Steeleye Span - 'Cam Ye O'er Frae France'' (Live)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ก.ย. 2024
- Video taken from the 'World Tour' 35th Anniversary DVD, available to buy from the Park Shop here: parkrecords.com...
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In an age when bands seem to come and go in the blink of an eye, an occasion such as a thirty fifth anniversary is one that just has to be marked. Such it was for Steeleye Span, who decided to celebrate the best way they know how - by taking their music of the people to the people across the country. With a line-up featuring names from every period of the band’s illustrious history, the music captured here also reflects every aspect of their stunning career - from their earliest adventures into electric folk through to their commercial heyday and latter work. This is not only the first time that all these individual personalities have been in the same band at the same time, it is also the first time that the magic of Steeleye Span in concert has been caught especially for DVD. Let the celebrations begin….
Musicians
Maddy Prior, vocals;
Peter Knight, violin, vocals;
Ken Nicol, guitars, vocals;
Rick Kemp, bass, vocals;
Liam Genockey, drums, percussion
Set 1
King Henry
Padstow
Prince Charlie Stuart
Four Nights Drunk
Who Told the Butcher?
Mantle of Green
Long Lankin
Samain
All Around My Hat
Set 2
Tam Lin
Let Her Go Down
Liam’s Drum Solo
Drink Down the Moon (
Si Begh Si Mohr
Betsy Bell and Mary Gray
They Called Her Babylon
The Blackleg Miner
Sir James the Rose
Van Diemen’s Land
Encores / Extra Features
Cam Ye O’er Frae France
Gaudete
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That's how we want to remember this legendary band!
I don't understand anything of the lyrics as a finnish person, but the sound and the attitude are so beautiful.
Love you Maddie, love to the whole band.
This song is the only reason I keep coming back to Steeleye Span.
I don't care much for their hat song and others, but THIS song is damned impressive!
PS: I like the slower studio version better.
nevermind nitpicking over lyrics, accents, song origins, stolen tunes
and the rest....just listen to Maddy's astounding vocal range, that does it for me...every time,
she's amazing!
The musicianship is simply exquisite
Maddy your voice is incredible. thanks to all of you for so many great songs that i grew up on. love you steeleye!
This is absolutely amazing. What a range in her voice Maddie has. Not to mention the superb playing of instruments by the band. Incredible stuff. And Maddy is still a babe.
I love this and am amazed by it! There's Maddie's gorgeously nimble and spritely vocals and that fiddler! He is GOOD! And they sure can dance! I'm wearing out my exclamation symbol!
The Jacobites may have lost the war - disastrously - but they produced by far the best songs. The winning side is still stuck with "God save the Queen."
There's also "Ye Jacobites by Name" and "Lillibullero".
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The tune for Lilliberlero was written by Englishman Henry Purcell.
Awesom performance and I really enjoy Maddys dance
Great stuff! Without doubt the hardest of all their songs to perform given the incredible arrangement of the original studio recording.
Absolutely brilliant... Always loved it and the whole Jacobite poltics balls-up
the magic lives on !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! .
I tried to remember where I knew this melody from and then I realized it's pretty much the same tune as "Rocky Road to Dublin".
Steeleye are the best when they are incomprehensible
Another one of my favourites! Long live, long rock Steeleye!
Love, loe, LOVE this song and only by Steeleye Span could it acquire such power and pace!
Text below, with lyrics, reproduced with thanks from his TH-cam comment.
Credit:
J GooAre you confused by this song?? No longer:
When George I imported his seraglio of impoverished gentlewomen From Germany, he provided the Jacobite songwriters with material for Some of their most ribald verses.
Madame Kilmansegge, Countess of Platen, Is referred to exclusively as "The Sow" in the songs, while the King's Favorite mistress, the lean and haggard Madame Schulemburg (afterwards Named Duchess of Kendall) was given the name of "The Goose". She is the "goosie" referred to in this song. The "blade" is the Count Koningsmark.
"Bobbing John refers to John, Earl of Mar, who was at the time recruiting Highlanders for the Hanoverian cause.
"Geordie Whelps" is, of course, George I himself.
Lunnon = London
Kittle Housie = Brothel
Linkin = Tripping along
Claith = Cloth
Niffer = Haggle
Gin = If
Wab = Web (or length) of cloth
Tint = Lost
Ha's and Mailins = Houses and Farmlands
Gane = Gone
Belyve = Quickly
Brawly = Well
Hurdie = Buttock
Now for the full lyrics:
Cam ye o'er frae France?
Cam ye doon by Lunnon?
Saw ye Geordie Whelps
And his bonnie woman?
Oh, weren't ye at the place
Called the Kittle Housie?
Saw ye Geordie's grace
A-ridin' on a goosie?
Geordie, he's a man,
There is little doot o't,
And he's done a' he can,
All can dae wi'oot it,
Doon there cam' a blade,
Linkin' like ma lordie,
He wad drive a trade
At the loom o' Geordie.
Though the claith were bad,
Blythly may we niffer
Gin we git oor wab,
It makes little differ,
We hae tint oor plaid,
Bonnet, belt and swordie
Ha's and mailin's braid,
But we hae oor Geordie.
Jocky's gone to France,
And Montgomery's lady
There will learn to dance;
Madam, are ye ready?
