Dick Gaughan: Craigie Hill

Craigie Hill --- It being in spring and the small birds they were singing
Down by a shady arbour I carelessly did stray
Where the thrushes they were warbling, the violets were charming
For to view two lovers talking a while I did delay

She said, "My dear, don't leave me all for another season
Though fortune may be pleasing I'll go along with you
I'll leave friends and relations and quit this Irish nation
And to the bonnie Bann banks forever I'll bid adieu"

He said, "My dear, don't grieve me or yet annoy my patience
You know I love you dearly although I'm going away
I'm going to some foreign nation to purchase a plantation
For to comfort us hereafter all in America."

The landlords and their agents, their bailiffs and their beagles
The land of our forefathers we're forced for to give o'er
And we're sailing on the ocean for honor and promotion
And we're parting with our sweethearts, it's them we do adore

If you were in your bed lying and thinking of dying
One sight of the bonny Bann banks, your sorrows you'd give o'er
And if your were but one hour all in her shady bower
Pleasure would surround you, you'd think on death no more

So fare thee well, sweet Craigie Hill, where oftentimes I have roved in
I never thought in my childhood days I'd part you any more
But we're sailing on the ocean for honour and promotion
And the bonny boat's a-sailing way down by Doorin's shore

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[tannoy123]

Do we need a definitive version? :)

Dick is just such an under-celebrated national treasure. The mans interpretation of songs is second to none imho.

This is just goose bump inducing. You close your eyes, your there.

[lukessummer]

Very well put tannoy123...

[fingal42]

I love this song and I'm an Englishman... But anyway, I love this song! ;-)

[lukessummer]

I love English people and I'm an Irishman...and anyway, It's a Scot's man singing this song! ;-)

[mouldybear]

Just ecstatic.

[wicksinn]

Fuck sake!! i'm an Englishman and I always shed a tear when listening to this song!

[neeborken]

so beautiful and emotional

[minwav]

Unbelievable.

[Arkel20001]

Fucking brilliant



[slauburn]

so instruvtive song. thank you

[EntangledBoJangle]

I learned about this song in my World Music class in college. It is now one of my favorite songs. I get goosebumps. Wow

[DonegalRaymie201]

@SaintFu

Congratulations! You've just experienced your 1st "Gaughaning"! Been a fan 25 years now, and he can still stop me dead in my tracks with that voice!

Not that it matters mo chara, but Gaughan is equally Irish & Scots, but a gift to us both! In many ways, he represents our Celtic music better than we can articulate, though he is strangely under-appreciated in Ireland, I must admit!

[SaintFu]

My genes left Ireland 4 generations ago. But I can still know the authentic with the diluted DNA that courses my veins this day (the first day I've heard of Dick Gaughan).

Man, this guy punches you in the gut with his singing. I may be the most freshly minted fan for life, though the ties are more than a century old, I know. I embrace my instincts for old Ireland.

[DonegalRaymie201]

Why I can never listen to this without suffering complete gooseflesh & shivers like I was sooking limes??