I Am Stretched on Your Grave | Johnny Hollow

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LYRICS:
(17th-century Irish poem)
I am stretched on your grave and will lie there forever
With your hand held in mine I'd be sure we'd not sever
My apple tree, my brightness, 'tis time we were together
For I smell of the earth and am stained by the weather
When my family thinks that I'm safe in my bed
From night until morning I am stretched at your head
Calling out to the air with tears both hot and wild
Oh I grieve for the girl that I loved as a child
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A Collection of Creatures is Johnny Hollow's third full-length album.
It was funded entirely by a crowd-sourcing campaign fuelled by the mantra:
No Middle Men, Just Fans!
Johnny Hollow would like to thank all of the incredible patrons who made this album possible, and continue to inspire the band with their enthusiastic support. This is your album!
To create this album, the band went back to their DIY roots; it was recorded almost entirely in-house and self-produced, with a whole lot of blood, sweat, & tears and little help from some very talented friends.
Johnny Hollow is: Janine White, Kitty Thompson, Vincent Marcone, & Steve Hiehn.
Album Art & Design by Vincent Marcone.
From the album "A Collection of Creatures" released January 21 2014. Buy the album or track directly from the band here: johnnyhollow.com
A Collection of Creatures is Johnny Hollow's third full-length album.
It was funded entirely by a crowd-sourcing campaign fuelled by the mantra:
No Middle Men, Just Fans!
Johnny Hollow would like to thank all of the incredible patrons who made this album possible, and continue to inspire the band with their enthusiastic support. This is your album!
To create this album, the band went back to their DIY roots; it was recorded almost entirely in-house and self-produced, with a whole lot of blood, sweat, & tears and little help from some very talented friends.
Johnny Hollow is: Janine White, Kitty Thompson, Vincent Marcone, & Steve Hiehn.
Album Art & Design by Vincent Marcone.

[@1729GennyBrigid]

I absolutely love this version of this poem. For anyone interested, the original was in Irish and is called "Táim Sínte ar do Thuama". There are a few videos on UA-cam of people singing it in the original language.

[@auntie-angie-2112]

Can you provide a link with the original irish? I am looking for it but have been unable to find it. Go raibh maith agat!

[@reedcreatesart]

Lyrics:
I am stretched on your grave and will lie there forever
With your hands held in mine I’d be sure we’d not sever
My apple tree, my brightness, ‘tis time we were together
For I smell of the earth and am stained by the weather
When my family thinks that I’m safe in my bed
From night until morning I am stretched at your head
Calling out to the air with tears both hot and wild
Oh I grieve for the girl that I loved as a child
The priests and the friars thee hold me in dread
Because I still love you
my love and you’re dead
I would still be your shelter from rain and from storm
Oh but with you in the cold grave
I cannot sleep warm

[@pigwillnot8281]

dead can dance did this many years ago..... JH does it awesome also !!! JH ROCKS!!

[@morticiamadams464]

mesmerising!! Love it!!

[@Catharubi]

it`s beautiful... what you did with that poem. It was beautiful to read, now thanks to you, it`s also beautiful to hear

[@TotalRookie_LV]

Now that the girl I loved is actually dead (that happened even before pandemic, cancer took her), this feels very different. I'm actually happy she got cremated and her ashes are with her relatives in several places, so there is no one single grave for to to go to and lose my mind.
We parted our ways 20 years before her death, but... my brains are not neuro-typical, thus I don't feel time and my feelings do not fade with time as it would be with normal people.

[@mykmcgrane]

Love.

[@victoriaceliacesarferreira5766]

youtube needs the option love, not just like

[@mykmcgrane]

Literally just wrote "love" as my comment before I saw this. Agreed.

[@chrisdansey2600]

Tune by Philip King of the Irish band Scullion.

[@Ubu987]

Philip King set Frank O'Connor's translation of the Gaelic poem to a distinctive melody, and he seems to have been the first to do so, but there are many newer versions with a melody that seems only slightly related, notably the version sung by Kate Rusby which was featured on the Peaky Blinders TV drama.

[@andersj.gonzalez4823]

Love it!!!

[@13thMurder]

I thought this was the cover of an Abney Park song at first, but TIL it's an old irish poem.

[@ER-ph8so]

🌹

[@PROstrelqn]

Nice Irish Elk skull :D

[@ruslankevorkyants6173]

Nice, Sinead O'Connor :-*

[@Biow3apon]

What string instrument is that?

[@kisiel8437]

Pretty sure it's a cello.

[@christophboget3157]

Yes, it is a cello

[@toobadhoney6282]

Too low to be a cello, double bass.

[@evolvingever]

Hank the cello 😍