The Lass of Aughrim - Frank Patterson

A traditional Irish song in the film: The Dead (1987), based on the same name story in the book "Dubliners" by James Joyce

If you'll be the lass of Aughrim
As I am taking you mean to be
Tell me the first token
That passed between you and me

O don't you remember
That night on yon lean hill
When we both met together
Which I am sorry now to tell

The rain falls on my heavy locks
And the dew wets my skin;
My babe lies cold within my arms;
But none will let me in

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[camilouwalk]

i dont get it... why is she just standing on the steps? and he's just standing there... its kinda weird...

[c1wang]

@camilouwalk

Filming technique: Montage, invites us to try to use our imagination to illustrate an association of ideas. Sometimes it is hard, without the context - what goes before and after this very moment. Let me try to help you: in this clip, end of a dinner party, people are leaving.

[c1wang]

@camilouwalk

Someone started singing on the second floor living room; the song reminds the woman of her past love, deep in her thoughts, she is reluctant to leave the sentiment; her husband waiting donwstairs, looking at his wife seemingly so sad. He is feeling sorry, not knowing what to do to help her.

[norniron21]

pssst...

heavy locks...

traditonal song

words change...

check out some of the singer's versions of trad Irish....

he was a brilliant tenor...

and thanks for posting this

always loved this scene...

sorry

just that those lines are sorta crucial to the moment and maybe aren't what you'd find on the internet...thanks again

[c1wang]

Dear friend,

Thank you very much once again!

I agree with you; I would like the lyrics here be true to the song as much as possible. Since I do not really speak the language, I can hardly tell what's being sung, therefore I take your word for it.

Very best regards,

Wendy

[AdArmand]

Anjelica Huston has never been given her rightful acclaim - she is one of the great actresses.

[KfromKansas]

Thank you for posting this lovely clip. I love this movie. I have watched it innumerable times. Miss Huston was able to capture the look which I suppose all of us are incapable of hiding upon unexpectedly hearing a song or name whose very memory renders us incapable of movement. I believe we all have our Michael Fureys, do we not?

[CUITKIN]

@c1wang Her heart is touched by the song and the singer . If I were going down a stair and above I heard such a beautiful song and sweet voice. I would not stir til all was silent. You should read the story.

[beverlyjohnsondc]

She is not really "in the marriage"..her young boyfriend who died loving her, has been "present" throughout the marriage...Thus...the power of memory of The Dead" over the living.

[Regginyaga]

dat lass

[murraymae]

@camilouwalk I can make you get it with one paragraph. This song reminds the wife of her dead teenaged love, who died "of her", he waited for her in the freezing cold, and died.Turns out she never really got over that and that was the night, years later, her husband of many yrears found out. As you cant really be jealous of a ghost, he understood and as she fell asleep, sobbing. he waxed profound about how everyone is pathetic and sweet and doomed. Color yourself having seen the movie.

[cfurry2]

This is a terrific film by John Huston, and it includes the recitation of a poem about a young girl who waits in a field for a boy who promised to meet her there. She realizes he's not coming, and knows that he has lied to her -- the latest of many lies, she now sees. They were supposed to build a life together, but now she sees he only wanted to sleep with her. All of this is veiled in beautiful language, but the story is timeless.

In the film, people wept when the poem was over.

[irishmafia241]

@camilouwalk

It's based on a short story by James Joyce called The Dead. This scene is a bit more subtle in the story, in that Joyce constructs the scene in a way that suggests Gabriel (the guy) is more like spying on her listening to the song from a distance and she's not aware that he's watching her. It's a pretty dramatic scene in the story mainly because of Joyce's writing and it would be hard to capture the same emotions, but I thought the director did a pretty good job

[HAPPYTHELEAF]

This would move a heart of stone..