acoustic song for ( under) the weather

[Bolero]

well, it's a cool, overcast day here today, this tune is pretty appropriate for the weather.....it's a neat little acoustic thing, kind of sad ( I think it's about a girl who's son has died & "fiddler's green" is the cemetary he is buried in? ) but probably nobody south of the border has heard of this band before.

kind of slow around here lately, figured it can't hurt to share a bit of music?

this song sounds great with 2 acoustic gtrs

Fiddlers_Green.mp3 (http://members.rogers.com/ummagumma00/mp3/fiddlers_green.mp3)

[Fujimo]

I like the vocals on this... who is it?

"Fiddler's green" may be a nautical reference, as in "sailor's paradise," (hit up ye olde google for elaboration), though the parallel to a graveyard is a pretty poignant one.

Wish the weather here were appropriate. 100 degrees and sunny isn't particularly befitting of a good Irish ballad.

[Bolero]

well this is what I came up with:


They say that an old salt who is tired of seagoing should walk inland with an oar over his shoulder. When he comes to a pretty little village deep in the country and the people ask him what he is carrying...he will know that he's found Fiddlers Green. The people give him a seat in the sun outside the Village Inn with a glass of grog that refills itself every time he drains the last drop and a pipe forever smoking with fragrant tobacco. From then onwards he has nothing to do but enjoy his glass and pipe and watch the maidens dancing to the music of a fiddle on Fiddlers Green.

an Old English Legend

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And this is an olde Irish sea chanty "fiddler's green" about a
seaman whose dying at sea and is saying good bye to his mates before at sea
burial.


Chorus
"Wrap me up in my oil skin and blanket,
No more 'round the docks, I'll be seen,
Just tell me olde shipmates,
I'm takin a trip mates,
and I'll see ya some day in Fiddler's Green"

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The name 'Fiddler's Green intrigued me. Quite by chance, I was reading a copy of Jackspeak the other day (the Royal Navy's unofficial Slanguage guide) and it defines Fiddlers Green:"An imaginery sailor's heaven full of Pubs, dance halls and enthusiastic ladies. When he cut his painter and shuffled off this mortal coil, Jack was said to have gone aloft to fiddler's Green."

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funny I never thought of doing a search for it before....

the band is called "The Tragically Hip", they've been around a few years......they run the gamut from garage-band grunge, to folky ballads, to artsy-fartsy experimental stuff.

they have some real good tunes. Gord Downie is a great lyricist as well, usually throws in some cool historical references.

" John Cage had come to feel that art in our time was much less important than our daily lives "

[Bolero]

BTW that song is off an album called "Road Apples", IMO one of their strongest.


Link (http://www.thehip.com/discography.html)

[Fujimo]

A-ha! I'd heard of them, but never listened to any of their stuff. Thanks for the info.

[Fujimo]

Here's another acoustic track. This is Lindsey Buckingham from the long out-of-print 1973 "Buckingham Nicks" album.

Stephanie (http://linmiri.ath.cx/~brad/media/stephanie.mp3)

What the heck, these are so short, here's another instrumental from the same album:

Django (http://linmiri.ath.cx/~brad/media/django.mp3)

[Bolero]

cool, thx!!


never would have tracked that down myself!!