Mary and the Soldier - Paul Brady 1976

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  • @seandwyer1823
    @seandwyer1823 4 роки тому +84

    Compare these naturally and hugely gifted musicians and singers to today's modern pop scene....as a Musician I'm very proud of Ireland's musical heritage...

    • @fromireland8663
      @fromireland8663 2 роки тому +4

      Pop music is not the only form of music today. There are plenty of traditional musicians, probably more than ever.
      There was also pop music in the 70s, most now forgotten.

    • @johnguilfoyle3073
      @johnguilfoyle3073 Рік тому

      ua-cam.com/video/LtOEkKR0Vn4/v-deo.html From Bunratty Castle.

    • @nomadicrecovery1586
      @nomadicrecovery1586 Рік тому +2

      @@fromireland8663it’s then only heard by the majority of humanity
      And it’s the one form promotes. Funded. Glorified
      This music is not found. Unless you really dig
      And young musicians generally do not know it or learn or
      Want to play it
      That was the point

    • @josefinagarza241
      @josefinagarza241 25 днів тому

      ​@nomadicrecovery1586 I've just really discovered folklore so many wonderful marvelous songs one finds on UA-cam ❤

  • @JamesDixonMusic
    @JamesDixonMusic 2 місяці тому +5

    We should send this to space to show how amazing we are

  • @raymonddixon7603
    @raymonddixon7603 Рік тому +12

    Still as fresh as it sounded when I first saw it on Irish television back in the 70's. Some of our best musicians.

  • @martas9283
    @martas9283 2 роки тому +32

    This is exactly why I love UA-cam.. nearly a 100 years of musical brilliance (in any genre) to rummage through

    • @MarisaDwyer
      @MarisaDwyer 3 місяці тому +3

      I discovered youtube ridiculously late in life and it blew my mind. I'd had no idea that there were visually recorded concerts of Planxty as early as 1972! It sure renewed my fandom, which is saying a lot. I can't say it had waned much, but thanks, youtube!

    • @josefinagarza241
      @josefinagarza241 25 днів тому

      ​@MarisaDwyer i just recently discovered them n luv em❤

    • @MarisaDwyer
      @MarisaDwyer 24 дні тому

      @@josefinagarza241 So good, yeah?
      ❤️

  • @jean-claudesalin6247
    @jean-claudesalin6247 25 днів тому +2

    Brilliant song, brillant singing, brilliant playing !!!

  • @tommymorgan73
    @tommymorgan73 5 місяців тому +7

    This is just so wonderful! Paul Brady is a genius in every sense of the word!!

  • @robrussell5329
    @robrussell5329 4 роки тому +39

    Best friggin Irish Music album ever.

    • @RoryGFan-39
      @RoryGFan-39 4 роки тому +6

      I only found about it a year or so ago after seeing a photo of Rory Gallagher and Paul performing together. I bought Andy and Paul's album that day and I've listened to it nearly every day since

    • @tomfoster2697
      @tomfoster2697 7 місяців тому +1

      I agree 100%!

    • @josefinagarza241
      @josefinagarza241 25 днів тому

      ​@RoryGFan-39 i want one❤

  • @hillelme
    @hillelme 7 років тому +90

    his voice, my god, his voice!

    • @KKKK-jc5tw
      @KKKK-jc5tw 5 років тому +6

      Xavi M 😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

    • @ianbarker8704
      @ianbarker8704 4 роки тому +8

      Yep, one of the greatest folk voices EVER.

    • @stevenharpold2562
      @stevenharpold2562 4 роки тому +5

      Agree...superb voice and guitar!

    • @NamingTheTwinsVideo
      @NamingTheTwinsVideo 4 роки тому +5

      Sheer perfection!

    • @pputnam100
      @pputnam100 3 місяці тому +2

      @@ianbarker8704 and what a freakin guitar player!!!

