Sandy Denny - Fhir a Bhata
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- Опубликовано: 29 ноя 2008
- Sandy Denny - Fhir a Bhata
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"How often haunting the highest hilltop
I scan the ocean, a sail to see
Will it come tonight, love, will it come tomorrow
Or ever come, love, to comfort me
Fhir a bhata na horo eile
Fhir a bhata na horo eile
Fhir a bhata na horo eile
O fare thee well, love, where’er thou be
They call thee fickle, they call thee false one
And seek to change me but all in vain
Thou art my dream yet throughout the dark night
And every moment I watch the main
There’s not a hamlet, too well I know it,
Where you go wandering or stay awhile
But all its old folk you win with talking
And charm its maidens with song and smile
Dost thou remember the promise made me
The tartan plaidie, the silken gown?
The ring of gold with thy hair and portrait
That gown and ring I will never own" 
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The greatest ever voice in British Folk.
No one has ever sung like Sandy Denny. No one ever will. She had a voice like no one else.
❤
the best female voice ever!
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You said it so good... thanks
In the late seventies, I was studying education at Gipsy Hill College in Kingston upon Thames, London,Uk. When we heard that she died, there was a big wake in the bar. She was an icon, a voice so special, the best voice that came out of the British Isles. I still listen to my vinyl albums of Fairport Convention. She has a voice like no other.
Yo también soy sandydennista..de siempre y para siempre..
british isles ...?
The whole of the UK. England Scotland Wales ireland and associated islands@@mikmcd2075
I remember Gypsy Hill in the late 70s! Wasn’t into Sandy Denny then but have ‘found’ her since. Lovely voice.
@@jamespope4792 They were great days. I miss them.
A kindred spirit. I was first drawn into the wonderful magic of Sandys music in 1969 whilst still in school . What We Did On Our Holidays . Met her at the Redcar Jazz Club in 1972. She spoke of supernatural vibrations. I was only a shy awe stricken 17 year old and couldn't say much though I thought we'd meet again. Her music helped me through bedsit Land and beyond. I visited her grave in Putney Vale with my partner about 7 years ago. The Lady is at peace and we'll meet on the ledge. I'm so happy we were born in the same blessed musical era .
Beautiful sentiments.
Today (6th January 2023) marks the 76th anniversary of the birth of Sandy Denny. Astoundingly beautiful voice.
How many times have I cried, and wished her back to life !
As have I! Her voice is so moving!
As have I….
I come back to it every night, to shed a tear unashamedly.
I like to imagine that every era in the history of the British Isles had a voice like Sandy Denny's. How fortunate we are that we had hers to listen to.
Sandy, the purest voice of them all. So hard to believe she was only 19 when she sang this song. I have listened and listened to many versions on RUclips of others covering this song,. none can compare to Sandy's. There are some others who do a nice version with technically good voices but there is no one can sing it like Sandy.
We will miss you for all time...such sadness that you are no longer here.....
I have listened to many, many covers of this song. Some by known artists as well as unknown artists. Some are solo artist's, some trios as well as full orchestrated arrangements, Some are very good but NONE, none come close to Sandy's incredible cover. Just cannot get over this astounding one by Sandy Denny...
I never fail to be in awe of how someone can sing like Sandy did, my God
to have this gift is just unbelievable beyond words..
True.,🙏🏼🌸
Her voice is like a crystal dagger through my soul.
I see that Thea Gilmore has revived some old songs Sandy wrote immediately before she died that have never been heard. Thea does a good job but there will only ever be one Sandy Denny.
This brings me to tears every single times. What a song, what a voice....
Listening to this now deep into the early hours it makes me glad, in this sorrowful and hate-filled world, to have been brought into this existence and shared the humanity that is embodied in this woman's soul.
You like this one, then?
@@pacu9 You could say that, yes. 🙂 I've recently listened to Sandy and Like An Old Fashioned Waltz, and don't think I've ever heard a more beautiful and expressive voice. Katherine Priddy, whose career is currently blossoming, shows potential though.
You and me both, my brother.
