The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #14561   Message #1478515
Posted By: GUEST,Arne Langsetmo
05-May-05 - 12:27 AM
Thread Name: Most haunting melodies?
Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
Tom Anderson's "Da Slockit Licht"

Jay Ungar's "Ashokan Farewell"

Dick Gaughan's rendition of "The 51st Highland Division's Farewell to Sicily" (words, Hamish Henderson, music, Pipe-Major J. Robertson)

"Farewell to Whiskey" (as a slow air, not a reel)

"Carrickfergus"

"Anachie Gordon" (particularly done by Mary Black)

Joni Mitchell's "Urge For Going"

"Strange Affair" (performed by June Tabor, author unknown [to me])

"Pull Down, Lads" (by John Tams and Roger Watson, perfomed by June Tabor)

"Angel From Montgomery" (by John Prine, performed by Raitt and Prine)

"If I Were A Feather Bed" (John McCutcheon)

So many others too....