Thanx for enlightening me, I got confused when parannoyance started dribling about the "system of governance". But It is nice to see fuckwits of a feather fuckwitting together. You replace righty-leftie construct with a fabricated 1% vs 99% paradigmn and think you have accomplished something. The debt you are so concerned about has been created by in part socialistic programs and promises(lower class greed), and the greed of the upper class. Try reading a few books not by chomsky, moron.
I used to watch this video once every few weeks - now I get a commercial video before the song starts playing - why? it destroys the mood. did the one uploading this video sell himself or herself out?
Between Yeats' poetry and The Waterboys sensitive and inciteful appreciation of his poetry, I have to say that artists really can be reincarnated.... what a fabulous meeting of past and present :)
Between Yeats' poetry and the Waterboy's sensitive and inciteful appreciation of his poetry, I have to say that artists really can be reincarnated.... what a fabulous meeting of past and present :)
I love this song. First heard it in 89 and felt completely overwhelmed by the feelings that invaded my heart and my mind. I steel have the same feelings when I hear it... It's like I've got wings and I'm flying over a waterfall somewhere in Ireland, whatching fairies dancing in the woods...
I saw The Waterboys here in Portugal twice, in Lisboa and in Porto, and just love them.
I just returned from my third trip to Ireland -- but the first time to visit Glencarr. This song has given me chills for years, and to see the place it's set was even more amazing. I've linked my Facebook photo of the falls to this posting. Thanks for making it available.
what an excellent song. I have seen the Waterboy's live, but never heard them sing this until today, when I heard it on the world famous radio Caroline
Peace....we all need peace...and this song gives me this......sooo bittersweet....aaahhh such is life.......what shall we do......my beautiful little sprite of a grand daughter gave me life.....water and air she is........she will teach me the balance......
my friend Paddy,his father Barclay..was a good friend of the guy who narrates this tune..my claim to fame...also..this song is excellent..thanks for uploadin summerislefan..class tune ;o)
@ScopedOutRaven Hi! I know the poet is known as W.B.Yates I was asking the name of the man who narrates it...you said you knew as he is your friends father.
@roseofmercy not my friends father,but a friend of my friends father. My mate is called Paddy,his father Bartley used to drink with him in Galway and County Mayo in Ireland. I wanted to meet him once,but my Friends father passed away
Takes me back to the 80's me and my friends on guitars at my place til the early hours..wish i was back there now..this song and the words makes me cry..long live
I always think about how this system of governanace we're in is so sad and one dimensional and based on capital and war and lies and hatred and racism and media nonsense ....then I listen to this and it makes me cry and I know they can never win,there are other realms where the heart lives where real life takes place and this song takes me there. Peace.
@parannoyance You are cluelerss, for all the faults of this world Humanity has never had it so good. Five hundred years ago you were lucky to see your 35 birthday, twenty years ago you were lucky to see your 65th. More people have been elevated out of poverty by capitalism in the last fifty years than ever in human The world will never be perfect, because perfect doesn't exist for humans. Dim lefty fuckwits moan like the world is evil, it's the perspective they cling to ....
@Cudoine Apparently you are cluelerss; it's about the human heart. If you just focus on the negativity, your consciousness remains there. No one's looking for perfection, it doesn't exist except maybe in universal geometry. Lefties/righties fit in here? Be a 1%er, apparently all's right in your world, mate. Have u done sweet FA to uplift anything or anyone? Trickle down ur economics elsewhere; it's tres effective. Just look around you, debt galore. Can't u just listen & shut it? G&ND
@parannoyance So well said, that I wish I had thought of it! For real, music can uplift us, heal our hearts and souls, and we can be free within-- no matter what goes on around us. Thanks for reminding us of that. And thanks for this upload summerislefan, it was really nice to listen to and watch. Peace.
@parannoyance Really ? in 1886 when the lyric where composed,, you think Yeats had " this system of governance " and "media nonsense" in mind ? seems more like your talking your annoyances and fitting them to this poem .. bear in mind even on 1886 there was a real worry of children been stolen by faries among the less educated ,, I think its about fairies trying to tempt a child away ,
@Sickiey I wasn't peddling a 'one size fits all' interpretation of this poem turned song, as you are;Yeats works on so many different levels,he was a master. I was writing about what this piece of music evoked and most of all the feeling it left me with. It was a personal response,not a treatise. Great poetry transcends superficial interpretations and always speaks personally as well as shedding something on the present time. In a magical poemsong innocence lost is found again.
@Sickiey An Irishman in 1886 may well have had a complaint or two about his system of governance along with its propaganda. But why dispute such a personal reaction to this piece?
