You're being terribly one sided and unfair here. You are assuming that the woman was being abused and not being treated like a princess. It's all the Lord's fault. If the biddy was being suffocated, maybe it was because she was either mentally ill or because she had unrealistic expectations of what her life would be like. Maybe she was just being hormonal! Why must the Lord be always evil? Why can't the ungrateful jerk of a wife be evil?
I must agree that this is one of the better versions of this song that I have heard. It has a degree of soul and emotion the other version lack. it captures the meaning of the words. I'm not bashing the artists who perform this. Their versions have their own merits, but none of them quite capture the raw emotion like this.
My mother read me this as a poem when I was a little girl... it is a very fond memory. I can remember how excited I was when I first heard this song on an album and realised that it was this poem!
I was taught this song 75 years ago when I was attending primary school in colonial Singapore. I am a Chinese . Singing was a school subject and and we learned many English and Scottish folk songs. Our music teacher was a non- English.
Mike Scott is almost like Mick Jagger but of folk music instead of rock and pop! What a brilliant version of this song. Love Sharon Shannon and the fiddle player..excellent stuff. Invokes ideas of an old time England which we will never ever get back.......
Perhaps that’s because it’s Celts sounding your ears hear Cornish folklore whereas I hear Highlands folklore and then you have the Irish Folklore it’s knees up kickass bone jangling drunken fabulous night for us all to let loose and become rebels of the night Celtic thunder 😂
One of the best accordion & fiddle duets going on within a real musical band all playing and listening together as real musicians do, solid drummer!! Cheers for the upload
This song was recorded by Dublin folk song collector and folklorist Tom Munnelly (and also my Dad, incidentally) circa 1965 in Boyle in Co. Roscommon from an Irish Traveller named John 'Jacko' Reilly. Christy Moore and Planxty had some commercial success with it some years later as they did with 'The Well Below The Valley' and 'Lord Baker' which they also got from Reilly's singing. Prior to Jacko's rendition of 'The Well Below The Valley' there had been no documentation of it since 150 years previously in England 'The Bonny Green Tree' is an album of John's songs released on the Topic Label.
+Tara Munnelly I first heard this on an album (by a woman -- I've no idea who) my sister had when she was a freshman in college (1957-58), so I was in seventh grade. It was also included in Simon and Schuster's "Fireside Book of Folk Songs," first published in 1947. I have an original copy of that book, given to me by a friend's father. He was a professor of vocal music at Humboldt State, a small state university in far Northern California.
Tara, if you're still about (though your comment is old!) I'd love to learn more about your Dad's work...I'm researching songs for a project of my own.
There are many variations of this song, including, "The Seven Yellow Gypsies;" "The Gypsie Laddie;" " Black Jack Dav(e)y;" and variant versions of each of these variations. The story is supposed to refer to an event in the lives of an Earl of Cassilis & his wife, Lady Jane Hamilton, who lived in the 1600s.
Celtic thunder fans...with all due respect. This is the real deal. I just watched the celtic thunder version to be informed and it opens with a young boy singing. I am sorry, but he does not look like he would know what lying in a meadow with your love would be like. While their voices are fine and varied it does not have the passion that the Waterboys bring. I am surprised really as Celtic Thunder seem almost like a boy band. Waterboys are who you want to see in a smoky club singing this sone.
This is superlatively awesome! The Waterboys are always a pleasure to watch,in whatever form they take.Mike's recent autobiography is the best I've read and his latest album shows what a brilliant and talented bloke he is! He is 'The Whole of the Moon!' xx Yes I am a big fan, but he's not my main musical attraction.But he is right up there close behind the MSP.
God, Mike Scott! You make my Irish flare up somethin' terrible! I'm almost sad to be from TEXAS, and that's no small thing. I love , love, love Mike Scott. His Irish enflections and theatrical gravelly voice. What a genius! Thanks Waterboys!
The bit that gets me is it's about the 15th(I think) earl of Lovelace and his bride, so everytime we sing it we remember the lovers time in the sun and that makes me smile.
@seonidh Actually It's a Irish variant of an British collection of songs all with the same theme, sung by a band whose musicians come from all over Britian.
Awesome! I love this song. This is probably the basis of Gaelic Storm's Scalliwag, as the melody is very similar and has similar content. That's a great song as well.
Mike Scott reminds me of Craig Ferguson in this vid. He is absolutley brilliant. I love his voice with it's Irish inflections and feeling he puts in his songs. True greatness.