  • @grainnepeoples9094
    @grainnepeoples9094 2 місяці тому +3

    We saw Paul last Saturday night and absolutely incredible as always, magical ❤️

  • @inverterville
    @inverterville 5 років тому +35

    honestly I have no words to describe how good this is...been to Ireland recently and walk into a bar in Galway and there was three musicians playing, they blew me away they were so good. the atmosphere ,the music was amazing will never forget it,

    • @paradise8876
      @paradise8876 4 роки тому +9

      ..... sounds like u left a bit of ur heart in old Eire sir ..... come back to us someday.

  • @pputnam100
    @pputnam100 2 місяці тому +2

    When Paul starts singing I cried a little, just the incredible feeling of the marriage of his astounding guitar playing and that gorgeous voice and phrasing. I've heard a number of people on UA-cam able to nail many aspects of the tune but none have matched the amazing feel and phrasing

  • @christabelmorgan7970
    @christabelmorgan7970 4 роки тому +122

    At this point of his career I think Paul Brady was peerless - he just couldn' t put a foot wrong. His guitar playing is of course what hits you first, but then when you listen you realise how unobtrusively virtuosic his singing is.

    • @JoaoMoriera2
      @JoaoMoriera2 3 роки тому +8

      Such a wonderful and unmistakably Irish voice

  • @RilleVille_no1
    @RilleVille_no1 2 місяці тому +5

    I hurts me to no end, that we will never experience music like this anymore....

  • @astroboy3002
    @astroboy3002 4 роки тому +16

    Imagine how lucky you would have been to be in that room hearing that song

  • @gregorysullivan7175
    @gregorysullivan7175 3 роки тому +3

    Born to do this. It's nice when the feather hits its mark and you loose yourself in a listen. Thanks.

  • @TodayFreedom
    @TodayFreedom 9 місяців тому +5

    Paul Brady played a gigantic role in resurrecting songs like this, which would undoubtedly have been forgotten.

    • @josefinagarza241
      @josefinagarza241 7 місяців тому +1

      I love these older songs the older the better❤

    • @kathleenferguson1593
      @kathleenferguson1593 28 днів тому

      Never! Many of us grew up with this music, and play it today!

  • @NeilMcCann-tx8ef
    @NeilMcCann-tx8ef Рік тому +3

    Love this, forever. Everything is perfect

  • @9ner
    @9ner 13 років тому +15

    one of my favorite folk songs of all time

    • @donfriend1035
      @donfriend1035 4 роки тому +2

      Listen to the Banks of the Nile. Same story but much more poignant and sung by the incomparable Sandy Denny.

  • @McBean09
    @McBean09 6 років тому +19

    I just love this version. Paul Brady is such an amazing talent.

  • @goldsman
    @goldsman 5 років тому +125

    Not only is he playing a difficult guitar part flawlessly while singing along with it - but he looks like he's barely trying.

    • @adamn2550
      @adamn2550 4 роки тому +5

      Exactly, highly skillful!

    • @marcusosullivan7029
      @marcusosullivan7029 4 роки тому +12

      And then to tune the guitar as it goes out of tune @3.21, the guy's great. Celebrate him and go and see him and Andy live. It'll do your heart good.

    • @bosmith2587
      @bosmith2587 4 роки тому +11

      @@marcusosullivan7029 Paul is one of my guitar heroes! I've learnt this song, plus Arthur McBride,and the Lakes of Pontchartrain, and while I can play them in the same style (tuning and all that) there are things he does with his right hand that i simply CANNOT get down. Some of these guitar parts sound like he's picking three guitars at once, and god I just love his playing and respect him to bits!! I wish he was more widely known among guitar players

    • @olivierpataut7015
      @olivierpataut7015 4 роки тому +4

      10 000 hours theory ?

    • @lukedoesbutter
      @lukedoesbutter 3 роки тому +3

      Thats the Paul Brady experience

  • @TheRacherry
    @TheRacherry 10 років тому +71

    I love Paul and Andy--their great album which I bought in the 1970s and, like others, I love them still. Theirs is universal music, enjoyed by anyone with eyes, ears and, most of all, a heart. This from a Jewish guy from Philadelphia. Sing on, boys, may you always. And thanks for the posting.

