'Lullaby' ~ Loreena McKennitt

[urquelli]

she is my favorite female voice! i love all of her albums!!

[Nahusakme]

It's raining and i'm listening this track, this is so fucking awesoe

[martharoyce]

This is so lovely...

[thears2u]

Blew me away!***

[dadaqueen55]

So beautiful...

[raindropsofhope]

thank you for this, I have been looking for this for a while; haunting...

[MeSillyWoohoo]

This is such a moving piece. It's simply amazing

[MrMojram]

i keep replaying the video i love it realy nice music

[zola1313hk]

The Kings and Nobles of the Land have done it!

Hear it not, Heaven, thy Ministers have done it!

yes, it's true.........

[berniemacster]

William Blake sounds like Gandalf lol

[FeeFee97]

i luv this

[latinoboy0026]

¡¡¡ WHO CAN STAND !!!



[AliasCheri]

Bit of a strange question, but I really love the atmosphere in Loreena McKennitt's music, its mysterious, cosy, historic, but also personal and sensitive. Do you know any other musicians or groups that have this feeling to their music, with whom you can read a book and everything feels so much more intense? :)

[quadrant2005]

@AliasCheri things like Clannad and medieval babes are this kind of thing i think and maybe enya its sort or medieval music, hope that might help,,,,

[zola1313hk]

@AliasCheri dear, listen to Lisa Gerard, you will like her

[elmayra07]

she also plays harp, she introduce new age music ,the best music u can listen to

[farringtonstefan]

Absolutely BEAUTIFUL, God I love her voice

[JEZUSIshpeton]

OH WHO CAN STAND???

[misako2385]

ES UNA DE LAS COSAS MAS HERMOSAS QUE HE OIDO.

[RafikiGurl123]

is the poem also called Lullaby? or what is it called?

[SilverWolfMoon]

@RafikiGurl123 According to some earlier posts, it is: "Prologue, intended for a dramatic piece of King Edward the Fourth" (Poetical Sketches) by William Blake

[celticspirits5]

@RafikiGurl123

I don't know the title of the poem, but I guess it is from Shakespeare.

[nefredil]

@RafikiGurl123 lyricsplayground. com/alpha/songs/o/oforavoiceli­kethunder. shtml

[MyJamjamjamjam]

@RafikiGurl123 it is called for a voice like thunder

[KNO3CS]

I have always felt that Poetry is a time machine for the soul. It takes powerful emotions felt hundreds of years ago and makes them yours, here. now.

[MrMoonzkin]

The voice belongs to Gandalf

[MrChatnoir1]

@MrMoonzkin sean connery

[Innocueous1]

I looooove the song and poem. Who was the voice? Felt like I was watching LOTR...LOL.

[thefranster14]

i can only guess the one dislike there is was a mistake...must be. this is beautiful.

[ravenouscolonelhart]

someone should make a video of this song, with random clips of all the poverty, war, corruption, and destruction of the bush administration. "the kings and the nobles of the land have done it, hear it not heaven! thy ministers have done it!"

[PsychoticLoner]

@ravenouscolonelhart

So a bunch of shots of wealth and freedom? That doesn't really fit the song.

[WyzeIntellect]

what a masterpiece

[haraldharry]

I saw her live. She was great. Totaly perfect in every word or sound. I am so sorry that i missed her concerts in the alhambra! Greetings vom Harry to all her fans!

[MsGilette]

its amazing

[Terrakinetic]

2:10 Skip right to it.

[MelodyStark]

They speaking guy sounds like Picard

[starpotter04]

Gives me chills every time.

[ysbaddaden2003]

This is going to sound silly

But I always thought this the best song to end a movie adaption of Dracula with

Douglas Campbell would be the power of the voice of Dracula and/or Van Helsing

And the woman cooing like Mina with her new son at the end of the novel.

[CanadianSpiritBear]

I heard this about 5 years ago, I am not sure now how long it was exactly.

It moved my soul back then and about two years later as I sat staring up at my ceiling i suddenly remembered it.

I spent months, years even looking for it; put up posts in ask jeeves, google, everywhere I could think of.

Now after 3 years of looking I have found it, I don't know why I have decided to post this.

I only know that this made it all worthwhile, maybe i only wanted to share my joy with you all.

Anyway Thank You

[torrentXofXdarkness]

I LOVE THIS SONG

[christinaskoulikas]

I love this song! I want to meditate to it, but not with Douglas's voice! Is there anyway to get just the song?

[isooo3]

İs good

[spikeGRftw]

these poem lyrics also exist in a Rotting Christ's song named Thou Art Lord

[HighPriestFuneral]

2:09 What a fantastic voice. May he rest in peace.

[RamenXBaka]

The poem gives me chills I love it, this is one of my favorite ones by her.

