Ride On (Christy Moore/Jimmy McCarthy cover)

For our inaugural "solo" YouTube contribution we have covered a Christy Moore staple that has been a favourite of ours for a long time but what is it all about? There is little information or commentary available for such a popular song and the writer, the gifted Jimmy McCarthy has, so far as we know and entirely appropriately, been very quiet in offering any kind of clue or explanation.

We like to think that, like many great songs, it is capable of working on several different levels. It could be about the loss of a lover, a sad acknowledgement that the ends cannot always justify the means or it could simply be a song about a horse and rider!

Whatever the meaning to you, we hope you enjoy our interpretation.

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• Christy Moore
• Jimmy McCarthy
• Mary Coughlan
• Irish
• folk
• fiddle
• violin
• Song of the Singing Horseman
• pop
• ballad
• Hawthorne
• thehawthorne2
• the hawthorne 2
• acoustic
• cover
• Hawthorn
• thehawthorn2
• the hawthorn 2
• thehawthornetwo
• thehawthorntwo

[thomascow1]

Great post thumbs up

[TheHawthorne2]

@thomascow1

Many thanks for your support and glad you enjoyed - we did!

[tillyireland]

That is one of the finest covers of this classic i have ever heard,smooth and sultry and stylish, class !

[TheHawthorne2]

@tillyireland Thanks for that, high praise indeed from the Emerald Isle, where, as you may well have guessed, we have quite a family network!!. We want to try and bring our own touches to the songs we cover while respecting the original performance(s). We look forward to exploring your YT back catalogue and hopefully seeing more of you in due course. Slainte, tH2

[navim49]

Mesmerising and enchanting!! You’ve taken a classic Jimmy ballad and added new depths and layers in a truly moving performance.

The vocals evoke great feeling and excellent voice control. A slower tempo demands a great deal more from a singer’s delivery and this is top draw. The great warm vibrato on the longer lower notes perfectly compliment the gentle ease oozing from the melody, while the classy improvising on the higher notes remind the listener of the inner lyrical intensity. Love it!!!

[TheHawthorne2]

@navim49 Thanks Mate, we do our humble best and are hugely grateful for your encouragement to get here and your ongoing support. Here's to the future journey before us all.

[TheHawthorne2]

@MegaMarcus321 Thanks for your support, we hope to bring some more fiddle online in the near future and look forward to seeing more of you too. tH2

[TheHawthorne2]

@raffaport Thanks Raffa, can't really replace Nav but we wanted to do a little something for ourselves. If you like this kind of thing then Jimmy McCarthy's album 'The Song of the Singing Horseman' is worth checking out.

Cheers and regards to you also.

[raffaport]

Great debut guys. I didn't know this one, but think it's a cracker. Lovely harmonies and I'm just a sucker for that fiddle especially when it comes in around the two minute mark.

I see you've replaced Nav with a keyboard - wise move!

Thumbs and regards.