Eric Bogle - Leaving Nancy Live @ The Irish Club Perth

Leaving Nancy was the first song Eric wrote for himself, about the pain as he left his mother Nancy at the train station when he was emigrating to Australia. It's a song that many people from all parts os the world can relate to due to their own experiences of leaving loved ones. A sad but lovely song.

[@larmesz]

oh god!!! I can't listen to this without crying... I left my dear old Mum 45 year's ago to travel to a distant land...

[@WildBoreWoodWind]

I was lucky to catch him at The Star Folk Club, in Glasgow, about thirty years ago - best 12 quid I've ever spent, it was a great night, with him and his offsider. 👍👍

[@hughocathain5727]

This song reminds me of my Granny, Nancy Macdonald who bid her beau goodbye in Edinburgh in 1914 when he went off to war with the Royal Scots... Captain Sandy Watson came home in 1918 to marry Nancy...

[@mikeodonoghue6245]

One of the best singer songwriters in the last hundred years

[@nicolachildnicole]

I am very pleased to say I know Eric Bogle personally :) He is an amazing guy and I like love him to pieces. He is my dads best friends brother in law and I really do love him to pieces xx Amazing singer too

[@1lenapalmer]

OMG I ca relate to this as I left my mum and dad & inlaws and could barely breathe for the sadness I felt, as I also took their grandaughter with me...................I cried all the way here, and have adopted this country as my own but still regret depriving my daughter of her family....................

[@mactcampbell]

Good video. Eric Bogle wrote some of the best lyrics ever in the world of folk music.

[@liamthedream]

A very talented performer. Thank you Eric.

[@NSResponder]

That man is a national treasure, for Scotland and Australia both.
-jcr

[@2003Rooney]

He's irish

[@NSResponder]

@@2003Rooney Nope. Born in Peebles, Scotland, emigrated to Australia in his 20s.

[@gordonwilliamson7549]

played in same team as eric at peebles long time ago. was a hard hitting centre

[@sherp2u1]

beautiful song, I thought it was a romantic love song all these years.

[@mrsterripurcell]

Still sounds great

[@andymcgill46]

it brings back memories

[@starskymusic]

Legend!

[@liehnej1]

WOW nicolachildnicole ...... You are so lucky to know him personally :) wish I did :) I've met him twice seen him in concert heaps of times. Leaving nancy is one of my many frav songs that he has written over years.

[@jeangair]

Thanks Tom & I like you singing it as well.

[@taggsybaby]

another left handed guitarist aswell, legend,were a rare bread,ha

[@dunebasher1971]

@MultiGeraghty yes, Eric did regular concert tours of England and Scotland up until a year or so back, when he announced that he was getting a bit too old to be travelling all that way. He now only tours within Australia and New Zealand.

[@jeangair]

@taggsybaby Thanks,
Yes my brother is also a left handed player & has played in support of Eric Bogle at Marymass Folk Festival-Irvine Scotland.

[@frankmcgrath6568]

Thanks

[@MultiGeraghty]

@sherp2u1 It IS a romantic love song. He loved his mother so much that he wrote this lovely ballad about leaving home (Scotland) probably never to return! (By the way, Did he ever return?)

[@9mushroom]

sounds like my leaving waverly . mmm!

[@sifakaindri52]

Saw Eric and John at Crail but my camera only recorded 40 sec slots! Really enjoyed his second trip to Crail and hope he'll rethink his decision not to tour outside australia!

[@lwebb10]

Hope to catch Eric @ Warwick Folk Festival 2009 - coming up soon (Rumour has it even Chris Aronsten has journied from Byron Bay )

[@jeangair]

Thanks, I have more to upload, which I'm sure you enjoy.

[@mogensgrejsen5567]

Karaoke

[@theaqt6457]

Looks like my grandad

[@arthurdonachy]

its ok ts,I do understand
I meant no offence;my brain was a tad addled