zeppelin
Me to . I'm glad I found her music
So beautiful....
@@ggoannas Really? Never knew that, I'll give it another spin.
If you’re lucky enough to have the vinyl Zeppelin gave her an ‘honorary symbol’, which they’d never given before or after. It’s on the inside sleeve. 🌸🍀
I'm a brand new fan of hers. She had a beautiful way with each and every song she graced.
Check out her album "solo".
The greatest ever voice in British Folk.
what a voice, so great. The whole day I can listen to her. Thanks that there is so much on UA-cam
I get goose bumps when i resonate with beautiful music. Right now.... im covered with them. Unbelievably amazing ❤
This is my first time hearing this song from Sandy.....just amazing! My gosh! To think that such a beautiful voice, with all of the soul and passion she puts into it......so long gone from this plane and just now, all these years affecting me the way it does. I could cry!
Such a hauntingly beautiful voice
Pure, assured and not a hint of self-consciousness. Beautiful and timeless.
This brings me to tears every single times. What a song, what a voice....
This kind of frighteningly powerful stuff just sat in the vault for years.
What a voice! What a talent! What a sad life.
I cannot think of another song where the human voice is so beautiful.
As always no one mentioned Anne Briggs ! 2 and a half records weren't enough to not be forgotten .
@Theseustoo Astyages You cannot forget Gay Woods of Steeleye Span fame.
The only voice I have ever heard that sounds like an angel.
Never heard this song, sung so beautifully sing some of her songs myself. My neighbour Roger Hill (late of the Chris Barber Band), toured with Fairport replacing Richard Thompson in 1971, and his old friend JB remebered her too, both introducing me to her music. They too are now past. Sandra (Clarettheband)
Her father was Scottish and her grandmother was fluent in Gaelic and very musical. Sandy may not be singing in the original language but she sure had a Celtic soul.
Andrew Sommerville What point are you adding to my comment?
Don't know what 'Celtic soul' means, I'm not sure it means anything. She sings in a plummy English accent and she hasn't got the tune quite right. Still, she deserves credit for doing this at a time when most Scots, never mind English, couldn't even have pronounced the title...not sure they could even now, tbh.
I always thought so too.You can hear it.
it was Irish Gaels who brang Gaeilge Gaelic to Scotland and Isle of man all native Irish Gaeltacht speakers know every words spoken by Fellow Gael from Albain.. The Scottish were pics from picland . the Irish Gaels named it Albain Mac Mc Ó all ó Ghaeil na hÉireann 🇮🇪🏴
@@W-E-A-P Tiocfaidh ar la? ☦️
Brilliant rendition! Brilliant voice! Thanks for posting.
Such a Voice ! Such a Songwriter ! Far too few know of how brilliant she was and her music will always be x
Also shown here, brilliant guitarist.
Very True !
Pure & magical - yes, that's exactly what this magnificent music is.
una voz que muy lejos de apagarse sigue brillando y emocionando,la mejor voz del folk rock británico.
Sandy ... The best of the best!
May she R.I.P.
Thank you for uploading this song :)
Such a haunting beautiful voice,reminds of a time that never really was.
Wonderful beyond words. The tragic passing of this magical lady still rends the heart after all these years....
Sandy wiecznie żywa i niezapomniana.... była równie wielka jak Joplin, Morrison, Hendrix, Buckley, Drake - i równie nieodżałowana. Sandy Denny lives forever !
Comes from a radio show recorded in 1966. It's been reissued on the 4 CD set Sandy Denny Live At The BBC.
A genius. Touched mightily by the muse. And here so short a while.
Never heard of her before. Thank you for posting such a beautiful song and voice!
Used to play this in Zambia and colleagues of many nationalities were entranced.
hearing this voice is like being of the presence of an angel!!!
I never met or seen this lady but she knows my heart through her songs lyrics, it's heartfelt soulful, I love it she was gifted God bless her soul, Paul p Birmingham England x
I saw her in London so many years ago, I am still enjoying her fantastic voice and songs.
