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If I were a blackbird

Trad. Irish folksong, arranged by Sam Brown
Angela Hicks - Soprano
Sam Brown - Lute
Tim Vaughan - Video
Tom Mungall - Audio
Filmed at The Voces8 Centre, September 2021
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  • @laverami
    @laverami7 ай бұрын

    I find myself returning to this beautiful recording again and again. Thank you.

  • @Ladomir68

    @Ladomir68

    5 ай бұрын

    😂 Me too🤝 l'll try to learn it by heart

  • @paulchapman112

    @paulchapman112

    2 ай бұрын

    Same, it's simply perfect.

  • @hxw988
    @hxw988 Жыл бұрын

    I am a young maiden and my story is sad, For once I was carefree and in love with a lad. He courted me sweetly by night and by day, But now he has left me and sailed far away. If I were a blackbird, I’d whistle and sing, 
I’d follow the ship that my true love sailed in. And in the top rigging, I will there build my nest, I’d flutter my wings o’er his broad golden chest. He offered to take me to Donnybrook fair, To buy me fine ribbons to tie up my hair. He offered to marry and to stay by my side, But then in a morning he sailed with the tide. If I were a blackbird, I’d whistle and sing,
 I’d follow the ship that my true love sailed in. And in the top rigging, I will there build my nest, I’d flutter my wings o’er his broad golden chest. He sailed o’er the ocean, his fortune to seek, 
I missed his caress and his kiss on my cheek.
 He returned and I told him my love was still warm,
 But he turned away lightly and great was his scorn. If I were a blackbird, I’d whistle and sing,
 I’d follow the ship that my true love sailed in. And in the top rigging, I'd there build my nest, I’d flutter my wings o’er his broad golden chest.

  • @Ladomir68

    @Ladomir68

    5 ай бұрын

    Oh, thank u very much🙏

  • @andreseingrid

    @andreseingrid

    5 ай бұрын

  • @Blisken81
    @Blisken816 ай бұрын

    Now I know what an angel sounds like.

  • @rogerstankovic2137
    @rogerstankovic213710 ай бұрын

    Haunting and beautiful, the way I like music to be...

  • @paulchapman112
    @paulchapman1123 ай бұрын

    wow that's a voice!

  • @davidbyron377
    @davidbyron3779 ай бұрын

    Beautiful voice and sympathetic and emotional lute accompaniment. Great arrangement 🥰

  • @haimlute
    @haimlute Жыл бұрын

    This is wonderful, lovely voice and lute playing.

  • @Leo-lj6vs
    @Leo-lj6vs Жыл бұрын

    Would you go back in time Angela if you had a time machine? At a time where all these beautiful music were written. Thank you for sharing this beautiful gift once more.

  • @jg5861
    @jg58618 ай бұрын

    I just came to see what song this was, after listening repeatedly to your rendition of Flow My Tears. I'm spellbound. Please: never stop singing.

  • @unwindingskies
    @unwindingskies Жыл бұрын

    This is as beautiful as it's dark. The lute is a great vehicle for such expression. Thanks for the pleasure.

  • @mariadedinszky5707

    @mariadedinszky5707

    Жыл бұрын

    Always the same shit! Girls do not fuck around, get first married!

  • @JackChessa
    @JackChessa5 ай бұрын

    Wonderful performance from both (and I gotta say that string management in the lute peg box is boss)

  • @lindabaer4086
    @lindabaer40862 ай бұрын

    Uncommon beauty borne in voice, wood, hands and air. Thank you!

  • @cakecakeham5823
    @cakecakeham58237 ай бұрын

    That was spellbinding!

  • @denisgardeux5966
    @denisgardeux5966 Жыл бұрын

    Bravo mademoiselle, votre performance est magnifique !!!...

  • @MsTeufelskerl
    @MsTeufelskerl5 ай бұрын

    Wonderful! I know this melody "Bold Fenian Men."

  • @alexeyulko
    @alexeyulko Жыл бұрын

    Amazing purity of sound

  • @cht2162
    @cht21622 ай бұрын

    A sensitive, moving interpretation by Angela and Sam.

  • @Marc-uw4mt
    @Marc-uw4mt8 ай бұрын

    Beautiful. Wow.

  • @puliturchannel7225
    @puliturchannel72254 ай бұрын

    Her voice is like a violin!

  • @rdubugnon
    @rdubugnon Жыл бұрын

    Marvelous, just simply marvelous

  • @MrJkilloran
    @MrJkilloran4 ай бұрын

    Beautiful and moving, angelic, ethereal and transcendent. Lovely job to both of you!

  • @user-tf7ni1mb1w
    @user-tf7ni1mb1w3 ай бұрын

    wow

  • @lincolnhoppe
    @lincolnhoppe6 ай бұрын

    Amazing!

  • @thesaucegroup1877
    @thesaucegroup1877 Жыл бұрын

    Wonderful :)

  • @jl4831
    @jl4831 Жыл бұрын

    Perfect

  • @jimsimon5706
    @jimsimon5706 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you Angela. Again. I love the variety you and your co-performers present. I remember asking you a few years ago via some emails if you'd ever thought about singing folk songs, as up to that point I only knew of your work singing the classical repertoire, and wonder, now, how long you've been singing folk songs? I said to you then that I'd really enjoy hearing you singing folk songs, and when you didn't reply I wondered if I'd offended you! Now I rest easier on that front. Anyway, thank you again, and I hope your accompanying players enjoy working with you as much as I enjoy hearing the outcomes.

