I was and still am a massive Corries fan. I remember seeing them during the miners strike when there was no heating. Made no difference, the shaw was great
luke kelly and roy williamson are my two favourite singers. they sing many of the same songs, tramps and hawkers, peggy gordon, wild rover and shoals of herring to name but a few. the difference is luke sings with gusto, throws his head back and goes for it while roy sings quietly and hauntingly and with ronnie the harmony is beautiful. what an awful loss to us all when roy and luke died so young and of the same illness. r.i.p. i'm sure your in heaven singing your hearts out
+maria farrugia-harrison How can you know my thoughts? I´m thinking this for many years. Yes, both with similar songs, both perfect voices, both died so young. Two great performers. We will miss them forever. Kind regards from Frankfurt
+maria farrugia-harrison I'm with you there Luke and Roy magical,Ronnie and Roy Magical,Luke and the Dubliners Magical. Roy and Luke's versions of Peggy Gordon should be in everyone's collection. Masterpieces both..
maria farrugia-harrison I like your comment. Same as you I adore the both singers and are mourning their early death every time I hear them. And I share your kind words about them with all my heart. The song is mentioning "Braxy ham" Have you ever known what braxy ham is? Braxy was a sheep desase. A kind of a severe sepsis. Related to gangrene. It killed the sheep within a day. The dead sheep was given to the travelling people who prepared something from it. Kind regards from Frankfurt (Birth town of Goethe)
My grandfathers people were all hawkers and pedlars who travelled the north of Ireland as rag gatherers and itinerant musicians. Not your usual traveller surname so my research suggests that they came from the lowland Scottish travellers and came to Ireland as some stage, keeping the tradition going. That way of life died though in the 70s and 80s and it was only through my own research, that I found this info out.
This is so brilliant. I 'borrowed' a tape of the corries and left to travel the world. i payed that tape to heaps of people and they all loved it. With a bag of blow upon my back my face is brown as a toad. I remember a man gave me a shopping bag full of cannabiss/hooter for cutting his hair. I told him i didn't smoke any more--or any less but he insisted.... to be continued......
Indeed Brian, the same tune as "Roddy McCorley" and it's also the same melody as Dominic Behan's "The Patriot Game" and Bob Dylan's "With God On Our Side"......I'm sure there are a few more!
Aye ive read an heard this back an forward about Luke an Roy before ,,,an the truth is areckin they better each other at diffferant songs..Luke blows everyone away at The leaving of Liverpool an Peggy Gordon...an Roy will never be bettered at Go Lassie Go an Loch Lomond ....So there ye have it an i hail from Ireland meself.
maria farrugia-harrison luke kelly is a legend and i love him to bits but it doesn't mean i dont like other singers because i do. i know luke cannot be replaced. after all he is our dublin minstrel.
I think it's all personal taste. I love Roy's voice. I find Luke Kelly's voice a bit harsh whereas Roy's is more mellow Fantastic for songs like this. But as I said personal opinions.
Myrna Reid only Roy died in August 1990. Roy died a few months after an operation to remove a brain tumour. Initially it was thought he would make a good recovery but, unfortunately, this was not the case. Ronnie (with the beard) is still thankfully with us
Never heard this version til now ,great song ,I like Luke's better ,he could shake a bar counter full of pints of Guinness an shorts with a chorus of anything Rip Luke and Roy ,,🔊🎤🎻🎸
@@ufoxfox4352 Luke Kelly was unique. But the Corries were als wonderful and great performers. Corries more soft with the melody, wheras Luke is a coarse. To be precise Luke died in 1984 and Roy Williamson in 1990. Both of brain tumor. Such a loss. You should really dig for more from the Corries. They were just great and they started roughly at the same time as the Dubliners. They never were a me too group. In their first days they had a nice lady with them, Paddie Bell. And another chap, I forgot his name. Both left and the girl died young.
Liam C don't think of the sad. Think what joy it is that they not only lived, but lived in the age of recording so that we may revisit their music when e're we wish. so many artists go too young, but what they did with their time will last forever.