@jomaroma1971 thanx for info.brings back memories long gone of friends some gone.a bunch ofeejits roamin round glencar wakenin waterrats from their slumber..
memories of a bunch of lost lads,some lost some still here .smoking a jay watchin the mist rollin down takin a stick to wake those drowsey water rats!get up ye lazy whores!!!!!!!!!
i really hope you don't mind, but I copied your comments when I posted this video on facebook, you describe it beautifully, the song means a lot to me, a hell of a lot........ xxxx
I absolutely love this song. The poem is one of the most beautiful ones I know about, and the way it has been arranged here is just so beautiful it damn near rips my heart in two.
i,m letting my son Liam listen to this for the first time ,hes 16 ,i learned it too ,but as a child from my Grandmother Ellen Mc Cracken ,in Banbridge..[almost 50 years ago now] .Hes just heard what it meant then to me ..as a child ;what it meant to me ,when he was a child and alas not always by my side where i would have wished him to be...W,B has made us for this special moment ..two children ..two wild swans ...two souls as one just for a moment ,this moment : .Bonis Omnia Bona methinks !
As a mother of three beautiful angloceltic children I can attest to that. It's much more difficult and far more courageous to acknowledge love for ones enemy than it is to admit hate because unlike love, hate has never been an emotion we've been taught to be ashamed of.
This song is a statement thatl summises the country that I love. As a Catholic boy who is due to wed a protestant girl next month it shows that a marriage between Anglo and Celt can procure something of infinite beauty as WB Yeats was an Irish Protestant who was so in love with this fair island. Hopefully this beautiful poem and song can show that a union of nationalism and unionism can create something magnificent. Up Down!!!!!!
@ionaibiagoa7 well everyone has their own opinion and i like the version i mentioned as for ms mckennitt's political agenda i could care less i like her voice and her music is amazing to me, sorry you didnt care for it but i like it so i thought i'd share. but i really try to keep my political views out of a conversation about music. so whatever you didnt offend me nor will it start an argument. cuz i just was sharing music i like not my political views.
……. THANK you, summerislefan, THANK you, for uploading this exquisite acoustic gem, & thank YOU, Lady Faresu, for the heads-up on The Waterboys' loverly treatments of Faery Seer William Butler Yeats's homage to the Hidden Folk. This, too, brought me to tears. Oh, to be home again. Namasté ~ (•8-D
@erinelizabeth1971 not looking for an arguement but ms mcennitt has her own IRA political and hateful agandas. Played your link and it sounded dreadful. This stunning poem, and Mikes interpretation of this track is beautiful. World peace is such a better idea than any petty nationalism.
a work of art frrom mike scott, i never understood the lyrics as im scottish, looked up this poem by william yeats and the poem tells an amazeing story
Yeats still walks among us - a true Irish Poet -speaking of our magical land,what each one gets from his words is exactly what he intended - An Emerald Isle where each one shares what we cannot explain -Ireland a mystery welcoming all.............................
roisin39 - Your post captures the essence of humanity and the beauty of this poem. May God bless you and your beautiful child. "Too and fro we leap, while the world is full of troubles, and is anxious in its sleep..."
roisin39- i myself have aspergers and have spent a large portion of my life around those with varying degrees of autism through various care groups and have been involved in and agree that those on the autistic spectrum have a strength of charcter that many lack
im glad you enjoy the song and am touched by the meaning it has for you and your son
Descibes my son to a tee and one of his favourite songs,he is my "Stolen Child".... Autistic -diagnosed at 2 yrs old - now a thriving 5 yr old still lost to the world of autism yet loved more for his strength and humanity most normal functional adults lack.
He teaches me so much yet asks for nothing in return...I love you more than life itself my "stolen child".
@roisin39 Hey Roisin,what a beautifully crafted comment,unconditional love eh,you've made me love this song even more so! Hope all is well with you and your lovely lad!
@roisin39 That is soo touching!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I fell in love with song because it reminds me of my Great-Grandmother May she rest in peace! Come away, O' human child to the waters and the wild
I love this song. A metal head like me is not expected to like this kind of stuff but the poem and the music fit so well together. I'm never sure if i'm happy or sad when i hear this but i dont care coz it feels good. Reminds me of the christmas i first heard it when i bugged my auntie and uncle to keep playing it over an over.
'where the wandering water rushes, from the hills above glencar" glencar is just up d road 4rm my hometown in lovely leitrim, d song was writen by d poet W.B yeats, listening 2 dis song ere in australia brings me straight hme, mike scott and the waterboys i tink are one of the best bands for stirring emotions and giving you moments of clarity...waterboys for life
part 4 Away with us he's going, The solemn-eyed: He'll hear no more the lowing Of the calves on the warm hillside Or the kettle on the hob Sing peace into his breast, Or see the brown mice bob Round and round the oatmeal-chest. For he comes, the human child, To the waters and the wild With a faery hand in hand, From a world more full of weeping than he can understand.
