RIP Annie Mary Bradley 21/8/29-22/8/13 On 3/7/13 I took her home from getting a scan at the hospital she had trained and worked in from 1948, and as she got out of the car she looked at the back garden and pointed to one particular huge shrub covered in dark red flowers. She said I've never seen it bloom so much before. It's beautiful. That's before something. The grief nearly drove me to Duluth n Hibbing, I had a ticket for Alberta, I got to Ottawa and only then knew in a country where I knew no-one that she wasn't coming back.
I only stopped communicating with everyone because I thought he couldn’t do that to me so I must’ve been wrong. Didn’t then know who I’d been talking to. Thought I’d been fooled by someone who knew my Achilles heel and was frightened as didn’t know who. So stopped communicating. Stopped doing social media. Stopped eating, listening to music. Wanted to be dead every day. Only my dad kept me here. Felt humiliated to be so taken in. I didn’t leave anyone in my view. I was protecting what was left of myself. I hadn’t one moment of joy for a very long time except when with my father and covid curtailed that massively. I thought then I’d kill myself when my dad was gone. But somehow and I don’t understand how, a month later I thought he’d want me to live. My dad that is. So I then felt able to try to live again. From somewhere hope came and also only once he was gone did I believe in God which he’d tried to hard to make me believe in since I was born. Am not sure if that makes sense.
I find it very hard to sing this song,memories of trying to teach my friend Tony the lyrics come flooding back, as he died within that year, and just like Nancy, the tears start quivering within my eyes,
music plays an important part in our lives. I took great solice from the words of Moonlight Shadow "See you in heaven one day, see you in heaven far away" in 1983 as my mother was spending her last days with us
Who cares WHO wrote WHAT,? Idiots,!! By that logic,should nobody else sing Lennon/McCartney, Jagger/Richards,? Or nobody else play Mozart,Strauss,Beethoven,? If it's well sung/played/performed,just ENJOY.
Definitely George is singing this song, you will find this song on the album by The Fureys and Davey Arthur called Emigrant!! But who cares it’s a great version🎼
Odd how such an old song's sentiments are again becoming prevalent with this country's finest having to leave their homes because of the bunglings of those in power..................... just a thought.
Yeh its Eddie Furey singing this one, and while i would agree that Luke Kelly was the finest voice of irish ballads, His version of this song couldn't shake a stick at this one. Sorry guys, this is a master piece, with the pipes and the fiddle
I love the Furey's but i have to say they made a mess of this one! Dick Gaughan's version is good, But Im afraid when It comes to this song, "KELLY IS THE MAN!"
The song has nothing to do with Ireland. It's a Scottish song. I was at a big Eric Bogle concert in Glasgow a few weeks ago and he told the audience how he wrote this song after bidding goodbye to his mother Nancy on the railway platform when he was emigrating from Scotland to Australia in 1969. They thought they might well never meet again, Australia being so much further away in those days than it is now. His mother managed to keep the tears back until the train started pulling away.
A great song by the Scottish/Australian song writer singer Eric Bogle. It was the great Irish group The Furey's who made it what it is. Either way you can't beat the Celts.
I moved to London from Dublin and my mum and dad used to visit me, my dad told me about this song and how it reminded him of our goodbyes! Dad has passed away now and i didnt remember the name till just now! Its on my faves now!
