Clannad - Two Sisters

[redsmash]

Suprising that a song about a jealous older sister pushing the younger into a brim, a greedy miller that just took the golden ring of the younger and left her to die, and as a result, the older sister and the miller being executed has a happy tune.

Sounds good though.

[GayGeisha]

For something that is so dark and so sad, this is very soothing.

[MrAbilio20]

nice

[louisa1832]

Sad song, but a beautiful arrangement.

[italianguerrilla]

hohoho! my gosh! Irish music is so riveting and there are a lot of ballads!! i love it!

[PhilowenAster]

@thessalonian71: OMG! OMG! You quoted G.K. Chesterton! I love that poem!

[MorningKillsDawn]

I'm a jew from Israel and even I can't believe that some people don't like this music. With such happy tunes and lovely folk-like rhythms. The Irish music is simply music that is easy to rely to and a great time listening to.

[martystuart1000]

for me my family the sherwoods....mockin bird hill darlings!

[DavePerry2012]

Put simply, this is a blessed musical family.

[ReverendTrask]

Almost too happy for the story being told.

[torrinus]

Maire Brennan and Ian Anderson would be a great duet, pity they are too old to rock-n-roll now

[DavePerry2012]

@torrinus But too young to die.

[woodhd]

great version of this by tom waits on orphans

[muisire]

Many years ago I had the LP from which I first heard this magnificent performance of a great song.

It is still a big hitter as far as I am concerned.

[maxp0w3r]

This is a beautiful song.

[dnaivnae]

aye 'tis a lovely song from a lovely irish bandXD

[kinkybeatle]

It's magic.

[scati1971]

UnionoftheBrits They did a intensive dna test about 10 years ago in a european study and found no english blood, no viking, mostly normans and originally northern spainish. (Basque country).

[40ny]

I had forgotten how good they are.

[thetrace3456]

classic



[jacsle]

doskonały utwór...uwielbiam Clannad...

The perfect song , I adore Clannad

[laynee1958]

i honestly love this kind of music soothes my soul.

[Dance123JM]

we did a dance to this song!!! it was really amazing! if you want to check out us dancing go to our channel we are called dance123jm!!!

[egilssaga1]

Tom waits has a version of this on his 'Orphans' album.

[069Jessie069]

Amazing song, luv them =]=] could listen to them all day x x x x

[Maddhater1]

If you like this you REALLY need to listen to Tom Waits version. its much different, not like electric guitars and synth boards, but like it sounds as if it was used to seduce the devil and put him down for a nap.

seriously, Waits gravely, whiskey soaked voice makes this song beautiful.

[THEaTEAM52]

This reminds me of The Bonny Swans by Lorena McKennitt

[KerParavel]

Great band! Maire Brennan has the most beautiful voice I've ever heard:)

[tunderbomber]

This is a song from the 1600 's! Can't get them more traditional.

[LadyMaggie1976]

Loreena McKennit sings a song called "The Bonny Swans" which is very similar to this ( Jealous sisters fighting over a man, one sister drowning and the other refusing to save her)

[twainname]

A traditional song over time can have hundreds of different versions to it with know one knowing the exact original. The original was probably based on a real situation or a personal experience or idea that the author wanted to right down. The song gets sung and travels throughout the country with each singer putting a different spin on the tale. Years later you get hundreds of versions based off that one incident. Clannad, though are the reason why people sing any version of this tune. Original

[Ben2China]

@twainname Ah but its hard to imagine any version was sung and played more finely than this one.

[celticwolf98]

@LadyMaggie1976 Yeah, it's based off the same story. Clannad's is funny in a way. They make it sound happy. Loreena's is more dramatic.

I'm so name dropping here, but I got to meet her! She's an amazing woman. =-D

[liamg353]

Tom Waites has a version of this song but I can't get it on the tube, It's worth a listen. Not sure of the name but I would be grateful if anyone could post it.

[TheOneThatFlewOver]

it's simply called two sisters. It's on...Bastards, I believe, of the Orphans release

[tickleperson2]

/watch?v=vzuPT5NqXGY

it's called two sisters as well. this is weird. i was watching the waits version somewhere else and it reminded me of this version so i came here to hear it and here you are doing the same thing but the other way. :D

[vmazzetta82]

Someone has any idea of where can I get the tabs of this sweet/dark song?

I do love Clannad and I'm trying to play some of their songs with my band....

[Roverann]

If you find some, would you please say to me please? I would be thankful.

[vmazzetta82]

I promise I will... but till now, I had no luck...

[liamg353]

Sorry I was without internet access over the last 4months. I must look up the Tom Waits version

[Botticitar]

Im Hungarian, but I love this music

[Roverann]

You know, if I listen to this kind of music I am happy, the Celtic cultur is so 'beautiful', wise and wild.. =P

[UnionoftheBrits]

clanned are a fantastic band, nice to hear her sing in english. their celtic musinc is a great way to bind our two lands seperated by the sea. all irish have british blood, and all british have irish blood. if we will not be united politically, then will will be united through music...perhaps that is better.

