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Posted by: Meryat 16-Aug-2005, 01:55 PM
Hopefully someone can help me figure out what song I'm thinking of because it's stuck in my head and will likely drive me nuts otherwise.

I unfortunately don't remember much of the lyrics either, and definitely not in anything continuous enough to try to google with any success.

I know most of the song existed as a poem before made into the song with some additional lines added.

The song is song by a woman with a voice in the alto range.

The song is in the Highlander Radio playlist (seeing as that's where I heard it).

The chorus, as best I remember, is a series of lines in the form "X is Y because it's Z" where one of the Y/Z pairs is lost and found, though I don't remember in what order, with X being either I or this island or something similar.

Any help with figuring out either the song or a bit more of the lyrics so that I can google for it with more success than I've been having is greatly, greatly appreciated.

Posted by: Aaediwen 16-Aug-2005, 05:12 PM
Keep listening, you'll hear it again. Do you remember a time when you heard it on here? Even rough. Heck, perhaps even which day smile.gif

Posted by: dundee 17-Aug-2005, 08:21 AM
QUOTE (Meryat @ 16-Aug-2005, 02:55 PM)


The chorus, as best I remember, is a series of lines in the form "X is Y because it's Z" where one of the Y/Z pairs is lost and found, though I don't remember in what order, with X being either I or this island or something similar.









huh?? is this a song about algebra?? huh.gif X=Y+Z(Z=x+Y) smartass.gif

Posted by: Meryat 17-Aug-2005, 10:36 AM
QUOTE (Aaediwen @ 16-Aug-2005, 06:12 PM)
Keep listening, you'll hear it again.  Do you remember a time when you heard it on here? Even rough.  Heck, perhaps even which day smile.gif

I know that this is where I heard it, even requested it a number of times, and that I've heard it after some of the songs disappeared from the database, but I haven't heard it at all recently. That's why I'm having such problems recalling the lyrics of the chorus. In the meantime, the melody and snippets of the lyrics are stuck in my head.

It used to get played often enough that I'm hoping someone else will recognize it from what little I provided.

Posted by: stoirmeil 17-Aug-2005, 02:52 PM
Throw out a few keywords. biggrin.gif

Posted by: Celtic cat 17-Aug-2005, 03:13 PM
When you hear a song you like save to your wishlist even if you don't want to buy it that way you can go back and read title/singer if you forget.

Posted by: Aaediwen 17-Aug-2005, 04:11 PM
The search can go up to a year back smile.gif

Posted by: MDF3530 17-Aug-2005, 04:19 PM
Try this link:

http://www.quinlanroad.com/explorethemusic/bookofsecrets.asp?id=106

Posted by: stoirmeil 17-Aug-2005, 04:26 PM
Wow, Mike! Brilliant!!! thumbs_up.gif You figured that out from her clue about the form of the lines, right? I think you may have it. biggrin.gif It sure is a song to stay on your mind.

Posted by: MDF3530 17-Aug-2005, 04:36 PM
QUOTE (stoirmeil @ 17-Aug-2005, 05:26 PM)
Wow, Mike! Brilliant!!! thumbsup.gif You figured that out from her clue about the form of the lines, right? I think you may have it. biggrin.gif It sure is a song to stay on your mind.

No, just making an educated guess.

Poem
Female singer
Alto voice
Highlander Radio playlist

Posted by: stoirmeil 17-Aug-2005, 04:45 PM
I'd call Loreena a soprano, maybe. Heather Dale is more of an alto . . . but anyway, it still fits. I hope it's what Meryat is looking for. smile.gif

Posted by: Meryat 22-Aug-2005, 01:23 PM
I am fairly certain that the artist is not Loreena McKennitt, Heather Dale, Altan, or Capercaillie. (Actually, I'm completely certain on the first two.)

I thought I had already mentioned what I remember of the lyrics, but the lines were generally of the form ____ was ____ because/for ____/it was ____. I know there was a line about the ocean, one about something broad, one about something (either island or "I", I think) being lost and found. The two second blanks in the pair of each line were generally either opposites or something that was most definitely not the same.

The main part of the song itself is a poem, Irish or Scottish or English, I can't remember which. There were a few stand-alone verses that were in, if I am remembering correctly, Irish or Gaelic that were added. (I remember having looked up the lyrics at some point and finding them, which is where I have this information from.)

Posted by: Aaediwen 22-Aug-2005, 06:24 PM
something on this page perhaps?

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~irelandlist/poems.html

Posted by: Meryat 24-Aug-2005, 11:47 AM
QUOTE (Aaediwen @ 22-Aug-2005, 07:24 PM)
something on this page perhaps?

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~irelandlist/poems.html

No luck, unfortunately. Do you know of any other sites which either list a (large) number of poems or which allow one to search for words in poems? I've tried most of the ones I get searching with google. Similarly, do you know of any lyrics databases which would include lyrics from Celtic music and not just mainstream stuff that allow searching for words?

Posted by: Aaediwen 24-Aug-2005, 04:38 PM
Most any poem it's likely to be, you can probably find online, the problem is knowing what you're looking for wink.gif

You might check through some of the online databases of Child ballads, see if it's one of those.

Posted by: Meryat 07-Oct-2006, 11:17 AM
I finally found it! It was "Shadow" by Susan Craig on Celtic Twilight 6.

I was at Borders and had a bit of time and thought I'd just try listening to the samples on all the CDs with cover art kind of like I remembered it having. I found it on the second CD I tried.

I had pretty much resigned myself to just having it the bits I could remember haunting my memory and never finding the actual song.

Posted by: Macfive 07-Oct-2006, 02:37 PM
Wonderful! I am glad you found it!

You can also click on this little picture link on the mainpage of Celtic Radio when you here a song play:

user posted image

Make sure you are logged in when you click it and it will save the song to your favorites.

Every member gets 5 favorites to save; founder members get 50!

Posted by: Meryat 15-Oct-2006, 02:36 PM
I do that so that I know songs until I know the artist and title well enough that I'll remember them, but with only 5 song spaces, I just can't leave them in the favorites list for long after I've learned the artist and title.

My problem with this song was that I had to take a rather long hiatus from listening to Highlander Radio because of Internet connectivity issues (the computer would lose its Ethernet connection every 15-30 minutes or so, kicking me off the broadcast), and not requesting it in the meantime, I managed to forget it.

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