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[hatman]

Long shot: Pandora played a song for me yesterday, and I can't seem to find it. Google isn't turning up any hits for the lyrics I remember. I could swear I'd hit thumbs up (if not this time, then ages ago - because I'm pretty sure it's played it for me before), but I went through the whole list of thumbs upped songs on the station, and I can't seem to find it. Any help tracking it down would be appreciated.

It sounds like an Irish folk song. One female singer with a violin and possibly a few other instruments (I don't remember clearly enough). It's the story of a girl who refuses to wed. Men come a-courting (some more gently than others), but she turns them all down. She tells one (I think after he carries her off, but I wasn't completely paying attention to the lyrics) that he'd better return her to her mother "maiden as I came." The chorus goes something like this:

Hie away from me
Hie away from here
There's not a man
In all Stratford
Married be by me, by me
Married be by me

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[busaikko]

(randomly here but...)

This song? http://www.celticlyricscorner.net/casey/eppie.htm

Then came young Breadalbane
With a pistol on his side
Oh come away, Eppie Morrie
And I'll make you my bride, my bride
Make you my bride

Go get me a horse, Willie
And get it like a man
And send me back to my mother
A maiden as I came, I came
A maiden as I came

(oh, and the first chorus is:
Haud away from me, Willie
Haud away from me
There's not a man in all Strathdon
Wedded be by me, by me
Wedded be by me)

[hatman]

Yes, that's it! Thank you, random stranger! (Well met. :) )

[derryderrydown]

The Shee have a version that meets the 'female singer with a violin and a couple of other instruments' criteria. It's on their second album, Decadence. (Also here randomly!)

[hatman]

Not sure what's bringing random people here, but... cool. :)

It actually was the Karan Casey version I'd heard. It's got a guitar rather than a violin. I guess, wracking my memory, I sort of expected it would be a violin. (I almost posted to say that it was a stringed instrument, but I wasn't sure which one. Ah well.)

Does the album version (presumably recorded in a studio) sound much different than this live version?

Thanks for pointing out. :)

[jojo-da-crow.livejournal.com]

Have you tried finding one of those music services that lets you hum the tune and they try to find the song for you? Spotify has one built in and I'm sure a few others do too. :)

[pgwfolc.livejournal.com]

I know there's a smartphone app like that. Didn't think to look for a regular online one. I'll keep that in mind for next time (or at least try to do so). Luckily, someone came through for me this time. :)