Scarborough Fair - Colm R. McGuinness
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- Опубліковано 15 жов 2024
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For those who do not know why the herbs are listed, the meaning behind them is this:
-Parsley represents loss or death: usually a loved one or someone famous is honored with parsley,
-Sage represents healing: it's an herb often used in tonics and salves, so physical healing, but also burned to represent spiritual healing and cleansing,
-Rosemary represents remembrance: again for someone dead or long gone, usually it's a token of affectionate farewell,
-Thyme represents strength or courage: used in garlands to ward evil and encourage bravery in the face of despair,
-Heather represents luck or safety: it is believed that white heather flowers only bloom where fairies have been too so it has magical connotations. This is believed to help wishes come true.
I wish the language of plants and flowers was still more commonplace, it's really lovely to use in art this way. Even for a sad song like this.
It's also useful to mention that although these herbs are in the lyrics of the song we know today, the song itself is far older than any written lyrics for it, and so we don't actually know if they're part of the original song, a corruption of the lyrics that were originally sung, or a placeholder for lyrics that have been lost entirely.
The herbs also represent death, and Heather, legend was that white heather would not grow near graves, so it represented life, so Scottish warriors would wear white Heather in battle. However, darker shades, pink, purple, we’re the opposite.
The song is from the perspective of someone who has died (possible in battle) and never to return. To tell someone to do these impossible tasks for them to be reunited was an acceptance of the futility despite the longing to return. “Do these and we’ll be together again”. The acre of land covered in heather was sort of him saying “If you didn’t get the other clues, I’m dead”.
What makes this version so much better is the growing swell of emotion you can hear, especially when you realize it’s about a man who desperately wants to tell his love that he has died.
To be@@RivetHead999
Oh, thanks so much! We were wondering.
Just seeing the title "Scarborough Fair" next to the name of one of my absolute favourite singers, composers, and multi-instrumentalists has totally made my day 🙂
Ye
When Colm belts "PARSLEY! SAGE! ROSEMARY! AND THYME!" @2:26... I'm bringing that kind of energy to my grocery store shopping.
Truly one of the best parts of a GOAT cover of an already GOAT song
For the record, it’s a fantastic seasoning for chicken with a bit of kosher salt.
If you like some kick, throw in a dash of cayenne.
HOLY CRAP THIS PART WENT SO FKN HARD
Nobody does it better than this guy and I'll tell you why...Colm, I hope you're reading this. Most people get excited about their British (Scottish, Welsh, Irish, whatever) roots but it goes way beyond that. I'm an old-old Brit and still largely Scandinavian. Colm is the only person I know to capture that popular Celtic tune with mastering the Old Norse feel for that dark, Viking undertone. That, Sir, is incredibly special 👏 👏 👏
Well stated!!!!
I've been listening to this on repeat for the past 3 days and nights. Colm you have captured my heart
I don't need to hear a song to know Colm will do it very well, but neither does anyone else!
Agreed.
Here here!🍻
maid of Amsterdam would be lit
1000%
I'm glad Seamus left WWE to sing
Colm: Voice goes super deep.
Me, a 4'10" woman: Why can't I do that? I want to do that!
it's called vocal training, it's a matter of practicing and stretching your vocal chords so they don't sore out... Ken Tamplin is amazing
This is how it probably sounded 500 years ago when it was first sung...
Friendly warning: If you're currently braving through a harsh winter and trying to fight off chills, listening to this song would be counterproductive
since you and Rachel Hardy have both covered this song now, that means you should totally collab on a duet of it! she can sing the haunting background vocals, you can sing the bittersweet main melody... we'd all be crying... it'd be great 😅
Add in Dan Vasc too and the internet would collapse on itself.
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@@SpaceNinja321
I will do anything for a collab between those three. Dang it would be amazing
I fifth this motion.
Lyrics:
Are you going to Scarborough Fair?
