The Last Trip Home

[beeblebom]

So lovely to hear Davy's voice again. He is missed.

[uilleann08]

Davy war ein guter Freund von mir und ich verdanke Ihm einiges in meiner Laufbahn als FREDDY THE PIPER .Denn durch Ihn habe ich großartige Musiker Schottlands kennengelernt .

Tausendmal Danke DAVY .

[silkystreebzz]

In my opinion, Battlefield band may be the last musical group that truly knows how to tell stories in song. And the grace and beauty of their music is unmatched.

[adrienrain]

When the world regains its sanity, the horses will be back.

[zornfarm1]

@adrienrain... I have two more years farming with the tractors.... Then The ground is mine... And It'll be me and the horses again. I'm only 30 and grew up with them... I've had to do what I had... But soon We'll be back... Soon enough....

[mollyfurie]

@zornfarm1 maith thu!

[TheDerold]

A great song where can I get the notation?

[Anthony8091]

davie sang to my brother when he was born

[BlaeberryBlues]

One of the most beautiful, saddest and well-crafted songs ever written: thank you to Steve Byrne of Malinky for introducing me to it at Feis Rois this year.

[MaChantersPish]

Played this as we carried my grandad's coffin from the church...one of the last generation to work the Clydesdales, my gran first met him as he worked the horses. The lyrics seemed to fit his passing so well...

[alexandraANN1]

Can't stop listening to this.. or crying when I hear it.. we miss ya Davy..

[TBM1066]

Forgot: special thanks to Davy Steele [RIP] for the words and John McCusker for the music.

[TBM1066]

This is one of the best-written most beautiful songs I have ever heard, bar none. As Gairlochan said, it brings tears to my eyes whenever I hear it. Absolutely beautiful it is, and much too true.

[LinnTractorNut]

The generation here that last used horses in the fields or forests are quickly passing, but I have the decline in local agriculture was due in part to the tractor. All the horses owned by my family were laid to rest in the pastures where they spent their final years of retirement. They were family, and sorely missed. Now many communities are getting too high brow to allow their presence, any place unfit for a horse is unfit for a man to live.

[MartynFolkSinger]

Thank you with all my heart for allowing the horses a peaceful retirement

[LinnTractorNut]

It is monsterous to think a horse would be put down simply because they got a tractor. Just not right, a horse is like a member of the family. A privilege to own one.

[jramsay100]

@LinnTractorNut Times were tough. Could a farmer afford to keep these huge and beautiful Clydesdales for naught? It was cutting off a finger to save the hand, never easy. During the Quebec ice storm, I remember this big burly farmer crying like a child when he had to put down hundreds of his cows. They were his livelihood and part of his family. So Sad. He could not milk them without power. They were in pain, cold and could not eat. Was it a simple decision? Did he not care? What would you do?

[LinnTractorNut]

@jramsay100 I guess without enough manpower he did what he had to do. Honestly, I'm not a cow fan, suppose that sounds unfair but I have been too involved physically, and now enjoy eating beef. My grandfather got a small dairy through a winter by hand crank grinding potatoes and turnips by the bushel, you can milk them into the gutter, (NY farmers dumped milk today to protest USDA allowances). Put in generators, you will need them again. Save the horse, farm out some kids.

[mollyfurie]

@jramsay100 Horses grow their own food, and fertilize the fields, frow their own replacements, it's OIL that makes no sense.....................

[Cate2NY]

@LinnTractorNut : that isnt what the song is about. It is about the horses' last working day -- the horses were retired to fallow fields in Scotland.

It's Americans that put an animal down when their economic value declines.

[mollyfurie]

@LinnTractorNut Our lifestyle is unsustainable and the horse will have its day again. The best farmers in the US still use horses.

[MartynFolkSinger]

This is an absolutely fabulous song. But it makes me very sad to think that the beautiful horses whose job was taken by the tractor were simply slaughtered when they were no longer needed. Next time you see a liitle grey Fergie - give it a kick from me.

[cheerydavie]

Yeah!!!! Davy was a great guy davy & I were born in the same village,,,went to the same schools & share a glass or two sadly not enough time with him......as always you never miss a ggod thing 'til its gone

[Whiskerkiss]

I so miss Davy...

[46thistlebrush]

my father worked in Louisville KY in the stables as child and loved the Derby horses but his favorite of all were the Clydesdales, he loved them dearly!

[w1h2i3t4h5a6m7]

one of them songs that hits me just in the right spot everytime i listen to it. truely a beautiful piece of song writing from a man greatly missed.

[Gairlochan]

A slice of music heaven which brings the tears to my eyes. I've sung and loved this song for years, but could never commit the words thoroughly enough to memory to perform it live myself. Now my performing days are over and I wish I had managed it ... just once ... Lovely choice of pictures.

[taigan]

I heard this first on "Prairie Home Companion." It's rare a piece of music makes me cry, but this did it.

[denalinw]

Beautiful piece! I first heard this one on Robbie Shepherd's radio show, "Reel Blend", played from the album "Gentle Giants". Thank you for posting. :)

[bs5750]

Kate Rusby has a song 'Who will sing me lullabies?' this is in memory of her friend Davy Steele.

Well worth a listen.

[jwellsfarrier]

try the jolly plough boys!!!! Here's to the horses, and the plough boys...... We aint all gone!

[cheerydavie]

This song always makes me think of the sad loss of Davy Steele

[Phildo40]

Love Celtic!  Wonderful lyrics!

[skipy936]

Chords & tab please anyone?

[skipy936]

I,ve got tears!

[ncm1965]

Spine tingling!

[bs5750]

Thought you'd like it!

[jimdoyles]

its a joy!

[WindOfTheWisp]

Thanks so much for posting this! I have loved this song since the first time I heard it last year!

[blackbear010]

what a beautiful tune/song/video, my friend in sussex has a clydesdale, im hoping he has found your site, all the very best, excellen. Alex frae Dumfries

[MTponygirl]

This song always makes me cry...