I Know Where I'm Goin' /Irish Folk Song/Maureen Hegarty

[@gillbrowness3210]

For some reason I started singing this today completely out of the blue. I hadn't sung it in about 50 years! The words came back and I decided to google it and found this beautiful version. Perfectly sung, what joy, thank you for posting.

[@maureenderry]

Gill Browness.... Thank you for your lovely comments. I love this song myself and often sing it while driving.

[@BevMolander]

Funny, but I was in the kitchen fixing scalloped potatoes and started singing this poignant song. Mary, a freshman at Florida State U, used to sing it on her guitar. Thanks for the memories, Mary, wherever you are.

[@studio22camden41]

it just came to me today too ! that's why I looked it up. this song must have an everlasting spirit of joy to it !

[@johnbrowne2428]

My Irish immigrant Mom would sing this song to me many decades ago. Thank you.

[@Ron239]

Absolutely gorgeous, and brings tears to my eyes every time. This is the kind of deep, emotional connection we all need desperately now. This is what our basic humanity is all about.

[@maureenderry]

Thank you for your kind compliment!

[@JoanneGostick]

my 84 year old mother and i just listened to this. Thank you xo

[@maureenderry]

Thank you for your comment.

[@johnmallan7545]

This exquisite and absolutely enchanting song brings back such happy and completely beautiful memories of my dear mother singing this to me as a babe held to her perfect heart in her adoring protecting arms. More bonnie than mortal language can assert the most deserved appraisal. Thankyou, John.

[@TheDrewEncyclopedia]

I learned to play this song on the piano when I was around 10, to this day it's the only song I learned to read the music to. I never heard it played or sung by anyone else, and i never had a music teacher so I had no idea if I was playing the right notes. years later, I remembered the words and the tune and looked it up- turns out, I was playing it perfectly! how fun to reminisce.

[@Kpower81]

Love you gran. 24 years and I miss you still.

[@lilibetp]

I love these old songs! Did you ever see the movie "I Know Where I'm Going?" This was used in it. Very good movie.

[@maureenderry]

Thanks for the information and comment. I love this song...it is so lovely to sing.

[@maureenkolomeir8738]

How beautiful..i suddenly remembered this song tonight and sang it, then discovered your rendition, thank you Maureen, from myself Maureen in New Mexico.

[@maureenderry]

Thank you Maureen!

[@TheBACHHCAB]

I love this simple but deeply moving song. Thank you for this unforgettable arrangement and performance. Elegical afterglow is beautiful.......

[@AA-of4kl]

Thank you very much, such beautiful piece

[@MarkPrigoff]

A wonderful folksong. I first heard this as a choral version when I attended Interlochen (National Music Camp, Ann Arbor, Michigan) in '66. We as campers and music students attended many concerts offered by the various choral and orchestras during the summer session. I Know Where I'm Going by Hubert Hughes was performed by a mixed male and female chorus, and it was a wonderful voicing for this choral ensemble. Judy Collins & Burl Ives also performed this as a solo. Thank you for your's.

[@karenwood1364]

I dont know why this beautiful wee so simple song so moves me. Yours is probably my favourite version, it brings tears to my eyes.thank you yet again maureen for what your voice x your music mean to me.

[@pastore0506]

My mum used to sing this when I was a child. I had no idea it was an Irish song!

[@maureenderry]

Thank you...such a beautiful song and lovely to sing.

[@dianecheraghi-sohi6305]

Beautiful! ❤ I remembered the song from the film

[@misterfunnyman9474]

I learned this song from a CD called Wee Sing Sing-Alongs.

[@sandramorey2529]

I am teaching this song tonight. It's been decades since I've sung it or taught it, but I went straight to this to recall the verses. Lovely version and quite simple (always best).

[@bannagh8]

Thank you so much - I sang this with my grandparents when very young - in front of the fire in Co. Fermanagh - beautiful.....

[@maureenderry]

Laganlassie... I love this song. Thank you for your comment.

[@smkh19]

My mother used to sing this to me when I was a child. So beautiful!

[@Africa1000]

Beautiful. Thank you for uploading

[@cajsheen2594]

Wonderful rendition! XXX

[@graham1281]

Very lovely Maureen

[@Daan9898]

So beautiful... It was sung on the cremation of my grandma

[@gardenerkatecarter5911]

Never heard it before lovely

[@judibird1956]

One of my favorite songs since I was about 12, and that was 50 years ago. Salli Terri did a beautiful version of this song too.

[@flowersbloom3966]

I'm playing this on piano this really helps didn't know it was irish though

[@timgillihanfan5945]

Beautiful voice!

[@maureenderry]

Thank you.

[@nocount1]

Yes it does. Thanks very much for the info and thanks for the beautiful rendition!

[@maureenderry]

Thank you.....your English is very good! Maureen

[@hopelessable]

I KNOW WHAT I AM LISTENING! You are blessed with beautiful voice Maureen!

[@maureenderry]

Thank you.

[@phoenix-2-b5o]

I’m in 7th grade, and we’re singing this song for a choir concert!

