Sonny's Dream

[selsey41]

Who is this twat? Everyone knows the Irish highjack other's songs (Dirty old town, Green fields of France etc); anyway, these voices are absofuckinlutely fanfuckintastic!!

[gumdo666]

Who the fuck posted this!!? This is a NEwfie song and only one Newfie should ever sing it....RON HYNES!!! The goddam writer!

[John3878]

like

[MIKE1236936]

They are beautiful singers,but Ron puts his heart into it and it shows

[eddybaby58]

If there were such things as angels, they couldn't sound better.

[nfldman1976]

What a travesty this performance this is. Absolutely terrible, and if I had the power this would be removed and then burned. A total insult to Ron Hynes.

[KentuckyRacehorse]

Well that is what she does. Even added a new verse to Dolly's great song "Do I ever Cross Your Mind ". Ron visited my parents once on PEI heard he was a wonderful guest .

[PHJimY]

Just watched The Man Of A Thousand Songs, a biography of Ron. What a sad life, but so productive.  Why anyone would want to change such perfect lyrics as Ron's I'll never know.

[PHJimY]

Sorry, that should be ,"they're just stories he's read."

[PHJimY]

Last verse as I recall it:

Sonny's dreams can't be real, they're just stories he's heard,

They're just stars in his eyes, they're just dreams in his head,

Yet he hungers inside for the wide world outside

And I know I can't hold him though I've tried and I've tried and I've tried

[droimarais]

Yer man doing the solo is Declan Sinnott

[kungfuasgaeilge]

who's yer man doing the solo? His face looks familiar. Is he from Planxty?

[MyMoppet52]

these two sing this song together in another version and it sounds much different. 

[lordpenguin3]

@alan4sure wow. Prescriptive.

[randyoram]

for one, the song's name is sonny's dream....not "sonny" and boy oh boy i've never heard someone butcher a song before in my life. also no mention of this being a cover, and no credit given to the origins of the song, for the true version folks check out the original by Ron Hynes, one on Newfoundland's finest who wrote/recorded this song.

[alan4sure]

@randyoram Ron Hynes was interviewed today Oct 23/10 on CBC radio Calgary, and he stated his favourite version of this song is by EMMYLOU HARRIS, so whether you like it or not, the man HIMSELf approves. Go get a life now.

[ErnestoCommandante]

Emmylou Harris ruins this song, Mary should have sung it alone

[lordpenguin3]

We had this song on casette tape sung by Mary Black alone- an album called 'woman's heart'- I remember I used to cry for the mother who was left by her husband, now I cry for the son who's manipulated into wasting his life for his mother. I've been playing this song alot this summer, when I'm hoping to go to uni, to remind myself that even though leaving's difficult, it's necessary sometimes.

[alan4sure]

@lordpenguin3 Do you even know what the song is about? Ron Hynes wrote it for his autistic son. Anyway, no doubt you can find something else to cry about, seems to be your forte. (pronounced for-tay in case you don't know)

[durrdurr11]

@alan4sure This song is about his uncle, who's name is Sonny.

[piehole23]

@alan4sure

Actually, "forte" when used as a synonym for one's strength in doing something should not be pronounced "for-tay" though it is so commonly thus mis-pronounced as such that most of us just go along with the erroneous crowd. The derivation is from the french word of the same spelling which sounds, to the English-speaker closest to simply "fort".

[johneunson]

i listened to the spinning wheel's version of this song. a more agressive reading. this version has the haunted, etherial pleading and, although both versions are outstanding, i prefer this one. thank you for this post.

[sportifaust]

If you want to be blown away listen to the German group The Spinning Wheel doing this - search "sonny spinning wheel" or similar.

[rfish54]

@sportifaust The Spinning Wheel is absolutely fantastic in their version of Sonny.

[reddragonready]

@sportifaust It's also very good but they are not the singers Black and Harris are. I think I prefer this one.It's a close call though.:)

[sportifaust]

You ain't heard nothing till you hear the German group The Spinning Wheel doing this - search "sonny spinning wheel" or something similar.

Lots of other great versionsof course, but that one blows you away!!

[tparker3neo]

Beautiful. Also check out the Jean Redpath version.

[wayneothewino]

mary black sings an excellent version of this

[slewfootdave]

The Soggy Mountain Boys from Nackawic, NB, Canada do a version of this on here too. Not nearly as sweet as this one though.

[slewfootdave]

I love this version. Of course I'm biased. I just love Emmy Lou

[alan4sure]

As usual, Emmylou looks fabulous and not overweight like so many others her age these days.

[mikeyj4544]

this song... its so.... just plain wonderful is all i can describe it..... the song isnt meant to be all happy and fast... its... just...... *teardrop*

[korkybb]

Excellent thanks for posting

[bluenoserr]

As always, Emmylou looks like she needs a good meal. This is a wonderful version of this song though. I find most versions are too campy, including those by Ron Hynes himself. This is absolutely ethereal!

[rodjrr]

WTF I like emmylou harris but being an east coast kid this is the worst cover of sonnys dream i ever heard.

[human247]

excellent, exquisite, enchanted singing of this Ron Hynes song. Worth many more listenings by me this evening.

[ottojinn]

thank' for the tears

[KentuckyRacehorse]

My guess would be Emmylou Harris.

She also added a verse to Dolly's song

"Do I Ever Cross Your Mind " when they did

on the Trio II album.

[bulbheadmyass]

Thanks, That figures, nice touch. This performance is one of the most exquisite I've ever seen. Thanks for posting it.

[bulbheadmyass]

I like that last verse, I'd love to know who wrote it.

[newfiebygarge]

I wonder who rewrote the last verse!interesting.

[newfiebygarge]

excellent,only problem some of the words have been altered from original.

[bazno1]

Wonderful