Lyr Req: i will lie down on your grave

Subject: i will lie down on your grave
From: okthen
Date: 17 Aug 00 - 07:43 PM

has anyone got the words to this ?

DID search the DT

nothing for "grave" which i thought a bit odd

anyway

gratefull for any help

cheers bill

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: i will lie down on your grave
From: Sorcha
Date: 17 Aug 00 - 08:54 PM

Is this the Title, first line, some other line, what? And it is NOT The Unquiet Grave, which has a similar line, and is in the DT?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: i will lie down on your grave
From: Jeri
Date: 17 Aug 00 - 10:10 PM

Funny, I did a search for "grave" and got a whole pile of hits. Maybe the DT went out for coffee. It's not I Am Stretched On Your Grave, is it?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: i will lie down on your grave
From: okthen
Date: 18 Aug 00 - 05:28 AM

dear jeri that's exactly the one, many thanks.

there must be something wrong with my search techniques.

i really did try the DT first. and was not just bunging in a request to get someone else to do the work for me.

i have to get a new mouse, as this one is playing up, but i doubt if that has hindered my search.

thanks again, will experiment with different search options when i get the computer back to normal.

cheers

bill

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: i will lie down on your grave
From: Joe Offer
Date: 18 Aug 00 - 05:42 AM

Hi, bill - I think there's something wrong with the DigiTrad search engine. I got hits wiht "grave" just now - but I couldn't get hits with "family." I'm usually able to work my way around the problem, but it's a real hassle.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: i will lie down on your grave
From: Anglo
Date: 18 Aug 00 - 12:22 PM

Neither of the sets of lyrics in DT credit the translation by Frank O'Connor from the Gaelic, and though Philip King is credited as a source, it should be added that he wrote the tune.

Unfortunately I've never come across Scullion or their recordings. Anyone know if theyre around on CD?

There's a lovely recording of the song on a new CD by Peta Webb & Ken Hall, As Close As Can Be, on Fellside.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: i will lie down on your grave
From: Roger in Sheffield
Date: 18 Aug 00 - 01:21 PM

Kate Rusby???
strangely beautiful and morbid at the same time

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: i will lie down on your grave
From: Jeri
Date: 18 Aug 00 - 01:36 PM

Bill (okthen), I believed you. Sometimes the DT just acts weird.

I have this song on a Voice Squad tape. It is strangely beautiful, but I find myself wanting to grab the guy and tell him to get off the ground and quit wallowing in self pity. Sorry - I can rant about just about anything. :-)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: i will lie down on your grave
From: GUEST,Jackie B
Date: 18 Aug 00 - 01:37 PM

The 'Voice Squad' have recorded this on thier CD 'Holly Wood' The air was put to it by Philip King, it was translated from the Irish "Taim sinte ar do thuama"

It was recorded on HUMMINGBIRD RECORDS (HB CS 2)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: i will lie down on your grave
From: GUEST,lamarca
Date: 18 Aug 00 - 03:13 PM

Hi - back surfing for the first time in ages. I fell in love with this song after hearing Kate Rusby and Frank Harte singing it. There's been a couple of Forum discussions of it, here:
Nov, 1996 ,here:
July, 1997 and here:
July, 1999

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: i will lie down on your grave
From: Peter T.
Date: 18 Aug 00 - 03:36 PM

Don't forget Sinead O'Connor's version.
yours, Peter T.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: i will lie down on your grave
From: GUEST
Date: 18 Aug 00 - 05:25 PM

Hi Folks, I produced the original version of this song on the debut Scullion album released on the Mulligan label in or about 1980 or so. Philip King wrote the air to an old Irish poem. kevin Burke played eerie fiddle on it I recall. This was also the album on which uilleann pipes(Peter Browne) and Sax (Sonny Condell)were put together for the first time. PJ Curtis.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: i will lie down on your grave
From: okthen
Date: 18 Aug 00 - 07:33 PM

got me mouse back!

did some checking in the meantime,and came to the (wrong) conclusion the song was written by sinead o'connor 'cos that's the name credited on the cd by her.

i really like this song, and would like to know it's history. can't remember who got the credit on k. rusby cd except it said arr. rusby

my kids love this song too, amazing, considering what they play, and say about my music!

anyway thanks for the input from you all

cheers

bill

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: i will lie down on your grave
From: Barbara
Date: 18 Aug 00 - 08:10 PM

Well, the harmony and the minor to major key change in the middle of it (and then back to minor) make all my fur stand up, but I'm afraid I'm seconding Jeri on the lyrics. And the verse where he says, thank god he didn't do anything inappropriate when they were stuck out and together all night, so that now she'll get into Heaven directly... makes me want to go throw something at the Church, too.
Blessings,
Barbara
Check the post above yours, bill, for some immediate history.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: i will lie down on your grave
From: p.j.
Date: 19 Aug 00 - 12:20 AM

Barbara,

That's not part of the original lyrics, you'll be happy to know. The original poem had music put to it, then words added, then some wacka-wacka soundtrack by Sinead... to each their own.

I'm working on this beautiful song right now with my new singing partner, whose voice I can't *believe* (Kate Brubeck-- watch for that name...) and we're working hard to put both words, harmonies and rhythms back nearer to the original haunting. There's no religion or moralizing in the original poem, just grief for the lost love.

Amazing piece.

pj

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: i will lie down on your grave
From: GUEST,Philippa
Date: 20 Aug 00 - 05:27 AM

anglo and okthen, you may be interested to see Irish Gaelic words and another translation, at the July 1999 thread - clickable link given by Lamarca above