Eén van de mooiste Ierse stemmen is in het bezit van Mary Black. Laat je ontroeren door haar prachtige Farewell, Farewell,       een lied dat werd geschreven door Richard Thompson van en voor Fairport Convention. Het optreden is onderdeel van de Transatlantic Sessions (*1) van 1995/1996 en de muzikanten zijn: Declan Sinnott (gitaar), Aly Bain & Jay Ungar (viool), Molly Mason (bas) Jerry Douglas (slide gitaar).

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*1 Lees hier meer over de Transatlantic Sessions.

Farewell, Farewell
Farewell, farewell, to you who would hear,
you lonely travellers all.
The cold north wind will blow again,
the winding road does call.

And will you never return,
to see your bruised and beaten sons.
O I would, I would, if welcome I were,
for they loathe me every one.

And will you never cut the cloth,
nor drink the light to be.
And can you never swear a year,
to anyone but he.

No I will never cut the cloth,
nor drink the light to be.
But I’ll swear a year to he who lies,
asleep alongside of me.

Farewell, farewell, to you who would hear,
you lonely travellers all.
The cold north wind will blow again,
the winding road does call.
Farewell, farewell.