The Unthanks 'Annachie Gordon'
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
- Buchan, it's bonny, and there lives my love
My heart it lies on him, and it will not remove
It will not remove for all that I've done
Never will I forget my love Anachie
For Anachie Gordon, he's bonny and he's braw
He'd entice any woman that ever him saw
He'd entice any woman and so he has done me
Never will I forget my love Anachie
Down came her father, standing on the floor
Saying Jeannie you're trying the tricks of a whore
You care nothing for a man who cares so very much for thee
You must marry Lord Saltoun and forget young Anachie
For Anachie Gordon he's only but a man
And although he may be pretty but where are all his lands
Saltouns lands are broad and his towers they stand high
You must marry Lord Saltoun and forget young Anachie
With Anachie Gordon I'd beg for my bread
Before I'd marry Saltoun with gold to my head
With gold to my head and with gowns fringed to the knee
Oh I'll die if I don't get my love Anachie
And you that are my parents to the church you may me bring
Oh but unto Lord Saltoun I will never bear a son
Oh a son or a daughter I'll never bow my knee
I'll die if I don't get my love Anachie
When Jeannie was married from the church she was brought home
She and her maidens so merry should have been
When she and her maidens so merry should have been
She's gone to her chamber and she's crying all alone
Come to bed now Jeannie, my honey and my sweet
For to style you my mistress it would not be meet
Oh it's mistress or Jeannie it's all the same to me
For it's in your bed Saltoun I never shall be
Up and spoke her father and he's spoken with renown
All of you that are her maidens won't you loosen off her gown
But she fell down in a swoon, so low down by their knees
Saying look on for I'm dying for my love Anachie
The day that Jeannie married was the day that Jeannie died
That's the day young Anachie comes rolling from the tide
And down came her maidens and they're wringing of their hands
Saying woe to you Anachie for staying from the sands
So long from the sands and so long upon the flood
They've married your Jeannie and now she is dead
All you that are her maidens won't you take me by the hand
Won't you lead me to the chamber where my true love lies
And he's kissed her cold lips until his heart turned to stone
And he's died in the chamber where his true love lay
My fave Unthanks track. Saw them at Exeter last neet 20.4.22. I just found out they grew up in Ryton where all my school mates lived. I went to school at Hookergate, High Spen, & lived at Sherburn Park Estate, Rowlands Gill, 1971-1977. Then lived in Hexham, Fenham, Blackhall Mill, Gosforth, Sandyford until 1993. I sadly haven't made the long trip from Exeter to the Toon since.💔 My ❤️ sadly misses the North East. Geordies shall inherit the earth. PS fave Geordie language' Haddaway and Sh.te' and commonly heard in Hexham Market by owd wifes: 'Eeeh aah went past mesell' Thanks Unthanks hearing your voices speaking & singing Geordie takes me back to them deas😄
my favourite Unthanks song , beautifully sang by Becky . We had the pleasure of hearing this live in an old church in Liverpool .
I love The Unthanks. Such pure and beautiful voices. This song makes me weep every time, along with The Testimony of Patience Kershaw...gotta go, I'm welling up.
Cette interprétation me bouleverse tellement que j'ai, à chaque fois, du mal à m'en remettre..!
The heart and soul of Northumberland, mesmerizing THE TRUE SPIRIT OF SONG. WE NEED MORE OF THIS OR ENGLISH FOLK WILL BE LOST, ITS OUR HERITAGE DON'T LET IT GO.
Tyey're from Ryton, Tyne and Wear - not Northumberland...
In case you have a short memory north tyne WAS Northumberland until Maggie changed the map, I never mentioned where they were from only that their songs and music in general is rooted in the spirit of Nothumberland and I'm pretty sure they spent a fair amount of time in the Allendale area.@@BenZaniline
A heart stopping moment, bless the unthanks
A perfect song for a long walk across for windswept northern hills and misty moors. A bewitching and brilliant performance. This band are wonderful live. Go and see them if you can.
Amazing voices. A beautiful and original version.
Gosh, the expansiveness and atmosphere in this voices, these voices and songs is always a pleasure and this soars.
Stunning voice, song and performance!
This could be a Van Morrison song.....the drone effect is simply mesmerising, the acoustic vibes, the vamped piano are good but, the fragile lead vocals of Becky and the harmony vocals of big sister Rachel are outstanding.
So wunderschön. Danke dafür. Gruß aus Lübeck 💕❤️💕
Personally, my sympathies lie with Lord Salton, who seems like a decent bloke.
I don't think anything can beat the Nic Jones version for sheer emotional impact, but this comes close.
Wow! Audio/Visual Art! The world needs more of this for sure...
great version of this sad, depressing traditional song.. the ending is hard to take.. Unthanks does true justice to this
lovely voice ..... i like this a lot,..and i slightly prefer her voice to her sisters voice too,...both beautiful girls , and singers, but she has a soft smokey tone to hers, that makes me feel very laid-back and relaxed!... wonderful!
beautiful, although I'm American and find the words hard to understand at times. I love this style of song. wonderful
Perfection
Beautiful
Ironic the best versions of this beautiful old Scottish song I have heard, including this one, are from non-Scots. But who cares who sings it, as long as it works, as this definitely does.
They don’t need to be Scots, they’re Northumbrian lasses. 😎
I love it and I am german. 😉
The complete show, 31 minutes from 2010, is here:
www.rtve.es/alacarta/videos/los-conciertos-de-radio-3/conciertos-radio-3-the-unthanks/774420/
I repeat - it's just beautiful xx
It's just beautiful xx
Thanks ;)
Unreal
Haunting stuff.
This is the very best version great story too. 🐶woof. Up the ra.
Far too good 👍
Annachie for the UK
Great version!!!
Wow...
Love it
Hahaha same
the trilling piano becomes irritating - also this is such a long song it needs to be got through without too much delay. Mary' Black's version is perfect.
Never understood a word of thzt.
Poor you