    • @jungleninja8415
      @jungleninja8415 4 роки тому +1

      Real Jews are black Ethiopians love from Eire❤️

    • @rjwusher
      @rjwusher 4 роки тому +5

      @@jungleninja8415 I know you probably did not mean so, but that is an antisemitic trope you used there. Denying people their heritage is not kind. DNA research on Ashkenazy and Sephardic Jewish people clearly shows a genetic connection with the land of Israel. Greetings and love from a Dutch man with partly Dutch, partly Jewish and partly Anglo-Saxon heritage.

    • @paddyhealy1065
      @paddyhealy1065 3 роки тому +2

      @@rjwusher I wouldn't place too much store on what @Jungle Ninja writes. They can't even spell Éire correctly. I'm sure their opinions are equally badly informed.

    • @matthewcimino3564
      @matthewcimino3564 2 роки тому

      @@jungleninja8415 you’re so ashamed of your heritage that you’ll lie to make yourself look better, but I’d be ashamed too if I was you

  • @johnwilkinson4418
    @johnwilkinson4418 6 років тому +8

    Wonderful Song.My great,great grandfather, James Campbell was in the 5th Dragoon Guards when Mary Kane met him in Dublin in 1850. Must be their song! James went off to fight in the Crimea. Their son John was born in 1851 and he too joined the regiment. I can't believe I missed this song in the late 70's. It's now in my repertoire.

  • @carlosmarceloromero1088
    @carlosmarceloromero1088 4 місяці тому +1

    Es mi idolo...y junto a los musicos de the bothy band buenissimo nunca me los imagine juntos😊

  • @tenbear5
    @tenbear5 Рік тому +3

    Brilliant. Relevant. Music.

  • @evlin10
    @evlin10 2 місяці тому +1

    what a song . great position. . faboulous.

  • @kfidei2763
    @kfidei2763 10 років тому +38

    I'll guard you, darlin, with my right hand.
    Just splendid.

  • @tenbear5
    @tenbear5 Рік тому +3

    Back then, the tragedy of life, love & death were so….. much more poetic.

  • @GalwaygirlEarle
    @GalwaygirlEarle 10 років тому +13

    Who in Clavicus Vile's name would dislike something so raw and beautiful?

  • @helenlizzystewart4908
    @helenlizzystewart4908 6 років тому +6

    Still gorgeous to listen to even today

  • @paulsweeney2215
    @paulsweeney2215 12 років тому +8

    Always loved this song. Excellent combination, Paul and Andy.

  • @Slapchop8
    @Slapchop8 13 років тому +4

    My heart aches ive been born too late. only to appreciate such beauty from so far away generational and geographical. why did we ever leave the shore? i wish i could ask the old ones now............while my old heart aches in this young husk. sometimes i think i wont be happy till im dead.

    • @JohninRosc
      @JohninRosc 6 років тому

      Don't think you have an old heart - focus on the young husk! I love your poetic language. Make new memories from the old shore based on your learning from these brilliant recordings of our wonderfully artistic heritage.

  • @gwenorel3319
    @gwenorel3319 4 роки тому +5

    One of the few Irish songs with a happy ending!

  • @michaelpowderly5514
    @michaelpowderly5514 4 роки тому +2

    I've been a fan of this man for decades now. An amazing musician. On a different note....who remembers the embankment?

  • @uaruaidri5376
    @uaruaidri5376 3 роки тому +5

    They don't make them like him anymore. Pure musician

  • @linneasaoirse
    @linneasaoirse 6 років тому +4

    Forever in love with this.

  • @geemailMossman
    @geemailMossman 7 років тому +5

    Absolutely excellent - !

  • @Teddyb1939
    @Teddyb1939 13 років тому +6

    Three greats on top form, Magic stuff, Love it!!

  • @larrymclarnon-pd8xf
    @larrymclarnon-pd8xf 10 днів тому

    Sublimely lovely.

  • @joemorris2814
    @joemorris2814 2 роки тому +1

    I saw Paul about 7 years ago in Dublin; one of the all-time best gigs I'll ever see. He's still got it. And him and Andy - incomparable.

  • @FnBruges
    @FnBruges 12 років тому +7

    Donal Lunny on the Bouzouki is just magic.

