Sad traditional songs?

Subject: RE: Sad traditional songs?
From: topical tom
Date: 27 Mar 08 - 07:51 AM

Not taditional but most certainly sad:Eric Bogle's A Reason For It All

Subject: RE: Sad traditional songs?
From: topical tom
Date: 27 Mar 08 - 07:53 AM

Sorry! Blue clicky error.Here's the song: http://ericbogle.net/lyrics/lyricspdf/areasonforitall.pdf

Subject: RE: Sad traditional songs?
From: GUEST
Date: 02 Apr 08 - 04:37 PM

'jonny i hardly new ye' is a good one. 'fiddler's green' is a good sweet and sad tune and 'isn't grand boys?' is ok but you cant get more irish traditional.

Subject: RE: Sad traditional songs?
From: Jack Campin
Date: 02 Apr 08 - 05:29 PM

X:9
T:Frenet Ha'
C:Bauldie Scrimezour
M:3/4
L:1/8
Q:1/4=60 "Slow & Moving"
K:GMin
(D^F)|G2 G2 A c| d4      (d/=e/f)|(dc) (BA) G c|({B}A4)
(G^F)|G2 (GA) B> c| d4      (d/=e/f)|(dc) (BA) G ^F|    G4||
(d>f)|g2 g2 a> g|(f>d) d2 (d/=e/f)|(dc) (BA) G> c|({B}A4)
(G^F)|G2 (GA) B> c| d2   d2 (d/=e/f)|(dc) (BA) G ^F|    G4|]

Quhair wile I lay my hede,
Quhair lay my bodie doune,
Qhairfor na am I died,
Sen' wandrin' I bene bown;
O! Marie ze war fairer
than ony goud or gear;
O! bot my hert is sairer
than't has bene mony zeir.

O! blythsom was the wi time,
That I hae spent wi thee,
Aft kiss't that cheik o' thyne,
As ze sat on my knee.
But cauld's thy bodie now Marie,
O! dull thy blinkin' E'e,
Quhairfor do I here tarry,
An' canna win to thee.

He sat doune on a stane,
His hame was far awa;
He sicht an' made a mane,
An sicht O! Frenet Ha'.
Syne drew his schairp Sword frae its shethe,
It gleitert wi' the Sun,
An ay he cry'd dear Mary,
My Love to thee I come.

(2 more verses added by editor).

[From:
A Collection of Twenty-Four Scots Songs (chiefly Pastoral) set for
the Voice, Piano-Forte, Ger: Flute, Clarinet, Guitar or Harpsichord
Written, Adapted, and Humbly Inscribed, to Mrs. Lieut. Col. Hay by
John Hamilton
Edinburgh, printed and Sold by the Author, at
Mr Watlen's Music Shop, No34, North Bridge Sreet
NLS Glen.311
1796]

Seventeenth century Scots with added misspellings. Hamilton's notes say the singer could only remember the first two-and-a-half verses, the editor made the rest up (it's pointlessly melodramatic and nowhere near as good). I'd suggest just doing the first two. The song seems not to have been taken up in later generations, but the tune has survived under several different names to the present day.

Subject: RE: Sad traditional songs?
From: Connacht Rambler
Date: 02 Apr 08 - 05:34 PM

The Irish Rover

Subject: RE: Sad traditional songs?
From: GUEST,Frank Finn
Date: 02 Apr 08 - 06:55 PM

For a sad - but thankfully , short song , you cannot ignore Brian O'Rourke's - "I Loved A Lass" (I think thats the title, but not 100%)

I loved a Lass and she loved me, But alas we had to part
Now I'll go drown in the raging sea, to ease my broken heart

Ahh

An dif you want to take the time to learn and sing it, the air is the same as the first line of Cragie Hill (For both lines) enjoy!!

Subject: RE: Sad traditional songs?
From: AnCailínÉireannach
Date: 03 Apr 08 - 07:08 AM

The Bantry Girls lament
One Morning in May
The Home I left Behind
My Own Dear Galway Bay
Skibbereen


Most trad songs are sad in my opinion, they usually have the sorrowful farewell verses