You Rambling Boys of Pleasure - Andy Irvine

Andy supported by Mick Hanly in 1979

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Music

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• Irvine
• Hanly
• Rambling

[robingillan]

A truly beautiful song .Sweet sadness isnt't that what soothes us all in the hard times

[SWFLFiddler]

Simply fantastic. Andy Irvine is the uncrowned King of Irish sad ballads.

[hammerboi87]

@pianoblack13 I actually just came from Wikipedia: A beautiful Norwegian lullaby use “Down By The Salley Gardens” as it's melody, and from there came the link to the Rambling Boys of Pleasure.

[jfsfrnd]

This is so beautiful. Andy's voice is haunting. I think we must have all been Irish in a past life somewhere.

[pianoblack13]

this was actually the original song. yeats was inspired by a mis-remembered version of this song sung by some old peasant lady. you can check out the wiki page on Down By the Salley Gardens, if you wish. regardless both poems/songs are quite beautiful

[MrCajunmojo]

This is just brilliant.

[MrCajunmojo]

This is an absolutely perfect performance.

[SpanneredSpoons]

@astrolog7000 It was always said that this (Rambling Boys of Pleasure) is the original song, which Yeats had heard and "misremembered". But then, I may be mistaken.

[TheRakishPaddy]

I love Andy so much.

[astrolog7000]

Interesting how the Irish accent sits on the "r," as we do in the US. The English kind of leave it out, not prounouncing it, as they do in Massachusetts and the rest of New England.

Interesting the melismatic trills with which he sings. They sound so beautiful. His voice is so mellow and sweet, and the high tenor notes don't sound like falsetto.

Wonderful instrumentation! Gorgeous! Andy, if I had been your "darling girl," I would not have "changed my mind."

[astrolog7000]

A line in this song is the same as Yeat's poem, "Down by the Salley Gardens." "She bade me take love easy, just as the leaves fall from the trees, But I being young and foolish, With my true love did not agree."