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20 Jun 98 - 03:20 AM (#31083) Subject: Lyr Add: ONLY A WOMAN'S HEART (Eleanor McEvoy) From: Ezio ONLY A WOMAN'S HEART My heart is low, my heart is so low The tears that drip Chorus When restless eyes My heart is low, my heart is so low My heart is low, my heart is so low (Recorded by Mary Black, featuring Eleanor McEvoy) ------
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02 Aug 99 - 11:56 AM (#101566) Subject: A Woman's Heart? From: M "A Woman's Heart." Does anybody know anything about this song? I've heard it at sessions, though it doesn't sound particularly Irish or tradidional. I don't need the lyrics, just some background info, if possible. Thanks. |
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02 Aug 99 - 12:42 PM (#101578) Subject: RE: A Woman's Heart? From: Lesley N. There's an "Only A Woman's Heart" written by Elanor McEvoy on the Album "A Woman's Heart" - a terrific collection of tunes by various artists (Maura O'Connell, Frances Black, Dolores Keane, among others). She sings it with Mary Black on the CD. I've heard it on another album as well (a Mary Black album I think), just can't remember them at the moment.
The limited information on the CD says (Eleanor McEvoy - Little Rock Music) says it was recorded specifically for that album.
Is that the one you were looking for? There are probably others of the same title.
If it is the song you're looking for and you don't have the album you can buy it through a link here and DT will get part of the proceeds! |
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02 Aug 99 - 03:50 PM (#101639) Subject: RE: A Woman's Heart? From: HåvardR Rumour has it, the record company insisted that Mary Black should do the harmonies. They figured Elonor (who was rather obscure at that point) wouln't bring it to the top of the charts alone.... But I agree to the quality, arguably one of the 10 best folk CDs of the decade (does anybody see a possible tread here?) Håvard |
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02 Aug 99 - 03:54 PM (#101644) Subject: RE: A Woman's Heart? From: Philippa I don't think much of the line, "only a woman's heart can bleed"" It's simply not true. |
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02 Aug 99 - 04:00 PM (#101646) Subject: RE: A Woman's Heart? From: Joe Offer Anybody care to post the lyrics? I've got the "Woman's Heart" CD, but it doesn't have a lyrics sheet. -Joe Offer- |
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02 Aug 99 - 04:03 PM (#101649) Subject: RE: A Woman's Heart? From: HåvardR I got in my Mary Black songbook (a good one btw). I'll bring it in tomorrow. Håvard |
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02 Aug 99 - 04:13 PM (#101654) Subject: Lyr Add: ONLY A WOMAN'S HEART (Eleanor McEvoy) From: HåvardR I found it! Good news for Phillipa's (and other women's) heart - they don't blee. Think the chord progression is a rather simple Bb/Eb/F thing Only a Womans Heart My heart is low, My heart is so low As only a woman's heart can be As only a woman, as only a woman's As only a woman's heart can know
The tears that drip from my bewildered eyes
My heart is low, My heart is so low
When restless eyes reveal my troubled soul
My heart is low, My heart is so low
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02 Aug 99 - 04:23 PM (#101657) Subject: RE: A Woman's Heart? From: catspaw49 And "Cheers" right back atcha' there.........I mean, I know how much cheerier I am after reading that piece of FEMALE chauvinistic drivel.........."As only a woman's heart can know".....???.......Yeah, right. catspaw |
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02 Aug 99 - 04:26 PM (#101659) Subject: RE: A Woman's Heart? From: catspaw49 Oh sorry...I meant to add "my ass" after the "Yeah, right." catspaw |
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02 Aug 99 - 04:28 PM (#101660) Subject: RE: A Woman's Heart? From: HåvardR Most of us men (the neuroscientists among us anyway) appreciate that the centre of knowledge is the brain, whereas the heart is merely a pound of sophisticated muscle.... Håvard |
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02 Aug 99 - 05:09 PM (#101669) Subject: RE: A Woman's Heart? From: catspaw49 However, some of us might believe just the opposite to be true. Then again I've known some folks whose brains are "unsophisticated" muscle. Spaw |
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03 Aug 99 - 02:20 AM (#101816) Subject: RE: A Woman's Heart? From: Ana I use to ponder on anatomic difference as a child, and how it could be that the way to a man's heart was through his stomach - well that was my mother's belief anyway! |
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03 Aug 99 - 03:32 AM (#101826) Subject: RE: A Woman's Heart? From: HåvardR there are other ways... Håvard |
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28 Jan 03 - 04:42 AM (#876387) Subject: Lyr Req: only a woman's heart From: GUEST,Jeremie Hi you all ! I have found no trace of "Only a woman's heart" in DT, though it seems to me that is it a "classical" one (I heard it sung by Mary Black and Eleanor McEvoy Thans for anything about this song ;-) Jeremie |
