Don’t mind me. I’m just trying to resist AI bullshit.
I first learned this song when I was a Waldorf teaching assistant back when the world was young. The lead teacher, a wonderful and sassy women named Linda, brought me the sheet music (I’d never heard the song before) and I figured out an arrangement that I could teach her class (I think it was fifth grade). I remember we had a slight dispute about whether one chord was E minor or B minor—but it’s B minor (though The Tannahill Weavers go with E minor),
The origins of the song are in dispute, but it dates to the 1800s and Robert Tannahill.
The song has been recorded by pretty much everyone, including Bert Jansch and The Byrds. English folk singer Kate Rusby has a lovely version.
I plan to keep dropping these short videos of songs occasionally, whether traditional folk songs or my own compositions. At least for a while. It’s a way to push back at the AI overlords and also my way of engaging in my own little Butlerian Jihad.
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