[Raylor1974]

lol i love the song but i wont sing a song to my 2 year old child about fiends of hell to rejoice upon the slain

But Loreena has a voice like an angel as always

[elfheart666]

glamorous

[Urbani2]

The heading of the poem is "Prologue, intended for a dramatic piece of King Edward the Fourth" (Poetical Sketches, originally printed in 1783)

O for a voice like thunder, and a tongue

To drown the throat of war! - When the senses

Are shaken, and the soul is driven to madness,

Who can stand? When the souls of the oppressed

Fight in the troubled air that rages, who can stand?

When the whirlwind of fury comes from the

[ysbaddaden2003]

I've always thought that preachers should be trained to have this sort of voice in their seminiaries.

In my limited experience of such things, too many sound like Southern Fried Crackers

Or Ned Flanders.

[candygirl52793]

@ysbaddaden2003 Very true. More need to sound like this, or Morgan Freeman, or Stephen Fry.

[ysbaddaden2003]

I don't know why, but I always tend to picture the end of the book Dracula when this song is played.

[victoriapschen]

I really really love this one.

[TheCalado1984]

Que paz essa pequena me traz...

[MrBlindmans]

Douglas Campbell is correct. First time I heard the album I thought it was Leo McKern(a.k.a. Horace Rumpole). What a voice!

[kaymazkoray]

nice song ...love you lorenna and this song.. thanks for this share..

[007ryoma]

what a voices.

wonderfu

[gawain259]

Can't beat us celts.. AHH!!!

[ysbaddaden2003]

@gawain259

Well they certainly did a good job in thrashing the Irish when the spoke their tongue, and killing Scottish Jacobites when they spoke theirs or played their bagpipes.

[gawain259]

@ysbaddaden2003 Who? and what are you refering too?

[ysbaddaden2003]

@gawain259

The Sassenach...

[solnegrolunaroja]

Is he John Rhys-Davies? I cannot clearly identify his voice, I'm not sure if he is John or Christopher Lee

[SilverWolfMoon]

As I stated further down in the early comments :

The poem is spoken by the (late) Scottish actor {resident in Canada} : Douglas Campbell

[solnegrolunaroja]

Thank you very much! He has a remarkable voice indeed, should have known he was scottish! :)

[extraam]

Amazing song!!! And his voice... oh, wonderful!!!!

[sargolan]

what a voices, specially him's

[trogylos]

E' un meraviglioso brano, di quelli che resta in testa, di quelli che prendono l'anima, che piano si trasforma, in farfalla, in albero, in fata........

[narichannn]

@trogylos _ hai perfettamente ragione. Meravigliosa.

[HarleyCatherineQuinn]

I love this song so much. It's a good warm up song

[450creek]

Rest in peace, Canadian actor Douglas Campbell (1922-2009). "O for a voice like thunder".

[SilverWolfMoon]

Oohhhh... that is sad :(

At least he had a longish life...

[Kordar09]

@450creek He's dead? That's a shame. Douglas Campbell had such a resonant voice, very like Ian Mckellen...I wished I had seen him on stage...he must have been awesome in his prime...

Requiescat in pace*. K.

*Means "rest in peace" in latin...

[mixailaggelos2004]

@450creek... Yeap.. you can see Douglas Campbell speaking also here /watch?v=AbzcASxCkw8 .. R.I.P

[gret4zani]

Actually is from the "PROLOGUE INTENDED FOR A DRAMATIC PIECE OF KING EDWARD THE FOURTH" by William Blake (capitals from the Poetical Sketches that can be found on Google Books).

[Erikvan7]

Always loved her music - this is wonderful....

[Hopanio]

That 'tis....beauty incarnate is her voice...

[Daelmyth]

**sigh** Tis Beauty

[livetoserve1]

One day people will need to answer thoose questions..

[SilverWolfMoon]

It's strange to think that this poem was written sometime before 1827 (when Blake died), and yet is still so true nearly 200 years later...

[Tarotlynx]

@SilverWolfMoon It seems more and more true every day.

[extronus]

@SilverWolfMoon It will be true forever

[DrRocky356]

@SilverWolfMoon

sometimes you will find poems that can still ring a definite true note after a long time it is amazing though

by the way do you know any films that Douglas Campbell was in

[jordanviach]

people are already answering to those questions. they just don't realise it yet.

[illustratz]

@livetoserve1

Sadly, every generation asks that same question... and the answer never changes.

[Rubberduck1st]

@livetoserve1 As a preacher, I can tell you that too many preachers are afraid to preach the truth, for fear of the gov't taking away their tax-free status...no excuse.

[goldilocksgirly]

what's the poem called?

[SilverWolfMoon]

I can fnd no mention of the title. The liner notes just refer to it as 'Poem' by William Blake.

[augaire]

It is the Dramatic prologue to the play King Edward II, written by Blake.

[goldilocksgirly]

ok, thnx.

[PunchDrunkMusicLover]

what an amazing piece!

thank you for posting Silver!

[mujeramante89]

who's the man who is talking in this song?

[SilverWolfMoon]

The poem is spoken by the Scottish actor {resident in Canada} : Douglas Campbell

[Aravis17]

This song makes me feel so peaceful...her voice is like an angel in this song.

[mister7excess]

the perfect song ...:)