part 3 Where the wandering water gushes From the hills above Glen-Car, In pools among the rushes That scarce could bathe a star, We seek for slumbering trout And whispering in their ears Give them unquiet dreams; Leaning softly out From ferns that drop their tears Over the young streams. Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild With a faery hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
part 2 Where the wave of moonlight glosses The dim grey sands with light, Far off by furthest Rosses We foot it all the night, Weaving olden dances, Mingling hands and mingling glances Till the moon has taken flight; To and fro we leap And chase the frothy bubbles, While the world is full of troubles And is anxious in its sleep. Come away, O human child! To the waters of the wild With a faery hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
william butler yeats the stolen child Where dips the rocky highland Of Sleuth Wood in the lake, There lies a leafy island Where flapping herons wake The drowsy water-rats; There we've hid our faery vats, Full of berries And of reddest stolen cherries. Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild With a faery, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
thaks for posing.love this song.reminds me of childhood holidays at my grandmothers in crossmolina,county mayo.i love the soft,west of ireland accent.the imagery of the poem is great..."the kettle on the hob"...beautiful!all comes flooding back...dulsk,silver mints,boxty,and the smell of turf!god bless you!
I did see the words to this poem/song in a hollywood blockbuster. The words were put on a wall in the movie. I don't recall the film. Awesome band though.
Its weird - Saw the waterboys at Glastonbury and couldn`t stand them, I had a serious hangover - within a year this album became one of favorites and cursed the fact I had wasted seeing them play this album at Glas in 1989 as I had my head stuck under my coat !!
The poem "The Stolen Child" written by William Butler Yeats in 1886.
He wrote the poem relating to old folklore in Ireland about Changelings.
Changelings being children who are taken by fairies whilst sleeping and replaced with the unwanted offspring of the fairies or senile fairies disguised as children.
Children that developed abnormalities were thought to be a Changeling.
The poem was adapted by Mike Scott and features spoken word by Tomás MacEoin. A quite moving poem and song.
@PorkyPiggles. So my daughter is actually a fairy's castoff. I thought she had changed because she became a teenager but this explanation makes much more sense!. That's really interesting.
The Yeats poem is wonderful not least because it captures the darker and sad der aspect of "the stolen child". What we would now call autism confounded families in old Ireland; they believed that faeries had stolen their child and replaced him or her with a changeling...
It also happened in the Scottish highlands and the islands. Very tragic, especially what they did to the children in a vain attempt to reclaim their 'proper' child.
I've only heard Loreena Mc Kennit's version before an although it remains a favorite I am so glad I found this one, so haunting and beautiful. A new favorite! Thank you!
Love this - Magical Yeat's poem and what a voice Yeat's had- Still works for me this Waterboys song. - I'm now going to listen to some Dubliners and hear that RONNIE DREW !
wild world is full of troubles and is anxious in it's sleep ... victory surely lays in a peace and a light and maybe who knows a whiskey or two ... and of course sweet, rosy memories - this fair world comes in a dream of poetry, romance and high-minded love. Celebrate
fuckin class song
MrMalley666 5 days ago
Thanx for enlightening me, I got confused when parannoyance started dribling about the "system of governance". But It is nice to see fuckwits of a feather fuckwitting together. You replace righty-leftie construct with a fabricated 1% vs 99% paradigmn and think you have accomplished something. The debt you are so concerned about has been created by in part socialistic programs and promises(lower class greed), and the greed of the upper class. Try reading a few books not by chomsky, moron.
Cudoine 2 weeks ago
everytime i hear this , i imagine myself being at this fantistic place ,
MrBoxmusic90 1 month ago
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owedoggify 1 month ago
I used to watch this video once every few weeks - now I get a commercial video before the song starts playing - why? it destroys the mood. did the one uploading this video sell himself or herself out?
871185 2 months ago
as an englishman i must say that i have always been a fan of the waterboys.
ignore the religion / cultural aspect. just a beautiful song.
great album and group, part of my growing up. will never forget.
zamora98 2 months ago
And yes, in response to an earlier post: it does give you goosebumps, such a fabulous piece of music and poetry. Makes me proud to be Irish :)
MsAgriolouloudo 3 months ago
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Between Yeats' poetry and The Waterboys sensitive and inciteful appreciation of his poetry, I have to say that artists really can be reincarnated.... what a fabulous meeting of past and present :)
MsAgriolouloudo 3 months ago
Between Yeats' poetry and the Waterboy's sensitive and inciteful appreciation of his poetry, I have to say that artists really can be reincarnated.... what a fabulous meeting of past and present :)
MsAgriolouloudo 3 months ago 2
Awesome poetic melody tugging at our Irish roots, I feel wrapped in Irish Love!