My life story. Lto spend the rest of my days as I left my only wedded lord, away to lie in those cold open fields, with that wraggle-taggle gypsy-o. He was lovely, but his mates used to keeo me awake all night with the wid dancing, fiddling, pipin, shrieking...
@underthestarofnorth yes-The Whole Of The Moon (not in the same musical vein but beautiful) A man Is In Love, Fisherman's Blues, When Will We Be Married, This Is The Sea. There's lots out there covering a wide range of sounds from jkazzy to celtic to early 80's brit sound and more
I must say, this is the second best version.... Of course the first one is the Scafell Pike one, which is very rare I know and not possible to hear here on You Tube unfortunately. I will try to post it soon.
Why are you all getting offended over world history/politics, and Celtic Thunder? This video is the Waterboys, who've done a great job with this song. The live recording here is rather good, too. I grew up listening to their music, and I love this group quite a bit. Why fight?
@tonkertim Haha, Okay! Fair enough. I STILL love him, and I love SCOTMENS even more! I assumed he was Irish because of his accent, which I'm no expert at, and because of the words to "Island man". He said" Ireland is my heart". Sorry, I'm a Texas girl, so I hope you let me slide. ;)
To me this is Irish (actually Scottish) music at its best.....not that overproduced polished sound of Celtic thunder give me THIS over that ANY DAY!! I always laugh when I see Celtic thunder...its for family's and old women!
Fair play to her..they must've been good lookin chavies for her to leave her big house, goose feather bed and money.., for a life of tarmacking..palm reading and peg making. . Was her name Heather? ? As in lucky heather?
Mike is just a great great musician. He's a pure musician in the true sense. He's done all sorts of stuff and it's all great ... check out his version of Lake Isle of Innisfree if you haven't seen it... Fishermans Blues too.. Shannon always just looks happy when she's playing. This is just a really pleasant video. Thanks for uploading. Fk the begrudgers. Let them listen to selena Gomez who has about 30M viewers by the way. This has 200k. WE ARE THE LUCKY 1%, PEOPLE!!! :)
It was 'the well below the valley' that hadn't been documented in 150 years. Not 'the raggle taggle gypsy' I think it was also known as 'the maid and the palmer'.
This tears out me heart, time and time again. The anguish and the rage in the suffocating woman's lament. What care I for my goose feather bed?
You're being terribly one sided and unfair here. You are assuming that the woman was being abused and not being treated like a princess. It's all the Lord's fault. If the biddy was being suffocated, maybe it was because she was either mentally ill or because she had unrealistic expectations of what her life would be like. Maybe she was just being hormonal! Why must the Lord be always evil? Why can't the ungrateful jerk of a wife be evil?
The Waterboys do the best of the many versions of this well-loved and ancient old song, in my opinion. I love their emotion and sheer musicianship!
Mike and his music changed my life for ever, in 1986!
Cheers! to all his fans around the world.
I was born in 86 and me dad used to play waterboys all the time . i love back in the day
The version of the raffle taggle gypsy that rocks the most, lads!
I must agree that this is one of the better versions of this song that I have heard. It has a degree of soul and emotion the other version lack. it captures the meaning of the words. I'm not bashing the artists who perform this. Their versions have their own merits, but none of them quite capture the raw emotion like this.
My mother read me this as a poem when I was a little girl... it is a very fond memory. I can remember how excited I was when I first heard this song on an album and realised that it was this poem!
I was taught this song 75 years ago when I was attending primary school in colonial Singapore. I am a Chinese . Singing was a school subject and and we learned many English and Scottish folk songs. Our music teacher was a non- English.
My dad was a gypsy used to sing it to us when we were kids luv this song 👍
Mike Scott is almost like Mick Jagger but of folk music instead of rock and pop!
What a brilliant version of this song. Love Sharon Shannon and the fiddle player..excellent stuff. Invokes ideas of an old time England which we will never ever get back.......
Perhaps that’s because it’s Celts sounding your ears hear Cornish folklore whereas I hear Highlands folklore and then you have the Irish Folklore it’s knees up kickass bone jangling drunken fabulous night for us all to let loose and become rebels of the night Celtic thunder 😂
If you stand before this band you literally feel your own heart rising it almost becomes an out of body experience
One of the best accordion & fiddle duets going on within a real musical band all playing and listening together as real musicians do, solid drummer!!
Cheers for the upload
rodsreel absolutely
Sharon Shannon on the box, superb!!