They'll be back belyve,
Belted brisk and lordly,
Brawly, may they thrive
To dance a jig wi' Geordie!
Hey for Sandy Don,
Hey for Cockalorum,
Hey for Bobbin' John,
And his Hielan' quorum!
Mony a sword and lance
Swings at Hielan hurdie;
How they'll skip and dance
O'er the bum o' Geordie!
Thanks ann - one of my favourite songs. It just rocks!!
Brilliant - Ta ! "How they'll skip and dance, O'er the bum o' Geordie!"
Steeleye Span...,well, ROCKS! (in the most unique way)
I had not heard of Steeleye Span, nor any of their music, until the (very) early 1980s. Wow! Love at first listen! (Commoner's Crown), that an older, hipper friend (with a good paying, grown-up job) had bought "just to try" from a second hand record store. From then on, I collected every original Steeleye Span I could afford (Hello and thanks for "Hark! The Village Wait" and so many more!)
'Tis awesome to see how lead singer, Ms. Maddy Prior, grew from lovely, lovely young lady to amazingly yet more beautiful woman! Mixing not so much metaphors here but bands (Silly Wizard) so as to make a musical reference in declaring that (for me, at least) Maddy Prior is the Queen of all Argyll.
Some prefer Pentangle and/or other and/or newer bands covering songs by our good friends, Traditional and Anonymous, but please give me Steeleye Span and/or Silly Wizard any day.
(Facetious) Gosh! If only Maddy and her friends could beam out pure joy and happiness in their musicianship and performance! (Yes, 100% kidding.)
PS. Just in case any Silver Surfers need a link: th-cam.com/video/Fv0zauTaUj0/w-d-xo.html
When Maddy says that someone learned English from their songs, I want to ask, "Which English?" :-)
Ooohhh Maddy -
I adore you...
I LOVE THIS SONG !
Very very good!
Peter Knight is on fire in this track.
LOVE Steeleyed Spans Music I find Relaxing Del
Everyone thinks I'm mad, but I love this??!!
Dudes rock!
Seen them twice now in Perth Western Australia ... about 30 years apart ... hope it's not another 30 years to their next visit .. I probably won't be around for that.
the tune is "stirling brig" from the corries, both songs are class
They are great. I've posted a couple from my visit to England at Kentwell in Suffolk.
Cette Maddy ! Belle et talentueuse, alternant voix de tête et vois de poitrine.
Même si la voix est mal mixée sur cette vidéo, on peut tout de même faire cette constatation : sans Maddy, pas de Stellleye Span.
Fabulous :)
I love this paul payton England x x ☺ ❤ 👍 😀
The lyric is in Lowland Scots from the 18th. century, not Wales or the north east
They sound the same as they did nearly 50 years ago!
Just love Maddy's swaying
"Irish stole nothing from the Scots" The other poster is probably referring to the mid 19th century song The Rocky Road To Dublin. The tune is very similar to this except it is in a different time signature. This scottish song is way older than Rocky Road
Still love the album version actually. It is so bloody good... This is a bit too fast!
There may be better musicians performing this song - I´ve only been searching for some 30 years, so maybe some day I´ll find some who get close. ;)
A bloody gawjus song regardless of ni-picking acuracy.
Cam ye o'er frae France? Cam ye down by Lunnon?
Saw ye Geordie Whelps and his bonny woman?
Were ye at the place ca'd the Kittle Housie?
Saw ye Geordie's grace riding on a goosie?
Geordie he's a man there is little doubt o't;
He's done a' he can, wha can do without it?
Down there came a blade linkin' like my lordie;
He wad drive a trade at the loom o' Geordie.
Though the claith were bad, blythly may we niffer;
Gin we get a wab, it makes little differ.
We hae tint our plaid, bannet, belt and swordie,
Ha's and mailins braid -- but we hae a Geordie!
Jocky's gane to France and Montgomery's lady;
There they'll learn to dance: Madam, are ye ready?
They'll be back belyve belted, brisk and lordly;
Brawly may they thrive to dance a jig wi' Geordie!
Hey for Sandy Don! Hey for Cockolorum!
Hey for Bobbing John and his Highland Quorum!
Mony a sword and lance swings at Highland hurdie;
How they'll skip and dance o'er the bum o' Geordie!
Leaving out Cymru, eh? Can't we join also? Y Ddraig Goch ddyry gychwyn!
This isn't a gaelic language, though. It's "Scotts" which is a dialect of English. (some would give argument about that).
Thumb up from a Pole with 1/32 of MacLeod blood in his veins.
dancing on the head of a pin...,😂
u know "come ye" is pronounced "come thee"...."y" was pronounced "th" in certain circumstances, in old English anyway.
+tpvalley Good point - You would have thought if they were going to go to the trouble of all the 'authentic' dialect they would have done a little bit of research first (or watched QI ;)).
Well, I like the Span's version of "Gaudete" best precisely because they DON'T pronounce "virgine" properly. :-)
What strange lingo was that?
lowland scottish 1700s
Wow thanks
I don't get it???
If you mean you don't understand the lyrics, here's an explanation:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cam_Ye_O%27er_Frae_France
Brilliant...Shame she got some of the lyrics wrang tho...
this is a north eastern folk song nothing to do with wales
Scots folk song
There might be a group as good, but none better.