Joan Baez - Mary Hamilton [HD]

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  • Joan Baez sings 'Mary Hamilton' from her self-titled 1960 Vanguard album. This song, perhaps the most popular folk ballad (Child #173), originated in Scotland in the 1500s. Mary Hamilton, an attendant to the Queen, is to be executed for casting her baby by the King of Scots out to sea. Its possible historical antecedents are not clear, but Baez' version places it in Glasgow with the king called the "highest Stuart of all". Though finding images for the people, places, and actions of such a song is problematic, the emotion of the woman's narrative on her impending doom and the quiet, but intense, feeling of Baez' singing likely overcome any failings. The song is also known as 'The Four Marys' and has been recorded by Peggy Seeger, Robin Roberts, and others.

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  • @reginaromsey
    @reginaromsey 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    Voice of an Angel. Person who exemplified in her life the voice that was gifted to her, developed through hard work, and bestowed on a generation which could record it and remember her through the years.

    • @jayyoo906
      @jayyoo906 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Where was the baby gone ?

  • @andrewprokopis9430
    @andrewprokopis9430 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    been a fan of hers for 60 years........ever since I first heard her so long ago

    • @zeab47
      @zeab47 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Same here, i first heard Joan in 63 and her voice still moves me.

  • @Jacob-df5hr
    @Jacob-df5hr 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    I'm the toughest guy I know, because I can make it to just before the first chorus without crying.

  • @frans3497
    @frans3497 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Beautiful. My father, who loved all things beautiful, pointed out to me the beauty of Joan Baez' voice.

  • @grahamnelson4945
    @grahamnelson4945 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Amazing Lass.
    That's the first time I've ever heard it.
    Thanks again.
    Lol and
    I am from Hamilton Scotland
    H
    And have been all my life 57 year old guitarist
    And that's the first iv heard it. 🎸😁

  • @750nut
    @750nut 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    My Dad’s favorite woman singer. He just loved her voice.
    And he always wanted to go see Scotland.
    He loved the history and the culture of the Scots.
    A more strong proud independent and passionate group the world has never seen.

    • @reginaromsey
      @reginaromsey 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      My favorite singer too! She was the star oh my generation. Now I listen to Lorena McKennet, another voice to the heart.

    • @750nut
      @750nut 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@reginaromsey
      Beautiful !
      I will definitely check her out !!
      Thanks So Much
      ✌️

    • @Tawroset
      @Tawroset 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I have ancestors from the Isle of Arran, which has close ties to the Hamiltons. I would love to go there sometime.

  • @beautifulworldforall
    @beautifulworldforall 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    Lyrics:
    Word is to the kitchen gone, and word is to the Hall
    And word is up to Madam the Queen, and that's the worst of all
    That Mary Hamilton has borne a babe
    To the highest Stuart of all
    Oh rise, arise Mary Hamilton
    Arise and tell to me
    What thou hast done with thy wee babe
    I saw and heard weep by thee
    I put him in a tiny boat
    And cast him out to sea
    That he might sink or he might swim
    But he'd never come back to me
    Oh rise arise Mary Hamilton
    Arise and come with me
    There is a wedding in Glasgow town
    This night we'll go and see
    She put not on her robes of black
    Nor her robes of brown
    But she put on her robes of white
    To ride into Glasgow town
    And as she rode into Glasgow town
    The city for to see
    The bailiff's wife and the provost's wife
    Cried Alack and alas for thee
    You need not weep for me she cried
    You need not week for me
    For had I not slain my own wee babe
    This death I would not dee
    Oh little did my mother think
    When first she cradled me
    The lands I was to travel in
    And the death I was to dee
    Last night I washed the Queen's feet
    And put the gold in her hair
    And the only reward I find for this
    The gallows to be my share
    Cast off cast off my gown she cried
    But let my petticoat be
    And tie a napkin round my face
    The gallows I would not see
    Then by them come the king himself
    Looked up with a pitiful eye
    Come down come down Mary Hamilton
    Tonight you will dine with me
    Oh hold your tongue my sovereign liege
    And let your folly be
    For if you'd a mind to save my life
    You'd never have shamed me here
    Last night there were four Mary's
    Tonight there'll be but three
    T'was Mary Beaton and Mary Seton
    And Mary Carmichael and me.

    • @johnfinnie1181
      @johnfinnie1181 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I think it was the wedding Mary attended the infamous kirk o field murder....

    • @ingenuity168
      @ingenuity168 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thank you 💖 ❤🎉

    • @shehum
      @shehum 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I'm Shehu, from Nigeria. Thanks for the lyrics. Thank you very much. Oh. We had education. First came across this beautiful poem in 1976 in my English Literature class.

  • @hoonkim4855
    @hoonkim4855 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    This song is not a mere song but a sad mind-slashing and tragic epic with harmonious melody.