Best live- band ever! It warms up my heart and make my spirit fly!
This song was recorded by Dublin folk song collector and folklorist Tom Munnelly (and also my Dad, incidentally) circa 1965 in Boyle in Co. Roscommon from an Irish Traveller named John 'Jacko' Reilly. Christy Moore and Planxty had some commercial success with it some years later as they did with 'The Well Below The Valley' and 'Lord Baker' which they also got from Reilly's singing. Prior to Jacko's rendition of 'The Well Below The Valley' there had been no documentation of it since 150 years previously in England 'The Bonny Green Tree' is an album of John's songs released on the Topic Label.
+Tara Munnelly I first heard this on an album (by a woman -- I've no idea who) my sister had when she was a freshman in college (1957-58), so I was in seventh grade. It was also included in Simon and Schuster's "Fireside Book of Folk Songs," first published in 1947. I have an original copy of that book, given to me by a friend's father. He was a professor of vocal music at Humboldt State, a small state university in far Northern California.
Tara Munnell
Tara, if you're still about (though your comment is old!) I'd love to learn more about your Dad's work...I'm researching songs for a project of my own.
There are many variations of this song, including, "The Seven Yellow Gypsies;" "The Gypsie Laddie;" " Black Jack Dav(e)y;" and variant versions of each of these variations. The story is supposed to refer to an event in the lives of an Earl of Cassilis & his wife, Lady Jane Hamilton, who lived in the 1600s.
Going to see them tonight, I'm as excited as I was when I first saw the over 25 years ago!!
one of the best versions of this song ever, mike scotts' voice just suited this this song
if i ever had a band, this is how i would like them to sound , brilliant!
Brings back wonderful memories, of when I saw them in Ireland.
Celtic thunder fans...with all due respect. This is the real deal. I just watched the celtic thunder version to be informed and it opens with a young boy singing. I am sorry, but he does not look like he would know what lying in a meadow with your love would be like. While their voices are fine and varied it does not have the passion that the Waterboys bring. I am surprised really as Celtic Thunder seem almost like a boy band. Waterboys are who you want to see in a smoky club singing this sone.
This is superlatively awesome! The Waterboys are always a pleasure to watch,in whatever form they take.Mike's recent autobiography is the best I've read and his latest album shows what a brilliant and talented bloke he is! He is 'The Whole of the Moon!' xx Yes I am a big fan, but he's not my main musical attraction.But he is right up there close behind the MSP.
Love this used to sing it in junior school!
My favorite version of this song of unbridled realized lust
God, Mike Scott! You make my Irish flare up somethin' terrible! I'm almost sad to be from TEXAS, and that's no small thing. I love , love, love Mike Scott. His Irish enflections and theatrical gravelly voice. What a genius! Thanks Waterboys!
I like this version very much. hadnt been aware waterboys did folk.
The best version ever, no dispute!
Amazing. We southern US girls like the Water Boys' music!
The bit that gets me is it's about the 15th(I think) earl of Lovelace and his bride, so everytime we sing it we remember the lovers time in the sun and that makes me smile.
As an Irish man May I add there are no finer people in the world than the Scots and the Welsh,honest people.
Love the singer's Scottish accent coming through.
fantastic version, sharon shannon also maks this song
Mike Scott + Steve Wickham + any other combination = very very good!
@seonidh
Actually It's a Irish variant of an British collection of songs all with the same theme, sung by a band whose musicians come from all over Britian.
Sharon Shannon playing the box is Irish. not from Britain.
I love this song
Awesome! I love this song. This is probably the basis of Gaelic Storm's Scalliwag, as the melody is very similar and has similar content. That's a great song as well.
Seventeen people couldn't keep their loved one from the raggle taggle gypsie-O!
Johnny Zercher Now at thirty.Mibbe Bieber fans or something.I'm here to listen to real musicians.
they nailed this song again tonight at the great american music hall in san francisco best i've ever seen them
you can see as well the great Sharon Shannon playing!
The best from Planxty and the Pogues
i still love to dance , with this , song,, and the words are so sad
Brilliant song !
Wonderful Sharon Shannon on squeezebox.
Mike Scott reminds me of Craig Ferguson in this vid. He is absolutley brilliant. I love his voice with it's Irish inflections and feeling he puts in his songs. True greatness.
your ears dont work very well, its a scottish accent.
