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Thursday, November 13th, 2008
Story behind Snowy Breasted Pearl
Hello y'all! As you propably found out already, we have uploaded a new song on this site. It's a ditty called Snowy Breasted Pearl.
We found this song in a book of old Irish tunes. We had never heard a recorded version, but when we plowed through the sheet music, this version presented itself almost by default. We went like: hey, this sounds like a long-lost Crazy Horse classic!
When we spent a weekend in retreat, preparing new songs for our upcoming album (no, the studio has not been booked yet), we played Snowy as a warm-up piece.
Playing the damn thing felt so good that we pushed the Big Red Button on Kuisma's BR-1600. This is what stuck to the hard drive.
The lyrics are quite silly, really. Boy fancies girl, gets no response. Boy agonizes over unfulfilled romance, threatens to "brave the seas" to get to girl (no oceans, mind you, but just over to France, maybe Spain). In the end boy, the pathetic loser, commends girl's looks, saying she has really nice tits.
Today that sort of comment would result in a deserved slap on the mugger, but perhaps things were different in the days of yore...
Here are the words, in case you're interested:
There's a colleen fair as May
For a year and for a day
I have sought by every way her heart to gain
There's no art of tongue or eye
Fond youths with maidens try
That I've tried with ceaseless sigh, yet tried in vain
If to far off France or Spain
She crossed the watery main
To see her face again the seas I'd brave
But if 'tis Heaven's decree
That mine she may not be
May the Son of Mary me in mercy save
But a kiss of welcome bland
Or a touch of thy fair hand
Are all that I demand would'st thou not spurn
But if not mine dear girl
Oh, my Snowy Breasted Pearl
May I never from the fair with life return
Most likely we won't include the song on the next record, it's not really our type of music, but we keep playing it on gigs, it has this wonderful raise-the-roof effect when we occasionally hit the groove big time.
So here goes. Hope you like it.
Cheers, Redhill Rats
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| Posted By Redhill Rats @ 7:01 AM |
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