Gabriel Donohue and Marian Makins - The Ladies Go Dancing at Whitsun

[@samandjennysambrook]

Wow, this song has always touched my 💓 heart... excellent rendition guys...🎶🎸👌

[@bronaghbatch7132]

Absolutely beautiful! Thank you Gabriel & Marian ☘️🎼☘️🇺🇸💙🇺🇸

[@rachelgilders130]

I have loved that song for many years - I thought I only liked the original one I heard. But.... wow wonderfully sung - with all the feeling I’m blown over by it...the guitar... absolutely perfect.......got to get cd....time to look you up on net....thank you.

[@grahamalexander9956]

I'll be playing this in tobermory on the 11th Thanks for inspiring me!!

[@mmangelsun]

Beautiful!

[@DHDieck]

Heartstoppingly beautiful in every respect. One for the ages.....

[@roberttreborable]

Very moving sad song and so powerful anti-war.

[@TheAncientBiker]

Perfect and beautiful.

[@psyksy]

Thank you both. Lovely version of this very touching song; beautifully played and sung. Prompted to look for it as I've heard a couple of very good versions recently at Denby Dale Folk Club.

[@seansullivan5951]

Very nice !!

[@patconneely4272]

Wow , beautiful

[@CarolinePCracraft]

Many, many thanks to Gab and Marian. Caroline Cracraft

[@Kitsaplorax]

II really wish this song, along with :"Where Have All The Flowers Gone" and "My Son John" were played at 9/11 and on Armistice Day. Maybe a few people would listen and get it.

[@tamcd1508]

It's not a particularly old song and it's not Irish. It's a poem by Shirley Collins first husband, Austin John Marshall, set to the traditional English tune The False Bride by Shirley. The setting is the county of Sussex.

[@gregward4392]

And??????? point being?????

[@jakeornot6306]

@@gregward4392 Muscial history. Education. Learning. Those terrible things.

[@paulhurst1703]

@@gregward4392 Helpful to credit writers and authors for their work when possible.

[@mauricefrost8900]

And the point for me being that explains why some of the lines remind me of my home county of Sussex

[@thomashankhogan9076]

Wow, that was beautiful ! Did you end it with a Picardy third, too ? You don't need a bodhran player, but if you do, please let me know -- Hank Hogan

[@folkorchestraukuleleoxford6374]

Very nice version of this old song. You have a rich voice! We're thinking covering the song in my band Moonrakers (www.moonrakers.net) Thanks for the inspiration! Jon

[@gregward4392]

I love your voice Marian. Nice sympathetic guitar too Gab. Can only think that the negative comments from others below are those who simply can't identify/hear the sheer musicality of this performance. Who gives a cat's do da whether it's not Irish or not that old, it's fab. MrPaul12 I can only assume you have something to be bitter about. 'Course the thing is that those who criticize do so because they are talentless oiks with all the personality of a sewer rat and all the appeal of a dose of chicken flu. Yes, it's called jealousy.

[@GypsyJackBoggleShow]

The song is a lament not a hillbilly hoedown to whiskey. Nice voice but lament and sorrow what never came to fruition - a happily married life raising children followed by the joy of grand and great grandchildren whilst growing old with a loving mate.

[@gregward4392]

And......any more bollox to add????

[@MrPaull2]

Sorry but this couple don't seem to have clue with this wonderful song. The guitar seems to have some other song in mind entirely. Travesty.

[@gregward4392]

You're clearly bitter about something. You talk with such ignorant authority.