  • @norbutsering3116
    @norbutsering3116 2 роки тому +1

    This is best cover of the song so far I have seen and searched

  • @MarisaDwyer
    @MarisaDwyer 3 місяці тому

    The top item in my bucket list is to pubcrawl my way through Ireland finding the best music. Someday!

  • @johnmilmo823
    @johnmilmo823 3 роки тому +1

    Beautiful song beautiful lads brilliant music 🎶 🎵 👏 ❤

  • @Apartment-No-9
    @Apartment-No-9 6 років тому +2

    great song and the playing its so good

  • @cavanpaulmulvihill9940
    @cavanpaulmulvihill9940 7 років тому +3

    We thank You O Lord God for the music.

  • @TheAndroia
    @TheAndroia 10 років тому +26

    'She's a vicious little thing.' Ha! Love it.

  • @Faltaz
    @Faltaz 12 років тому +1

    I love these performances, and I love you, Bilko!

  • @albertross4102
    @albertross4102 10 років тому +10

    Saw this live. Thanx for postin'

  • @Woodyjims-shack
    @Woodyjims-shack 6 років тому +9

    As sweet and beautiful as it gets from these three legends of Irish music 👍

  • @benmacdui9328
    @benmacdui9328 3 роки тому +1

    Doesnt get any better than this!

  • @MargauxMachek
    @MargauxMachek 3 роки тому +2

    That guitar tone is beautiful.

  • @Lixsna
    @Lixsna 8 років тому +1

    High quality. Never gets old.

  • @jmmacb03
    @jmmacb03 12 років тому +3

    Last heard this on an album in '76 and have never seen even a video of them before. It took me about a week to figure out this song and an afternoon to transcribe the lyrics! Thanks for the upload. Just learned I can get a tab booklet with the CD! (UA-cam rocks!)

  • @davidmai7145
    @davidmai7145 8 років тому +42

    3:19... Its difficult anyway to play guitar like that and sing this song at the same time, but that tuning kills me

    • @paulusvii97
      @paulusvii97 4 роки тому +7

      HAHA thanks for pointing that out! Did you catch the little glance and chuckle he gives Andy a few seconds later?

  • @maxford8175
    @maxford8175 8 років тому +27

    Andy owns that harmonica

    • @seandwyer1823
      @seandwyer1823 4 роки тому +2

      Another multi-talented brilliant musician and singer too...

    • @conordarcy4663
      @conordarcy4663 3 роки тому

      I thought he borrowed it?

    • @almacisaac
      @almacisaac 9 місяців тому

      He owns that harp upside down and backwards, hurdy gurdy man for realz. ❤

  • @petermatthew123
    @petermatthew123 7 років тому +2

    Great performance of a lovely traditional song!
    !

  • @martinhealy2902
    @martinhealy2902 7 років тому +42

    Great song and performance.
    'Mary and the Soldier' Lyrics:
    Come all you lads of high renown that will hear of a fair young maiden
    And she roved out on a summer's day for to view the soldier's parading
    They march so bold and they look so gay
    The colours fine and the bands did play
    And it caused young Mary for to say
    "I'll wed you me gallant soldier"
    She viewed the soldiers on parade and as they stood at their leisure
    And Mary to herself did say: "At last I find my treasure
    But oh how cruel my parents must be
    To banish my true love away from me
    Well I'll leave them all and I'll go with thee
    Me bold and undaunted soldier"
    "Oh Mary dear, your parents' love I pray don't be unruly
    For when you're in a foreign land, believe you rue it surely
    Perhaps in battle I might fall
    From a shot from an angry cannonball
    And you're so far from your daddy's hall
    Be advised by a gallant soldier."
    "Oh I have fifty guineas in right gold, likewise a hearth that's burning
    And I'd leave them all and I'd go with you me bold undaunted soldier
    So don't say no but let me go
    And I will face the daring foe
    And we'll march together to and fro
    And I'll wed you, my gallant soldier"
    And when he saw her loyalty and Mary so true-hearted
    He said: "Me darling, married we'll be and nothing but death will part us
    And when we're in a foreign land
    I'll guard you, darling, with my right hand
    And hopes that God might stand a friend
    With Mary and her gallant soldier"

  • @lizzy-folksongsscottis4518
    @lizzy-folksongsscottis4518 2 роки тому

    One of my Brady Lunny & Irvine Favourites Thanks again guys!