brianapril10 3 months ago
incredible piece, that's all I can say
Jimtrek 3 months ago
Amen,,,,gr8 2 c a unabusive u tube fanclub,,,,
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always when I hear this song, it gives me great warmth and sense of hope. Reading alot of the comments below I'm not alone
StevoMusicManUK 3 months ago
Ahh.. such organic music. Beautiful poem also <3
SimsVids15 3 months ago
Beautiful evocation of irish culture.... sublime, poetic, sweet, music and poetry that touches the soul, gaelic, atlantic, celtic, magic, sublime greeness!
brianapril10 3 months ago
This is a Waterboys song that got past me ! Nice.
newsatone 4 months ago
many's a night i brought him home. rest well tom, take it easy on your feet.
euroman32589 4 months ago
" Away with us he is going, the Solemn eyed..", very moving.
jitblues 4 months ago
May I recommend the book 'A Concise Guide To Eighties Music' by Karl Vorderman. The author is a big fan of this track.
garyw930 4 months ago
I love this song. First heard it in 89 and felt completely overwhelmed by the feelings that invaded my heart and my mind. I steel have the same feelings when I hear it... It's like I've got wings and I'm flying over a waterfall somewhere in Ireland, whatching fairies dancing in the woods...
I saw The Waterboys here in Portugal twice, in Lisboa and in Porto, and just love them.
latonguinhas 5 months ago
brilliant, aye mon, thats a wee canny song, ye ken
hyperferal 5 months ago
I just returned from my third trip to Ireland -- but the first time to visit Glencarr. This song has given me chills for years, and to see the place it's set was even more amazing. I've linked my Facebook photo of the falls to this posting. Thanks for making it available.
McMoomins 6 months ago
Awesome song,awesome poem,makes me cry...
mimsmagz 6 months ago 3
@mimsmagz bloody goosebumps, isn't it?
alibootboy 4 months ago
This song helped me out a lot in difficult times. Thank you Waterboys and WB Yeats.
squamish4244 6 months ago 2
I was right there in the endless time-barren fields
DrArchieFitz 6 months ago
what an excellent song. I have seen the Waterboy's live, but never heard them sing this until today, when I heard it on the world famous radio Caroline
Stuart
1sexydaughter 6 months ago
Peace....we all need peace...and this song gives me this......sooo bittersweet....aaahhh such is life.......what shall we do......my beautiful little sprite of a grand daughter gave me life.....water and air she is........she will teach me the balance......
alislandgirl 7 months ago
my friend Paddy,his father Barclay..was a good friend of the guy who narrates this tune..my claim to fame...also..this song is excellent..thanks for uploadin summerislefan..class tune ;o)
ScopedOutRaven 7 months ago
@ScopedOutRaven Who is the narrator?
roseofmercy 7 months ago
@roseofmercy hes known as WB Yeats. Just got ya msg..sry lol..i dont come on ere much. :o)
ScopedOutRaven 7 months ago
@ScopedOutRaven Hi! I know the poet is known as W.B.Yates I was asking the name of the man who narrates it...you said you knew as he is your friends father.
roseofmercy 7 months ago
@roseofmercy oh sorry..his name is Tomas McKeown. hope this helps
ScopedOutRaven 7 months ago
@roseofmercy not my friends father,but a friend of my friends father. My mate is called Paddy,his father Bartley used to drink with him in Galway and County Mayo in Ireland. I wanted to meet him once,but my Friends father passed away
ScopedOutRaven 7 months ago
aww roisin..such love went into that ..ur a inspiration to us all ...x
ScopedOutRaven 7 months ago
Genius - by all concerned.
LaneyPower 9 months ago
the crabz now totally stunned....as it should be....
makemeateeshirt 9 months ago
Takes me back to the 80's me and my friends on guitars at my place til the early hours..wish i was back there now..this song and the words makes me cry..long live
sidewaysid 10 months ago
danke .
001tape 10 months ago
I always think about how this system of governanace we're in is so sad and one dimensional and based on capital and war and lies and hatred and racism and media nonsense ....then I listen to this and it makes me cry and I know they can never win,there are other realms where the heart lives where real life takes place and this song takes me there. Peace.
parannoyance 10 months ago 11
@parannoyance That is the most beautiful thing i have ever read and so,so true.j
TheDublinowl 2 months ago
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Bless you;was inspired so I let rip; saw them at The Royal Albert Hall,I quietly left my seat to sit in a quiet
spot when this was played. I returned to my seat sparkling wet face and feeling refreshed and lighter and
full of love. Bang on the ear to u Dublinowl.
parannoyance 2 months ago
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@parannoyance That is the most beautiful thing i have ever read and so,so true.j
TheDublinowl 2 months ago
@parannoyance You are cluelerss, for all the faults of this world Humanity has never had it so good. Five hundred years ago you were lucky to see your 35 birthday, twenty years ago you were lucky to see your 65th. More people have been elevated out of poverty by capitalism in the last fifty years than ever in human The world will never be perfect, because perfect doesn't exist for humans. Dim lefty fuckwits moan like the world is evil, it's the perspective they cling to ....
