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Lyr Req: The Old Oak Tree

15 Nov 01 - 06:39 AM (#593075)
Subject: Looking for song name
From: GUEST,Thorsten

Hello,

I hope someone can help me with this. Usually people ask about lyrics for a certain song. This time it's the other way round. I have got (most - at least what I could understand) of the lyrics of a song I heard lately and I have got no idea who sang it or what it is called.

So here are the lyrics:
(**** stands for "I do not know what she sang")
----------------------
Do not marry ****
My father did implore
Or an outlost wife you'll be
With no roof overhead
No feathers for a bed
Just the leaves of an old oak tree
With no roof overhead
No feathers for a bed
Just the leaves of an old oak tree

When I married my love
He swore by stars above
That till death he'd be true to me
With the stars overhead
****** for a bed
***** of the old oak tree
As I lay by his side
I did count the stars that night
In the leaves of the old oak tree

*******
A hunting day did go
Till my love in his snare was he
With a price on his head
He did hang till he was dead
From the bough of an old oak tree
With a price on his head
He did hang till he was dead
From the bough of an old oak tree

****** is no more
His spirit will *****
On his grave now the grass grows free
And I bore him a son
Oh he's tall and free and young
With the strength of that old oak tree
Yes I bore him a son
Oh he's tall and free and young
With the strength of that old oak tree

-------- I really hope someone knows that song and can tell me the name (and who might have been the singer), cause its kind of haunting me and I keep humming it all day long.

Thanks in advance,
Thorsten

HTML line breaks added. --JoeClone, 15-Nov-02.

15 Nov 01 - 09:49 AM (#593167)
Subject: RE: Looking for song name
From: Sorcha

Almost has to be a Child, but which one? SS keeps timing out on me.

15 Nov 01 - 10:10 AM (#593182)
Subject: RE: Looking for song name
From: MMario

google pops up this site - which tells us "flie not found" and the domain is "under consturction.

but from the url:http://www.owlrecords.com/lwoman.htm

I would say it is recorded on owl records.

15 Nov 01 - 10:23 AM (#593201)
Subject: RE: Looking for song name
From: Sorcha

No flies on that one, huh, Mario? Malcolm, masato, come in please!!

15 Nov 01 - 10:51 AM (#593231)
Subject: Lyr Add: THE OLD OAK TREE
From: Charlie Baum

Further searching using Google's cached version (one step beyond MMario's search) hints at the title of the record:

THE OLD OAK TREE

Do not marry O'Moore, my father did implore
Or an outlaw's wife you will be
With no roof overhead, no feathers for a bed
Just the leaves of an old oak tree
with no roof overhead, no feathers for a bed
Just the leaves of an old oak tree

When I married my love, he swore by stars above
That till death he'd be true to me
With the stars overhead, the soft earth for our bed
'neath the leaves of an old oak tree
As I lay by his side, I did count the stars that hide
In the leaves of an old oak tree

But the cruel Saxon foe, a hunting they did go
Till my love, in a snare was he
With a price on his head, he did hang till he was dead
From the bough of an old oak tree
With a price on his head, he did hang till he was dead
From the bough of an old oak tree

Though O'Moore is no more, his spirit will endure
O'er his grave now the grass grows free
And I bore him a son who is tall and free and young
With the strength of that old oak tree
Yes, I bore him a son who is tall and free and young
With the strength of that old oak tree

Celtic Voices - Woman on Owl Records

15 Nov 01 - 10:54 AM (#593234)
Subject: RE: Looking for song name
From: Sorcha

AHA!!! I did try the cache, but couldn't get to the lyrics. Just another "flie not found". Then I went looking for the Oak Tree, and found several others but not the correct one. Good on ya, Charlie!

16 Nov 01 - 11:14 AM (#593992)
Subject: RE: Looking for song name
From: Noreen

Refresh, in case Thorsten hasn't seen this.

16 Nov 01 - 12:49 PM (#594073)
Subject: RE: Looking for song name
From: Jim Dixon

Furthermore, using different cached pages from Google, I found out that the album in question is "Celtic Voices - Woman" described as a "14-track compilation featur[ing] seven different, yet exceptionally beautiful female voices." Denise Douglas sings "Old Oak Tree." There are other web sites that describe it or offer it for sale. One site classifies it as "New Age."

14 Nov 02 - 05:32 PM (#826289)
Subject: RE: Looking for song name
From: GUEST,Liz

The name I have for the song is In Aimsir Bhaint An Fhier, and the singer's name is Connie Dover.