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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. :)