Murdoch McLennan - I take it you are quite young yourself and age is just a number to you. When you lose someone you love their age is irrelevant, be they 43 or 54. Luke and Roy had so much still to give but they both left a wonderful legacy in their music. No offence intended
@@murdochmclennan3510 How nasty you are. As a german I discoverd Luke in 1979. I was just 30.. And I found the first Corries songs in 1987. I was still young myself. So, today with 70 I feel they were still young . Wonderful guys. Please do not stain their memory with calculations. Regards from Frankfurt
@@iandavidson7799 Luke Kelly was a member of The Dubliners. Greatest singer i ever heard. Seriously, take a listen to his version of this song. It's astonishing.
Luke, lovely and powerful, Roy Lovely and softer. Both Beautiful, how lucky have we been to have had them with us.
2019 we still love you Roy.
2020, love still going strong
Aye! (Raises a Glass o Whisky) Slàinte!
Best singers of all time,,,god love Scotland
One of my favourites from the Corries. Brilliant stuff.
Saor Alba!
A love the corries, a put my headphones on and go for a walk and dream away 2 their music MAGIC
one of my favourites but then again all their songs were brilliant. thank you lads.
I was and still am a massive Corries fan. I remember seeing them during the miners strike when there was no heating. Made no difference, the shaw was great
luke kelly and roy williamson are my two favourite singers. they sing many of the same songs, tramps and hawkers, peggy gordon, wild rover and shoals of herring to name but a few. the difference is luke sings with gusto, throws his head back and goes for it while roy sings quietly and hauntingly and with ronnie the harmony is beautiful. what an awful loss to us all when roy and luke died so young and of the same illness. r.i.p. i'm sure your in heaven singing your hearts out
+maria farrugia-harrison How can you know my thoughts? I´m thinking this for many years. Yes, both with similar songs, both perfect voices, both died so young. Two great performers. We will miss them forever.
Kind regards from Frankfurt
+maria farrugia-harrison I'm with you there Luke and Roy magical,Ronnie and Roy Magical,Luke and the Dubliners Magical. Roy and Luke's versions of Peggy Gordon should be in everyone's collection. Masterpieces both..
could not agree more. .
What a tragedy that Both Luke (43)and Ronnie (54) were lost to both their families and their trade, oh what could have been...
maria farrugia-harrison
I like your comment. Same as you I adore the both singers and are mourning their early death every time I hear them. And I share your kind words about them with all my heart.
The song is mentioning "Braxy ham" Have you ever known what braxy ham is?
Braxy was a sheep desase. A kind of a severe sepsis. Related to gangrene. It killed the sheep within a day. The dead sheep was given to the travelling people
who prepared something from it.
Kind regards from Frankfurt
(Birth town of Goethe)
A great loss abides withinme
When I listen to this great artist
carrying the torch , my auntie showed me in Argentina.
I love Luke, just very nostalgic when it comes to the corries
one of my favourites ... thank you so much
Not to compare them - because the Corries will forever stand on their own - but theres also a great version by the battlefield band of this tune.
2021 still love you Roy
My grandfathers people were all hawkers and pedlars who travelled the north of Ireland as rag gatherers and itinerant musicians. Not your usual traveller surname so my research suggests that they came from the lowland Scottish travellers and came to Ireland as some stage, keeping the tradition going. That way of life died though in the 70s and 80s and it was only through my own research, that I found this info out.
Another great song by the Corries,SLAINTE.
Oh SLAINTE! May God bless you Sir!!
I am a falconer....a hawker .....so this song is for me....I LOVE IT.....
Beautiful
Yes! A thousand times.
Masterpiece
Best version by 10 country miles, If ye disagree awa n bile yer heid
We will never see the like again unfortunately
Totally agree with you Maria. What a travesty both Luke Kelly and Roy Williamson were taken from us in thier prime.
l.c
This is so brilliant. I 'borrowed' a tape of the corries and left to travel the world. i payed that tape to heaps of people and they all loved it. With a bag of blow upon my back my face is brown as a toad. I remember a man gave me a shopping bag full of cannabiss/hooter for cutting his hair. I told him i didn't smoke any more--or any less but he insisted.... to be continued......
Who first popularised singing Psalm 84 from the Scottish Psalter to this tune?
Great
same tune as Roddy MacCory - this one by the Corries is great
Indeed Brian, the same tune as "Roddy McCorley" and it's also the same melody as Dominic Behan's "The Patriot Game" and Bob Dylan's "With God On Our Side"......I'm sure there are a few more!