Cudoine 3 weeks ago
@Cudoine Apparently you are cluelerss; it's about the human heart. If you just focus on the negativity, your consciousness remains there. No one's looking for perfection, it doesn't exist except maybe in universal geometry. Lefties/righties fit in here? Be a 1%er, apparently all's right in your world, mate. Have u done sweet FA to uplift anything or anyone? Trickle down ur economics elsewhere; it's tres effective. Just look around you, debt galore. Can't u just listen & shut it? G&ND
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@parannoyance So well said, that I wish I had thought of it! For real, music can uplift us, heal our hearts and souls, and we can be free within-- no matter what goes on around us. Thanks for reminding us of that. And thanks for this upload summerislefan, it was really nice to listen to and watch. Peace.
Gwid01 2 weeks ago in playlist Waterboys discography Pagan/ Christian Mike Scott stuff.
@parannoyance So true!!!! They can take our lands and our posessions,but our souls remain free forever!
funkymattman 1 week ago
@parannoyance Really ? in 1886 when the lyric where composed,, you think Yeats had " this system of governance " and "media nonsense" in mind ? seems more like your talking your annoyances and fitting them to this poem .. bear in mind even on 1886 there was a real worry of children been stolen by faries among the less educated ,, I think its about fairies trying to tempt a child away ,
Sickiey 3 days ago
@Sickiey I wasn't peddling a 'one size fits all' interpretation of this poem turned song, as you are;Yeats works on so many different levels,he was a master. I was writing about what this piece of music evoked and most of all the feeling it left me with. It was a personal response,not a treatise. Great poetry transcends superficial interpretations and always speaks personally as well as shedding something on the present time. In a magical poemsong innocence lost is found again.
parannoyance 17 hours ago
@Sickiey An Irishman in 1886 may well have had a complaint or two about his system of governance along with its propaganda. But why dispute such a personal reaction to this piece?
lytrigian 2 hours ago
stolen cherries...oh wullie butler...ya dhirty auld mhan ye....
makemeateeshirt 10 months ago
whos reading?
Nynorskmannen 11 months ago
could some one please give info on the poetical voice .methinks mckenna not a waterboy'
adyseven1 11 months ago
@adyseven1 'spoken by traditional Irish vocalist Tomás Mac Eoin with backup vocals by Scott' according to Wikipedia
jomaroma1971 11 months ago
@jomaroma1971 thanx for info.brings back memories long gone of friends some gone.a bunch ofeejits roamin round glencar wakenin waterrats from their slumber..
adyseven1 11 months ago
@adyseven1 it some old geezer, read it somewhere, maybe the album cover, not sure, don't remember, gotta go mate
ghodium 10 months ago
memories of a bunch of lost lads,some lost some still here .smoking a jay watchin the mist rollin down takin a stick to wake those drowsey water rats!get up ye lazy whores!!!!!!!!!
adyseven1 11 months ago
Ecclesiates...itz alwayz already written.....huh thatzmodernisn...post - mod fur ye..monthe ayr academy...albeit beautifully rendered...Mike
makemeateeshirt 1 year ago
Ecclesiates...itz alwayz already written.....huh thatzmodernisn...post - mod fur ye..monthe ayr academy...
makemeateeshirt 1 year ago
Ecclesiates...itz alwayz already written.....huh thatzmodernisn...post - mod fur ye
makemeateeshirt 1 year ago
what a beautful song,set to a classic poem...tears.
bundy643 1 year ago
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public vs private themes...w.b. yeats...mon the rapscallions...fling me a cookie miss phinster...beautifully crafted sawng
makemeateeshirt 1 year ago
public vs private themes...w.b. yeats...mon the rapscallions...fling me a cookie miss phinster...beautifully crafted sawng
makemeateeshirt 1 year ago
public vs private themes...w.b. yeats...mon the rapscallions...fling me a cookie miss phinster
makemeateeshirt 1 year ago
can't hear this without crying...
Brianuniteddavies 1 year ago
the best version of this peice yet
EmilyDreamed 1 year ago
i really hope you don't mind, but I copied your comments when I posted this video on facebook, you describe it beautifully, the song means a lot to me, a hell of a lot........ xxxx
spruceguce 1 year ago
I absolutely love this song. The poem is one of the most beautiful ones I know about, and the way it has been arranged here is just so beautiful it damn near rips my heart in two.