  • @foxboi3959
    @foxboi3959 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Beautiful. My grandad told me the meaning to this and it’s tragic. Lyrics are powerful in this

  • @suzycreamcheesez4371
    @suzycreamcheesez4371 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    one of my faves

  • @thomasdorman5062
    @thomasdorman5062 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Lovely words n song.........

  • @김혜림-v3i
    @김혜림-v3i 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Very sad story 😢

  • @alicesuchanoff1253
    @alicesuchanoff1253 7 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    beautiful such a clear voice

  • @davidstranks1768
    @davidstranks1768 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Fantastic song/performance. Joan Baez amazing voice ... this is almost as good as the vs I knew 50 years ago as a child on an old 78rpm disc which was just unaccompanied voice. Would love to find out who by ... but that old record is long gone now.
    Have to say however - that some of the visuals are well naff and don't suit this dark and beautiful song. But then that's just my opinion.
    Thanks for uploading.

  • @antoonmeert1942
    @antoonmeert1942 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    One of her bests. Goosebumps !

  • @PaulFisher-v4x
    @PaulFisher-v4x 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    absolute perfection

  • @sixthousandblankets
    @sixthousandblankets 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    So haunting.

  • @NoraPerkin-g1k
    @NoraPerkin-g1k 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Beautiful song

  • @josiestone4786
    @josiestone4786 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Beautiful

  • @romielnagar1062
    @romielnagar1062 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    One of my favorites. Surely the original woman's cry against sexual harassment, the double standard, etc. etc.

  • @dunhillan8360
    @dunhillan8360 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Word is to the kitchen gone, and word is to the Hall
    And word is up to Madam the Queen, and that's the worst of all
    That Mary Hamilton has borne a babe
    To the highest Stuart of all
    Oh rise, arise Mary Hamilton
    Arise and tell to me
    What thou hast done with thy wee babe
    I saw and heard weep by thee
    I put him in a tiny boat
    And cast him out to sea
    That he might sink or he might swim
    But he'd never come back to me
    Oh rise arise Mary Hamilton
    Arise and come with me
    There is a wedding in Glasgow town
    This night we'll go and see
    She put not on her robes of black
    Nor her robes of brown
    But she put on her robes of white
    To ride into Glasgow town
    And as she rode into Glasgow town
    The city for to see
    The bailiff's wife and the provost's wife
    Cried Alack and alas for thee
    You need not weep for me she cried
    You need not weep for me
    For had I not slain my own wee babe
    This death I would not dee
    Oh little did my mother think
    When first she cradled me
    The lands I was to travel in
    And the death I was to dee
    Last night I washed the Queen's feet
    And put the gold in her hair
    And the only reward I find for this
    The gallows to be my share
    Cast off cast off my gown she cried
    But let my petticoat be
    And tie a napkin round my face
    The gallows I would not see
    Then by them come the king himself
    Looked up with a pitiful eye
    Come down come down Mary Hamillton
    Tonight you will dine with me
    Oh hold your tongue my sovereign liege
    And let your folly be
    For if you'd a mind to save my life
    You'd never have shamed me here
    Last night there were four Marys
    tonight there'll be but three
    T'was Mary Beaton and Mary Seton
    And Mary Carmichael and me

  • @CopperKettle
    @CopperKettle 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    One of Peter the Great's lovers was a Scots woman named Mary Hamilton, and guess how her life ended.

  • @Nicholl-f7p
    @Nicholl-f7p 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    My dad clan was stewert tartan sadly missed deceaced 1994 all our love and complaints agAinst good hope hospital lovimg you dad your loving daughter cristine❤

  • @damianvisser977
    @damianvisser977 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The Drifters brought me here

  • @TalerngkiatDhammakittisakul
    @TalerngkiatDhammakittisakul 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    NICE..

  • @rockergirl11529
    @rockergirl11529 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    So very sad.

  • @thetrevorosborne
    @thetrevorosborne 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Apparantly Bob Dylan used this tune as the template for His song The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Caroll.

    • @johnshea4436
      @johnshea4436 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      No he didn't. The songs sound nothing alike. They are both great songs, and they both stand on their own.

    • @thetrevorosborne
      @thetrevorosborne 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@johnshea4436 I agree but others have mentioned that there was a direct
      link between the 2 songs......
      Wikipedia
      "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll" is a topical song written by the American musician Bob Dylan. Recorded on October 23, 1963, the song was released on Dylan's 1964 album The Times They Are a-Changin' and gives a generally factual account of the killing of a 51-year-old African-American barmaid, Hattie Carroll (March 3, 1911 - February 9, 1963), by then 24-year-old William Devereux "Billy" Zantzinger (February 7, 1939 - January 3, 2009), a young man from a wealthy white tobacco farming family in Charles County, Maryland, and of his subsequent sentence to six months in a county jail, after being convicted of assault.
      The melody is largely taken from a folk song called ”Mary Hamilton”. The lyrics are a commentary on 1960s racism. When Carroll was killed in 1963, Charles County was still strictly segregated by race in public facilities such as restaurants, churches, theaters, doctor's offices, buses and the county fair. The schools of Charles County were not integrated until 1967.
      Show less...

