Gaelic Storm-Mingulay Boat Song

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10 жыл бұрын

First song off Gaelic Storms new album called, The Boathouse.
Note-I do not own this song nor claim any rights to it. All rights go to Gaelic Storm and Lost Again Records INC.
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@carmenmayers3041 4 жыл бұрын

I remember my dad singing this to me every night to me when I was younger and hearing it sung just makes me tear up

@emmab4587 4 жыл бұрын

me too. this song practically raised me

@waltertanner7982 Жыл бұрын

So very understandable! Hopefully it didn't take you down for long!

@kevgamer581 Жыл бұрын

He is still with you only now it's your time to sing the song to him

@stephenmolnar1034 Жыл бұрын

You were truly blessed to have that as a child. I’m 60 years old and I just discovered this song. I wish I would’ve known it all along

@Giles29 Жыл бұрын

It's one of those songs that take on new meaning when you realize that you can't go home again.

@aqullya 5 жыл бұрын

I remember singing this with my mother and grandmother since I was about five... we never seem to get together to sing anymore. It has to be one of my all time favorite songs.

@deerarebigdogs 10 жыл бұрын

Mingulay is a lovely island off of the coast of Scotland. I tear up at the beauty of this song.

@flipflop4004 5 жыл бұрын

ohhh this explains a lot

@genericlegionaryrecruit7235 4 жыл бұрын

Too bad that it was abandoned :(

@BrianWMay Жыл бұрын

The irony is it was/is uninhabited ! Great song though.

@dianapohe 7 жыл бұрын

Gosh I miss Scotland so much. I envy all you people who can call that country "home".

@Original50 6 жыл бұрын

Go and live there and you'll be welcome. :)

@AmandaInEly 5 жыл бұрын

Me too

@dianapohe 3 жыл бұрын

@Artemis Pyle I actually moved here eventually, I couldn't stand being anywhere else 😅 But comments such as yours and @Original50 's are heartwarming, you people are one of the most welcoming of all. I really appreciate your words

@nancykavick6774 3 жыл бұрын

Gaelic Storm- The BEST Celtic Party Band In The World. I Saw Them "Live" Six Times. I Went Through Extreme Brutal Suffering To Be Able To Meet The Whole Band At Flannery's Pub In Cleveland, Ohio After Seeing Their Show At House Of Blues In Cleveland. I Will Never Forget It!! I Even Got "Stranded" In Cleveland All By Myself That Night, In Freezing Cold Weather At 1 a.m.. But After I Got To Meet Patrick Murphy, The Front Man, I Was Able To Find My Way Back Home Safely. I Really Believe That It Was "The Luck Of The Irish" That Got Me Home Safely That Night.

@billholder1330 6 жыл бұрын

The only version of this song I can find on youtube with the melody I remember from singing in my mom's Scottish folk group when I was a young lad...

@EnricBaro 3 жыл бұрын

Heel y'ho boys, let her go, boys Bring her head round into the weather Heel y'ho boys, let her go boys Sailing homeward to Mingulay! What care we tho' white the Minch is What care we for wind or weather? when we know that every inch is sailing homeward to Mingulay? Heel y'ho boys, let her go, boys Bring her head round into the weather Heel y'ho boys, let her go boys Sailing homeward to Mingulay! When the wind is wild and wailing And the waves mount ever higher Anxious eyes turn ever seaward To see us home, boys, to Mingulay Heel y'ho boys, let her go, boys Bring her head round into the weather Heel y'ho boys, let her go boys Sailing homeward to Mingulay! Wives are waiting at the pier heads, Looking seaward from o'er heather. Pull her 'round boys, and we'll anchor 'Ere the sun sets on Mingulay! Heel y'ho boys, let her go, boys Bring her head round into the weather Heel y'ho boys, let her go boys Sailing homeward to Mingulay! Heel y'ho boys, let her go, boys Bring her head round into the weather Heel y'ho boys, let her go boys Sailing homeward to Mingulay! Ships return on, Heavy laden Mothers holding the bairns a'cryin They return yet, when the sun sets They return back to mingulay.

@amalia7513 7 жыл бұрын

We sang this on a schooner in the Puget Sound in Washington. Good times

@seanobrien3725 10 жыл бұрын

Ronsie Davie, You'll find Mingulay amongst the Outer Hebrides! A beautiful song!

@bobsyeruncle4841 4 жыл бұрын

OMG so beautiful makes me think of Scotland

@nickmail7604 2 жыл бұрын

Written by a doctor in the 1930s, thank God for that. I have never in all my years every, ever heard a fisherman mock the weather, ever. I worked on trawlers, seiners and gil netters out of Grimsby town in the late seventies and early eighties

@rollinbaker9469 Жыл бұрын

I think it's a aggressive prayer, certainly not mockery.

