This just may be my favorite folk song. I tried to learn it; but either it's out of my voice range, or it's just a lot more complicated than it sounds. I couldn't learn it. -- It reminds me so much of my late wife, Sally Jo Davis, with whom I had a folk duo. We used to listen to it on a tape, in the car. Back in the day....
So much easier said than done. I struggle with the lower notes, too, but to take it higher takes me out of range at the top end, and I have a good range.
Same album was issued with a different cover... orange if I remember. With a photo of Ewan and Peggy in the center. Are these the same recordings? They sound perhaps... different.
+boxofshells It's the same recording, released in the US by Rounder Records. More info here : www.discogs.com/Ewan-MacColl-With-Peggy-Seeger-Freeborn-Man/release/5033714
So many of the songs I love were written by Ewan McColl.
This just may be my favorite folk song. I tried to learn it; but either it's out of my voice range, or it's just a lot more complicated than it sounds. I couldn't learn it. -- It reminds me so much of my late wife, Sally Jo Davis, with whom I had a folk duo. We used to listen to it on a tape, in the car. Back in the day....
I cry just thinking about this song Ewan and Peggy, lovely
E. R. Bowles try a capo then you can play the chords but in a key that suits your voice
So much easier said than done. I struggle with the lower notes, too, but to take it higher takes me out of range at the top end, and I have a good range.
@@johndavidcollins6163that doesn't make any sense at all. If a song is out of my range, a capo is not going to fix it.
Well, I've learned a new verse today. This is the most beautiful song. Thank you Ewan for touching my imagination with this song since childhood.
Beautiful, and uplifting, and sad...all at the same time.
A beautiful writer and singer, a true poet!
The Man's a true musical genius!! Loved this song for so long, my Dad had a live Ewan McColl album and this was on it, a Gem of a song 8-)
What fantastic memories these sings bring to me, as well as melancholic feelings of loss for an old way of life!
Fine for him. Not so much for his daughters.
I never considered how much the squeezebox played a part in this
This was my dad's favourite song and we played it at his funeral. Thankyou for posting :-)
Ewan Maccoll will live forever.
Same album was issued with a different cover... orange if I remember. With a photo of Ewan and Peggy in the center. Are these the same recordings? They sound perhaps... different.
+boxofshells It's the same recording, released in the US by Rounder Records. More info here : www.discogs.com/Ewan-MacColl-With-Peggy-Seeger-Freeborn-Man/release/5033714
+knowndwarf Ahhh. yes. Thanks.
I rented the Orange cover album from the public library... it made a big impression on me. Thanks for uploading this!
Im a Freeborn man of the Vacced people.. Peggy let the side down bigtime.
Huh?
@@brentfromcanada224 she's very pro vax lobbying on the radio about how we should only have freedom if we get the clot shot.
Listen to Luke Kelly sing this
I saw Luke once back when I lived in Dublin. It was near the end for him, but he was wonderful. I am so glad
I'm sorry but there are much better versions than this out there.
Alf Gilzean no one else wrote it though
I disagree, not because Ewan Maccoll wrote it but it's a brilliant origin of good lyrics and song!
Such as? New to the song so please clue me in.
I disagree, this one sounds the most genuine. He wrote it so it makes sense that he really feels the lyrics
@@thaksjtube I enjoyed it, of course it is in the old style and it is nice to hear it.
What fantastic memories these sings bring to me, as well as melancholic feelings of loss for an old way of life!