[@maureenderry]

Thanks. These lovely old songs are rarely sung now...more's the pity

[@vampire4vampire]

we're singing this and we're in 10th >_> it makes me happy~ I swoon at the "my handsome, winsome johnny" ^-^ ~!

[@maureenderry]

Thank you for your comment....I love this song myself and am now teaching it to a few of my pupils.

[@gardenerkatecarter5911]

This was the last song in a movie I just watched titled I know where I m going...... hahahahaha xoxoxo

[@emilyheywood5927]

Thank you I've got to do this for my grade 3

[@darkbluepineapple]

so beautiful!

[@maureenderry]

@Jan7sha Sorry to be late getting back to you. This song is from a collection of traditional songs. This one is from Antrim and is collected and arranged by Herbert Hughes.

[@maureenderry]

I love these old songs too. Thank you for your comment. Don't know of the movie...one to look forward to. Maureen.

[@Shiloie]

gorgeous...thank you so much!

[@maureenderry]

Shaloie... thank you!

[@Shiloie]

such a pleasure hearing you...

[@Grandrose3]

Beautiful! Please.... does anyone have a copy of the lyrics that you could post? I would sure appreciate it ! God bless!

[@maureenderry]

If you get in touch through my email I will send the lyrics. [e-mail]

[@maureenderry]

Thank you

[@annemarie0509]

Thanks I'm preforming this song for a competition

[@maureenderry]

@Jan7sha Thank you.. the poet is not known as it is a traditional song and like many Irish songs was handed down through the oral tradition.

[@maureenderry]

Thank ...I do not speak Italian but I understand a few words.

[@maureenderry]

Thank you. I love this song myself. I can email the music if you would like that. It is an old traditionl Irish song.

[@maureenderry]

You are very welcome. I love this wee song. Maureen Hegarty

[@maureenderry]

Thanks for listening and for commenting.

[@maureenderry]

@henrysmummy2003 Thanks for your comment. I am a bit late but problems with my internet connections.

[@maureenderry]

Thankyou for the lovely comment

[@MarkPrigoff]

I also think that some contemporary choral arrangements of this song have replaced the word "dear" or "devil" with simply: "but I don't know who I'll marry."... and then the chorus echo's with "I'll marry" once again at the end of each verse which has this line. I would love hearing that arrangement for full chorus again, but I don't know if I'll find it!

[@SaintForeverBlue]

Maureen, you have seen the film of the same name, I hope.

[@ThatChick216]

your voice is beautiful...wish i could sound like that...isnt there another version that was arranged by William D. Hall....can not find it..im doing the song for a project at school

[@gaspode18]

@rnr5682 It is, but some people (mainly plastic Paddy Americans, it has to be said) claim EVERY folk song for Ireland.

[@maureenderry]

the dear knows...like saying 'who knows' Does that make sense to you now.

[@airmanchairman]

The lyrics of the 3rd verse should confirm its Irish origin: "Some say he's black... But I say he's bonny" , black in this case referring to the legendary Black Irish of undetermined origin (Spanish, Moorish, Middle-Eastern, who knows?)

[@maureenderry]

Thanks for the comment.

[@gearoid8485]

'I say he's bonny' is more indicative of Scottish origins! -

[@airmanchairman]

Garrett Shaw Oh aye!

[@nocount1]

First heard this in an old movie of the same name --- nice. What or who is "the dear"?

[@davidrenshaw]

It's likely that the name "dear" became adopted unintentionally. At the time the song originated, there was a well-established superstition that naming the Devil directly might attract his attention & thus invite ill-fortune. The euphemisms "the De'il" - or "the Deel" (depending on the singer's exact pronunciation) would be a less-risky option. (Compare Kathleen Ferrier's or Felicity Lott's version: they don't sing "the dear".)

[@stepanprazak2986]

Czech version: "Zlatá klec" (Spirituál kvintet)

[@karenthacker2877]

My very favourite version. I am going to be so boring because i suspect i am going to say this about ALL your interpretations! So dont bother to reply to me maureen!

[@maureenderry]

karen Thacker ...that gave me a wee smile!

[@maureenderry]

karen Thacker ... so far you have mentioned all my favourites. These were recorded quite a few years ago. I am still singing but not so much nowadays.

[@agentorange153]

A song about an illicit interracial relationship, from back when such things were considered taboo?

[@TheRealBoroNut]

Yes it IS a traditional Irish song. It's a long established KZbin tradition to claim any English Welsh or Scottish song as an Irish one if it has more than three likes, whether the Dubliners ever sang it once or not. So get your facts right.

[@simplybmilli]

Irish Rhapsody anyone?

[@rnr5682]

i always thought this was scottish??????

[@robinrubendunst869]

I think this is a Scottish folk song, not Irish? No?

[@tomkent4656]

Always thought the song was Scottish.

[@maureenderry]

Good luck...sing it simply.

[@gacharose1738]

Spanish. The Spanish Armada broke up off the shores of Ireland.