Such a hauntingly beautiful voice
Best voice ever that came out of the British Isles. As voted too by the main musical press.
When I heard Sandy had died. I fell down on the sidewalk and cried. Never met her. Somehow she got inside me.
Have you read the book, "No More Sad Refrains, The Life and Times of Sandy Denny" written by Clifton Heylin. Very good book for Sandy Denny fans.I still feel sadness when I think of how she died way too young and if medical care had been given sooner, she may have lived.
I have that book. It's fucking heartbreaking. I have been listening to her for at least 3 decades. The last line of comfort in a life filled with suicidal depression.
Also...I live in Buffalo, and the connection with Sandy and Jackson C.Frank...the pain rides much deeper than most people will be willing to travel into. :'(
Such sad stories, Sandy and especially Jackson...must have been something special when they sang/played together...
wow
Used to play this in Zambia and colleagues of many nationalities were entranced.
I've never heard about Sandy Denny before watching this video 2 minutes ago. This song is enough to say that her death was an immeasurable loss.
Suburban Patriot She is the second voice on Led Zeppelin's Battle of evermore.
@@ggoannas didn't know that, I'm not familiar with Led Zeppelin
Me to . I'm glad I found her music
So beautiful....
@@ggoannas Really? Never knew that, I'll give it another spin.
If you’re lucky enough to have the vinyl Zeppelin gave her an ‘honorary symbol’, which they’d never given before or after. It’s on the inside sleeve. 🌸🍀
When Sandy died, I remember the huge sense of loss throughout traditional music circles. Every folk club had people in tears singing this song in tribute.xx
What a voice! What a talent! What a sad life.
I listen to this song over and over and can never seem to get enough of Sandy's hauntingly, beautiful voice! I just love the way she expresses the word comfort in this song! "...to com fort me...." What talent! What magic in her voice! Her voice has an effect on me!
Her father was Scottish and her grandmother was fluent in Gaelic and very musical. Sandy may not be singing in the original language but she sure had a Celtic soul.
Andrew Sommerville What point are you adding to my comment?
Don't know what 'Celtic soul' means, I'm not sure it means anything. She sings in a plummy English accent and she hasn't got the tune quite right. Still, she deserves credit for doing this at a time when most Scots, never mind English, couldn't even have pronounced the title...not sure they could even now, tbh.
I always thought so too.You can hear it.
it was Irish Gaels who brang Gaeilge Gaelic to Scotland and Isle of man all native Irish Gaeltacht speakers know every words spoken by Fellow Gael from Albain.. The Scottish were pics from picland . the Irish Gaels named it Albain Mac Mc Ó all ó Ghaeil na hÉireann 🇮🇪🏴
@@W-E-A-P Tiocfaidh ar la? ☦️
she was the finest modern english folk voice
Perfection - lovely, lovely voice. I have listened to Sandy Denny's singing for decades. From my travels to London and going to a folk club that she sang at many years before I went there called Bunjies Folk Cellar. Started buying her LPs so long ago and I often think about what Sandy would have gone on to do with her music.
It is a bittersweet thought....but this was not to be. She was gone way too young.
I'm a brand new fan of hers. She had a beautiful way with each and every song she graced.
Check out her album "solo".
I agree 100 %! I have heard many, many well known singers & groups cover this song and although there are some very good versions out there - absolutely no one, no one, can come close to the stunning vocals of Sandy Denny singing this song! Just totally incredible singing!
what a voice, so great. The whole day I can listen to her. Thanks that there is so much on RUclips
Sandy never had a chance.. I’ll be in London in April I’ll visit her grave. Beautiful voice.
♥
This kind of frighteningly powerful stuff just sat in the vault for years.
This is so beautiful, Sandy was amazing 😊♥️
Pure & magical - yes, that's exactly what this magnificent music is.
Pure, assured and not a hint of self-consciousness. Beautiful and timeless.
Never heard this song, sung so beautifully sing some of her songs myself. My neighbour Roger Hill (late of the Chris Barber Band), toured with Fairport replacing Richard Thompson in 1971, and his old friend JB remebered her too, both introducing me to her music. They too are now past. Sandra (Clarettheband)
She is the great voice on Battle of Evermore.