Still love you Nancy ❤😢😮
We all bleed the same blood as we are all together and all human beings so be careful of what you say ❤😂
I love this song a lot
It's allegedly about the earl of Lovelace in Scotland their end was tragic, I like to think every time it's sung it's a two fingers up to her husband.
el mejor grupo celta de la historia
YO AMO WATERBOYS .
I LOVE WATERBOYS .
VIVA WATERBOYS.
GENIAL.
brilliant just bloody brilliant
Music from the heart and the soul
Fantastisch ❤
Mike was born in Scotland with Irish roots and has lived in Ireland since nappies,also regards himself as scots/Irish.
Total twaddle
just the best ...what care I...
Love you's ❤
great music
Absolutely Awesome!!!
How long will I love you amazing song
I loove this song!!
Dance with me :D
My life story. Lto spend the rest of my days as I left my only wedded lord, away to lie in those cold open fields, with that wraggle-taggle gypsy-o. He was lovely, but his mates used to keeo me awake all night with the wid dancing, fiddling, pipin, shrieking...
Calder and I really like the Water Boys.
@underthestarofnorth yes-The Whole Of The Moon (not in the same musical vein but beautiful) A man Is In Love, Fisherman's Blues, When Will We Be Married, This Is The Sea.
There's lots out there covering a wide range of sounds from jkazzy to celtic to early 80's brit sound and more
I didn't like it at first because i was used to a more solemn version but it's growing on me !! It's wicked and i love his voice
absolutely amazing..... one of my college tutors played in this band :D
Just curious which member of the band ?
i never though damian could sound better but if u listen to this dude first then listen to damian-wow damian sounds amazing
fantastic and beautifully rendered! Yo!
jeg elsker dem.
I must say, this is the second best version.... Of course the first one is the Scafell Pike one, which is very rare I know and not possible to hear here on You Tube unfortunately. I will try to post it soon.
Love it...always have done
Great performance!
this warms my spirit ....
SUPERB.
SOULJAHZ ROCKERZ
This version kicks ass.
Why are you all getting offended over world history/politics, and Celtic Thunder? This video is the Waterboys, who've done a great job with this song. The live recording here is rather good, too. I grew up listening to their music, and I love this group quite a bit. Why fight?
Sharon shannon! ace.
@tonkertim Haha, Okay! Fair enough. I STILL love him, and I love SCOTMENS even more! I assumed he was Irish because of his accent, which I'm no expert at, and because of the words to "Island man". He said" Ireland is my heart". Sorry, I'm a Texas girl, so I hope you let me slide. ;)
only a musician could get away with wearing the coat the fiddle player is wearing - how I envy them!
We came thru a pandemic wear what you like YOLO .
To me this is Irish (actually Scottish) music at its best.....not that overproduced polished sound of Celtic thunder give me THIS over that ANY DAY!!
I always laugh when I see Celtic thunder...its for family's and old women!
pure genious!
i still dance to this, but love lord of the dance also
Ah, shame the interview was cut..
@chalmacu
You must be joking? Celtic Thunder is about as far removed from Trad. Folk as is humanly possible.
Don't be forgetting the great Sharon Shannon.
You should have a good collection of ice picks at this stage after a year...lol !
greetings from turkey
Fair play to her..they must've been good lookin chavies for her to leave her big house, goose feather bed and money.., for a life of tarmacking..palm reading and peg making. . Was her name Heather? ? As in lucky heather?
What a shadow of the original band. Look up Fisherman's Blues
Mike is just a great great musician. He's a pure musician in the true sense. He's done all sorts of stuff and it's all great ... check out his version of Lake Isle of Innisfree if you haven't seen it... Fishermans Blues too..
Shannon always just looks happy when she's playing. This is just a really pleasant video. Thanks for uploading. Fk the begrudgers. Let them listen to selena Gomez who has about 30M viewers by the way. This has 200k.
WE ARE THE LUCKY 1%, PEOPLE!!! :)
thanks for posting this!
A-maz-ing!
It was 'the well below the valley' that hadn't been documented in 150 years. Not 'the raggle taggle gypsy' I think it was also known as 'the maid and the palmer'.
Them boys haven't seen water for years
yep still class
Amazing
EXCELLENT
WOOT!!!!
haha. i sang this for a music festival. it was less....uh high tempo but this is fun!!
got to agree with you :-)
anyone who gave a thumbs down should be named and shamed
absolute calss
Go ahead,no loss
hey man awesome
Awesome
well played!