Favourite Love Song

Subject: RE: Favourite Love Song
From: Elmore
Date: 02 Sep 19 - 09:24 PM

"Do You Think That I Do Not Know?" {Lawson/Dusty} as sung by Priscilla Herdman.

Subject: RE: Favourite Love Song
From: Joe_F
Date: 02 Sep 19 - 06:26 PM

"Liebeslied" in the Threepenny Opera.

Subject: RE: Favourite Love Song
From: JennieG
Date: 01 Sep 19 - 06:16 PM

Jim - that is really beautiful!

Subject: RE: Favourite Love Song
From: GUEST
Date: 01 Sep 19 - 10:24 AM

That last poast is mine-Topical Tom

Subject: RE: Favourite Love Song
From: GUEST
Date: 01 Sep 19 - 10:22 AM

Ive yourself to love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHD2aPTjqNM

Subject: RE: Favourite Love Song
From: rich-joy
Date: 01 Sep 19 - 08:19 AM

Tonight, at the post-festival Session for the 8th Maleny Music Festival in Qld's Sunshine Coast Hinterland, I was reminded of this wonderful song by Paul Spencer, sung SO beautifully by our favourite Irish songbird, Jenny Fitzgibbon :

It is "I Hope You Like It (this song I have for you)"
and the lyrics and his rendition can be found on his post for April 28 2014 :
https://paul-spencer.net/category/songs/

Paul is based in Newcastle, NSW, Down Under.


His "Ode to Soil" song is another great favourite that Jenny does so well:

https://paul-spencer.net/2012/07/23/ode-to-soil/


Cheers!
R-J

Subject: RE: Favourite Love Song
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 01 Sep 19 - 03:58 AM

One of the finest ballads on the subject of love I have ever heard
The highlighted verse is, in my opinion, among the most beautiful declarations of love in the tradition and the final 'consummation' verse, exquisite
It's a fairly rare ballad - said to have been collected by Burns

3    Young Peggy
It isn't often that one finds a traditional ballad as lyrical and tender in feeling as this one. Here there is no blood, no cruelty, just two people in love and determined to consummate their love as quickly as possible.


Whaur hae ye been, Peggy,
Whaur hae ye been?
In the gairden ’mang the gillyflowers,
'Tween the hours of twelve and ane.

Ye werena yoursel', Peggy,
No' there your lane         
Your faither saw ye in Jamie’s airms
’Tween the hours o' twelve and ane.

What though we were seen,. mither,
Though we were seen?
I would sleep in Jamie’s airms
Though his grave was growin’ green.

Your Jamie’s a rogue, Peggy,
Jamie’s a loon,         
For the trystin' o’ oor ae   dochter
And her saw very young.

Jamie's no’ to blame, mither,
The blame lies on me,
For I would sleep in Jamie's airms
Though a’ the world should dee.

She’s gane tae her ain chaulmer,
Jamie was there,
I'm blithe to see ye, Jamie dear,
Though we maun meet nae mair.

We’ll tak' a pairtin' glass, Jamie,
Pour oot the wine -
And since we maun meet nae mair, my love,
We'll drink your health and mine.

Tak' me in your airms, laddie,
Here's kisses five,
And since we maun meet nae mair, my love
We’ll drink weel may we thrive.

Come to my airms, Peggy,
Close to my hairt,
And as lang's the sun hings in the lift         
I swear we’ll never pairt.

Your faither keeps a crawin’ cock,
Divides nicht frae day,
And in the middlewatch o’ the nicht
In greenwood ye’ll meet me.

When mass was sung and bells were rung
And a’ bound for bed,
She’s kilted up her gay clothing,
Met Jamie in the wood.

'Twas early in the morning,
The clock chappit twa,         
Her faither rose up in his bed,
Cryin’, "Peggy, she’s awa' '."

They've mounted their horses
And fast they did rin,
But lang ere they come to the top o' the hill
The lad and lass were yin.

Subject: RE: Favourite Love Song
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 01 Sep 19 - 03:20 AM

Damn!!
Jim

Subject: RE: Favourite Love Song
From: JennieG
Date: 31 Aug 19 - 08:04 PM

Bugger......last GUEST was me, didn't realise my cookie had been playing shenanigans.

Subject: RE: Favourite Love Song
From: GUEST
Date: 31 Aug 19 - 08:02 PM

Oh no - too far for me, I am sworn off long flights these days!

We shall have to swoon from afar.

Subject: RE: Favourite Love Song
From: GUEST,HiLo
Date: 31 Aug 19 - 09:47 AM

I Still Miss Someone, Johnny Cash

Subject: RE: Favourite Love Song
From: PHJim
Date: 31 Aug 19 - 12:43 AM

"Tryin' To Do Something To Try To Get Your Attention" John Hartford

John Hartford TTDSTGYA

Subject: RE: Favourite Love Song
From: Elmore
Date: 30 Aug 19 - 09:32 PM

"My Lady's a Wild Flying Dove" by Tom Paxton.

