Thyme
Jesse Wagner featuring Jeff Roffredo on Upright Bass. Recorded early 2010 on my laptop. Footage from The Slide Bar in Fullerton, CA. What I say to you baby to make you know this final time we’re through What I say to you honey I don’t know, but deep inside I do Well you took me home that monday evening I saw the thyme you grew was dead You worked so hard to grow it, I criticized Next day you pulled it out cause things I said Well I’m sorry for that darling But it’s been this way far too long You had the strength to leave forever When I found the thyme to write this song Well I know that you care dear and so do I But now it’s time we part and the thyme that you threw out is far behind So lets sweep that broken heart I know we’ve both done wrong babe And I know we both have done right It’s been far too hard girl For the two of us not to fight Your empty pots still sit here But there’s nothing left to grow I still wait for you to get them Cause it’s time now to let go Well its alright And now I’m chapter 7 Cause that money tree had never grown Hope I still make it into heaven Hope I’m not going there alone It’s alright
Video Rating: 5 / 5
Arguably the world’s finest living Bard. Sean performs poems, songs & story’s from Celtic literary giants. This one is either Scottish or Irish :”Wild Mountain Thyme aka Oh Will you Go Lassie Go. It is from Sean’s now legendary performance at Gallagher’s Country Wisdom, Spring City PA Nov 2006. More will be put up on Youtube soon.
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May 11th, 2011 at 9:28 am
keep them coming.
May 11th, 2011 at 10:01 am
A glorious ballad & a wonderful interpretation from Seán. I think it’s definitely Scottish.
May 11th, 2011 at 10:45 am
Sean is truly magical
May 11th, 2011 at 11:43 am
@SueEGenaris It’s a tenor guitar
May 11th, 2011 at 12:05 pm
4 Strings. It doesn’t sound like a uke. Can someone enlighten me?
May 11th, 2011 at 12:21 pm
4 Strings. It doesn’t sound like a uke. Can someone enlighten me?
May 11th, 2011 at 12:31 pm
WOW…….Thanks so much for this. I normaly speed up the slower songs just because of my style, but this was just amazing. Awesome voice and great playing, my respect goes to you sir.
May 11th, 2011 at 12:38 pm
I’m looking for a rendition of this song for my Grandmother who turns 100 years old on May 30th. She married an Irishman named Lacey. I wanted to get a version of this song on guitar and performed with a genuine “feeling’”, and put it to music for her celebration. This is very, very good. I hope you don’t mind if I steal alot of your performance for the one I’ll be peforming for her. This is very close to what I’m looking for. Thank you so much. Your talent is very appreciated.
May 11th, 2011 at 1:26 pm
@keepthechangebob
I don’t know about the tune. And to be fair to Francis McPeake Snr, he said in a radio broadcast, that he learned the song from an uncle, not that he wrote it. it was his family who claimed authorship of the song when they thought money was to be had! what’s that saying about greed?
If they had only credited Tannahill for the lyrics, they could have claimed the “arrangement” as their own and there’d be no arguments. But like I said about greed. Sorry, I now see what you mean!
May 11th, 2011 at 2:24 pm
@DonegalRaymie201
if you read what i said, the version as sung by sean tyrrell, was written by the mcpeakes, with plagiarized lyrics or not. the tune has always been accredited to tannahill, the braes of balq, why i said neither scots/irish
May 11th, 2011 at 2:57 pm
@keepthechangebob
Utter crap! The lyrics were written by Robert Tannahill in 1797 and called the “Braes of Balquhidder”. The very song that the McPeakes disgracefully plagiarized, and claimed to have written! Shame on them!
(They were thrown out of court when the family tried to claim royalties from the Corries & others, with the Judge saying: “If Tannahill were still alive, I’d order you to pay him Royalties!” )
And as Ulster-Scots, they were “thievin’ frae their ain tae!”
May 11th, 2011 at 3:12 pm
Listening to it again I can only say: Pure magic!
May 11th, 2011 at 3:19 pm
sehr schöner song
May 11th, 2011 at 3:29 pm
the finest rendition of this song I have ever heard
May 11th, 2011 at 3:44 pm
am down but this song gives me a lift thanks
May 11th, 2011 at 4:05 pm
Very nice job. You sing this song with such emotion as if it was coming straight from your heart. I had to listen to this three times because I enjoyed it so much. Excellent.
May 11th, 2011 at 4:51 pm
great song peace
May 11th, 2011 at 5:00 pm
lee,
hear, hear…
May 11th, 2011 at 5:33 pm
lukessummer,
have you got it yet?
i may have a lead on an extra copy…
May 11th, 2011 at 6:18 pm
well now keepthechangebob,
u sound authoritative, so i’ll accept your correction…in the meantime
stay on the trail of the buffalo soldier…
May 11th, 2011 at 7:07 pm
neither irish or scottish, written by william and francis mcpeake from belfast in ulster/scots dialect.
work it out for yourself
May 11th, 2011 at 7:59 pm
I have read it.
It is a masterpiece, by a master.
It details a tiny time & space in Ireland,
thereby describing the Majesty of Ireland.
May 11th, 2011 at 8:24 pm
great, great stuff! thx! chris
May 11th, 2011 at 8:28 pm
yes..it is a tenor guitar, i play one and the tuning is GDAE.Can be used fingerstyle or makes a good rythm on chords.
May 11th, 2011 at 8:37 pm
I agree with Lukessummer…Unreal!!
May 11th, 2011 at 9:05 pm
Wonderful version, loved it.