@nickmail7604 Жыл бұрын

@@rollinbaker9469 it's a nice song but I've never heard anyone that works at sea ever mock the weather that was all, I can remember as a kid on a pleasure trip off Norway getting a right thick ear for whistling, apparently if you whistle you are calling up the wind. Load of old tosh, 3 hrs later it was blowing close to a 10 and we had to stop fishing and run for a fjord. Never whistled at sea again! Just to be on the safe side.

@sigridrp Жыл бұрын

Whistling has all kinds of scary consequences in Norwegian mythology… it may mean mocking the weather, or even the Northern lights!

@nickmail7604 Жыл бұрын

@@sigridrp that's how I learnt superstitions, I worked on trawlers, seine netters and gil netters out of Grimsby in the late 70's and early 80's, I was on a pleasure trip on a boat my dad was on in the summer holidays in about 1975 and was overheard whistling while I was gutting. Christ did I get into trouble for "whistling up the wind" daft old prats I thought but about hour later it had gone flat a calm to good 8/9 I've never whistled on a ship since.

@sigridrp Жыл бұрын

Learning the hard way! 😂

@movingpicturestories 10 жыл бұрын

Awesome song, just saw them live in La Crosse WI, they played this with the LaCrosse Pipe and drum line...what a song!

@KVLT_VVITCH 9 жыл бұрын

In La Crosse hey? They must have headed out there after they played in oshkosh.

@b.harris242 10 жыл бұрын

What a great song, great version by GS!

@richardmcfadden7122 10 жыл бұрын

Gaelic Storm in Billings Montana on Saturday Nov. 2nd . Local Bagpipe Band to open show. Will play Mingulay Boat Song on pipes.

@jimm9307 3 жыл бұрын

Masterless men do an excellent version of this song. Love it

@thectrlaltgamer5817 3 жыл бұрын

Jim M what about the longest johns version?

@nicktombs1876 3 жыл бұрын

What care we for wind or weather, that line is the one that tells me no fisherman, nor a sailor ever wrote those words.

@KM-gj7bj 3 жыл бұрын

Well, I’d imagine that a sailor or fisherman world be just as eager to go home as someone who had never sailed. No matter the wind or weather, they want to go home.

@alancrook1034 5 жыл бұрын

I learned to scull on a sliding seat by using this song to set the rhythm.

@kurtz127C 3 жыл бұрын

😲

@adventureswithaurora 2 жыл бұрын

That's awesome! :O

@RoseSinn 10 жыл бұрын

lovely!

@mikekavanagh8952 7 жыл бұрын

Nice Song.

@ronsiedavie480 10 жыл бұрын

Sang this in school. Not quite sure where MIngulay is? Ronsie

@chrisdansey2600 9 жыл бұрын

Mingulay is the second largest of the Bishop's Isles in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, 12 miles south of Barra, The last people left it in 1912. Hugh Robertson wrote the song to a traditional Gaelic tune in 1930.

@jimirvine9770 9 жыл бұрын

Nicely sung. But I wish folk would get the tune right! They are singing the verse to the tune of the chorus which is wrong. The verse has its own very nice tune.

@rdgi2 7 жыл бұрын

The version as sung by the Corries is, I believe, the correct version.

@moragmacgregor6792 5 жыл бұрын

I've never heard it any other way and I'm interested.

@NKSULLY 4 жыл бұрын

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@moragmacgregor6792 4 жыл бұрын

@@NKSULLY Thanks, man. I was late learning about the Corries, but they have earned my trust as an accurate source. I don't know if I'll ever get used to it, tho. The way I first learn a song always seems to stick as the "correct" version.

@NKSULLY 4 жыл бұрын

@@moragmacgregor6792 I know... I'm going to try and learn their melody, but it's going to be hard to get the chorus tune out of my head!

@calumway7560 7 жыл бұрын

Well sung -- but they're missing out half the tune!

@calumway7560 7 жыл бұрын

probably any version that's true to how they would have sung it originally in its home country. I learnt it in Mull as a child in the 1950s &60s. There are two parts to the tune - for verse and for chorus. People have developed very reduced versions of the melody in some places

@keithwilson7131 6 жыл бұрын

The original version had different tunes for the verse and chorus; later ones tend to use the chorus melody for everything. Many people don't realize that this isn't a folk song. It was written in the late '30s by Hugh Roberton, a composer and choir director from Glasgow, although the tune is like traditional ones. Nobody from Mingulay ever sang it as far as I know; everybody had left the island by 1912, 25 years before it was written. Still a lovely song, though.

@BaileyBecca 6 жыл бұрын

I’ve realized with this kind of music that most people have different versions of the same songs normally it’s a different word here or there but I suppose it could be a different tune as well