I once searched for this song for a week straight. That was how beautiful I thought it was. My how it opened up a door to a whole room filled with her music. Incredible musician.
Saw her in Liverpool. Bought my brother and I tickets for her concert at the Hill harmonic Hall. He'd never heard of her. Noticed he went quiet throughout the concert and at the end turned to me and said "She's bloody good 'int she". Made my night.
When you feel down just listen to Kate's beautiful voice, have a good cry and then you will feel there is a future. Can't wait for Cardiff gig in a few weeks.
Just heard her sing this in the flesh last Thursday in Tunbridge Wells and it was amazingly moving. As tonight is Halloween will sing it as one of my ghost stories but of course it wont be a patch on hers.
Oh my word, Kate Rusby has one of the most beautiful, enchanting voices I've ever heard. I just love her album "Sleepless" and I will definitely be purchasing more of her albums after hearing this. Each song is as capturing as the next. Thank you for uploading this :)
My favourite english folk song - forsaken love with a touch of metaphysical mystery. Beautiful. And perfectly understated vocal delivery. Play it to X factor wannabees.
All I would say, is do not allow a lost love to ruin your entire life ! It can do, yet if you open up your heart and mind there will always be another out there for you......
It's a man singing of his heartbreak and desolation because the love of his life has been wooed away from him by his landlord, a James Reynolds. "Here I stand/Empty heart, empty hand/While he has my true love/And he has the land." She doesn't even love him anymore, Reynolds could offer her a better life, so he "..wish them no rest/Like the heart in my breast" has no rest. He's still alive, but now with no hope of love, family and happy home, as he grows older, so he's lost the will to live: "No more she'll fly/No more she will cry/All over the cold earth/Beneath which I'll lie". He's fallen foul of the class system, because of his lack of silver spoon at birth. "Sing high, lowly/At the end of the day." To some extent, it's an encapsulation of Thomas Hardy's _The Woodlanders._
She is known in English folk singing circles as "The Barnsley Nightingale". She is from Yorkshire in the north of England. Or, as they call it, "God's county").
What I especially like about her singing is precisely that she sings in her unfiltered Barnsley accent. Too many people adopt that phony mid-Atlantic thing, especially in rock and R&B (eg Adele) or an RP or other non-working class London accent rather than being true to their roots. So many of her songs are from the north of England and are about working class life and traumas, so it's right and proper.
at the person being a complete jerk in this comments section, the one throwing glitter everywhere, she is covering another's song, from another's point of view. It has nothing to do with her sexual orientation. Now, I'd love it, as would everyone here, if you'd stop being rude, get off the computer, and learn some good or better spelling. Thanks.
Lynne Gill really you should learn to ignore something that's offensive to you if it's not doing anyone any harm and maybe examine why it's offensive to you in the first place before assuming you're adult enough to join a conversation that doesn't involve you.
The RUclips comment facility is an open forum. There's no such thing as 'doesn't involve you.' Everything involves everybody. And it's perfectly normal in folk music for singers to cover songs written from the point of view of the opposite sex.
Is anyone else still listening to this in 2023? Never tire of these beautiful songs. Thank you Kate for so many happy memories. X
Me! I love this song too 😊
Yup. CLATTERFORD : as ageless and lovely as Kate's voice...
Of course ❤
Yes!! Since 2006, never get tired of Kate's beautiful voice. And i'm French😄
Jesus. This is beautiful 😮
I once searched for this song for a week straight. That was how beautiful I thought it was. My how it opened up a door to a whole room filled with her music. Incredible musician.
Lord, what an extraordinary voice! The Lord gifted her with a gorgeous instrument! ❤
Saw her in Liverpool. Bought my brother and I tickets for her concert at the Hill harmonic Hall. He'd never heard of her. Noticed he went quiet throughout the concert and at the end turned to me and said "She's bloody good 'int she". Made my night.
When you feel down just listen to Kate's beautiful voice, have a good cry and then you will feel there is a future. Can't wait for Cardiff gig in a few weeks.
She'll be om SoCal?
An enchanting song. Timeless. & Kate does it so brilliantly. Bravo Kate! 👋
This is one of the saddest most beautiful songs these ears have ever heard.
Wow.
Every song is so beautiful. Her voice is captivating. I'm so glad that I found her music.
My love she has gone too. Heavy heart and sorrow filled eyes I sit alone. My sadness carried through song and sweetness. Keep me well Our Kate. x
One of the lovliest songs I have heard for many a year. Beautiful Kate & a beautiful arrangement.
It's really enchanting song. She sings like an angel...
;-)
Guitar accompaniment is so perfect ,and with that voice ,magical.
The lyrics are so beautiful - I would like to slow dance to Kate Rusby at my wedding and would like her peaceful music played at my funeral xXx
"It is not those who can inflict the most, but those that can suffer the most who will conquer."
Just heard her sing this in the flesh last Thursday in Tunbridge Wells and it was amazingly moving. As tonight is Halloween will sing it as one of my ghost stories but of course it wont be a patch on hers.
Yes this is real, an angel voice!!! Iam so happy to find this Songs from Kate on RUclips.
Oh my word, Kate Rusby has one of the most beautiful, enchanting voices I've ever heard. I just love her album "Sleepless" and I will definitely be purchasing more of her albums after hearing this. Each song is as capturing as the next. Thank you for uploading this :)
You touch us in a special way 'cause you're special. Thanks Kate!
My favourite english folk song - forsaken love with a touch of metaphysical mystery. Beautiful. And perfectly understated vocal delivery. Play it to X factor wannabees.
A lovely yorkshire lass with a great voice.
