Gryphon - The unquiet grave

Funeral Doom from one of the best prog rock bands of the 70s.

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[ChubbyDoomDoom]

Doom Rule No.3 "Every day is a funeral"

[ChubbyDoomDoom]

Very old English folk song handed down by word of mouth for 100s of years and has many words written to it. No one can be sure of the original lyrics. The Irish interpretation is excessive grief disturbs the dead and that tears of grief burn holes in the corpse (e.g. the Irish Wake party vs the English service of grief). The English interpretation is that the spirits of husband and wife are joined and the riddles set by the wife are to stop her husband following her to the grave in his grief.

[TheRogerblack]

Amazing song, great vocals, thanks for sharing.

[verineid]

great song, i sometimes sing it when showering. it's far from funeral doom though.

[gadrian58]

@Cohedros The earliest mention of this song is in England in the 14th century . There have been many covers more recently by Irish folk singers so its easy to think it's Irish . Scarborough fair is also an old English folk tune but many think it was written by simon and Garfunkel in the 1960 because that is were they heard it .

[Madvillane]

so much i could say, but i'll just leave it at nice track.

[MrPaull2]

"The Unquiet Grave" is an English folk song in which a young man mourns his dead love too hard and prevents her from obtaining peace. It is thought to date from 1400 and was collected in 1868 by Francis James Child, as Child Ballad number 78

[Cohedros]

@holydiver73 'Doom' is a term for a dirge. Learn your terminology, please, and no, this isn't Renaissance, or English. It's Irish folk.

Before one derps, one must herp. I can see you've done both here.

[Bobbo293]

Dark Folk? Black Folk? Who cares. Let's just

appreciate a fine version of a great, great song. And what a lyric. If Edgar Allan Poe had been a songwriter, surely he would have come up with something like this!

[holydiver73]

Funeral Doom? what the fuck is that when it's at home. It's traditional English renaissance folk if you please.