[k6musicteacher]

@UnionoftheBrits Thank-you so much for your message, I would like to share it with my students. I think music is a wonderful way to share what is best about people all around the world and see our common concerns, hopes and dreams. I am an American, and I rarely agree with the way my country treats other nations, but I have British, Irish, and German ancestors and I love and share the music from all of these traditions with my students. If the world ever unites I am sure it will be to music!

[Sidcup12]

@UnionoftheBrits "all" Irish do NOT have british blood, as you state. Tyhe majority of the english are Saxons and of ireland, Celts..OK there's been a certain amount of interbreeding but not to the extent you suggest

[mynameisleeyesitis]

@Sidcup12 Actually 90% of the dna in all british people is celtic from before the saxons... The makeup in ireland is very similar. Or so I learned through the course of studying biology.

[dnaivnae]

@mynameisleeyesitis holy moly, so wut ur saying if someone like me, of celtic warrior ancestry, i would actually have british blood in me?

[thelastamericandude]

@dnaivnae You do realize the Celts were British long before the English don't you? The English didn't enter Britain until around the years 400-600ad. The Celts were already British and in fact are sort of "more" British than the English in that sense. Also, what's this notion of "Celtic Warrior" do you really think all the Celts were all warriors and none of the English were? Do you just learn history from Mel Gibson movies?

[dnaivnae]

@thelastamericandude nope i ne'er knew til now....i barely passed History class. and me clan r descendants o' Celtic Warriors, i jus' sorta assumed they all were......shows wut i knowXD ime pretty sure ur las' question wasnt meant to 'urt me feelings.....but it did, do u know how hard it is to 'ave a learnin problem? and i dont watch any o' his movies, hes a rite fowl bastard who should jus' die for hittin his ex!

[dagnab1]

@thelastamericandude britons where celts not the other way god does any one know the real UNROMAN version of history

[XxShadowvalkyriexX]

@thelastamericandude 

[dagnab1]

@mynameisleeyesitis WELL WE CAN THANK ANGLE,SAXONS for joining with romans to exploit the celts rape steal ect.......

[dagnab1]

@Sidcup12 thats right fuck that tell his angle self

[dagnab1]

@UnionoftheBrits WHOW ALL IRISH DO NOT HAVE BRITISH BLOOD FUCK YOU WE CAME FIRST FUCK YOU

[dagnab1]

@UnionoftheBrits WHOW ALL IRISH DO NOT HAVE BRITISH BLOOD FUCK YOU WE CAME FIRST FUCK YOU

damn angle

[CarolvOdd]

@dagnab1 ...unless the Brits (literally) raped us during that whole oppressing-the-shit-out-of-you phase they went through...

[buttonface10]

You guys know its about 2 sisters who are fighting over a man and his land, even though in olden Ireland the oldest sister was to be married first, so when the man likes the youngest better the oldest gets jealous and pushes her into the swamp and robs her. Then she is caught and bled to death, whitch was an old form off irish punishment.

[celticwolf98]

Loreena McKennitt has as song very similar to this one. It's called "The Bonny Swans."

[NatashaNabokov]

There are several diffent versions of this story/song. I half remember a version that was credited to some guy named 'Childs'.

[mrgabest]

The Twa Sisters is noted as Child 10. All that means is that it was collected by Francis James Child during the 19th century as he went around gathering folk music of the British Isles. The song itself goes back much farther, to at least the 17th century.

[thessalonian71]

Oh the great Gaels of Ireland

Are the men that God made mad

For all their wars are merry

And all their songs are sad.

(lol!) I know some hysterically funny "murder" songs to merry beats.

[RatOnAnEvilStar]

I was listening to this song, and I suddenly realized, Holy Shit, this song is about murder. Awesome.

[nmatysiakj]

LOVE LOVE LOVE CLANNAD!

[GonegalRose]

The really annoying thing is that the instruments are ever so slightly flat, so its really hard to play along with the track...

[vincitXVI]

I SO LOVE CLANNAD! OMG! thanx for posting! :)

[MorganScorpion]

The lyrics to this are incredibly like those to "Minorie".

[queenofsuccubi]

What a dark song!

[ryoushii]

That's why I always liked this song, and the many others like it both Irish aswell as the Border Ballads of Northumbria. Dark ,bloody and dancible.

[SabrinaMessenger]

Wonderful song. I sing this song at farmer's market and other gigs. People really seem to like it.

[MittsMaFerret]

I Love This Song!!! Lol...Stuck In My Head Now!!! Wish I Could Sing It Though!

She's Got A Gr8 Voice...So Has Her Sis, Enya!