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Song: Mary and the Soldier

from Wild Winds by Artisan Row

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about

Conor Doherty (vocal, acoustic guitar), Karen Ryan (mandola, low whistle), Pete Quinn (piano), Elma McElligott (low whistle).
When they were both fresh-faced postgraduate students at Goldsmiths, University of London, in the late 1990s, Conor and Pete shared a no-frills, and extremely cheap, flat in South East London with fellow postgrads Dave Casby and Tony Black. There was no TV – or mod cons of any kind – but there was a communal record player, courtesy of Tony. One album, Andy Irvine/Paul Brady, got an airing pretty much every night they weren’t out playing sessions in New Cross (where they first met) or elsewhere. This is our homage to that much loved album and to the camaraderie of those carefree times. The musical ties in the band actually go back even further, to the mid-1990s, when Conor and Elma both studied music at University College Cork (albeit a year apart) under the tutelage of Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin.

lyrics

Come all you lads of high renown
That would hear of a fair young maiden
And she roved out on a summer’s day
For to view the soldiers parading
They marched so bold and they looked so gay
Their colours flying and the bands did play
And it caused young Mary for to say
“I’ll wed you me my gallant soldier”

She viewed the soldiers on parade
And as they stood at their leisure
And Mary to herself did say:
“At last I’ve found my treasure
But oh how cruel my parents must be
To banish my true love away from me
Well I’ll leave them all and I’ll go with thee
My bold undaunted soldier”

“Oh Mary dear, your parents’ love
I pray don’t be unruly
For when you’re in a foreign land,
Believe me you’ll rue it surely
Perhaps in battle I might fall
From a shot from an angry cannonball
And you so far from your daddy’s hall
Be advised by a gallant soldier.”

“Oh I have fifty guineas in bright gold,
Likewise a heart that’s bolder
And I’d leave them all and I’ll go with you
My bold undaunted soldier
So don’t say no but let me go
And I will face the daring foe
And we’ll march together to and fro
And I’ll wed you, my gallant soldier”

And when he saw her loyalty
And Mary so true-hearted
He said: “My darling, married we’ll be
And nothing but death will part us
And when we’re in a foreign land
I’ll guard you, darling, with my right hand
In hopes that God might stand a friend
To Mary and her gallant soldier”

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from Wild Winds, released April 10, 2017

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Artisan Row London, UK

Celebrating the timeless melodic beauty of traditional Irish music and more, Artisan Row brings together four well-known figures from London's traditional Irish music scene. First performing together in this combination at the 2012 Ennis Trad Festival, the quartet uses its rich textural palette to set the material in striking and ear-catching ways while always respecting the primacy of the melody. ... more

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