    • @johnshea4436
      @johnshea4436 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@thetrevorosborne That is true, Wikipedia does mention this. I think Wikipedia is wrong in this case. There is a whole wikipedia page about songs that Bob Dylan supposedly based on other songs. Some of them are correct (e.g. Bob Dylan's "Song For Woody" is almost identical musically to Woody Guthrie's "1913 Incident", with new words); some of them are specious, in my opinion.

    • @thetrevorosborne
      @thetrevorosborne 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@johnshea4436 I think the early songs melody wise fall into 2 categories
      1 songs which are straight copies of a older melody (eg masters of war ,
      with God on our Side etc ) then there are songs while obviously influenced by older sources are more creative adaptations examples being Hard Rain /Blowin In The Wind /Girl From The North Country. I think by Blonde on Blonde Dylan composing abilities had developed to the point where older sources were no longer relied on so much

    • @paulmatters2641
      @paulmatters2641 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Like everything else the old fraud did. He stole it.

  • @lorad.stoner8406
    @lorad.stoner8406 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    You should show Joan Baez' album cover when Ms. Baez is singing. Your own photo is inappropriate.

  • @jinduan1994
    @jinduan1994 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Word is to the kitchen gone .And word is to the hall.And word is up to Madam the Queen.And that’s the worst of all.That Mary Hamilton has borne a babe. To the highest Stuart of all.Oh rise arise Mary Hamilton .Arise and tell to me.What thou has done with thy wee babe. I saw and heard weep by thee. I put him in a tiny boat.And cast him out to sea.That he might sink or he might swim.But he’d never come back to me .

    • @MrJimclyde
      @MrJimclyde 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Stuart V Stewart ? lol

  • @최종섭초롱
    @최종섭초롱 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    good

  • @squaretriangle9208
    @squaretriangle9208 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    So she got the death sentence for killing her baby not for sleeping with the king🤔

  • @lightespeed
    @lightespeed 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    What are the random women for?

    • @annedyken2961
      @annedyken2961 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      representing all women everywhere who had babies by men and had to suffer the consequences while the men skipped away unaffected, Timeless.

    • @lacoinbeth8491
      @lacoinbeth8491 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@annedyken2961
      How much suffering for women and how much selfishness of these men

    • @foxboi3959
      @foxboi3959 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I think some of them are to represent the four Mary’s
      Mary seaton
      Mary Carmichael
      Mary Hamilton
      Mary meetin
      Just an idea but it’s my guess mate?

    • @davidshillito
      @davidshillito 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@annedyken2961 ~ suggested solution: make better choices

    • @annedyken2961
      @annedyken2961 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@davidshillito The men or the women?

  • @MrJimclyde
    @MrJimclyde 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Stuarts V Stewarts V Campbells V us McDonalds ? Anyone?

  • @Charlie-fx9dp
    @Charlie-fx9dp 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    It exist an horrible French version of this so perfect classic song... Please don't hear it...

  • @정용민-d7o
    @정용민-d7o 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I'm middle school seasonl(71 ~ 73 아름다운 것들/ 양희은= Yang hee eun))스튜엇트 = bad guy

  • @alexgordon7637
    @alexgordon7637 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Another scottish tragedy.

    • @jimmymacGoa
      @jimmymacGoa 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      It’s a 16th century fictional ballad

    • @mitchellbill103
      @mitchellbill103 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@jimmymacGoa Been one of my favourite songs for 70 years and this is the very best version I've ever heard. The facts confirm your statement: though: Fact 1 - Mary Queen of Scots was beheaded in 1587, but had four Marys -
      Fact 2 - Mary Hamilton was potted by a King and after being convicted of drowning the kid, was beheaded 1719 - If she was indeed one of the four Mary's, she would have been around 150yo then, probably a wee bit old to be having a kid.
      You can't let facts get in the way of a great story

    • @dnmurphy48
      @dnmurphy48 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@mitchellbill103 It happened in Russia, there was a Mary Hamilton who was mistress of the tsar and lady in waiting to the Tsarina. So its not even a Scottish story

  • @alsbigsmoke
    @alsbigsmoke 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Tae the hoose of Stuart, Slanje a Var

  • @bjarneundheim2203
    @bjarneundheim2203 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Timgang

  • @ajweberman
    @ajweberman 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    sure the kid gonna swim the English Channel end up in a French Restaurant in Normandy and order Veuve Cliqout