Name: Si Beg Si Mor
Duration: 5 min 45 s
Channel: TrT. O'Carolan/words S. Wolf/arr. DK
Description: License options are available for this song. Seonaid Wolf sent me a single verse written to fit O'Carolan's harp air Sheebeg and Sheemor (which can be spelled in many ways). She asked me to 'look after' the words for her and let others hear them.

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Seonaid Wolf sent me a single verse written to fit O'Carolan's harp air Sheebeg and Sheemor (which can be spelled in many ways). She asked me to 'look after' the words for her and let others hear them.

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David Kilpatrick

Solo singer-songwriter and tunesmith playing British fingerstyle steel and nylon string guitar, and historic instruments. Scots and Irish influences.

I've been writing and playing songs and tunes since teenage years in folk clubs and pubs. I co-organise the Kelso Friday night live music sessions at the Cross Keys (hosted singaround 7.45-10pm) and Cobbles Inn (10-12pm open mic with The Cobbles Band) with the help of many friends. All welcome! Visit us at kelsofolkandlive co uk. It is worth clicking on the tab because the sound quality of my tracks is far higher than the auto player on this page. Many can be streamed or downloaded at 320KBps and the enhancement for solo guitar/voice far exceeds the benefit you get for highly compressed band recordings. My recordings are full dynamic, not compressed. Just select Hi-Fi for the first song, and an MP3 high bitrate window will open - you will still get a sequence of songs. Most of my downloads are free, but some 320KBps tracks are paid-for. These are selected because they make up my main instrumental album. I now have a YouTube page and have started doing some video recordings for fun: @daviddkilpatrick I have mainly played Lowden guitars since 1999. I current play a 1985 S5FN (nylon string), 1986 S22 (jumbo O-size mahogany/cedar), and 1995 S32 (small body rosewood/spruce). I also play my own 1997-built Martin 'kit' Grand Auditorium rosewood/spruce, a Sigma OM-T, Furch Little Jane, Tacoma Papoose, Guild 8-string baritone, Vintage V880 parlour guitar and Gordon Giltrap signature model, a Troubadour mahogany/spruce classical and an Adam Black 12-string. And that's just the guitars... also viola, mandolin, mandola, waldzither, bouzouki, Appalachian dulcimer, low D whistle, keyboards.

Song Info

Genre

World • Traditional Irish

Charts

Peak #20

Peak in subgenre #1

Author

TrT. O'Carolan/words S. Wolf/arr. DK

Rights

David Kilpatrick

Uploaded

February 07, 2008

Track Files

MP3

MP3 5.3 MB • 320 kbps • 5:45

Story behind the song

A newsgroup visitor, Seonaid Wolf, asked questions about Carolan's most famous and first harp tune. I suggested it should be played with variations, and that it did not have any words - perhaps being considered not the right way to treat the tune. Seonaid, however, responded with this verse acquired by the same method as O'Carolan; by dreaming. It is not an unusual way to write poetry or lyrics and several of my own songs have been based on verses invented during that productive phase of dreaming before waking up. The words struck me as fairly appropriate; they are very similar to the type of verse from Highland Gaelic faery songs, and although there are words I would say are outside the celtic vocabulary ('fen' for example) I am happy to attempt to sing them as well as I can in this context.

Lyrics

O'er meadow and moor, througn the fen and forest
Weeping in the cold wind for the one I love
So lost, so lost, alone I strayed
To the shadowed hills where faeries played

In the mist they danced whispering their words o'er my broken heart
Magic words of love brought her back to me
In their light, one night, one night
For ever in my longing heart is that night

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