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28 Jan 03 - 05:00 AM (#876392) Subject: RE: Only A Woman's Heart? From: Joe Offer Hi, Jeremie - I moved you over here. If you have more questions, fire away! -Joe Offer- |
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28 Jan 03 - 05:26 AM (#876400) Subject: RE: Only A Woman's Heart? From: An Pluiméir Ceolmhar The album was seen as a way of showcasing a generation of women Irish singers who sing in a folk or near-folk idiom. Some or all of the featured singers did a tour at the time. There is talk of a 'ten-years-on'-type follow-up album, but not sure if it is materialising. |
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28 Jan 03 - 06:21 AM (#876420) Subject: RE: Only A Woman's Heart? From: Declan APC, The follow up is being advertised on the Radio here, so it must be out. I haven't heard it yet. The first one was very popular and helped along the careers of a number of the featured singers (and one tunes only musician Sharon Shannon), so it wasn't at all a bad thing apart from that (IMO) awful title track. I'm told that one of the male musicians on the tour made up a parody to be sung in a deep bass voice - My voice is low, My voice is so low, as only a ma-ans voice can go. |
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17 Feb 03 - 03:05 PM (#892298) Subject: RE: Only A Woman's Heart? From: GUEST,Trix Does anybody know if there is a written version of the music with chords and musical notes, so that a classical musician can make sense of it and reproduce it without having to listen to eleanor singing it? I'm a Dutch woman singing in a dutch "irish" choir with a director who has no knowledge of folkmusic at all. I would appreciate any help in finding a copy of the music sheet. Thanks a lot. |
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17 Feb 03 - 08:58 PM (#892601) Subject: RE: Only A Woman's Heart? From: moineau nordique The fact that Mary Black recorded it with Emmylou should quell Spaw's rancor. :-) |
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18 Feb 03 - 03:48 PM (#892961) Subject: RE: Only A Woman's Heart? From: michaelr Guest Trix -- as mentioned in Havard's post above, it's in The Mary Black Song Book (published by Dara Records, Dublin, 1993). Irish import stores would be good places to look for it. If you can't find it, I could scan and email you the relevant pages. Cheers, Michael |
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18 Feb 03 - 04:00 PM (#892972) Subject: RE: Only A Woman's Heart? From: pattyClink there should be some sort of insecticide spray you could use to prevent these maudlin Victim Songs from proliferating. ick! |
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18 Feb 03 - 05:37 PM (#893076) Subject: RE: Only A Woman's Heart? From: CapriUni Spaw (and anyone else who's interested) -- I don't know about anyone else, but I interpreted that line: "As only a woman's heart can know" as saying knowing in a way that is unique to a woman: i.e., not that only women can know such pain, but that being a woman (including the experience of childbirth, or simply the knowledge that you can have children, among other things), gives us a certain perspective of grief and lonlieness that men do not have. Not that that perspective is richer or poorer or better or worse than a man's, just that it is a woman's perspective, and that it's not the same as a man's. Oh, and on a slight tangent: as I understand it (and I could be mistaken, but I heard this in a radio interview with a cardiologist), a heart is slightly different than say, the muscles in our arms and legs in that there are neurons connected directly to it -- and that there are neurons also connected to our stomachs... makes me wonder if that is the subconscious origins of phrases like: "deciding with the heart" or "Gut decision" |
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20 Feb 03 - 02:00 PM (#894453) Subject: RE: Only A Woman's Heart? From: GUEST,Trix Dear Michael, I will try and find the songbook you mentioned but would appreciate it if you could send me a copy of the relevant pages ahead. My email address is: sb078500@wolmail.nl I'm in your debt, hope I can be of some help to you sometime. To CapriUni: never heard of "heartburn"? Actually, neurons are connected to every muscle in the body and the heart being a muscle, it also has neurons connected to it. A woman's heart is no different from a men's heart in it's physiology. There is however a big difference in development of the emotional intelligence between men and women, which is ofcourse seated in the brain. Hence, 'a woman's brain' would have been a better title .......... Greetings, Trix. |
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20 Feb 03 - 02:14 PM (#894468) Subject: RE: Only A Woman's Heart? From: MMario There is however a big difference in development of the emotional intelligence between men and women, BOY, would this statement get a guy in trouble if he should ever be so stupid to state it! |
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21 Feb 03 - 05:06 AM (#895007) Subject: RE: Only A Woman's Heart? From: Declan For fun, I've tried inserting the word "You're" in front of the line "Only a woman" when singing this song. For some strange reason some people who otherwise seemed to think the song was great didn't really like this ! |