  • @1992mikemc
    @1992mikemc 4 роки тому +1

    Sublime. Love a song with a story too, really carries it

  • @Duibhlinneach
    @Duibhlinneach 13 років тому +1

    Beautiful.....there was a documentary on TG4 last week about Paul Brady & Andy Irvine, and their 1976 album. I've had this song in my head ever since ! I think Paul's Donegal accent really makes it.

    • @mkirksmith
      @mkirksmith 4 роки тому +1

      Strabane accent

    • @md61211
      @md61211 4 роки тому +1

      Across the bridge from Donegal

  • @kilkee100
    @kilkee100 13 років тому +6

    Such perfect, tuneful and precise and lyrical singing from Paul Brady. And Andy's magic mandolin weaving throughout. Music to make the heart soar.

    • @edeledeledel5490
      @edeledeledel5490 2 роки тому

      And Paul's not bad on the mandolin either... ua-cam.com/video/86otPxMwiBg/v-deo.html&ab_channel=TradTG4

    • @smiffy8364
      @smiffy8364 2 роки тому +1

      Donal Lunny is there too!

  • @Radaep1
    @Radaep1 4 роки тому +1

    Fabulous musicians.

  • @tommcginley4909
    @tommcginley4909 4 роки тому

    Have listened to Irish folk for a long time yet just discovered Arthur McBride. Love it.

  • @celt1299
    @celt1299 13 років тому +4

    Paul has a great voice.

  • @johnsinnott5157
    @johnsinnott5157 5 років тому +6

    Everything worked out fine in the end :-) 😊

  • @fastidioussloth
    @fastidioussloth 7 років тому +7

    What a great gig! These tree fellers are really deft pluckers and two of them can sing really well at the same time: multitasking and musicality.

    • @md61211
      @md61211 4 роки тому

      Sign : Tree fellers wanted
      Paddy to Mick : "If Seamus was here, we could apply for the job"

    • @tomgreene2282
      @tomgreene2282 4 роки тому

      They are indeed and there were a few more back then...

  • @zakaryjaynicholls9867
    @zakaryjaynicholls9867 3 роки тому

    Absolutely beautiful music.

  • @sakkorig
    @sakkorig 13 років тому +1

    Bilko my father and I have spent days browsing your amazing channel which is full of treasures such as this! I spread my love to someone who would share this magic to a young soul like me!

  • @colinruane6561
    @colinruane6561 4 роки тому

    This is absolutely brilliant, fell in a UA-cam rabbit hole came across this gem 💎

  • @Skolfreaks
    @Skolfreaks 12 років тому

    a long time ago thanks---- grosses danke fürs hochladen

  • @adamn2550
    @adamn2550 3 роки тому +1

    This is musical genius nothing else 🙏🙏

  • @marisadwyer9084
    @marisadwyer9084 11 років тому

    Nobody is better than these guys, and what genius posted it, by the way? 5 trillion options on utube and the best of everything comes back to Mick
    connell, bless his lovely heart.

  • @MarisaDwyer
    @MarisaDwyer 3 місяці тому

    This pairing is genius and add Donal Lunny..irreplaceable ❤

  • @drmagnus1970
    @drmagnus1970 11 років тому +1

    FANTASTIC

  • @irpacynot
    @irpacynot 2 роки тому

    Young masters

  • @glocca254
    @glocca254 Рік тому

    The word unique was invented for Paul I saw h recently in Shanagarry , Cork , was incredible, is incredible

  • @colossalshadow5256
    @colossalshadow5256 6 місяців тому +1

    One of the songs that has really become part of my dna. I can play it and sing it but itll never begin to enter the ball park of what they captured on the record tho. To begin to explain how it has affected me would take all day but in short the universe gave me these songs and arthur mcbride at a time in my life where i would connect with the music on such a deep level that i would be getting looks from onlookers as i skipped down the street to them

  • @Tom-zy6ke
    @Tom-zy6ke 2 роки тому

    Simply mesmeric.