Comes from a radio show recorded in 1966. It's been reissued on the 4 CD set Sandy Denny Live At The BBC.
I get goose bumps when i resonate with beautiful music. Right now.... im covered with them. Unbelievably amazing ❤
Brilliant rendition! Brilliant voice! Thanks for posting.
Sandy wiecznie żywa i niezapomniana.... była równie wielka jak Joplin, Morrison, Hendrix, Buckley, Drake - i równie nieodżałowana. Sandy Denny lives forever !
A genius. Touched mightily by the muse. And here so short a while.
Never heard of her before. Thank you for posting such a beautiful song and voice!
I cannot think of another song where the human voice is so beautiful.
As always no one mentioned Anne Briggs ! 2 and a half records weren't enough to not be forgotten .
@Theseustoo Astyages You cannot forget Gay Woods of Steeleye Span fame.
Such a haunting beautiful voice,reminds of a time that never really was.
Sandy ... The best of the best!
May she R.I.P.
Thank you for uploading this song :)
Only discovered her in'22 , completely enchanting ❤
This is my first time hearing this song from Sandy.....just amazing! My gosh! To think that such a beautiful voice, with all of the soul and passion she puts into it......so long gone from this plane and just now, all these years affecting me the way it does. I could cry!
What an incredible loss of beauty & talent to the world!
hearing this voice is like being of the presence of an angel!!!
The only voice I have ever heard that sounds like an angel.
Extraordinary..majestic voice!
I just heard her for the first time this morning, and fell immediately fell in deep love, and now I'm told she has left us... ?? I am so broken......... :'(
magical voice, so beautifully sung.
Wenn i was young boy, i was so in love with her.. many woman since than used my heart as a tent, to only sleep in, and still the wind is blowing cold, but if i think of sandy i am not in need of blankets, wenn she died she took part of me with her, i will ask it back in heaven and listen on and on to her music there, as i do here.
I love Sandy Denny! Listening to her music since I was a teenager.
I never met or seen this lady but she knows my heart through her songs lyrics, it's heartfelt soulful, I love it she was gifted God bless her soul, Paul p Birmingham England x
she devastates my soul in a wonderful
way
So beautiful.
I just found her tonight.
Wonder soul.
I presume by now you have discovered the unlimits of her wonder.
Some folk travel through life never truly understood on a profound level, and I suspect Sandy to be one of them. (Was she even understood by anyone during her final years on a spiritual / emotional level?)
The first thing for me which stands out about Sandy is her fast brain and acute intelligence. Likely she never made a show of it, and so perhaps it was never fully recognised? She was a mixer, not an aloof person.
I very much like 'Fhir a Bhata' as Sandy reveals traces of the romantic / whimsical / mystical sides of her nature. Although clearly well read I also feel that spiritual mystery was a close companion. Perhaps never able to fully comprehend it, she nevertheless beautifully captured such within the breezes of some of her songs.
She would have made a great duet with Bob Dylan singing 'Blowin' in the Wind.'
una voz que muy lejos de apagarse sigue brillando y emocionando,la mejor voz del folk rock británico.
Thank you, Sandy. So precious. 💕🕊️
Sandy always leaves me speachless
Tradition has always been me vetterin' the "R" runes, that of travellor. I could never hear enough of the lyrics, her voice from first ever in 1967 thru 1978 in studying Ecology and socialism was perfect in tones. The folks-scene Britain was partly stoic, but her voice carried as remnants of pastime in space-Time; even thruout London on my 1980-- visit there.
The folks people gathered somewhere in the countryside, and the Ecology group were there fRom Berkeley CAL. They did a wondrous skit, lots of singing and someone falling downstairs, fit 'n drunk--as they had supposed she'd been from what they'd known of her.