Lovely. Kate is Yorkshire lass (that's Yorkshire in England) withe voice of an angel!
Fantastic. I have seen her perform a few times and have all her albums, her voice just takes you somewhere else.
All I would say, is do not allow a lost love to ruin your entire life ! It can do, yet if you open up your heart and mind there will always be another out there for you......
😊
Okay, I'm in tears as I sit at work, designing electronic forms... Curse my low melancholy threshold! A beautiful song by a beautiful woman.
Probably one of the most heart-touching songs i've ever heard.
Congratullations to this wonderful artist, who has such a beautiful voice.
Saludos!
added to my ever growing bucket list is now a dream to set close to the stage and hear the angelic
voice of Barnsley's nightingale.
I used to live in the farm next door to the family home and the Studio. (Dean Head) Lovely song. :)
i love her voice! wen i first heard Kate i thought she was Irish but she's not! she's a yorkshire lass through an through
one of the most beautiful and saddest songs i have ever heard. thank you Kate x
this is so beautiful my fav'Kate song.
Beautiful song. Love Kate's authentic voice
this beautifull heart rending song brought me to tears , kate you're amazing x
a very beautiful rendition of this song, another great version by one of my favorite singers.
probably one of the most woeful things I've ever heard, but it's so damn beautiful, bravo Kate :)
Thank you for posting this beautiful song! What beautiful and deep lyrics!
Perfect song for Kate's voice.
Thanks for posting these! All her albums are brilliant, but "Little Lights" was simply perfect!
Beautiful...my heart happy 💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝
Beautiful 😎
Beautiful...
such a moving song....it's hard to go on sometimes :)
Удивительно красивая песня. Спасибо.
Zo ontzettend mooi
wow what a beautiful song
She is beautiful.
Wow just what I have been looking for, she brings a calm to my home that I love, thank you for uploading and introducing me to Kate
Lovely song
awesome thanks for sharing your talent
beautiful!!
Fantastic!!!
Tis beautifully done!
It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.
Aeschylus BC
We have her albums Hourglass, Little Lights, 10, The Girl Who Couldn’t Fly and Awkward Annie.
This!
i love that comparison
Very beautiful Kate. Darren
Meravigliosa Kate
oh my god, this song makes my heart hurt.
Such a soothing song. Makes me think of a beautiful Irish or Scottish sunset.
Why not an English one?
I die an exquisite little death each time I hear this song.
one of my favourite Kate songs......any idea which of hers is her own favourite?
Such a beautiful, lullabic song. But... is it about the ghost of a man whose love now loves someone else?
It's a man singing of his heartbreak and desolation because the love of his life has been wooed away from him by his landlord, a James Reynolds. "Here I stand/Empty heart, empty hand/While he has my true love/And he has the land." She doesn't even love him anymore, Reynolds could offer her a better life, so he "..wish them no rest/Like the heart in my breast" has no rest. He's still alive, but now with no hope of love, family and happy home, as he grows older, so he's lost the will to live: "No more she'll fly/No more she will cry/All over the cold earth/Beneath which I'll lie". He's fallen foul of the class system, because of his lack of silver spoon at birth. "Sing high, lowly/At the end of the day."
To some extent, it's an encapsulation of Thomas Hardy's _The Woodlanders._
not necessarily a man
Underrated song
I feel like I should be somewhere in Spain, wearing a red tunic and shako and sitting by a campfire eating soup while listening to this.
Or a dark green jacket.
she must be irish, she sounds like the singer of the cranberries, very beautiful voice.
+lostinamerica Much more angelic sounding than Dolores o'Riordan
i think she may be scottish ??? i have irish blood in my veins
She is from South Yorkshire
She is known in English folk singing circles as "The Barnsley Nightingale". She is from Yorkshire in the north of England. Or, as they call it, "God's county").
What I especially like about her singing is precisely that she sings in her unfiltered Barnsley accent. Too many people adopt that phony mid-Atlantic thing, especially in rock and R&B (eg Adele) or an RP or other non-working class London accent rather than being true to their roots. So many of her songs are from the north of England and are about working class life and traumas, so it's right and proper.
Me!
In case anyone has`nt realised this is a song about a ghost looking at what his wife is up to now he is dead!
@Rozie Kate did.
Mary me Kate😍🤗😇😚
Does anyone know who wrote the music and lyrics and when they were written?
Thanks.
Kate wrote them.
at the person being a complete jerk in this comments section, the one throwing glitter everywhere, she is covering another's song, from another's point of view. It has nothing to do with her sexual orientation. Now, I'd love it, as would everyone here, if you'd stop being rude, get off the computer, and learn some good or better spelling. Thanks.
Hear hear. People see a 'trendy' comment and have to use it whenever they can. They think it makes them sound knowledgable. Sad.
She's singing about a giii-iiirl *throws glitter and pirouettes away*
It's from a man's point of view. She's covering the song. A lot of her songs arre covers from other points of view.
shuuutt uuuuppp aaaannndd goooo awaaaayyy *throws glitter and pirouettes away*
Really, you know, you should do a spot of listening and maybe reading before you join in commenting with the grown-ups.
Lynne Gill really you should learn to ignore something that's offensive to you if it's not doing anyone any harm and maybe examine why it's offensive to you in the first place before assuming you're adult enough to join a conversation that doesn't involve you.
The RUclips comment facility is an open forum. There's no such thing as 'doesn't involve you.' Everything involves everybody. And it's perfectly normal in folk music for singers to cover songs written from the point of view of the opposite sex.
how very unkind to wish to inflict unpleasant weather on others!
.... is this gay?