Subject: RE: Favourite Love Song
From: fat B****rd
Date: 30 Aug 19 - 06:34 PM

"Don't Ever Change" The Crickets

Subject: RE: Favourite Love Song
From: Elmore
Date: 30 Aug 19 - 04:29 PM

1952 Vincent Black Lightning

Subject: RE: Favourite Love Song
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 30 Aug 19 - 06:17 AM

"Your place or mine, Jim?"
Welcome to West Clare
Jim

Subject: RE: Favourite Love Song
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 29 Aug 19 - 07:13 PM

"Speaking of Chris Wood, try his YouTube of the song One In A Million. You'll need a good ten minutes, but it's gorgeous."

Damn. I should have said that the one to go for is the 2009 Shrewsbury Folk Festival YouTube. Best thing since sliced bread...

Subject: RE: Favourite Love Song
From: PHJim
Date: 29 Aug 19 - 05:57 PM

Bob Dylan's Make You Feel My Love

Here's my late brother Dave's version of this song.

Make You Feel My Love sung by Dave Yates

Subject: RE: Favourite Love Song
From: fat B****rd
Date: 29 Aug 19 - 05:44 PM

"Some Enchanted Evening"

Subject: RE: Favourite Love Song
From: JennieG
Date: 29 Aug 19 - 05:43 PM

Your place or mine, Jim?

Subject: RE: Favourite Love Song
From: GUEST,Gallus Moll
Date: 29 Aug 19 - 04:03 PM

Ae Fond Kiss by Robert Burns

Subject: RE: Favourite Love Song
From: Mick Pearce (MCP)
Date: 29 Aug 19 - 12:26 PM

Another vote for Love Minus Zero / No Limit; brilliant and uncliched words. And many early Tom Paxton songs for more straightforward approach!

From popular song The Way You Look Tonight and Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye, for when you're about to part. Though I'm sure I could come up with another dozen from the Great American Songbook.

From the tradition The Flower Of Magherally; the tune carries it through.

Mick

Subject: RE: Favourite Love Song
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 29 Aug 19 - 09:10 AM

Speaking of Chris Wood, try his YouTube of the song One In A Million. You'll need a good ten minutes, but it's gorgeous.

Subject: RE: Favourite Love Song
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 29 Aug 19 - 09:07 AM

Roseville Fair is lovely, but I'd want Chris Wood and Andy Cutting doing it.

Subject: RE: Favourite Love Song
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 29 Aug 19 - 08:21 AM

I have to say, I don't know most of these, but I would love to know why people like the songs they do
I like lots of love songs for different reasons - some personal, others universal
I find, for depth of human experience and for longevity, the traditional love songs are streets ahead of the rest
Not my favourite version, but RIGS O' RYE ALWAYS DOES IT FOR ME
'I would turn into a little pile of melted marshmallow at his feet.@
We must meet up sometime !!
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: Favourite Love Song
From: gillymor
Date: 29 Aug 19 - 08:20 AM

"Now Westlin' Winds" (Burn's Song Composed in August). Noteworthy versions by Dick Gaughan and Old Blind Dogs w/ vocal by Ian Benzie.

Subject: RE: Favourite Love Song
From: JennieG
Date: 29 Aug 19 - 07:42 AM

"My love is like a red red rose"......if a bloke ever serenaded me with this, I would turn into a little pile of melted marshmallow at his feet.

Sigh.....

Subject: RE: Favourite Love Song
From: Acorn4
Date: 29 Aug 19 - 03:43 AM

Another Corner - George Michael.

Subject: RE: Favourite Love Song
From: GUEST,Hilo
Date: 29 Aug 19 - 02:38 AM

Fields of Gold, written by Sting but the best version is sung by Eva Cassidy.

Subject: RE: Favourite Love Song
From: lefthanded guitar
Date: 29 Aug 19 - 12:01 AM

Thanks to Gordon Jackson for mentioning
Steve Earle's Valentine's Day. Just listened to it for the first time.


Good one.

Subject: RE: Favourite Love Song
From: lefthanded guitar
Date: 28 Aug 19 - 11:20 PM

This is a nice topic. Think I' ll look up some or the ones I don't know
on you tube after I' m done posting here.

Thanks! Bonnie for mentioning the first love song I fell in love with :

Love Minus zero/No Limit

A few more off the top of my head:

Buckets of Rain - Dylan
Tomorrow is a Long Time - Dylan

And-
Into the Mystic - Van Morrison
Twilight Time - The Platters
My Girl - Smokey Robinson
I Just Called to Say I Love You - Stevie Wonder
Be My Baby - The Ronettes
John Riley - whoever sings it in the song circle
Roseville Fair - Bill Staines

Subject: RE: Favourite Love Song
From: gillymor
Date: 28 Aug 19 - 05:19 PM

And speaking of Paul Simon, "Kathy's Song".

Subject: RE: Favourite Love Song
From: GUEST,Andy7
Date: 28 Aug 19 - 05:17 PM

I'll nominate another Paul Simon song,'For Emily'.

(Although it is admittedly sung for an imaginary person!)