Ilovemeowing1 1 year ago
i,m letting my son Liam listen to this for the first time ,hes 16 ,i learned it too ,but as a child from my Grandmother Ellen Mc Cracken ,in Banbridge..[almost 50 years ago now] .Hes just heard what it meant then to me ..as a child ;what it meant to me ,when he was a child and alas not always by my side where i would have wished him to be...W,B has made us for this special moment ..two children ..two wild swans ...two souls as one just for a moment ,this moment : .Bonis Omnia Bona methinks !
jStevieO 1 year ago
tis a fine rendition of a yeatz thang fo' sho;@~yeats' anxiety of influence...songs of innocence william blake..no matter. Nice rendition Mike:~~
makemeateeshirt 1 year ago
tis a fine rendition of a yeatz thang fo' sho;@~
makemeateeshirt 1 year ago
This song should be the theme music played on any commericial promoting Irish tourism. Probably the best use of a poem set to music ever.
bth2458 1 year ago
As a mother of three beautiful angloceltic children I can attest to that. It's much more difficult and far more courageous to acknowledge love for ones enemy than it is to admit hate because unlike love, hate has never been an emotion we've been taught to be ashamed of.
bellynda1 1 year ago
This song is a statement thatl summises the country that I love. As a Catholic boy who is due to wed a protestant girl next month it shows that a marriage between Anglo and Celt can procure something of infinite beauty as WB Yeats was an Irish Protestant who was so in love with this fair island. Hopefully this beautiful poem and song can show that a union of nationalism and unionism can create something magnificent. Up Down!!!!!!
MrBobbyDolow 1 year ago 4
@MrBobbyDolow Congratulations!
bellynda1 1 year ago
@MrBobbyDolow I hope it is the next step in a wonderful life together for you both. Good luck.
jonivens 1 year ago
yes i love this song.
/Fredrik from Sweden
fred68ify 1 year ago
I love Loreena McKennitt's music but she can't hold a candle to this version - at all.
lundehund44 1 year ago
@ionaibiagoa7 well everyone has their own opinion and i like the version i mentioned as for ms mckennitt's political agenda i could care less i like her voice and her music is amazing to me, sorry you didnt care for it but i like it so i thought i'd share. but i really try to keep my political views out of a conversation about music. so whatever you didnt offend me nor will it start an argument. cuz i just was sharing music i like not my political views.
erinelizabeth1971 1 year ago
……. THANK you, summerislefan, THANK you, for uploading this exquisite acoustic gem, & thank YOU, Lady Faresu, for the heads-up on The Waterboys' loverly treatments of Faery Seer William Butler Yeats's homage to the Hidden Folk. This, too, brought me to tears. Oh, to be home again. Namasté ~ (•8-D
Clematisian 1 year ago
the version of this poem as done by loreena mckennitt is a far better tune. just sayin! her version of stolen child is amazing!
erinelizabeth1971 1 year ago
@erinelizabeth1971 not looking for an arguement but ms mcennitt has her own IRA political and hateful agandas. Played your link and it sounded dreadful. This stunning poem, and Mikes interpretation of this track is beautiful. World peace is such a better idea than any petty nationalism.
ionaibizagoa7 1 year ago
a work of art frrom mike scott, i never understood the lyrics as im scottish, looked up this poem by william yeats and the poem tells an amazeing story
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afireuponthedeep 1 year ago
oh god I love this poem, by Yeats and the song . The reading by 2 by Tomas Macoin is brilliant.
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afireuponthedeep 1 year ago 3
well spoken tom. see ya for a small one soon.
euroman32589 1 year ago
esta es una de las canciones que mas he escuchado en mi vida. Sigue elevando mi espiritu
Gearzen 1 year ago
that is very true autistic children seem to have unrivaled purity. My cousin is autistic, and she is one of the most wonderful people i'll ever meet
rubberRoses26 1 year ago
Yeats still walks among us - a true Irish Poet -speaking of our magical land,what each one gets from his words is exactly what he intended - An Emerald Isle where each one shares what we cannot explain -Ireland a mystery welcoming all.............................
bnorth1000 1 year ago 9
love this track,
MrCol70 1 year ago 2
roisin39 - Your post captures the essence of humanity and the beauty of this poem. May God bless you and your beautiful child. "Too and fro we leap, while the world is full of troubles, and is anxious in its sleep..."
wherethewandering 1 year ago 7
the baby star
2Swansway 1 year ago
For the world is more full of weeping than you can understand
2Swansway 1 year ago
roisin39- i myself have aspergers and have spent a large portion of my life around those with varying degrees of autism through various care groups and have been involved in and agree that those on the autistic spectrum have a strength of charcter that many lack
im glad you enjoy the song and am touched by the meaning it has for you and your son
summerislefan 1 year ago 75
Are see the brown mice bob around the old meal chest
2Swansway 1 year ago
Descibes my son to a tee and one of his favourite songs,he is my "Stolen Child".... Autistic -diagnosed at 2 yrs old - now a thriving 5 yr old still lost to the world of autism yet loved more for his strength and humanity most normal functional adults lack.
He teaches me so much yet asks for nothing in return...I love you more than life itself my "stolen child".
