The Corrie Folk Trio --- Eileen Aroon

Another extremely rare song from The Corrie Folk Trio recorded in 1963. Bill Smith sings lead on this song.
As the story of this song goes---Aroon is a term of endearment. The song expresses deeply felt love and loss for an "Aileen" that is a thinly disguised, heartfelt cry for Ireland itself, ending with the assertion that, when all else fails, and the battles have been won or lost, that truth alone survives.

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• Aroon
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[StripeyDusty45]

I never heard this song other than by Liam Clancy. Beutiful old tune. This is a great version too! I'm quite sure this is Bill Smith singing? Whoever sang this did it very well, sang with lots of emotion, which makes it worth listening to again and again. Too bad it's not on CD (or is it?)

[mandolinda6]

Yes, that's Bill Smith singing.

No, sorry, there's no CD. This song is long out of print and no longer available.

Thanks for watching the vids!

Cheers

[scratchy45]

Great stuff, thanks again! Beautiful song, I always loved it: "truth is a fixèd star..."

Like StripeyDusty45 (are we related?;) I knew this from the Clancies, but had never heard it by the Corries.

[MsCardross]

This was my mother's favourite of Bill singing, and I liked Tom's Kishmul's Galley as well. Lots of singing in our home when we were young. Also when Bill was forming the Corrie Folk Trio.

[MyStringsAndStuff]

Beautiful song!

[unclephil440]

I love this song and the Corries. Thanks for posting

[MegaArchitect1]

@uggyoggy9

Thanks for your kind comment. Anyone listening with half an ear to the early CFT arrangements and performances would surely realise that the musical foundation had been firmly laid down long before the emergence of the Corries as a duo; something that Roy & Ronnie never denied, and which served them well over the years.

Bill Smith

[uggyoggy9]

@kingofcelts1

Sounds to me that YOU are the pitiful baw heid!

Did you ever realise that without the corrie folk trio there would be no corries? I do hope Linda blocks you!

[seashelley09]

Such a beautiful song! :)

[kingofcelts1]

Bill Smith was a good singer in his time, but his arrogance and self-love made him a pitiful baw heid that no one could tolerate.... So became THE CORRIES!

[RedGabeRoss]

The late Richard Harris, sings a bit of "Aileen Aroon" in the movie " The Molly Maguires". I don't think he ever sang much in films outside of "Camelot". He sang one verse of "The Minstrel Boy" in "Major Dundee" and it set up his character for the rest of the film. Too bad more film makers did not use Harris' singing as Peckinpah did. Any way this a beautiful version, almost as good as my Ma's

[thetrollfairy]

I just can't stop listening to this song! Lovely!

[LindsayCurran]

Linda, you say it best, what this means for me:

Another extremely rare song from The Corrie Folk Trio recorded in 1963.

Bill Smith sings lead on this song.

As the story of this song goes---Aroon is a term of endearment.

The song expresses deeply felt love and loss for an "Aileen" that is

a thinly disguised, heartfelt cry for Ireland itself,

ending with the assertion that, when all else fails,

and the battles have been won or lost, that truth alone survives.