This was a widely known song in England, and was also popular in Ireland and Scotland. It is one of those which earlier editors, such as Sabine Baring-Gould and Cecil Sharp, felt obliged to soften or rewrite for publication. It was also common on broadsides throughout the nineteenth century" 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. 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. 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”.

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Roud, Steve & Julia Bishop (2012). The New Penguin Book of Folk Songs. Penguin. ISBN 978-0-141-19461-5. On January 23, 2020, lawyers representing a London company named Trolcharm Limited filed applications in Europe and the US to trademark “Saving Grace”. This Christy Moore version had been largely forgotten until Moore stumbled across it at a musical gathering in Roscommon in the early 1970s.

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The song ends with the soldier abandoning the girl the next morning. She asks him when will he return and marry her but he replies: “When broken shells make Christmas bells.” 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.

As I Roved Out - Irish Music Daily Story of the Irish song As I Roved Out - Irish Music Daily

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. 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”. When broken shells make Christmas bells

Who are you me pretty fair maid?

But I said, I've lost my waistcoat, my watch chain and my purse! Says she, I've lost my maidenhead, and that's a darned sigh worse! Chorus With my too-run-ra, lilt-fa-laddy Lilt-fa-laddy, too-run-ray [6] Other recordings [ edit ] Belle Stewart "The Overgate" recorded 1976. Issued on The Voice of the People Volume 20 "There is a man upon the farm" (1988). Whether the words have double meanings or not, the couple end up in bed. The soldier makes the bed with her and sleeps with her after asking “lassie are you able?”

Irish Girl / As I Walked Out / Let the Wind Blow High or Low The Irish Girl / As I Walked Out / Let the Wind Blow High or Low

Seventeen Come Sunday / As I Roved Out / The Soldier and the Maid (Roud 277; Laws O17; G/D 4:791; Henry H152, H793) Mainly Norfolk: English 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

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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. Following the announcement on August 15 of a November UK tour for Saving Grace, Plant’s Facebook post announcing the tour was edited on August 16 to add the announcement of the band’s first music being released.

As I Roved Out / The Deluded Lover - Mainly Norfolk As I Roved Out / The Deluded Lover - Mainly Norfolk

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.

Use italics (lyric) and bold (lyric) to distinguish between different vocalists in the same song part 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