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme
Remember me to one who lives there
She once was a true love of mine
Tell her to make me a cambric shirt (On the side of a hill in the deep forest green)
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme
(Tracing a sparrow on snow-crested ground)
Without no seams nor needle work
(Blankets and bedclothes the child of the mountain)
Then she'll be a true love of mine
(Sleeps unaware of the clarion call)
Tell her to find me an acre of land
(On the side of a hill a sprinkling of leaves)
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
(Washes the grave with silvery tears)
Between the salt water and the sea strands
(A soldier cleans and polishes a gun)
Then she'll be a true love of mine
Tell her to reap it with a sickle of leather
(War bellows blazing in scarlet battalions)
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme
(Generals order their soldiers to kill)
And gather it all in a bunch of heather
(And to fight for a cause they've long ago forgotten)
Then she'll be a true love of mine
Are you going to Scarborough Fair?
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme
Remember me to one who lives there
She once was a true love of mine
Thanks
I'm sure there's other meanings behind it, but this sounds like a guy making impossible tasks for a future wife so he can spend the rest of his life with his "Roommate"
@@sinclari1 Yep. It’s a one-sided love story juxtaposed with an anti-war ballad.
@@sinclari1 I read it more as someone who had their heart broken, who is saying "Sure, I'll forgive you, when hell freezes over" in more poetic language.
@@sinclari1 well, the original had male pronouns, being often sung by female performers
Would love to hear a version of Loch Lomond.
I've been saying that since I discovered Colm's music! That song has waited centuries for this man's amazing voice!!!
I second this
That could be on the level of the runrig one
Yes!!
aye. i third this.
Alright, NOW it's on Spotify! open.spotify.com/album/5u1M6bbQLqzQGD3nbmYcUu?si=UqL5Q748RGCDgef241SUEA
Comment what you think I should do next! GO GO GO!
I'd love to hear your take on "The Last Shanty", "Ride On", or "Girls of Dublin Town" :)
You’d do amazing with “The Idiot” by Stan Rogers!
My Lagan love please and thank you
Something else in old Norse please (but not hard rock style).
Her Mantle so Green or Oak Ash and Thorn
This has officially become the definitive version of this song in my brain. The evolution from a cold and almost bitter style into heated anger at 2:16 absolutely floors me every time.
Omg this bit was so good. As I watched I thought how powerful it was, the sound of passion and anger but in song - intense yet playful.
There's something about old folk songs, it's like they speak across the ages of the human experience. Colm always delivers, so amazing
It was not until today that I really *felt* the anger, as well as the bitter-sweetness, that this song has the potential for. Turns out, I needed it today. Colm, thank you for creating a beautiful, powerful outlet.
This is bloody awesome
I just had a baby and sing this song to him all the time! Can’t wait to hear it!!!
Wow! First time I've heard this guy. What a voice and vocal range.
Scarily beautiful interpretation.
Scarborough Fair performed by S&G: "I am one of the greatest pieces to ever be performed!"
Colm: "Hold my McGuinness."
I absolutely love this song. Have ever since I first heard the S&G version of it on the radio in my youth. Later I researched its origins a bit and was absolutely stunned by how old and well travelled this song really is. More than 400 years and all the way from Mongolia to Britain. From a story about a killed Geisha's paramour mourning her passing and wanting to kill the murderer, over a song for lost loved ones in war times, to a song about impossible challenges uttered/given to avoid an unwanted marriage in a clever way. In all that the song always kept its sadness/grief as well as its anger. Even four centuries later the spirit of this song is still going strong. I love it.
It's amazing how many stories there are with a song from the 17th century over 400 years ago , probably a little truth in all of them, but we will never know the true origins, all we know is its a English medieval folk song...
I love it when men wear sweaters like this
The best version I've ever heard of this cult song.
Years ago, I was a young teenager in middle school, in France. Our teacher came from Great Britain, and to make us learn typical British songs.
I've known this music for years.
You brought me back to another time of my life.
Your arrangement gives me the thousand yard stare. Looking far away without seeing. Reliving the past. Remembering the time when love once dwelled in my heart. Grieving yet cold. Restless yet resigned.
I got chills imagining this in old norse
The sounds the drums the vocals so powerful and beautiful 💜💜☺️☺️☺️
Woke up the other day, in the wee hours of the morning and this song was playing in my head. I was basically singing it in my dreams.
no once.
