An Old Celtic Hymn

A stirring Celtic Hymn from the Mystic Isle.

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Music

Tags:

• Celtic
• Hymn
• choral
• music
• folk
• shanty
• chanty
• chantey

[edyortiz91]

this makes my ears bleed

[suburbanbanshee]

This is an American shape note hymn, from the hymnal The Social Harp (1855). At the beginning you hear people sol-fege the names of the notes.

The lyrics are:

O, tell me, young friends,

While the morning's fair and cool,

O where, tell me where,

Shall I find your singing school?

You'll find it under the tall oak

Where the leaves do shake and blow,

You'll find a half hun-

-dred a-singing fa, sol, low.

[revmayeaux]

I have to agree with the chicken in a sack idea...Rev. Rene Mayeaux St Brendans Apostolic Celtic Church....

[shermanbob100]

This is not Celtic you nimrod!

[Westlinwind1957]

This is absolutely shaped note singing--my mother did this, I have a Sacred Harp hymnal (republished in 1920, Atlanta, GA). It's an interesting type of singing, but I don't think it's ancient celtic.

[greyhound6375]

@BJHBNE Yeah, and maybe apes evolved from humans. This is in a relatively modern mode completely unlike anything older and traditionally Celtic.

[BJHBNE]

@greyhound6375 Or maybe this is how most celtic music used to sound like traditionally.

[MrBlane47]

what da hell

[Zebra902]

This sounds like American shapenote singing, from the Appapalachian region of the U.S.

[chrisjoneschrisjones]

this sounds like a sack full of chickens being abused

[carlasue88]

I wish the sound quality was better :(

[greyhound6375]

This isn't even vaguely Celtic.