@57mcph Very impressive! Not many people know this is Ween's very dark version of an already dark but beautiful song. Every single time I've played it (Ween style as I only have the voice for that one) I inevitably hear some so called college student say "Gene Ween is such an amazing lyricist." Of course I'm always polite when I tell them Gene Ween is actually Aaron Freeman and he didn't write this song.
I hade faith with my prespective true love . life has scared me of hope. I just need power and values then... maybe i can feel the warm feeling as not being alone.
Ween makes me smile. A rare commodity these days. :^) Even this sad song makes me smile because of Ween's tremendous talent to capture any genre, mood, feeling. Ween is God of all music. For those who don't get it...I feel bummed about that, but I'll keep trying to make people see the magic that is Ween.
Bob Dylan didn't cover this song. Joan Baez did it in her style (folksy vibrato singing), and Gryphon did it in theirs. Gryphon's is quite interesting, it sounds VERY medieval. Check it out.
Lover murders her true love, stays by his grave out of grief for "12 months and one day" (a year and a day was an old English statute of limitations of sorts) to avoid conviction, then unfortunately goes crazy and decides to go gravedigging with necrophilic intention. Poor insane girl commits suicide. Probably a lullaby.
@falkorfaulkner I don't think she goes gravedigging. It's an old English folk song based off the Unquiet Grave. She wants to lie down and die there with him. That's what the lines mean, "oh dig me a grave... I'll lie down and take one sleep". She can't get over his death even after a year and a day.
as a new ween fan, I am listening to the Mollsk album, and am BLOWN away by this song. The old, old English folk song about an 'unsettled grave' has been mastered by them. Quite possibly the best version of this, although Dillon allegedly has sung this, but I can't find it
Thanks, Webster, for your correction. However Bob Dylan, as I assume from your astute correction never sang this song. There is an old folk group from either Kentucky or Tennessee that specializes in singing English folk/ Renaissance songs that has Dillon somewhere in their name or nickname. Since I specifically mentioned English folk songs, and maybe others here may have stumbled across this link as a new or non-Ween fan, (it could happen), the Dillan reference is appropriate. But Thanks !!
I finnaly found it, THIS is the song i heard on the raido a while back, i love this song. Was on some weird small radio station that plays everything...Cold blows the wind...
@MrKillerThriller I heard it similarly. Rue Morgue radio played it. I think you have to subscribe to a podcast to hear that though. Was that where you heard it?
An interesting variation on the Luke Kelly "Unquiet Grave"
57mcph 8 months ago
@57mcph Very impressive! Not many people know this is Ween's very dark version of an already dark but beautiful song. Every single time I've played it (Ween style as I only have the voice for that one) I inevitably hear some so called college student say "Gene Ween is such an amazing lyricist." Of course I'm always polite when I tell them Gene Ween is actually Aaron Freeman and he didn't write this song.
mephestopheles71 1 month ago
@mephestopheles71 it's good you corrected them about the song. but he can still be called Gene Ween...
ZeppelinFloydRoses 3 weeks ago
Mhs anybody? =="
tjtrocks96 8 months ago 4
they made a medieval folk song sound pretty cool :)
austinthebookworm5 8 months ago
my friend just suggested i listen to this song.. almost cried it was so beautiful...
Sozbom 8 months ago
Fuck yeah Child Ballad # 78!
megatherium01 9 months ago
Something about the drums that just..... captured my imagination.
ZeppelinFloydRoses 10 months ago
@ZeppelinFloydRoses dat Claud makes the drum machine look like the pussy it is.
WildFungus 9 months ago
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here is my homage to this brilliant ween song
youtube.com/watch?v=5EDtSqiNDWE
Guitarpch1 10 months ago
here is my homage to this brilliant ween song
youtube.com/watch?v=5EDtSqiNDWE
Guitarpch1 10 months ago
here is my homage to this brilliant ween song
Guitarpch1 10 months ago
I hade faith with my prespective true love . life has scared me of hope. I just need power and values then... maybe i can feel the warm feeling as not being alone.
Manoronedeaths 1 year ago
Only the best songs give you goose bumps. And this is one of those songs.
Scattergun999 1 year ago
Ween makes me smile. A rare commodity these days. :^) Even this sad song makes me smile because of Ween's tremendous talent to capture any genre, mood, feeling. Ween is God of all music. For those who don't get it...I feel bummed about that, but I'll keep trying to make people see the magic that is Ween.
cryptocat71 1 year ago
thanx for uploading, such a great song
island47 1 year ago
This next songs about a dead bitch.
ConnDevi88 1 year ago 2
Fuckin ween. I mean really. You get it.
cygrey 1 year ago
where can i find the lyrics??
wookman723 1 year ago
Ween makes me happy. Even with a depressing song like this. :)
billiardjunkie 1 year ago 2
Bob Dylan didn't cover this song. Joan Baez did it in her style (folksy vibrato singing), and Gryphon did it in theirs. Gryphon's is quite interesting, it sounds VERY medieval. Check it out.
daregularperson 2 years ago
@daregularperson hey i cant find Gryphon
msnikish11 10 months ago
@msnikish11 Ah sorry, the Gryphon version is titled "The Unquiet Grave". It was released in 1973.
daregularperson 10 months ago
I love this song.
maladroitmortal 2 years ago
Lover murders her true love, stays by his grave out of grief for "12 months and one day" (a year and a day was an old English statute of limitations of sorts) to avoid conviction, then unfortunately goes crazy and decides to go gravedigging with necrophilic intention. Poor insane girl commits suicide. Probably a lullaby.
falkorfaulkner 2 years ago
@falkorfaulkner I don't think she goes gravedigging. It's an old English folk song based off the Unquiet Grave. She wants to lie down and die there with him. That's what the lines mean, "oh dig me a grave... I'll lie down and take one sleep". She can't get over his death even after a year and a day.
rufonzo38 1 year ago
That song sure is set to the picture of a lake.
Heck of a lake.
Fawriel 2 years ago
as a new ween fan, I am listening to the Mollsk album, and am BLOWN away by this song. The old, old English folk song about an 'unsettled grave' has been mastered by them. Quite possibly the best version of this, although Dillon allegedly has sung this, but I can't find it
madelineolivia 2 years ago
probably cos Dillon is spelt Dylan
confinedspace2006 2 years ago
Thanks, Webster, for your correction. However Bob Dylan, as I assume from your astute correction never sang this song. There is an old folk group from either Kentucky or Tennessee that specializes in singing English folk/ Renaissance songs that has Dillon somewhere in their name or nickname. Since I specifically mentioned English folk songs, and maybe others here may have stumbled across this link as a new or non-Ween fan, (it could happen), the Dillan reference is appropriate. But Thanks !!
madelineolivia 2 years ago
@madelineolivia
The liner notes from the Ween album this is from credit this song as a traditional Chinese spiritual.
CucamongasRevenge 2 years ago
@madelineolivia delete every song and listen to pink eye (on my leg) on repeat until you really understand it
hansok 1 year ago
Thank you for posting. I have been looking for this song on here for a while now. Hauntingly beautiful.
cd5306 2 years ago
I finnaly found it, THIS is the song i heard on the raido a while back, i love this song. Was on some weird small radio station that plays everything...Cold blows the wind...
MrKillerThriller 2 years ago 7
@MrKillerThriller you heard this on the radio?!
LukeLegere 1 year ago
@MrKillerThriller I heard it similarly. Rue Morgue radio played it. I think you have to subscribe to a podcast to hear that though. Was that where you heard it?
batmobile13 1 year ago
Great song!
JonnyBrotherJr 2 years ago