Subject: RE: Favourite Love Song
From: Elmore
Date: 28 Aug 19 - 05:00 PM

Take This Waltz by Leonard Cohen {with a little help from Garcia Lorca}.

Subject: RE: Favourite Love Song
From: gillymor
Date: 28 Aug 19 - 04:42 PM

Speaking of Billy Ross there's "The Corncrake" with Ossian.

Subject: RE: Favourite Love Song
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 28 Aug 19 - 03:47 PM

Bob Dylan's Love Minus Zero / No Limit

I also like Sweet Thames, and The Lass of Glenshee (especially as sung by the twa Billys, Ross & Jackson).

Subject: RE: Favourite Love Song
From: Acorn4
Date: 28 Aug 19 - 03:23 PM

Kathy's Song - Paul Simon
Another Day - Roy Harper

Subject: RE: Favourite Love Song
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 28 Aug 19 - 01:58 PM

Talking of Harrison, Clapton's "Wonderful Tonight" takes some beating.

Of course the hands down winner is my mate Dave's "When I'm in love I can't shit".

Subject: RE: Favourite Love Song
From: PHJim
Date: 28 Aug 19 - 12:57 PM

George Harrison's Something

Subject: RE: Favourite Love Song
From: PHJim
Date: 28 Aug 19 - 10:57 AM

David Bradstreet's Renaissance - "Let's Dance that old dance once more"

Subject: RE: Favourite Love Song
From: PHJim
Date: 28 Aug 19 - 10:55 AM

Maggie and my brother Bob and I played John's Waltz To The Miller by Tony Trischka and Dede Wyland at my brother Gary's marriage to the lovely Linda a couple of decades ago.

Here in my dream you are wandering, wandering,
Gold skies above you the warm earth below,
You are rocked by the breezes, warmed by the sun,
Moving to rhythms and songs to be sung.

Now we are dancing around we will go.
Music plays sweetly your face is aglow
With your love for the music, your love to be free.
Dance on forever, but only with me.

Subject: RE: Favourite Love Song
From: PHJim
Date: 28 Aug 19 - 10:45 AM

How could I forget Jesse Winchester's Sham-a-Ling-Dong-Ding.

Subject: RE: Favourite Love Song
From: GUEST,Neil D
Date: 28 Aug 19 - 10:37 AM

Dream a Little Dream

Subject: RE: Favourite Love Song
From: David C. Carter
Date: 28 Aug 19 - 08:48 AM

Magnolia Wind; Guy Clark.

Subject: RE: Favourite Love Song
From: GUEST,Sol
Date: 28 Aug 19 - 06:45 AM

"When You Were Sweet Sixteen"
Composed by James Thornton in the late 1890's, it's the ultimate lyrical description of eternal love.
wiki

Subject: RE: Favourite Love Song
From: PHJim
Date: 27 Aug 19 - 11:15 PM

Some others I like are:

Guy Clark's Like A Coat From The Cold
Irving King's If I Had You
Smokey Robinson's My Girl
Willie P Bennett's Lace & Pretty Flowers
Todd Snider's Just In Case
Tom Waits' I Hope That I Don't Fall In Love With You
Martin Mull's Normal
George Jones' Her Name Is ___

Her name is _ _ _ her eyes are _ _
Her hair is just like _ _ and she measures _ _ _
But someday I'll fill in the lines when she and I are free
And we'll walk in the sunshine, _ _ _ and me

Yes, someday I'll fill in the lines when she and I are free
And we'll walk in the sunshine _ _ _ and me

Subject: RE: Favourite Love Song
From: PHJim
Date: 27 Aug 19 - 11:00 PM

Another I really like is a waltz written by my good friend and bandmate, the late Bernie Martin. It's called One Last Dance.

Well if I had just one last dance I think I'd dance with you.
I'd hold you close and we would twirl around this smokey room
We'd dance until the music stopped and the band all went away
And then I'd take you home that night and I would want to stay.

Subject: RE: Favourite Love Song
From: PHJim
Date: 27 Aug 19 - 10:54 PM

My favourite is one written in Mount Hope, Ontario by a school teacher named George Johnson, and since my wife's name is Maggie, it's especially dear to me (and her). The second verse hits home since we are now both senior citizens.

They say I am feeble with age Maggie
I step not as spritely as then
My face is a well a well written page Maggie
And time alone was the pen
They say we are aged and gray, Maggie,
As spray by the wild breakers flung
But to me you're as fair as you were Maggie   
When you and I were young

Subject: RE: Favourite Love Song
From:
Date: 27 Aug 19 - 10:26 PM

Time Wears Awa'
by Willie Scott

Subject: RE: Favourite Love Song
From: Stewie
Date: 27 Aug 19 - 08:19 PM

Donal Og as sung by Al O'Donnell. This Youtube clip from a later album is not quite as good as the recording on the earlier 'Al O'Donnell 2' album:

Donal Og

Peggy Gordon sung by Luke Kelly:

Peggy Gordon

Alan Reid's 'The pleasure will be mine' as sung by Sean Keane:

Pleasure

--Stewie.