Years before, 1973-4, the same Ecology gRoup, tried to hear her in LOS, but she yelled into the microphone, as we knew she'd ruined that once-in-a-lifetime voice, that we'd so admired in her like a queen's parlor overture-- she'd so delicately developed in her teens...and ohh what a voice to fall in love with her was about!
beautiful
Wonderful beyond words. The tragic passing of this magical lady still rends the heart after all these years....
I saw her in London so many years ago, I am still enjoying her fantastic voice and songs.
Such a Voice ! Such a Songwriter ! Far too few know of how brilliant she was and her music will always be x
Also shown here, brilliant guitarist.
Very True !
🌹Incredible beautiful voice
keep coming back to listen for years🌹
She is a celtic fairy. Im sure she's in the petals of the flowers. Im sure she's singing in the branches of the trees.🍃🍃
Beautifullly said ❤
Nobody could ever touch Sandy - I totally agree with you. God Bless.
Sandy Denny has the allowance to guard ye!!! Through the armies of the Dead.
Very important.
ultra earthly voice...nobody like Sandy!
What A beautiful song sung by this amazing lady. Her voice is just lovely.
Não devia ter partido...
Não era seu destino
Não deveria ter sido seu fim
Só resta saudades!
Miss You, Sra Sandy
Beautiful...so,so sincere and True..
Sandy forever ... A sublime voice !!
I admit I never heard of her before Robert Plant sang with her in battle of evermore! What a great singer!
Truly Beautiful
Sandy Denny had a beautiful voice! I have heard the song by many others but have never heard it in English before. Not all songs translate to a foreign language well, this did. Lovely song!
This is insanely beautiful
My sister almost named her son (Scott) Tam Lin based on Sandy Denny/Fairport Convention's song. This is a pretty tune. I've been listening to other versions, including the original gaelic. She has such a fine voice here. We were born in the same year, 11 months apart.
Sandy Denny....so much missed... love this song..
Sandy Denny was the voice for Fairport Convention. Crazy Man Michael, Matty Groves,, fhir al bartre (earlier). Fotheringay.. And this the 3.10 to Yuma.
Beautiful voice and talent, so tragically destroyed by the demons of drugs.
Rachel Aspögård Alcohol, in her case. Her story is well told in a chapter of an excellent book, Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain's Visionary Music by Rob Young.
Will check it out...I still listen to her....still an inspiration!
Agreed. She captures something timeless. The first solo album, The North Star Grassman and the Ravens is a favourite, and a live recording of Bruton Town is to my mind the most powerful version I've ever heard of a widely recorded song/tragedy - available on the deluxe 2-cd issue of the above, and on a big collection called Who Knows Where the Time Goes.
Those all sound like the are Worth hunting for....
+StephenSeabird thanks l will check for this
OMG I've never heared this one!!! Magic!
Damn I love Pentangle, the thought of them bubbled to the surface and sure old RUclips gave me 3hrs of bliss. And thanks to the uploader as well, forgot to check your name. Also, we share the admiration for the best version of the much covered "Mattie Groves". g'nite now
Ah yes! Pentangle! That takes me back to my mis-spent - but thoroughly enjoyed - youth. Pentangle: simply superb - were able to truly capture drama in song.
UNE VOIX UNIQUE.... UNE MERVEILLE POUR LES OREILLES TANT LES MODULATIONS DE CETTE VOIX SONT ETENDUES.....LE CHANT DES SIRENES....
voice of an angel
Descubrí a Sandy Denny no hace mucho, y he de admitir que desde el primer momento me sedujo su voz y su despliegue de dulzura y nostalgia. Gracias.
I'm a Led Zep fan, have all their CDs. Originally I only knew of her as the chick who did a duet with Robert Plant and died really young. It wasn't until I started listening to her amazingly talented raw and powerful singing that I discovered someone truly unique. If she's ever sung a shit song, I'm yet to hear it.
This song can not express itself so clearly as it does in the gaelic language in which it was written.I do enjoy the way Sandy Denny has done this..Moran taing a'shandaidh.
She had the voice of an angel! Pretty good guitarist, too. 6 and 12 string.
carla fuchs is keeping her music alive along with a new album with unrecorded songs she wrote. kepp it up carla
A unique voice and talent.