Love
Mommy
roisin39 1 year ago 74
@roisin39 tears to my eyes no joke
TheCherrymichael 1 year ago
@TheCherrymichael
thankyou for your kind words.
Roisin Murphy
roisin39 1 year ago
@roisin39 you've just added an extra layer of beauty to this song. thank you and your stolen child
Frodanatee 11 months ago
@roisin39 Hey Roisin,what a beautifully crafted comment,unconditional love eh,you've made me love this song even more so! Hope all is well with you and your lovely lad!
gram2358 10 months ago 3
@gram2358 thankyou
roisin39 9 months ago
@roisin39 That is soo touching!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I fell in love with song because it reminds me of my Great-Grandmother May she rest in peace! Come away, O' human child to the waters and the wild
My Irish roots seep back in to my heart
goldnlamb 7 months ago
I love this song. A metal head like me is not expected to like this kind of stuff but the poem and the music fit so well together. I'm never sure if i'm happy or sad when i hear this but i dont care coz it feels good. Reminds me of the christmas i first heard it when i bugged my auntie and uncle to keep playing it over an over.
judderSIKK6 1 year ago
Fisherman's Blues from Waterboys... Maybe the best CD ever? I love this song (and the others)...
Bannasanuan 1 year ago
This is actually a Yeates poem incase anyone didn't know!
Drogba10Ronaldo9 1 year ago
My Grandad is buried in these worlds..we remember him forever....
repossessedcars 1 year ago
for jon - miss you son .........
sylkev 1 year ago 3
20 yrs. ago i walked into a record store in leicester, england.
this song was playing, i asked who it was, bought the album and still love this band years on.
so underated, so brilliant.
dobella 1 year ago 3
To Daniel Lee, (1-4-49 to 3-9-10) stolen child, now you are back in a magical place, where there is no more weeping, but you have my love forever.
Siamesemama1 1 year ago
Thanks so much from Denver Colorado! (A video isn't needed when the music is so picturesque!)
Spiritgirldance 1 year ago 2
'where the wandering water rushes, from the hills above glencar" glencar is just up d road 4rm my hometown in lovely leitrim, d song was writen by d poet W.B yeats, listening 2 dis song ere in australia brings me straight hme, mike scott and the waterboys i tink are one of the best bands for stirring emotions and giving you moments of clarity...waterboys for life
TheStevo345 2 years ago 3
magical
itsmoyra 2 years ago 2
This song is in my will. I asked that it be played at my funeral. An invitation to beauty, This and an open bar.
Irishrockfan487 2 years ago 8
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Better sung by Loreena! But this is also nice.
seyabot 2 years ago
i remember running down langdale hills free as a bird in my burning youth faf far away from the reality of this shit adult life
Photographypix 2 years ago
this is so beautiful.. i love the waterboys.
this song is also in AI :D?
ThermalCrew 2 years ago
one of my all time favorites. reminds me of growing up
mac030375 2 years ago
This one moves me
kashe451 2 years ago
The mutts nutts, cracking tune :-)
englishcat19 2 years ago
Yeats was it ?
shaneoeire32 2 years ago
fantastic band,,, seen them at glastenbury many moons ago ... quality !
berniebaby6 2 years ago
How beautiful! :)
TiffanyAnneMusic 2 years ago
krysant50 2 years ago 3
did you write this song.
rocksoliddude1 2 years ago
i found the lyrics and copied it here. it's a poem THE STOLEN CHILD written by WILLIAM BUTLER KEATS
krysana
krysant50 2 years ago
@rocksoliddude1
Lovely and fantastic :)
berniebaby6 2 years ago
yeah we all know the poem
moonmaidens 2 years ago
krysant50 2 years ago 3
krysant50 2 years ago 4
krysant50 2 years ago 3
one of the most beautiful poems of my life, find it very personal, poem by Yeats
too long to post it here, over 1750 letters
its deserves to be post and read by many
as the poem is about many,,,of us
krysana, Poland
krysant50 2 years ago 5
i live in the same town as W.B Yeats did in Galway..
shaneoeire32 2 years ago
I rather like their version, but I find Loreena McKennet's version more haunting
Reccaman154 2 years ago
Great song, great band, great narrator
The songs gives a perspective on life that we all should take into account
MRSMACS 2 years ago
Shame you removed your comment Kate.
I would have liked to have shared it.
JoyOfRepetition 2 years ago
wise up kate this is music and history thrown together good song fer shaggin! calm the fuck down.
TheFoxington 2 years ago
hero. up the scots!!!from an irishman
bhave1984 2 years ago
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callicolady 2 years ago
Great Band excellent album lovely song.
sidensvans67 2 years ago
thaks for posing.love this song.reminds me of childhood holidays at my grandmothers in crossmolina,county mayo.i love the soft,west of ireland accent.the imagery of the poem is great..."the kettle on the hob"...beautiful!all comes flooding back...dulsk,silver mints,boxty,and the smell of turf!god bless you!
frankmelvin 2 years ago
its on the albulm fishermans blues
tjpbm 2 years ago
Is this in any album that can be bought or downloaded?
prometheus3jazz 2 years ago
hi, it is on the album "Fisherman's Blues" by The Waterboys..I'm sure you'll be able to get it in any record shop.
