I AM STRETCHED ON YOUR GRAVE

Created on 17/09/2002
Latest update on 27/01/2024

Artist: Scullion
Author: Philip King/Frank O'Connor/trad.
Label: Mulligan
Year: 1979

Irish folk band with members of Tir-na-Nog. Translation (by Frank O'Connor) of the 12th century Sean Nós poem Ta mé Sínte ar do Thuama. Singer Philip King provided the music. The late Diarmuid Ó Súilleabháin from the West Cork Gaeltacht region Cúil Oadha did a version as such for BBC documentary Bringing It All Back Home. Cúil Aodha is the place where the father of the Irish folk revival Seán Ó Riada retired to and where he died.

Covers:

1990:

Sinéad O'Connor [on a James Brown beat (see: Funky Drummer)]

1994:

Dead Can Dance

1995:

Lennon Family [as Ta mé Sínte ar do Thuama]

1998:

Kate Rusby

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