Fennario (Scottish Folk Song)

[@robmurray1990]

Variation of the "Bonnie Lass of Fyvie-oh"......

[@dougr.2398]

Child Ballads or another source?

[@neiljohnsen276]

This is called Peggy O in the greatful dead songbook. Awesome!! One of the all time greatest covers!

[@Willyspujim]

Actually it is another cover song the Grateful Dead played. The original is from Fyvie! A small town in Aberdeenshire, Scotland and the song as The Bonny Lass o Fyvie.

[@nikhilananda]

ALOHA NEIL ...... GRATEFUL Dead, not "greatful"

[@rondiggitydawg2010]

PEGGY-O!!!!! Grateful Dead, Jerry does this amazing

[@vladimirputindreadlockrast812]

Another song with Fennario in it: "In the timbers of Fennario, the wolves are running round. The winter was so hard and cold, froze ten feet 'neath the ground."

[@p.s.7430]

Love that song.

[@martaacosta4415]

Don’t know that song, but the lyrics make it sound fascinating, at least the beginning lyrics quoted above. I May have to look it up.

[@vladimirputindreadlockrast812]

@@martaacosta4415 "Dire Wolf," by The Grateful Dead.

[@derfel316]

Just wonderful...🎙️🌺🙏

[@NinaRicciMusic]

I am so glad you enjoyed it!

[@stashuk7450]

G E Smith said in an interview that it was his familiarity with this song that earned him a gig with Dylan, who apparently ranks this among his favorites.

[@taradeaton9444]

Beautiful. Dylan tune, Grateful Dead had many tasty versions of it. 🎉 😊

[@johncoakley7573]

Dylan might be another copy singer as it is alleged to be Appalachian ancient... but can't find old vids...

[@baxtronicxavier]

Excellent… This is one of my favourite early Simon and Garfunkel covers :)

[@NinaRicciMusic]

Thank you! I will have to check out their version! I have a couple of Simon & Garfunkel covers on my channel. You should subscribe! I post pretty often and love covering traditional songs like this one and sometimes cover 60’s songwriters as well.

[@CampOboyAnnex]

So many versions of this song out there… I just did one too because obviously we need more, lol

[@blackjackdavy2342]

Outstanding! I want to be listening to this while watching passing scenery from a Greyhound bus☺️❤️❤️❤️

[@denniswalter3920]

Beautiful beautiful beautiful 💐💐💐💐. Stunning videography... thank you for sharing so much beautiful art with the world🎨🎭🎵🎸

[@martaacosta4415]

I’ve loved this song since I got the Joan Baez album where she sings this. It was a Christmas present from my mom & dad in 1969 or thereabouts. I’ve heard other renditions so I know there are several other verses not included in Joan Baez’s or in Nina Ricci’s, and if you’re trying to follow the story (which to me is essential in appreciating folk music), you’re not too sure what’s going on if you only hear these few verses. You get the gist, sort of, and there’s definitely a tragic air to it: army marching through (the enemy? invaders?) and an officer falls in love with a local girl; he gives her money; her mum doesn’t want her daughter to be with an enemy of their country; somebody shoots him but his ghost threatens to come back and set fire to all the cities, thus killing all the women; finally we learn that our heroine can’t seem to control her blond hair😂. There’s always room for interpretation in poetry and song lyrics, but this song leaves huge blanks, unless you look up what is left out.

[@NinaRicciMusic]

Love your comment, Marta, and thank you for sharing your story! It's funny that a song that leaves so much responsibility to the imagination can be as compelling as this one is. ...Also, where in the world is "Fennario?" I know Bob Dylan never has yet found "Fennario" by his recording of "Pretty Peggy-O."

[@dougr.2398]

It is claimed that this is a Civil War song. I’m glad to know it predates that era.

[@NinaRicciMusic]

Interesting! I haven’t heard that idea before. It does sound very much like an American melody, but then, we tend to apply our style to everything.

[@abirdthatflew]

Bravo! Beautiful!