Similar if not the same air also to the rocks of bawn, along the Faughan side, the home I left behind, the homes of Donegal. 😊
Aye ive read an heard this back an forward about Luke an Roy before ,,,an the truth is areckin they better each other at diffferant songs..Luke blows everyone away at The leaving of Liverpool an Peggy Gordon...an Roy will never be bettered at Go Lassie Go an Loch Lomond ....So there ye have it an i hail from Ireland meself.
i too am irish but i love good music. i love the dubliners, clancy bros etc., but the corries are great too. slainte
maria farrugia-harrison luke kelly is a legend and i love him to bits but it doesn't mean i dont like other singers because i do. i know luke cannot be replaced. after all he is our dublin minstrel.
maria farrugia-harrison and Roy is our Scottish minstrel
I think it's all personal taste. I love Roy's voice. I find Luke Kelly's voice a bit harsh whereas Roy's is more mellow Fantastic for songs like this. But as I said personal opinions.
Auffy braw sang .
Bessie Logan and Peggy Gordon are the reasons that my glass is empty.
Does he sing 'with a bag of BLOW upon my back'?
trough snout A bag of bla'
what did they die from and when?I love their singing!
Myrna Reid only Roy died in August 1990. Roy died a few months after an operation to remove a brain tumour. Initially it was thought he would make a good recovery but, unfortunately, this was not the case. Ronnie (with the beard) is still thankfully with us
Myrna Reid
The both died because of brain tumors. What a pity. We still miss them.
Never heard this version til now ,great song ,I like Luke's better ,he could shake a bar counter full of pints of Guinness an shorts with a chorus of anything Rip Luke and Roy ,,🔊🎤🎻🎸
@@ufoxfox4352
Luke Kelly was unique. But the Corries were als wonderful and great performers. Corries more soft with the melody, wheras Luke is a coarse.
To be precise Luke died in 1984 and Roy Williamson in 1990. Both of brain tumor. Such a loss. You should really dig for more from the Corries. They were just great and they started roughly at the same time as the Dubliners. They never were a me too group. In their first days they had a nice lady with them, Paddie Bell. And another chap, I forgot his name. Both left and the girl died young.
@@wilfriedschuler3796 Bill Smith was the other person. Paddie Bell was 74; that's not young.
Good on yer mandolina6.
Yes Luke was the best, but this version sounds so especiallly, so yearningly, the best word I know is in gernan "Weltschmerz".
World pain? I think that's what we call world-weariness.
Filou
Love you comment. "Weltschmerz" Might be invented by Goethe.
Regards from Frankfurt
(Birth place of Goethe)
@@wilfriedschuler3796 Fernweh...
Where de ya hail from Maria.....
dublin
Braw.
best version is with Battlefield Band
Aye, that is a brilliant version.
Luke sing a verse that is not in here
i am a travler please love me i have done no rong
Juliet Maglangit except your spelling
What a travesty both Luke Kelly (43) and RoyWilliamson (54) were taken from us at such a young age.
Liam C don't think of the sad. Think what joy it is that they not only lived, but lived in the age of recording so that we may revisit their music when e're we wish. so many artists go too young, but what they did with their time will last forever.
They live on, yet. I only discovered them recently and they brighten my very bleak life beyond belief.
They were not particularly young. Luke was 43, Roy 54
Murdoch McLennan - I take it you are quite young yourself and age is just a number to you. When you lose someone you love their age is irrelevant, be they 43 or 54. Luke and Roy had so much still to give but they both left a wonderful legacy in their music. No offence intended
@@murdochmclennan3510
How nasty you are. As a german I discoverd Luke in 1979. I was just 30..
And I found the first Corries songs in 1987. I was still young myself.
So, today with 70 I feel they were still young . Wonderful guys. Please do not stain their memory with calculations.
Regards from Frankfurt
Good version ..
but Luke Kelly is the King !!
after roy williamson
Luke Kelly's version is better,however the Corries, as always sing all the verses.Good track this.
Nah...Luke Kelly blows this guy out of the water...and everyone else for that matter.
Who is Luke Kelly ? This is The Corries, that's all that matters here.
@@iandavidson7799 Luke Kelly was a member of The Dubliners. Greatest singer i ever heard. Seriously, take a listen to his version of this song. It's astonishing.