Tommy Makem ~ Will You Go Lassie, Go

Joining Tommy on stage is Cherish the Ladies and Barley Bree. For a beatiuiful version of "Will you Go Lassie, go

[@jimkeappock7558]

I was raised listening to Tommy Makem and the Clancy Brothers. They are all sadly missed. But we still have there music. RIP BOYS ☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️

[@erinnepowers4905]

I was as well. ❤

[@jeffreyjacobs390]

Just great to hear this old favorite of my Father - Tommy Makem, Tommy Makem & the Clancy Brothers .... filled our house all three floors with speakers on dad's day off ..... He loved these Irish Singers so ! God bless those that bring such joy in song. GBjj

[@anmhi1000]

Cathy Ryan is the most beautiful female i have ever seen with a voice to match. Thanks for singing this great song.

[@6330deer]

Cathy ryan

[@robinhood480]

I thought it was Mommy Take’em I mean Tommy Makem

[@johncook7281]

I am trying to be sure who Cathy is . The brunette who took verse and chorus after Tom Makem?

[@James-rn6lo]

This is the first time I have seen Cathy Ryan.!! What a beautiful lass and a great singer.!!!???

[@Rikki0]

Tommy was one of those few who started out with an amazing voice and then proceeded to just get better every year all the way up until the day he died. We miss you Tommy, and thanks for the music. Huzzah from Texas.

[@chee6060]

That just about say's it all, an Icon that will be forever missed, along with all the Clancy brothers, the Dubliners & others like Luke Kelly, Paddy Reilly, Liam Clancy & Ronnie Drew. May God bless them all for leting us have the pleasure to hear & enjoy them all.

[@stevenburke1599]

Paddy Reilly is about the only one still alive from your list

[@johnjennings9693]

@@stevenburke1599 and Johnny Mac evoy still doing concerts,

[@42awww]

Am I in Heaven? For 5 minutes here, I feel I am. It just does not get any better than this. Thank you, thank you for posting.

[@ajeansmith5478]

I missed knowing him. Yet I miss him now, as a dear friend. What a beautiful voice. Love you, Tommy

[@steveroberts8719]

In these trying times of the novel Cornoavirus Pandemic, this song is so comforting. Thanks, Tommy for the memories.

[@country1940]

I have always understood this song to be of Scottish origin but whatever it's true origin it is still one of the most beautiful melodies ever written, right up there with Londonderry Aire/Danny Boy. A lot of well known folk songs whether Irish, Scottish, English or American have sketchy origins and many borrowed melodies but the main thing is we can enjoy them all sung by wonderful singers like Tommy, Clancy Brothers, Dubliners, etc. May they continue to be sung by succeeding generations.

[@mervynmaxwell1595]

I was written by one of the Belfast McPeake family, well-known folk group. Rod Stewart recorded it and named it, 'The Purple Heather.' The McPeake's sued him for copyright as it was cited as 'a traditional song on the CD..'

[@ferrarired1422]

Londonderry me hole

[@GordonHudson]

The words to Londonderry Aire were written by an English man. A lot of these songs have odd pasts.

[@johnjamieson7087]

@@mervynmaxwell1595 The tune is "The Braes o' Balquidder" and the original poem was by Robert Tannahill of Paisley. Have a google. McPeake picked it up while touring in Scotland

[@zuluder866]

A true bard..I'm blessed to have seen him perform live. I last saw him a few months before his death. He coughed more than I remembered but the songs were as crisp and clear as ever just like his spirit and love for the music. I fear there won't be many more like him . He will always be missed .

[@Maureenkukla]

I miss Tommy and his beautiful voice so much! He added so much to my life.

[@regine5285]

me to

[@dalecauthen9086]

When my Mom was really missing my great aunts and uncles who used to play together when I was little boy, I bought her the Clancy brothers Christmas album with Tommy Makem and I think she wore that CD out, playing it over and over. It was like hearing their Scots-Irish broughes again as they played mandolin, guitar and fiddle and mesmerized us for as long as they would play. They're all gone now. But what sweet memories.

[@momazilla]

After the version the family did at Liam Clancey's graveside, this song will always move me to tears. Thank you Tommy, Liam, and all,

[@jkpuskar]

He died 3 months before coming to Pittsburgh...would've been my chance to see him live. Now, he makes the heavenly choir a little sweeter. Rest in peace, my brother.

[@KeshHarp]

Lyrics written in 1953 by Francis McPeake of Belfast. Using the the old Scottish melody written by Tannahill in the 1800's. First I heard it played on the radio was in 1957....All that said, Rest ye gentle, Tommy. Armagh has given another voice to heaven's band.

[@googlensky]

What an incredible rendition of this wonderful song. Tommy, so missed here, certainly makes heaven an even better place. And Cathy Ryan - just stunning. Can't help but smile to her as she looks at the camera at 2:10. Lovely.

[@er8925]

She had a stunning voice ❤ I play this in the nursing home I work in.

[@jkpuskar]

I started performing the week after he passed; dedicated my first concert to him and sung "Four Green Fields" in his honor.

