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Looking for a song (a bit of a challenge)

Postby Callantha » Tue Apr 01, 2003 8:20 am

Hiya.

This Sunday/ early Monday for us europeans, Gridstream played an absolutely woooonderful song. Unfortunately I didn't know about the /tell gridbot playing thingye so I have no idea of the name of this song, and neither have any of my friends :(
Therefore, I might as well throw out the question to you guys, the always amazing GSP community :D And ask if anyone of you did listen to Gridstream at that time and could tell me what it's called :crosses fingers:

It was played at about midnight GMT / 6pm cst / 7pm est and sounded like a classical medieval melody, with a woman singing a story about a young girl, a landlord and moonlight :shock: Oh, it was about 10 minutes long. :?

Thanks in advance :)

Huggels,
Cally

Edit: I had to correct the date.
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Postby Otori » Tue Apr 01, 2003 8:58 am

I will try to help a bit. Xtrophic was streaming at that time so you might send him a shout. X's stream seems to be Van Morrison happy as of late (which would explain the moonlight), but I bet he can narrow it down for ya... gl to ya

Edit: young girl and landlord. My name is Vega...lol. Now I'm dying to figure out what it is!!
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Postby Xtrophic » Tue Apr 01, 2003 11:27 am

That would most likely be Loreena McKennit - The highwayman. A very beutiful song I am very fond of myself :)

The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees
The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon the cloudy seas
The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor
And the highwayman came riding, riding, riding,
The highwayman came riding, up to the old inn-door.


He'd a french cocked hat on his forehead, a bunch of lace at his chin,
A coat of claret velvet, and breeches of brown doe-skin;
They fitted with never a wrinkle; his boots were up to the thigh!
And he rode with a jewelled twinkle,
His pistol butts a-twinkle,
His rapier hilt a-twinkle, under the jewelled sky.


Over the cobbles he clattered and clashed in the dark inn-yard
And he tapped with his whip on the shutter, but all was locked and barred;
He whistled a tune to the window, and who should be waiting there
But the landlord's black-eyed daughter,
Bess, the landlord's daughter,
Plaiting a dark red love-knot into her long black hair.


"One kiss, my bonny sweetheart, I'm after a prize tonight,
But I shall be back with the yellow gold before the morning light;
Yet if they press me sharply, and harry me through the day,
Then look for me by the moonlight,
Watch for me by the moonlight,
I'll come to thee by the moonlight, though hell should bar the way."


He rose upright in the stirrups; he scarce could reach her hand
But she loosened her hair I' the casement! His face burnt like a brand
As the black cascade of perfume came tumbling over his breast; and he kissed
its waves in the moonlight, (Oh, sweet black waves in the moonlight!)
Then he tugged at his rein in the moonlight,
And galloped away to the west.


He did not come at the dawning; he did not come at the noon
And out o' the tawny sunset, before the rise o' the moon
When the road was a gypsy's ribbon, looping the purple moor
A red-coat troop came marching
Marching, marching
King George's men came marching, up to the old inn-door


They said no word to the landlord, they drank his ale instead
But they gagged his daughter and bound her to the foot of her narrow bed;
Two of them knelt at the casement, with muskets at there side!
There was death at every window,
And hell at one dark window;
For Bess could see, though the casement, the road that he would ride.


They had tied her up to attention, with many a sniggering jest;
They had bound a musket beside her, with the barrel beneath her breast!
"Now keep good watch!" and they kissed her.
She heard the dead man say-
Look for me by the moonlight
Watch for me by the moonlight
I'll come to thee by the moonlight, though hell should bar the way!


She twisted her hands behind her, but all the knots held good!
She writhed her hands till her fingers were wet with sweat or blood!
They stretched and trained in the darkness and the hours crawled by like years!
Till, now, on the stroke of midnight,
Cold, on the stroke of midnight
The tip of one finger touched it!
The trigger at least was hers!


Tlot-tlot! Had they heard it? The horse-hoofs were ringing clear
Tlot-tlot, in the distance!
Were they deaf that they did not hear?
Down the ribbon of moonlight, over the brow of the hill,
The highwayman came riding,
Riding, riding!
The red-coats looked to their priming! She stood up straight and still!


Tlot, in the frosty silence! Tlot, in the echoing night!
Nearer he came and nearer! Her face was like a light!
Her eyes grew wide for a moment! She drew one last deep breath,
Then her finger moved in the moonlight
Shattered her breast in the moonlight and warned him with her death


He turned; he spurred to the west; he did not know she stood
Bowed, with her head o'er the musket, drenched with her own red blood!
Not till the dawn he heard it; his face grew grey to hear
How Bess, the landlord's daughter,
The landlord's black-eyed daughter,
Had watched for her love in the moonlight, and died in the darkness there


Back, he spurred like a madman, shrieking a curse to the sky
With the white road smoking behind him and his rapier brandished high!
Blood-red were the spurs i' the golden noon;' wine-red was his velvet coat,
When they shot him down on the highway
Down like a dog on the highway
And he lay in his blood on the highway, with the bunch of lace at his throat.


Still of a winter's night, they say, when the wind is in the trees
When the moon is a ghostly galleon, tossed upon the cloudy seas,
When the road is a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor,
A highwayman comes riding,
Riding, riding,
A highwayman comes riding, up to the old inn-door.
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Postby Callantha » Tue Apr 01, 2003 12:00 pm

OMG! I love you X!!!!!!!!!!
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Postby Xtrophic » Tue Apr 01, 2003 12:06 pm

*giggles*
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Postby Firia » Tue Apr 01, 2003 8:46 pm

I have that CD (Book of Secrets) litterly in arms reach of me right now. ^_^ I love it quite fondly. :mrgreen:
Like a Punk. :mrgreen:
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Postby Nexeus » Wed Apr 02, 2003 5:58 am

Firia wrote:I have that CD (Book of Secrets) litterly in arms reach of me right now. ^_^ I love it quite fondly. :mrgreen:


Hummm CD called the book of secrets within your arms and loving is quite fondly... :shock:

Hehe, love the song though, it is a great song.
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