Skye walking song-Karen Matheson

[thehillcefis]

karen ti amo!!!

[italianguerrilla]

ANY LYRICS AVAILABLE?

[massima2011]

song which language?

[daisydooker]

dislike this and yer sick in the heed

[vinspizz]

Fantastica Karen...kisssssssssss from the Italia....

[nightingalerider]

She is so beautiful in this vid

[BoudiccaBlanc]

"Waulking songs (Scots Gaelic: Òrain Luaidh) are Scottish folk songs, traditionally sung by women while waulking cloth. This practice involved a group of people beating newly woven tweed rhythmically against a table or similar surface to soften it. Simple, beat-driven songs were used to accompany the work."--wikipedia

Somewhere, on YouTube, is a vid of a "living history" museum in Argyll, Scotland. The women are "waulking" the cloth in one scene. :-)

[carollizc]

Actually, the rhythm works when you've got a yard of dirt in your driveway, and you have to shovel it into a wheelbarrow all by yourself, and then into the garden. Pump shanties work, too. Work songs are work songs are work songs.

[philmikki]

i'd waulk all day if she'd seinn to me, hard work or not.

[Munchhurdle]

Hands up who hasn't fallen in love with Karen? - Her voice could command me anytime anywhere, even if it where to jump off a cliff ... and I would go willing! - She nearly brings me to tears - Great song from our cousins just a few miles away. Thanks - Gerry from Dublin - Don't be strangers!

[buttonpuncher]

Count me as one who is in lust with Karen. Voice of an angel, and face to match ! What's not to love ?

[joeah100]

@Munchhurdle I had the exact same thought. Exact. Right off a cliff :)

[Edward1Gaelin]

Tapadh leat!

[MartinaBC1963]

Marvellous!

Moran taing

[psychobollox]

is deas a bhean seo

[ljbabysprite]

... one of the great waulking songs. The work was hard and the song was a way to help lighten things a bit. Bonnie Karen Matheson brings the the tune to life and fills our hearts with it.

[SpeedOfDark186Kmps]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think she sings this song in a higher octave on the nadurra album, giving it a softer sound. It's a beautiful song either way.

[mhicnanolc]

Gle mhath. That was beautiful.

[koby9111]

Absolutely Beautiful..

Thank You

[swordfishtrombones]

This is fucking great! And who's that guitar player? I've seen him before, and he's a wonderful player.

[BuachaillBeo]

Steve Cooney :)

[alejandromatheson]

She rocks!! like her lastname!!! (=

[psychobollox]

you would ;)

[perunatic]

Superb! Thank you for posting.

[jamierourketen]

ah miss matheson,let me coorie doon,coorie doon as long as you are a'roon.

[MegMerrilies]

Just beautiful.

[Chastalard]

Hello it's me again...I am remiss for not pointing out that Karen Matheson has one of the most beautiful, expressive voices in the universe. Love her forever and a day!!!

[NWLAstrings]

Great video!

[Chastalard]

Yes, you're right...waulking was shrinking tweed and it was a work song. The beat came from them banging the cloth on the table. I LOVE waulking songs. So many contemporary bands do them...check out Clannad...wonderful renditions!

[Alexmcgruer3]

Waulking; I think is the word.

This and other songs are not hiking melodies to be sung as we tramp the moores; but rather a working song as ladies work the tweed.

But I am far away and may be wrong.

[LoveMattersMost]

It only took the one sentence from her mouth-and I'm hooked!

[WhiteTiger333]

Alright! I have most of Capercaille's and Karen's albums. So cool to discover her on YouTube. Thanks, Donegal. I just subscribed to your vids - nice, nice selections.

Right, that's waulking, not walking. Ain't language fun? :)

[GenPerk]

Where DID you get the albums???? Everyone is right - the voice of an Angel. GenPerk

[Chastalard]

WONDERFUL...she melts me and makes me new...where does that voice come from!?!?!

[Donegal]

From Oban (Scotland) ;)

[nnekase]

"..she melts me and makes me new.." EXACTLY (what I was trying to say :)

[thrice3muses]

Wow that's amazing. I think Gaelic is a beautiful language, wish I could speak it!

[warboop]

wow what a voice i don't understand the words but WOW very nice.

[brianvideowatcher]

I'm an American, but hearing this wonderful song sung by this woman with an Angel's voice, I feel like I must have been Celtic for a thousand years. Touches my soul, it does. Stirs my heart and makes me yearn for Home-Brian

[bardofouse]

GET ME A BUCKET

[seonidh]

well said brianvideowatcher her voice is that of an angel!

[Pynkbyrd]

It just occurred to me to search for waulking songs on YouTube. Thanks so very much for this!

[animalunaris]

I have to make an awful confession...

I used to think that 'waulking songs' were a Scottish spelling of 'Walking songs' like in Hiking *hangs head in shame*

[Tia1ko]

"I have to make an awful confession...

I used to think that 'waulking songs' were a Scottish spelling of 'Walking songs' like in Hiking *hangs head in shame* "

But tourists and mountaineers alike are allowed to sing them as well anyway, right? ;-)

[shevek07]

Beautiful performance of a beautiful song. Thanks for putting it up. Maybe consider correcting the spelling from "walking" to "waulking" (fulling) in the title since this is a work song.

[ceoljoel]

Faic mi na gealteachd anns an mo chreidh...tapadh leat-sa

[newfiecelt]

Go ro agath... Dia Duit

I fell in love with Karen's voice some years ago when I first heard Capercaille-- she still makes me 'misty' Beautiful

[auburnacajou]

Fantastic! And the song is called "Chuir m'Athair Mise Dha'n Taigh Charraideach" or My Father Sent Me to the House of Sorrow (says on the vid).

[drunkenpiper88]

what a voice, magic. Thank you for sharing this.

[jesienka]

Thanks for uploading this video. I think I´ll try to learn gaelic once just because the music like that :-) :-) cause I love irish & scottish & breton music although I´m slovak :)

[janeire]

:) me too