Fioneenacockeen 2 years ago
brilliant song
PunkRapRockBoy 2 years ago
A truly beautiful song ///
prometheus3jazz 2 years ago 2
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This is an awful rendition of the poem. Stick to the sea shanties lads!
VICTORGIRAFFE 2 years ago
every so often i go back to this song an go....magic!
cel7ic 2 years ago 5
I did see the words to this poem/song in a hollywood blockbuster. The words were put on a wall in the movie. I don't recall the film. Awesome band though.
Hithlim 2 years ago
Artificial Intelligence: AI was the name of the movie
VeiledHeathen 2 years ago
it's a poem by the writer W.B Yeats...The Stolen Child...I'm not hugely into poetry but this along with the beautiful melody is mesmerising
Fioneenacockeen 2 years ago 6
Its weird - Saw the waterboys at Glastonbury and couldn`t stand them, I had a serious hangover - within a year this album became one of favorites and cursed the fact I had wasted seeing them play this album at Glas in 1989 as I had my head stuck under my coat !!
hanman1 2 years ago
see i m kidding , now i m writhing , don t worry you still playing tomorow i m pretty col semiling like at child `
danatelosim 2 years ago
a true tribute to a great piece of poetry
Speedfreak1302 2 years ago 3
Beauty that is timeless !.
rgadave 2 years ago 2
Fantastic ...brings back so many memorys of when I worked in Helensburgh
rattler1967 2 years ago
the best of than
danatelosim 2 years ago 2
How can things be so beautiful!
sdeugdad 2 years ago 4
The poem "The Stolen Child" written by William Butler Yeats in 1886.
He wrote the poem relating to old folklore in Ireland about Changelings.
Changelings being children who are taken by fairies whilst sleeping and replaced with the unwanted offspring of the fairies or senile fairies disguised as children.
Children that developed abnormalities were thought to be a Changeling.
The poem was adapted by Mike Scott and features spoken word by Tomás MacEoin. A quite moving poem and song.
PorkyPiggles 2 years ago 32
@PorkyPiggles if this real Ty
2Swansway 1 year ago
@PorkyPiggles. So my daughter is actually a fairy's castoff. I thought she had changed because she became a teenager but this explanation makes much more sense!. That's really interesting.
Sandyhendry 1 year ago
uaaa fantasico difinitivamente una asepcional tema porque te hace sentir una vida muy lejos y diferente
pukaloa 2 years ago 4
Magical, just magical.
drsigh 2 years ago 4
god a miss the waterboys! wot a band an yeah a true classic fae them. may all yous water people b blessed!
cel7ic 2 years ago
The Yeats poem is wonderful not least because it captures the darker and sad der aspect of "the stolen child". What we would now call autism confounded families in old Ireland; they believed that faeries had stolen their child and replaced him or her with a changeling...
wherethewandering 2 years ago 6
It also happened in the Scottish highlands and the islands. Very tragic, especially what they did to the children in a vain attempt to reclaim their 'proper' child.
QueenOfTheKelpies 2 years ago
A thing of Joy, just beautiful.
towneegirl5 2 years ago 7
Just beautiful, one of my all time fav songs. A Waterboys true classic.
Andre
paganplac 2 years ago 12
absolutely love this makes me weep in a good way mike scott is a god to me!
pollypuds 2 years ago
I've only heard Loreena Mc Kennit's version before an although it remains a favorite I am so glad I found this one, so haunting and beautiful. A new favorite! Thank you!
lilibet939 3 years ago
Love this - Magical Yeat's poem and what a voice Yeat's had- Still works for me this Waterboys song. - I'm now going to listen to some Dubliners and hear that RONNIE DREW !
dandgeorge 3 years ago
We Give Them Ink White Dreams, Always missed that. Brill and timeless. Gunga
gungadin60 3 years ago
I like your line but the line is actually
Give them unquiet dreams
gcfc67 2 years ago
oh i know the line but for years phonetically i thought it was "ink white" Ha HA. TY
Swansway1 2 years ago
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gcfc67 2 years ago
Tis is just lovely...come away..
sidensvans54 3 years ago 4
Great Song...It's a poem aswell for those who didnt know that...great song...well done!
tmaster09 3 years ago
wild world is full of troubles and is anxious in it's sleep ... victory surely lays in a peace and a light and maybe who knows a whiskey or two ... and of course sweet, rosy memories - this fair world comes in a dream of poetry, romance and high-minded love. Celebrate