Beautiful woman, and song, why do most of good ones have to die.
+irishelk Perhaps in Sandy's case to jolt us into reminding us how talented she was? Her albums didn't do as well as they should've done in her lifetime. About eight years after her death, I remember a buzz about her in the music press; there seemed to be a few articles relating to her, which was when I got into her. Perhaps if there'd been no mystique surrounding her, and her voice had just declined in quality as she aged, we wouldn't have "got" her as much as we should.
my favorite female singer...hey ladysonja great taste...greetzzz from a portugees male who lives in belgium :-)
She's like a Celtic princess from the mists of time
Excellently haunting,...very sad loss at only 31,where does the time go
Beautiful and perfect as always Sandy, even the Angels can't sing like you Sandy.
Goosebump music, love a boatman or not😍
Sandy Denny, Joan Baez, Judy Collins, would be my three all time favourite folk singers. I grew up in the times when these voices were the best of the best.Yes, there are many other female folk singers I like and listen to but hard to find female folk singers who come close to the voices of these three. I know, my opinion of course.I also did like Mary Hopkins voice a lot too but more when she sang some folk traditional ballads other then her big hit.
+folkmusicgirl Although she was slightly before my time, I still haven't found a female vocalist with the voice and songs that move me as much as Sandy Denny at her best and I don't think that there will ever be anyone like her again-she was a real one off. I have seen a few vocalists sing live in recent years that come close in that they sing with passion and soul and sound even better live than on record- most notably Natalie Merchant (great voice and songwriter), Rhiannon Giddens (amazingly versatile voice and a fast developing songwriter) and Suzanne Vega (great songwriter and a beautiful voice).
+folkmusicgirl Well, you can also add Canadian Joni Mitchell, and Australian Judith Durham of The Seekers. Some of Judith's work is a bitmore Pop than Folk, but she still has a great voice (e. g. Morningtown Ride and nice versions Blowin' in the Wind and Morning Has Broken).
For some reason I never heard much Fairport Convention or much of Sandy's work until recently. Our loss is Heaven's gain. :-(
+Lawrence Brady Yes, I think Judith Durham has a wonderful voice although I do prefer her more folkier songs then the "pop" ones.Joni Mitchell - I really only liked her early folk albums from the 1960's and some early 70's material. Her later material got more jazzy and not much folky stuff. Although a brilliant artist and songwriter - just personally I liked the very folky early albums.
+folkmusicgirl Oh I think immediately of the three britfolk women: Sandy Denny,(fairport etal) there was Maddy Prior (steeleye) and of course Annie Haslan (renaissance). All born in 1947. This must be considered British post-war creative eruption.
+modelleg ...and Jacqui McShee, June Tabor, Barbara Dickson, Isla St Clair...
Sandy was so beautiful...her voice so pure ..she kept me sane.....
Hello! It is Scots Gaelic... it means Oh, My Boatman.
Well, strictly no. "Fear a' bhàta" (the phrase used by the lady who originally composed this song in the 18th century) means just Man of the Boat, or Boatman. There is no possessive pronoun in it. Also, its nominative case, not vocative. Sandy tried to change it to a vocative case, but didn't quite get it right - she should have sung "A fhir a' bhàta", not Fhir a bhàta". But anyway, she sings it beautifully, and thank you for posting it.
"Fhir A Bhata" means The Boatman. The singer is haunting the highest hilltops scanning the sea for the return of their beloved boatman whom they hope to marry. The song is meant to be sung by a woman which rather implies a female voice.
This Sandy Denny version is an unusual interpretation of the song. If you wish to hear a more traditional version, search for " Fear a' Bhàta" - CAPERCAILLIE ". You should find it sung by Karen Matheson in the original Scottish Gaelic, live in Scotland.
It actually means O Boatman. Fhir is the vocative form of Fear and is used to address someone
@@andrewmcculloch7891 Except if she is going to change the original "Fear" to "Fhir", then shouldn't it be "A Fhir"?
I don't mind too much - its good that she at least attempted the Gaelic for the chorus.