I love Sandy Denny! Listening to her music since I was a teenager.
magical voice, so beautifully sung.
she was the finest modern english folk voice
Thank you, Sandy. So precious. 💕🕊️
Descubrí a Sandy Denny no hace mucho, y he de admitir que desde el primer momento me sedujo su voz y su despliegue de dulzura y nostalgia. Gracias.
What A beautiful song sung by this amazing lady. Her voice is just lovely.
Sandy Denny had a beautiful voice! I have heard the song by many others but have never heard it in English before. Not all songs translate to a foreign language well, this did. Lovely song!
🌹Incredible beautiful voice
keep coming back to listen for years🌹
This song can not express itself so clearly as it does in the gaelic language in which it was written.I do enjoy the way Sandy Denny has done this..Moran taing a'shandaidh.
Extraordinary..majestic voice!
Sandy Denny has the allowance to guard ye!!! Through the armies of the Dead.
Very important.
I just heard her for the first time this morning, and fell immediately fell in deep love, and now I'm told she has left us... ?? I am so broken......... :'(
Sandy never had a chance.. I’ll be in London in April I’ll visit her grave. Beautiful voice.
♥
Nobody could ever touch Sandy - I totally agree with you. God Bless.
she devastates my soul in a wonderful
way
Damn I love Pentangle, the thought of them bubbled to the surface and sure old UA-cam gave me 3hrs of bliss. And thanks to the uploader as well, forgot to check your name. Also, we share the admiration for the best version of the much covered "Mattie Groves". g'nite now
Ah yes! Pentangle! That takes me back to my mis-spent - but thoroughly enjoyed - youth. Pentangle: simply superb - were able to truly capture drama in song.
Wenn i was young boy, i was so in love with her.. many woman since than used my heart as a tent, to only sleep in, and still the wind is blowing cold, but if i think of sandy i am not in need of blankets, wenn she died she took part of me with her, i will ask it back in heaven and listen on and on to her music there, as i do here.
carla fuchs is keeping her music alive along with a new album with unrecorded songs she wrote. kepp it up carla
What an incredible loss of beauty & talent to the world!
Sandy always leaves me speachless
So beautiful.
I just found her tonight.
Wonder soul.
I presume by now you have discovered the unlimits of her wonder.
my favorite female singer...hey ladysonja great taste...greetzzz from a portugees male who lives in belgium :-)
Beautiful guitar work. Unique voice.
Não devia ter partido...
Não era seu destino
Não deveria ter sido seu fim
Só resta saudades!
Miss You, Sra Sandy
Some folk travel through life never truly understood on a profound level, and I suspect Sandy to be one of them. (Was she even understood by anyone during her final years on a spiritual / emotional level?)
The first thing for me which stands out about Sandy is her fast brain and acute intelligence. Likely she never made a show of it, and so perhaps it was never fully recognised? She was a mixer, not an aloof person.
I very much like 'Fhir a Bhata' as Sandy reveals traces of the romantic / whimsical / mystical sides of her nature. Although clearly well read I also feel that spiritual mystery was a close companion. Perhaps never able to fully comprehend it, she nevertheless beautifully captured such within the breezes of some of her songs.
She would have made a great duet with Bob Dylan singing 'Blowin' in the Wind.'
Sandy forever ... A sublime voice !!
Tradition has always been me vetterin' the "R" runes, that of travellor. I could never hear enough of the lyrics, her voice from first ever in 1967 thru 1978 in studying Ecology and socialism was perfect in tones. The folks-scene Britain was partly stoic, but her voice carried as remnants of pastime in space-Time; even thruout London on my 1980-- visit there.
The folks people gathered somewhere in the countryside, and the Ecology group were there fRom Berkeley CAL. They did a wondrous skit, lots of singing and someone falling downstairs, fit 'n drunk--as they had supposed she'd been from what they'd known of her.
Years before, 1973-4, the same Ecology gRoup, tried to hear her in LOS, but she yelled into the microphone, as we knew she'd ruined that once-in-a-lifetime voice, that we'd so admired in her like a queen's parlor overture-- she'd so delicately developed in her teens...and ohh what a voice to fall in love with her was about!
beautiful
OMG I've never heared this one!!! Magic!