[@NinaRicciMusic]

Thank you very much 🥰

[@patsygarrett8590]

Awesome job Nina love you lady

[@NinaRicciMusic]

Love you, Patsy! Thank you 🥰

[@georgelayton6641]

I would love to have a back yard like this young lady's.

[@NinaRicciMusic]

I took this video a couple of years back at Eden Garden State Park in Santa Rosa Beach, Florida. You should go!

[@NinaRicciMusic]

I recommend Subscribing to my channel, as well. More videos taken at pretty places!

[@mzollnerable]

Thank you!

[@stephenwhite5658]

Very nice! I really love old ballads like that! Excellent job and Great picking also the black and white is a nice touch!!

[@NinaRicciMusic]

Thanks, Stephen! I feel like a hobbit girl 😄

[@stephenwhite5658]

What do you mean by hobbit girl?

[@NinaRicciMusic]

@@stephenwhite5658 Oh! The Hobbits from The Lord of the Rings. They are short and barefooted.

[@stephenwhite5658]

Oh lol well you certainly dont look like that!🙂

[@presterjack9764]

@@NinaRicciMusic Speaking of hobbits, are you familiar with Glenn Yarbrough, who did the 1977 Hobbit movie soundtrack? I could imagine him being an influence on you

[@alanfoster1513]

BEAUTIFUL version and voice!

[@nctpti2073]

It is the Bonnie Lass of Fyvie-O. Fennario is a mispronunciation that got adopted by modern singers. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fyvie_Castle

[@lindasolomon8939]

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bonnie_Lass_o%27_Fyvie

[@nctpti2073]

@@lindasolomon8939 Right. I was linking the location that proper version of the song is set in.

[@lindasolomon8939]

@NCtPtI I understood what you were doing. I thought people might also be interested in the original song, so I added the link for that. Enjoy your day!

[@nctpti2073]

@@lindasolomon8939 You too! And I love the original :D

[@danielyoung5137]

I really like this version! Thanks!

[@thebanjoman49]

As I recall Fennario refers to venerial disease that was rampant in the military.

[@martaacosta4415]

References? Documentation, please?

[@thebanjoman49]

@@martaacosta4415 Do your own research. This was the history I received fifty years ago when I learned this song.

[@TheFunkybert]

As YOU recall?!?! 😅

[@thebanjoman49]

@@TheFunkybert That’s what I said. As I recall. It was 50 years ago. I was a working musician and that was the story connected with this song. Prove me wrong.

[@Ray277737]

Is Fennario a real place? “Pretty Peggy-O” tells the story of soldiers leaving a place called Fennario. There's no such place in the real world, and David Dodd points out in The Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics that it is probably derived from the British word “fen”, which refers to flat, muddy lands, especially around Cambridgeshire.Jun 10, 2018

[@nctpti2073]

It's Fyvie-O, and they were marching through kzbin.info/www/bejne/m2G8ZGp7btekp8k

[@hermitrob5481]

Hence "Fenway Park" in Boston by filling in the marshlands/fens to create the Back Bay Fens urban park. Whether it evolved or is mispronounced certainly doesn't dispute what the original writer was trying illustrate with "fen". Makes perfect sense in the setting of the story. Tale whatever.

[@alimraeb3287]

😍💯👍💙💙💯💙💙

[@carlcurtis]

Dylan did it on his first album, which is when I first heard it. This performance is very fine.

[@NinaRicciMusic]

That’s true! His version was called “Pretty Peggy-O.” It was the first version I was familiar with. Thank you for stopping by, Carl!

[@robertsousa9550]

Reminds me of Joan Baez.

[@brianmcconnachie3960]

This is a bastardisation of “The Bonnie Lass of Fyvie “ nice as it is IT IS NOT A SCOTTISH FOLK SONG 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@NinaRicciMusic]

Quite right… To traditionalists, it may not appeal, but to listeners who like whatever *hits them* and makes them feel something, it may. I don’t claim to be a traditional Scottish singer, but I like the song. Consider it a “revivalist rendering,” which is non-traditional.