EAW Singing Decades Part III Challenge/Showcase Thingy CXX

The Irish Girl (Cover) June Tabor – Peter Bond

EAW Singing Decades Part III Challenge Showcase Thingy CXIV: July 28 – Aug 4

Theme: Post a song from either or all of the following decades – 1950s, 1980s, 1990s

Qualifies for both 1980, and 1990.
My first collaboration with two of Youtube’s finest musicians/songwriters:

On Piano:
Duckscli

On Fiddle/violin:
rhopen

This is a tribute to the writer of this beautiful song Peter Bond, who I am led to believe was a folk singer/songwriter doing the circuits 1970’s – 1985, I could find very little about him, but if this song is anything to go by, I would imagine, hearing and seeing him live a great pleasure.

It is sung by June Tabor on her album “Against The Streams” in 1994.

Many thanks Duncan and Ron, you gave me an opportunity to sing something very beautiful and I am honoured to join you.

It was very hard to source the lyrics – so I had to listen and write them down, there is a chance the first lines may be misinterpreted:

I walked on a northern shore
Where the sandywort sped on before the ocean’s blast
The grass ran like lemmings for the dune’s high edge
And I thought it meant like the grass
We bend in the driving gale
and scarcely paused to think what makes the wind so strong
or if there’s a refuge from the drivers flag
But then I heard the saddest song
of the Irish Girl
The Irish Girl

Her eyes through a sparkling red
like raindrops on a laurel when the moon appears
She sang of her sorrow through the stinging spread
and through the sweeter brine, the salt of tears,
I weep for the lost of a love
Who’s gone brooding now and silent as a standing stone
Two sides of a coin we rolled a battered roll
but in time he chose to leave alone
His Irish Girl
His Irish Girl

I touched her and spoke my name
for it seems she didn’t know me for the song she sang
she said, oh I know your face but here’s the shame
for though I knew the boy, who knows the man
and I wept who might turn for the fool
who never saw the joys that make a blind man smile
seeking his fortune while the brightest jewel
was within his reach all the while
The Irish Girl
His Irish Girl

Images by kind permission:
RobRoyAus – Flickr

EAW Singing Decades Part III Challenge/Showcase Thingy CXX

I Just Want To Make Love To You – Etta James

EAW Singing Decades Part III Challenge Showcase Thingy CXIV: July 28 – Aug 4

Theme: Post a song from either or all of the following decades – 1950s, 1980s, 1990s

1950:

OMG… every once in a lifetime there is a hairbrush song… heheh, this is mine! Please forgive!

Still playing – not sure Hmmm. Er. Harmony.

EDIT: 1.21am 29th July.

Ok. Time for out of shell, gulp… just found out this was recorded in 1954 by Muddy Waters, so, adding to:

Everyone’s A Winner Singing Decades Part III Challenge/Showcase Thingy CXX

Come and join us, no judging – just sharing amongst friends, just started and runs till Tuesday 4th August, 6PM EDT.

EAW “Night of The Living Dead Challenge/Showcase Thingy CVIII

Feeling Good – Nina Simone

EAW “Night of The Living Dead” Challenge Showcase Thingy CXIV: July 14 – July 21

Theme: Post a song by an artist who has passed away.

Wow and I sang it in the dead of the night/dawn too – how about that? I wasn’t thinking of the challenge – I was winding down!

I do not know much of Nina’s music and must learn/listen to more… this is a great song and I kind of butchered and minced it into a reformed 100% CerebralJam and a little meat song as I really wasn’t singing it as if I knew it or wanted to polish it LOL – but maybe I am good for you? It’s natural, organic and fresh as a morning dew drop GRINS…

EAW One Hit Wonders Challenge/Showcase Thingy CXVII

Our Day Will Come – Ruby & The Romantics

EAW One Hit Wonders Challenge Showcase Thingy CXIV: July 07 – July 14

This week’s theme was – Sing a One Hit Wonder! Well, Dani, this one wasn’t on your list – but here’s what Wikipedia says :

“…Ruby & the Romantics was an American R&B group in the 1960s. They had several pop and R&B chart records but are sometimes considered as a ‘one-hit wonder’ for topping the charts in 1963 with their first recording, “Our Day Will Come”, written by Mort Garson and Bob Hilliard. …”

“..Several more singles were released by Kapp which generally achieved minor chart status. A short spell with ABC was unsuccessful while one single for A&M in 1969 (“Hurting Each Other”, originally recorded by Jimmy Clanton some years earlier) proved to be their final recording before the group broke up in 1971. The group had remained intact throughout their recording career, as confirmed by Ruby in an interview in 2008 with Marv Goldberg (R&B Notebooks). …”

EAW Dedication Week Challenge/Showcase Thingy CXII

Got a bit out of order here… lost Ben to Chartbuster cull, so Name Challenge no song.

More Than This – 10,000 Maniacs

EAW Dedication Week Challenge Showcase Thingy CXII: June 2 – June 9

Theme Post a song you love and dedicate it to someone special, or sing a reflective song.…

You have got to grab life by the hands and shake it, eat it, grasp it, feel it, taste it, smell it, be it!

You cannot change the past, you cannot worry about the future, you just have the now, and the now is good!

A request from Kia in chat the other night… she said it would blow her away LOL I’m seeing dandelions phffft!

A DEDICATION TO A WEE TIMMERING BEASTIE CALLED ERIC?

Yep. I only did this yesterday I think? Can’t differentiate one day from another at the moment, so – er, yes, Eric! I decided to name ma wee pal who came and played with me yesterday morning. He made me smile, how do you tell the sex of a spider I wonder? Hmm, well he did raise a leg or two tentatively, but I’m much too bashful to check that close…

Anyway, Eric? Wherever you may be? I sincerely hope you were not squashed Thank you for being a friend when I needed one. Come and see me again soon eh? BUT stop hogging the mic! GRRR!

You know I even dreamt of spiders last night, big hairy ones – I was in a furniture type store which was selling bedlinen, large white duvets and bedspreads hung suspended from ceilings or on beds and on each one I looked at was a hairy long legged spider wandering around – I only remembered this dream this evening… normally I would have been scared by this, but I just turned to the staff of the store and said, “You need to do something about that!”. LOL

Come and join us if you are visiting, no competition, just friendly sharing … Sing-Share.com

Click the link above to view challenge or just click songs below to listen.

A Bunch Of Thyme – Foster & Allen

This is dedicated to:

‘ALL EAW THAT ARE BLOOMIN’ IN YOUR PRIME…’
When I sang this in the wee hours of the morning, I was extremely content – but as you can see it was a real pain playing it back… playing it this morning it is behaving a bit better and the freezes are not too ungainly – it had several washes last night in the mixer LOL

Anyway – I want to say thank you to all of EAW for restoring in me my faith in love, life and being all you can be… so on this week of dedications, I humbly submit my love back to you…

And Kia… it’s for you too You told me you wanted this one so with you in mind, I sat happily.

Eric wasn’t there – he was tucked up in his wee bed somewhere.

For all of you who are suffering now, Thyme will heal and make you whole again.

I guess you could call this a ‘head’ song Bruce
I’m not sure I was in it, at that hour of the morning – but I felt it, and it felt good.

Thinking of EAW…