  • @martinlintzgy1361
    @martinlintzgy1361 6 років тому +2

    Sublime.

  • @kittymeekins1682
    @kittymeekins1682 7 років тому

    So excellent!!!

  • @andrewneil7408
    @andrewneil7408 4 роки тому

    Beautiful

  • @june4783
    @june4783 11 років тому +2

    These guys look older now, not just as much hair but still the fine musicians they always were. Fair play to them

    • @md61211
      @md61211 4 роки тому

      I suspect you looked younger back then too.

  • @willypeter1
    @willypeter1 12 років тому

    love this tune

  • @bozo397
    @bozo397 13 років тому +1

    love paul brady

  • @gollumaccio9833
    @gollumaccio9833 5 років тому +1

    Fantastico.

  • @ny10980
    @ny10980 Рік тому

    Awesome...!

  • @macmel4452
    @macmel4452 6 років тому +1

    Class

  • @michaelbrindamour4348
    @michaelbrindamour4348 5 років тому +2

    Here thanks to Chris Thile/Live From Here.... Fantastic!

    • @sillystrings
      @sillystrings 5 років тому +1

      Thanks for this comment...I am a big fan of Live From Here and had no idea they had covered one of my favorite tunes!

    • @jimcfaeglasgow4541
      @jimcfaeglasgow4541 4 роки тому +1

      I got here via the same route. This is wonderful. Got to learn it.

  • @freeko
    @freeko 13 років тому +3

    the album is called simply Paul Brady and Andy Irvine

  • @peterminogue5605
    @peterminogue5605 7 років тому

    great song well sung

  • @johnmorrissey397
    @johnmorrissey397 7 років тому +2

    Paul Brady at his best

  • @asyael
    @asyael 13 років тому

    amazing

  • @chriscravens8318
    @chriscravens8318 3 роки тому +1

    As per the previous poster: this is indeed the pinnacle.

  • @cheyneheaton
    @cheyneheaton 12 років тому +8

    I'll guard ya' darlin with my right hand.

  • @Sheena0901
    @Sheena0901 6 років тому +16

    Come all you lads of high renown
    That would hear of a fair young maiden
    And she roved out on a summer’s day
    For to view the soldiers parading
    They marched so bold and they looked so gay
    Their colours flying and the bands did play
    And it caused young Mary for to say
    “I’ll wed you me my gallant soldier”
    She viewed the soldiers on parade
    And as they stood at their leisure
    And Mary to herself did say:
    “At last I’ve found my treasure
    But oh how cruel my parents must be
    To banish my true love away from me
    Well I’ll leave them all and I’ll go with thee
    My bold undaunted soldier”
    “Oh Mary dear, your parents’ love
    I pray don’t be unruly
    For when you’re in a foreign land,
    Believe me you’ll rue it surely
    Perhaps in battle I might fall
    From a shot from an angry cannonball
    And you so far from your daddy’s hall
    Be advised by a gallant soldier.”
    “Oh I have fifty guineas in bright gold,
    Likewise a heart that’s bolder
    And I’d leave them all and I’ll go with you
    My bold undaunted soldier
    So don’t say no but let me go
    And I will face the daring foe
    And we’ll march together to and fro
    And I’ll wed you, my gallant soldier”
    And when he saw her loyalty
    And Mary so true-hearted
    He said: “My darling, married we’ll be
    And nothing but death will part us
    And when we’re in a foreign land
    I’ll guard you, darling, with my right hand
    In hopes that God might stand a friend
    To Mary and her gallant soldier”

  • @Elderwilliam
    @Elderwilliam 14 років тому

    Nice one Bilko , some good videos there

  • @cheerydavie
    @cheerydavie 13 років тому +1

    All three on top form

  • @malibu64
    @malibu64 14 років тому +1

    this is real music

  • @bilko1234
    @bilko1234  14 років тому +1

    @TomAJoad
    Thanks for watchin' Tom

  • @bilko1234
    @bilko1234  13 років тому

    @sakkorig Thanks for your coments Sakkorig, good to have you on board!