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21 Feb 03 - 06:52 PM (#895530) Subject: RE: Only A Woman's Heart? From: GUEST,Mac Tattie Then ther is allways Ma he'rt is low, ma he'rt is low As only a fella's he'rt can be Only a fella, Only a fella As only a fellas he'rt can be Ah came hame late, ma dinner sittn'on the plate AS cauld as the look she's geid tae me. Tried tae explain bit that of course wis jist in vain Fur she'd been talkin' On the phone, Tae her ma. Ma he'rt is low, ma he'rt is low As only a fella's he'rt can be Only a fella, Only a fella As only a fellas he'rt can be Ah'd been workin'late Bit y'id think a'dd been oot on a date The wie she's tain the huf wae me Dae whit ah can, ma life hus jist gon' doon the pan Bit that's whit it is When y'ir a marrit man. Ma he'rt is low, ma he'rt is low As low as a fella's he'rt can be. Only a fella, only a fella As only a fella's he'rt can be. Sing this with feeling lads. cheers |
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21 Feb 03 - 07:18 PM (#895549) Subject: RE: Only A Woman's Heart? From: Strupag Strange that I've just come aboard this thread especially after I've just seen the lady do her song on Telly. It was on the new BBC4 Channel and the programme was called Celtic Connections. To all UK Mudcatters, It is part of a series and is on every Friday night around 9 PM - Great Stuff! |
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21 Feb 03 - 07:47 PM (#895557) Subject: RE: Only A Woman's Heart? From: GUEST,Jools Hiya, Does anybody have the guitar chords for this lovely tune!! By the way, I'm a bit of a novice so it would be great if my hands weren't required to be all over the fret board! thanks!! |
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22 Feb 03 - 05:05 PM (#896117) Subject: RE: Only A Woman's Heart? From: michaelr Jools -- you can play it with these 4 chords: G - D - C - Em Mary Black's recorded version is three half-steps higher, at Bb. Cheers, Michael |
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23 Feb 03 - 02:46 PM (#896768) Subject: RE: Only A Woman's Heart? From: GUEST,cookieless Gillie I bought it in the 80's from a store in Newcastle. It was on a tape of women's songs. I love it!! Gillie |
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23 Feb 03 - 03:35 PM (#896810) Subject: RE: Only A Woman's Heart? From: michaelr Trix -- I scanned the pages and tried to email them to you but got a "failure delivery" message: 62.235.14.105 does not like recipient. Remote host said: 550 RCPT TO: allowed Don't know how to proceed. It looks to me like you've got some sort of filter or spam guard set up. Please advise. Cheers, Michael |
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24 Feb 03 - 03:26 PM (#897590) Subject: RE: Only A Woman's Heart? From: michaelr refresh for Trix. |
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26 Feb 03 - 02:53 AM (#898908) Subject: RE: Only A Woman's Heart? From: GUEST MichaelR, sorry I didn't respond earlier, been to Scotland for a couple of days. I'm very surprised to hear that you couldn't mail me the pages and I can't really help you in solving the problem otherwise than ask you to try again. I'll give you another two addresses, maybe one of them will accept. Again, thanks for the trouble. sb078500@wolmail.nl peter@flingmusic.com thamming@ggdwf.nl By the way, does anybody know what 'Sgeir mhaol' means? It's scottisch gaelic and I saw it written on a house somewhere. Bye, bye. Trix |
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26 Feb 03 - 03:01 AM (#898916) Subject: RE: Only A Woman's Heart? From: John in Brisbane MMario, did I post the score for this from the above mentioned book 2 or 3 years ago? It woul've been the full piano score. (I can remember doing it). Regards, John |
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27 Feb 03 - 12:05 PM (#899744) Subject: RE: Only A Woman's Heart? From: GUEST,Trix refresh for MichaelR |
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27 Feb 03 - 09:05 PM (#900135) Subject: RE: Only A Woman's Heart? From: michaelr Hi Trix -- I emailed the scans to peter@flingmusic.com. Hope this works for you. Cheers, Michael |
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05 Mar 03 - 11:27 AM (#904006) Subject: Chords Add: ONLY A WOMAN'S HEART (Eleanor McEvoy) From: allanwill Thought I might as well put this version in. Chords are a bit out of whack with the words, but if you know the song ... It's from Betty Lou's site. Allan Only a woman's heart G – D – C ~ D G – D – C ~ D G D Em - C My heart is low, my heart is so low, G D Em – C – D as only a woman's heart can be. G D Em C As only a woman, as only a woman's, G D C - G as only a woman's heart can know. G D Em C 1. The tears that drip from my bewildered eyes, G D Em - C taste of bittersweet romance. G D - Em C You're still in my hopes, you're still on my mind, oh, G D Em - C - D and even though I manage on my own. G D Em C 2. When restless eyes reveal my troubled soul, G D Em – C and memories flood my weary heart, G D - Em C I mourn for my dreams, I mourn for my wasted love, G D Em - C - D and while I know that I'll survive alone. + CHORUS + CHORUS ….. (capo 3rd) (Mary Black & Emilou Harris) |
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05 Mar 03 - 11:32 AM (#904015) Subject: RE: Only A Woman's Heart? From: allanwill Well, they were out of whack before I submitted. Allan |