It’s a common ending to these kind of songs, with the girl left disappointed and with her reputation tarnished. Other songs with related themes, such as The Butcher Boy, end in tragedy with the broken hearted girl taking her own life. Irish folk music abounds with songs about young maidens “giving” themselves to rakish men who then abandon them the next morning.

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The lyrics to this version of As I Roved Out tells the story of a young man who rejects his true love and marries another woman because she has land. This Christy Moore version had been largely forgotten until Moore stumbled across it at a musical gathering in Roscommon in the early 1970s.Moore loved the song and has performed it throughout his career, both with Planxty and as solo artist. Who are you me pretty fair maid? Maidens dream The Saving Grace filings are the only trademark applications ever filed by Trolcharm Limited or any other business used by Plant to run his solo career. But I’ll roll my lass all on the grass, let the wind blow high and low. James McDermott sings Let the Wind Blow High or Low Shirley Collins> Songs> The Irish Girl The Irish Girl / As I Walked Out / Let the Wind Blow High or Low

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The theme of As I Roved Out is to be found in numerous Irish and British folk songs. The Moore version is similar to an English song called The Trooper and the Maid, and there are many other versions. The chords are presented here in the key of C Major. The song is a little unusual because it doesn’t end on the root chord or key chord. Instead, each verse ends of the fifth chord of the scale, which in this case is G Major. An earlier version was first printed on a broadside of around 1810 with the title Maid and the Soldier. Early broadside versions were sad songs focused on the abandonment of the girl by the young man. [3] Later broadside and traditional folk versions celebrate a sexual encounter. A censored version published by Baring-Gould and Sharp substitutes a proposal of marriage for the encounter. Seventeen Come Sunday", also known as "As I Roved Out", is an English folk song ( Roud 277, Laws O17) which was arranged by Percy Grainger for choir and brass accompaniment in 1912 and used in the first movement of Ralph Vaughan Williams' English Folk Song Suite in 1923. The words were first published between 1838 and 1845. [1]Plant owns more than 75% of Trolcharm Limited, according to Companies House filings in the UK. His three surviving children are directors of the business along with Plant. Many of them are called As I Roved Out as it is a common opening line – the musical equivalent of the storyteller’s “Once upon a time”. My only criticism of Robert’s recent singing with Krauss or Saving Grace is that it contains a void of “entertainment” value. The delivery and range is always muted and confined to a limited display of artistry. It just seems like a very easy way to sing vs putting on a performance . Even many of entertainments elder crooners put more style into their live delivery at age 80 plus. Sometimes it’s the man who makes the running in the relationship but sometimes it’s the girl who takes the lead. For love it is a funny thing, did you ever feel the pain? Walter Pardon sings Let the Wind Blow High or Low

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There is another song called As I Roved Out by Andy Irvine of Planxty, which we also feature on Irish Music Daily. These can be taken literally but they can also be taken as code for a sexual invitation. In highly religious, Catholic Ireland, it would have been unthinkable for a song to contain more explicit lyrics. Lassie, are you able?This song has been compared [ who?] to a song usually called "The Overgate" or "With My Roving Eye". In both songs the narrator has a chance meeting with a pretty girl, leading to a sexual encounter. And the songs may have similar nonsense refrains. However the details of the texts are so different that the Roud Folk Song Index classifies them separately. "The Overgate" is Roud Number 866. One well-known recording ends the account of the encounter with: Saving Grace’s first performance was on January 25, 2019 in Shropshire. Since then the band has extensively toured Europe, although a US tour was cancelled due to the Covid pandemic. The Saving Grace trademark One of the singers was a man called John Riley. Moore described him as a “travelling singer from the old tradition that has now died out – the kind of man who travelled around passing on stories and songs”.