My sister almost named her son (Scott) Tam Lin based on Sandy Denny/Fairport Convention's song. This is a pretty tune. I've been listening to other versions, including the original gaelic. She has such a fine voice here. We were born in the same year, 11 months apart.
Sandy Denny....so much missed... love this song..
Beautiful...so,so sincere and True..
Excellently haunting,...very sad loss at only 31,where does the time go
She is the great voice on Battle of Evermore.
Woooow!! One of the best things Ive ever heard
ultra earthly voice...nobody like Sandy!
Only discovered her in'22 , completely enchanting ❤
Sandy was so beautiful...her voice so pure ..she kept me sane.....
I first heard her in the hopeful '60s -- I am 84 years old -- and from that first moment knew hers as the most exquisitely beautiful human voice I would ever hear. It has always seemed to me it was as if she were reincarnated from some unfathomably ancient past to give us a haunting glimpse of the indescribable loveliness we have lost to patriarchy -- that her life was so tragically short because she found the intensifying darkness of this dreadful era ultimately unbearable.
Goosebump music, love a boatman or not😍
She had the voice of an angel! Pretty good guitarist, too. 6 and 12 string.
She's like a Celtic princess from the mists of time
This is insanely beautiful
"Fhir A Bhata" means The Boatman. The singer is haunting the highest hilltops scanning the sea for the return of their beloved boatman whom they hope to marry. The song is meant to be sung by a woman which rather implies a female voice.
This Sandy Denny version is an unusual interpretation of the song. If you wish to hear a more traditional version, search for " Fear a' Bhàta" - CAPERCAILLIE ". You should find it sung by Karen Matheson in the original Scottish Gaelic, live in Scotland.
It actually means O Boatman. Fhir is the vocative form of Fear and is used to address someone
@@andrewmcculloch7891 Except if she is going to change the original "Fear" to "Fhir", then shouldn't it be "A Fhir"?
I don't mind too much - its good that she at least attempted the Gaelic for the chorus.
LYRICS PART 2: There's not a hamlet, too well I know it,
Where you go wandering or stay awhile
But all its old folk you win with talking
And charm its maidens with song and smile
Doth thou remember the promise made me,
A token plead, a silken gown
That ring of gold with your hair and portrait
That gown and ring I will never own
Beautiful voice and talent, so tragically destroyed by the demons of drugs.
Rachel Aspögård Alcohol, in her case. Her story is well told in a chapter of an excellent book, Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain's Visionary Music by Rob Young.
Will check it out...I still listen to her....still an inspiration!
Agreed. She captures something timeless. The first solo album, The North Star Grassman and the Ravens is a favourite, and a live recording of Bruton Town is to my mind the most powerful version I've ever heard of a widely recorded song/tragedy - available on the deluxe 2-cd issue of the above, and on a big collection called Who Knows Where the Time Goes.
Those all sound like the are Worth hunting for....
+StephenSeabird thanks l will check for this
Truly Beautiful
UNE VOIX UNIQUE.... UNE MERVEILLE POUR LES OREILLES TANT LES MODULATIONS DE CETTE VOIX SONT ETENDUES.....LE CHANT DES SIRENES....
Listened to this on train journey from Derry to coleraine with the beautiful views of the mountains and lock foyle northern ireland.pure magic.thankyou I'll not forget that.xx
A unique voice and talent.
It's a ballad about a woman searching for the man she loves, a man who may have been lost at sea.
La belleza, soñar, cautivar, volar, dejarse ir, amanecer, lluvia sobre la piel, lágrimas...
Hello! It is Scots Gaelic... it means Oh, My Boatman.
Well, strictly no. "Fear a' bhàta" (the phrase used by the lady who originally composed this song in the 18th century) means just Man of the Boat, or Boatman. There is no possessive pronoun in it. Also, its nominative case, not vocative. Sandy tried to change it to a vocative case, but didn't quite get it right - she should have sung "A fhir a' bhàta", not Fhir a bhàta". But anyway, she sings it beautifully, and thank you for posting it.
The greatest women’s folksinger of all time.
wow! never heard this before - amazing!