Lot of various versions and renditions of this one song. I think the general message will always be the very same .. for as long as we still know wars, hunger and poverty , to name a few ...
The Red Clay Rambles of Durham,N.C. have a very moving version,as well.This one is nice,and I like 2nd String Band of S.C. too.Tommy Fleming has a more contemporary version.Red Clay Ramblers my favorite so far.Excited to see Emmy Lou Harris and the others here!
Oh my, this one totally caught me off guard. When the harmonies kicked in, my tears started flowing. What a beautiful collection of musicians. Thanks so much for posting this for us to enjoy.
All our lives we never understood this, our sorrows were holding the hands of our dying relatives while they died in their sleep. Now with covid we know the deeper meaning of this song in our new unhappy world 😔
Some of the best folk singers in the world here. Doesn't get much better than this. What a shame the BBC can't release the excellent Transatlantic and Highland sessions on DVD or at least CD.
Most relevant today...hard times come again no more though now they once again linger at the frailty of our individual doors...so come my dears lets not mine the lands no more but to fsrm them all together so hard times come again no more and then we can live together as Gods only children can farm us back to prosperity and build the country in all of Gods children not to mention Our beloved county.
Much as I love the voices of Joan Baez, Emmylou Harris, Norah Jones, Iris de Ment, Cara Dillon and Joan Osbourne these fabulous singers have met their match when compared to Mary Black she has the voice of an angel. She is the female equivalent of Luke Kelly and you don't get any better compliments than that.
Oh, yeah. :) It was quite something to stumble upon one of my childhood staples, being sung by my very favorite Celtic artists and the incomparable McGarrigles! Wow! And now you've gone and uploaded a gorgeous high-quality version of the clip. Onya and thanks!
I presented an audience where someone sung this song, but more quicker. When the song was finished, I told I knew this version with Ann and Kate and the way howe I found it searching for Ann and Kate at RU-vid (it was in 2010, when Kate had died). I wanted to tell it, but got an emotional collapse and could n’t talk for a longer moment. So deep was I impressed by the voices and music of Ann and Kate.
Thanks for sharing - I had first heard this song on Gael Force, a video with Mary Black, Maura O'Connell, Eleanor Shanley & Tommy Fleming. I didn't realize until I researched it that it's a Stephen Foster song; he was one of my parents' favorite songwriters so I heard a lot of his songs growing up, but had never heard this one, which I think is one of the best.
Stephen Foster wrote this in 1854...the same year that Charles Dickens published his novel with the same title..truly hard times on both sided of the Atlantic.
they Must something to make some DVDS for the people that didn't watch the Sessions. People can learn alot about Celtic and American music from the sessions and the RU-vid is not Apropriate for Long TV programes.
Yet again not all the verses. Google it! However nice abbreviated version. I have met Mary Black who is a lovely person however Emmy Lou Harris defies logic and everything. No woman I have ever seen retains the beauty of her youth her whole life.
That guy's voice is lazy and untrained. Doesn't depict the true picture of how people struggle and died through those hardships. He doesn't know what hunger means!!!! 😡🤬🤬