  • @angelahicks

    @angelahicks

    Жыл бұрын

    I can only apologise, I wasn't at all offended, merely disorganised. thank you for your kind comments :) I'll be doing an album of folk music soon, I'm plotting which songs to put on it!

  • @jimsimon5706

    @jimsimon5706

    Жыл бұрын

    I'm in (for the folk) when you get it sorted out. I used to do FOH sound for live gigs, everything from a fiddle to big bands...and big band..., and I have to say I find the recording quality of all I hear with you in (and algorithms seem to help me stalk you in your various KZread hideaways) is really excellent. Proper miking, not too close, no DI's that I can hear anyway, natural balance between you and the other instruments/voices is all great. Plus, of course, the instrumentalists themselves being tremendous. Anyway, time to stop stalking. Thank you again.

  • @M4Z4F5
    @M4Z4F5Ай бұрын

    So beautiful !

  • @mattcecil9007
    @mattcecil9007 Жыл бұрын

    So good!!

  • @alisonmcinnes8213
    @alisonmcinnes8213Ай бұрын

    Beautiful !!

  • @alainmichaud3140
    @alainmichaud3140 Жыл бұрын

    Merci pour cette ballade féérique 😌🙏

  • @JoahnNorghe

    @JoahnNorghe

    Жыл бұрын

    C' EST BIEN CELA !❤

  • @silsmariaemerson8667
    @silsmariaemerson866711 ай бұрын

    Absolutely celestial!!! Thank you so much!

  • @conanmendes3893
    @conanmendes3893 Жыл бұрын

    Wonderful

  • @davidjames9626
    @davidjames9626Ай бұрын

    Thank you so much

  • @lambdacalculus8316
    @lambdacalculus8316 Жыл бұрын

    Beautiful!

  • @simonhodges7548
    @simonhodges75489 ай бұрын

  • @antoninopirrone2541
    @antoninopirrone2541 Жыл бұрын

    ❤️💕💕

  • @majj2427
    @majj2427 Жыл бұрын

    What a voice!

  • @mariadedinszky5707

    @mariadedinszky5707

    Жыл бұрын

    Awfoooool.

  • @martinnockalls
    @martinnockalls Жыл бұрын

    Thank you. I admire your passion for the music and superb performance.

  • @Elliot-hd2rl
    @Elliot-hd2rl Жыл бұрын

    EXQUISITE!!!

  • @Doricquine
    @Doricquine Жыл бұрын

    Beautiful , both Voice and Lute

  • @onclebob2178
    @onclebob21782 ай бұрын

    If I were a black falcon…

  • @tabaciberez6502
    @tabaciberez6502 Жыл бұрын

    The music is wonderful, the final sound mix is so quiet we can't hear anything though.

  • @charwatson6339
    @charwatson63399 ай бұрын

    For myself: I am a young sailor my story is sad Though once I was carefree and a brave sailor lad I courted a lassie by night and by day Oh but now she has left me And sailed far away Oh if I was a blackbird could whistle and sing I'd follow the vessel my true love sails in And in the top riggin' I would there build my next And I'd flutter my wings o'er her lilly white breast Or if I was a scholar and could handle the pen Once secret love letter to my true love I'd send And tell of my sorrow my grief and my pain Since she's gone and left me In yon flowery glen I sailed o'er the ocean my fortune to seek Though I missed her caress and her kiss on my cheek I returned and I told her my love was still warm but she turned away lightly And great was her scorn I offered to take her to Donnybrook Fair And to buy her fine ribbons to tie up her hair I offered to marry and to stay by her side But she says in the morning She sails with the tide My parents they chide me oh they will not agree Saying that me and my false love married should never be Oh let them deprive me or let them do what they will While there's breath in my body She's the one I love still

  • @JasonC-rp3ly
    @JasonC-rp3ly Жыл бұрын

    Lovely, though I'm not sure that 'his broad golden chest' are the original lyrics - it was 'his lily white breast' - but perhaps they had fake tan back in the day

  • @haddockpaddock

    @haddockpaddock

    Жыл бұрын

    I think the changed lyrics are a necessary product (at least in heterosexual terms) of the role-reversal (gender-switch) that has taken place in the narrative, due to the fact the singer is female rather than male. (Indeed, the Silly Wizard version has "her lily white breast", not "his").

  • @lauraandrews1676

    @lauraandrews1676

    13 күн бұрын

    No need for a fake tan. He's a sailor :)

  • @JasonC-rp3ly

    @JasonC-rp3ly

    11 күн бұрын

    @@lauraandrews1676 good point - it's a very beautiful song

  • @elgrande88
    @elgrande888 ай бұрын

    not bad

  • @bobjelIy
    @bobjelIy6 ай бұрын

    Ha! That's all you got i can make a butter prop better than budder laced popcorn but I'd better get back to bed as it is late

  • @davidjames9626
    @davidjames9626Ай бұрын

    This is the England I love..not the degenerate current UK

  • @mariadedinszky5707
    @mariadedinszky5707 Жыл бұрын

    If I was.

  • @onclebob2178

    @onclebob2178

    2 ай бұрын

    .?

  • @melodicminor1

    @melodicminor1

    18 күн бұрын

    ‚If I were‘ is grammatically correct

  • @haimlute
    @haimlute Жыл бұрын

    This is wonderful, lovely voice and lute playing.

  • @christianknowles752
    @christianknowles752 Жыл бұрын