Wish he'd come to Melbourne Australia!
This is the only rendition of this trad I've ever heard in which the anger at lost love comes through. Colm totally gets it. So powerful. Awesome and spine-chilling.
The pitch, the tone, the range, the power. Everything about this is just sensational.
I love that you chose the Simon & Garfunkel version! It's so powerful.
I've heard plenty versions of this song that capture the sadness of a love that just fell apart and to mourn a country left destitute. But this is the only one that captures that bitter, age-cold anger. It sings like that *threat*, and how that changes everything I ever thought I knew about this theme.
Always a great day when Colm drops a new song!
Genuinely moving. It never occurred to me how well throat singing would fit this song.
When it first started I didn’t warm to it. By the end I was crying. Transported to a different world, time, culture and yet so familiar. Colm is a consummate artist.
At this point, I’m convinced Colm could cover Baby Shark and it would be absolutely epic.
Haunting!
Oh god, the feels!!! Did not see this one coming.
My mother passed a few months ago, and she used to sing this song for me all the time, when I was a child. What I wouldn't give to hear her sing it one more time.
A truly wonderful rendition!
Keep going brother
So, I've known this song from childhood, and never gave much thought to the meaning of the lyrics. To your credit Colm, I'd just like to say this is the first time I can say I've really 'heard' the song and understood it. It's not a gleeful prose of the spring, but a dirge of pain and longing. Thank you very much for sharing this.
This song is wonderfully amazing! It came out in 1966 the year I was born! This fantastic version sounds like it could have been done in 1566!
This is a TRUE Celtic classic! An iconic musical creation!
realistically i think the song IS pretty ancient and thats just the first modern recording that you mention. its old enough that nobody actually knows who wrote it or when
@@AstroNinja1 yes. It dates back to the Middle Ages. Simon and Garfunkel made it popular again, thankfully. It was an otherwise forgotten song and who knows if we would even know about it if it weren’t for them.
Much like the Chieftains with shanties and traditional Irish music. They were responsible for it becoming popular in the 60s and on.
Scarborough is one of the least Celtic places in Britain, being in the east (easier for the Saxons and Danes to raid) but Celtic ancestry is the largest part of English ancestry, and English folk music was very similar to Irish, Welsh and Scots, probably indistinguishable to people from other regions.
Seriously, where did this guy come from?!?! He appears to have just popped up a year ago and starts remaking all of my favorite folk songs better than any versions I have ever heard. You've got a subscriber for good, Colm.
Yet another Colm song that makes my heart heavy with nostalgia. Lad you're gonna do me in with these hauntingly beautiful songs
this sent me directly to scarborough fair
Wonder what a collab would sound like with Geoff Castellucci would sound like you both have amazing vocal range.
I was just thinking the other day Colm should cover this song! It's one of my very favorites, thanks man!
Hearing this version of the song.. with his accent... this is GOLD...
Canta Demais 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻, Abraço do Brasil!
My favorite song. Niiiice
The only one who should cover Simon and Garfunkel songs is Colm ❤️
Masterpiece
I now have boss music for my grocery-shopping adventures. Thanks for the bunch o' heather, Colm. 🤣😂❤
I feel like I just heard a piece of music a thousand years old. Incredible adaptation of this classic, it gave me chills.
Agree you both would blow us away ❤
I first heard this song on a anime. Still an amazing song
I did not wake up this morning expecting to feel chills listening to a list of herbs, yet here we are
A list of herbs used for burials
@@ReiseLukas I knew I was missing some vital context. Thanks!
@@Xanzorath Np
This is one of my favorite songs, and whenever you've covered one (like recently Sixteen Tons), you've made it your own in an awesome way. Normally it's sung in a high voice, so I'm intrigued.
And it is awesome, as expected. :)
His version of Roll Northumbria was great too.
It's incredible to hear how beautifully your styles, voice, and instrumental repertoire have evolved over these past few years. I still love your older instrumental pieces and vocals-only shanties, but the musical quality, in addition to the obvious presentation quality, has grown with each new song. I'm honored that you've brought us on this journey with you.
The very best dis track!
