If you would like to change your settings or withdraw consent at any time, the link to do so is in our privacy policy accessible from our home page. We and our partners use data for Personalised ads and content, ad and content measurement, audience insights and product development. 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.

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However the details of the texts are so different that the Roud Folk Song Index classifies them separately. Sometimes it’s because he is already married, sometimes it’s because he loves another but often it’s simply because he likes being single.Instead, news about the band is announced through the social media profiles of the individual band members. He hasn’t applied to trademark the names of his previous solo bands Strange Sensation, the Band of Joy or the Sensational Space Shifters.

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The business owns the copyright to much of Plant’s solo career and is frequently credited in the liner notes of his albums, including “Raise The Roof. In other versions, Moore changes it so it’s the girl who is anxious about whether the singer will be up to the task as she says, “I hope to God you’re able”.Plant hasn’t trademarked his own name, either, unlike Jimmy Page who does own trademarks to protect his personal brand including his name, his autograph and the word “ZOSO.

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The girl says there’s plenty of oats for a horse to eat “if he’s able” and there’s plenty of wine for a soldier boy to drink “if he’s able”. Irish folk music abounds with songs about young maidens “giving” themselves to rakish men who then abandon them the next morning. Incidentally, Moore often has a little fun with this line in live performances, changing it so it refers to whether the singer is up to the task of making love to the girl.It’s a common ending to these kind of songs, with the girl left disappointed and with her reputation tarnished. Moore loved the song and has performed it throughout his career, both with Planxty and as solo artist. 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.

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This can make it difficult to differentiate between different songs, which are distinct but have the same title. In highly religious, Catholic Ireland, it would have been unthinkable for a song to contain more explicit lyrics. Robert Plant will release his first music with new band Saving Grace, giving everyone who purchases a ticket to the November UK tour a digital copy of the song “As I Roved Out”.

A censored version published by Baring-Gould and Sharp substitutes a proposal of marriage for the encounter. Furthermore, this odyssey has been undertaken in the spirit of appreciation, musicianship, and exultation: they truly are a band of joy! On January 23, 2020, lawyers representing a London company named Trolcharm Limited filed applications in Europe and the US to trademark “Saving Grace”.