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Thread #47657   Message #711576
Posted By: GUEST,Declan
16-May-02 - 10:14 AM
Thread Name: Yeats poems set to music
Subject: RE: BS: Yeats poems set to music
Sean Tyrell has a great version of 'The Stolen Child', its on one of his CDs, I can't remember which. There is also a different version of this on the Waterboy's "Fisherman's Blues" album in which Tomas Mac Eoin recites the verse and Mike Scott sings the chorus.

I think Christy Moore may do a version of the Stolen Child, I'm not sure if this is the same as the Sean Tyrell verion or not. He also has a version of 'The Song of Wandering Aenghus'.

I also remember a singer from Northern Ireland called Jane Cassidy who had set this poem to a beautiful air, which as far as I remember she wrote herself. I haven't heard of Jane in a good few years now, and I don't know if this version was ever recorded.