If I Were A Blackbird
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loved it, very good performance!
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Absolutely beautiful and haunting at the same time d(^_^)b
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You've done a lovely job... my Granda used to sing this song many years ago... sigh.
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A grand song. I first heard Andy M. Stewart sing it and, like others, assumed it to be Scottish. Very well sung, thanks! If you would be so kind as to send along a chart for this or at least the chords, I would appreciated it!
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very nice! well done sir. I used to do a version of this with a Celtic band...i really like your interpretation. it's so soulful...can you send me the chord pattern?
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though i sing a different version this is alwasy a favorite balland of mine, and you done it justice. truly lovely
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hey.. gorgeous singing and guitar..has the savage minstrel any cds ?
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A lovely performance of this most beautiful tune! Bravo!!
Lorna
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who downvoted all responses here? lol
Dinges1234567 10 months ago
@Dinges1234567 Loyalist anti-Irish bigots, basically.
savageminstrel 10 months ago
Is it Irish or Scottish?
And my gosh beautiful song, and a very well suited song for your voice.
1piratesluver 2 years ago
I thought originally it was Scottish, since I learned it from Andy Stewart of Silly Wizard .... but it is an Irish song.
savageminstrel 2 years ago
This song was sung by you very well however I don't believe this is a Scottish folk song as you seem to believe. This song was wrote and recorded by an Irish woman named Delia MURPHY and she was born on February 16, 1902 in Ardroe, Claremorris, Co Mayo IRELAND. In 1939 she recorded The Blackbird along with The Spinning Wheel and Three Lovely Lassies for HMV.
Audij84 3 years ago
Actually the song is much older, it appears as early as 1906 and Delia Murphy did her version afterwards, so I doubt that she wrote it.
"If I was a blackbird": there is a version in The Wanton Seed by Frank Purslow collected in 1906 by Hammond and Gardiner. So as is typical of old celtic songs, there are Irish, Scottish, and English versions. Delia said when asked that she heard it being sung by street performers in 1920 in Dublin.
savageminstrel 3 years ago