My son absolutely adores your music I’d say he’s got great taste. For a wee babe
Wonderfull
Legendary!!!!! Colm McGuinness, Irish God!
The song, the jumper, the facial hair-your aesthetic is so strong that I'm gonna brew it in some hot water to wake me up in the morning.
Heart and soul in that one. 👍🥰
I want this to be the main background music for Ironforge in my new WOW sci-fi novel.
You did my favourite folk song!
Listened to this at dusk while it was snowing in the dark, it was an out of body experience
A long time ago, someone explained the lyrics to me;
Herbs were associated with death(as well as magic), especially during the plague.
Impossible tasks(Cambric shirt with no seam nor needlework, a sickle of leather, etc) is for the impossible return from death.
Heather is a wild flower. Legend says white heather will not grow near graves, and was a symbol for luck and longevity, so Scottish would wear white heather for protection, while pink or purple were seen as the opposite. So to reap the land and cover in heather (darker) would symbolize his death.
The song is the lament of a dead man, who wants someone to let his love know that he has died.
THE VOCALS ON THIS ONE! Colm you never fail to give me goosebumps and heal my heart.
There needs to be a double, nay treble, 'like' button for this.
Immense.
Huge fan of colm belting out those notes towards the end. His voice is delicious to listen to. Lol
My favorite musician singing one of my favorite songs?!?! Bro, this rendition is amazing!!! You get better and better. God Bless!!!
Rockin that stache
I love Scarborough Fair, I've played the song on piano first and already fell in love with it, and now that I'm playing it on Cello I realize how amazingly natural this song sounds, it's like nature put its soul into this
where did Colm got such perfect pullovers ....
I can visualize this being sung in a WW1 movie just as they go over the top
Thank you, thank you, thank you! This is a haunting cover of Simon and Garfunkel’s version of Scarborough Faire (Canticle) made all the more relevant with the current conflicts.😊
You never disappoint brother. Thank you so much. The mustache and 5 O’clock shadow looks better. But just let it all grow we need more hairy men in this world. :-)
I love the original, but this blows it away in my opinion. Chills. Absolutely stunning.
Colm did it again. His version has more viking like theme. I love this version best hope everyone enjoys.
I didn't expect to like this so much, the lows are almoast like tuvan throat singing, and blend well with the highs too. Glad I found this one ...
I love this. It is sung with so much passion that my hairs are standing on end
WOW. That was in a range and intensity i did not expect from you and it´s all the more impressive for it.
Superbly done and goose bumps causing performance.
i appreciate letting the original folk song be the star of this piece
Oh my gosh *This has been my Favorite Song for decades. This makes me so happy. 👩🏻🦰⚒️🐺
HE DID IT! Been waiting for this for months. Thanks handsome matey!
I had listened to this when my buddy killed himself. I was riding the train from Humphreys to seol korea. That day i desided i was going to do better for myself and others under me. And this song helped me out a lot. Thanks for making this.
Wow.
Nothing else.
Just wow.
My absolute favorite rendition!!!!! Would love to hear more of the deeper tones.
This NEEDS to be on apple music
I always thought this was a Christmas song, thought it was something something Mary and child. Lol 😂 I’ll have to adjust my Christmas playlist.
I don't mind listening your melodious voice 24/7 . Lots of love for you from A young Pakistani Lad
The production quality is amazing. Colms vocal range is superb. What a talent. Also +1 for the epic stache
First of all, the song is INCREDIBLE.
Second of all, that moustache...also INCREDIBLE!
An awesome version of a favorite song!
jesus christ. This has to be the most profound change in mood compared to other versions i have ever heard. So far, my favorite version of this song was the one from Daniel Avidan and teh Super Guitar Bros, which is more of a lament, a sad love song. This version however. hooo boi! Its AMAZING. so epic.
WOW!!!!! Powerful!
Beautiful and so mystical😮😮!
Chills. That's all I can say.
Oh man, what a nostalgic song. I learned to play this on my oboe in elementary school, it was the first proper song I learned to play.
About thyme too! Nah but you know I jest, well done Colm! Thank you very much for this and know that I appreciate every word that you sing 🖤