[@mrbuggsbunny1]

May your performing bring you joy and success. Your comment is from 15 years ago! Hope "Four Green Fields" is still on your playlist. My favorite! A love song and a rebel song.

[@steveroberts8719]

Scottish or Irish. That's for the musicologists and folklorists. For the rest of us--the most beautiful and greatest song ever.

[@65martyfarty]

Lets sat Celtic

[@mauricestewart6253]

@@65martyfarty scotish

[@mikelynch-ef9yd]

@@mauricestewart6253 its Celtic

[@michaelmcgrath4136]

It is so nice. Almost as good as AC/DC's Sin City and Motorhead's Killed By Death. U feel me?

[@Martin-tn5lm]

I'm Irish. This song is Scottish. We're two sides of the one coin but still different.

[@chiefredwater1965]

when i was younger this was one of my favorite songs my parents played. I hoping Jesus returns before they go.......

[@1950sparks]

How hauntingly beautiful the whistle can be in the right hands !

[@williamc.1198]

Rest in Peace, Tommy. You are sorely missed!

[@GUIDOBRAT]

Being an Irish-American, I've always loved Tommy...greatly missed Erin Go Brach.

[@frankanderson3503]

Is there no such thing as an American?

[@Builder99]

You couldn't have said it better...I saw him play many times live...Class act...

[@GUIDOBRAT]

My favorite of ALL Irish songs...sung by my ALL-Time favorite Gaelic singer, the great Tommy Makem (may he rest in peace)"Will You Go Lassie, Go" (also known traditionally as "Wild Mountain Thyme") is very ancient and probably the most beautiful song ever written (but then, I'm bias because I'm Irish)

[@robertianjohnston7483]

A Scottish song

[@erinnepowers4905]

I am biased as well. It's Celt music. Irish-Scottish. Doesn't matter ❤

[@niamh556]

A beautiful song and a great loss to our music with the deaths of Tommy and the Clancy brothers. However we have people like Cherish the Ladies, Barley Bree and many others to carry on the tradition. Slan go foill agus go n'eiri an bothar leat Tommy.

[@clarebannerman]

Still as good as the first time I heard it---over 45 years ago. Maith an fear a Thomáis.

[@rvcrvc2]

Tommy had such a regal command of the stage, and of himself, the way only the very best, of the very, very best, are able to present.

[@rvcrvc2]

What a treasure, tommypm. Makes me proud to be 1/2 Irish. Wish my Dad & Uncle Bob - full bloods - were still here so I could share this with them.

[@sirussorc1]

R.I.P tommy.. some of the best damn music I've ever heard.

[@michaelrickard9890]

They're all great here. Makem was a class act. I was in Killarney, not too from Scotland, can i say that, and an impassioned Kerryman sang this song like a man possessed as if his life depended on it playing an accordeon, his chest drawing and heaving like a bellows, beads of sweat on his brow, most likely from Sliabh Luachra he was and he mesmerized us all on that night in Danny Manns. Summer time early seventies and a sprig of purple bell heather from Howth hill there was on Charlie's cap. Will you go lassie go and we'll all go together.

[@Tessietots]

So Beautiful. May You rest in peace Tommy. God Bless

[@frankieg8117]

I was so lucky to grow up listening to all of them. Rest in peace mom.

[@jaspersmommy1347]

Saw him every year he appeared at Milwaukee Irishfest. Just a wonderful singer, storyteller, musician, bard.

[@42awww]

Truly a gift. I don't think a person can practise enough to have that kind of charisamtic command....

[@PungiFungi]

They perform this song at the pub sing at the New York Renaissance Faire all the time! I finally learn how to sing it! Thank you, Tommy!

[@cheetsie]

RIP.Tommy, Thanks for the music. it was was wonderful and will last forever

[@tomkelly9714]

Father Martin J.Kelly Born.Belmulet.county Mayo b.1926 died 2014

[@desy2478]

An amazing performance of an amazing song. It's like the sudden realisation about how you feel about someone put in to words and beautiful music.

[@alien-mp7ci]

Beautiful!! This song will me immortalised forever

[@NorthLimitation]

Is this about whether it's a Scottish or Irish song? It is definitely a Scottish song, but we're very similar to oneanother and have massively influenced eachother. For a long time we have been brother nations and long may it continue! RIP Tommy, a fantastic man.

[@jamesfitzgerald6636]

NorthLimitation ... Scots were thrown out of Ireland! True

[@42awww]

I would really like to thank TommyPM for uploading this. I have come to this video so many times I couldn't count. Times when I am sad, lonely, happy, drunk, anything a person can be. You know how you get used to a song and it loses it's initial appeal after awhile. This performance, grows more potent with every listen.. Thank you so much

[@seamusberen]

Farewell Tommy! Walk in the Summer Country and thanks for the great music--you made all our lives better.

[@jedmarum]

Lovely! Nice to see Cathie Ryan with Cherish the Ladies. God Bless you Tommy!

[@johndonegan01]

So blessed to have seen this amazing man live.

[@CasperLD]

just close your eyes. have you ever heard such beauty?

[@madriver67]

Nah & nevah will! The voice of an angel he did have!

[@mrronan2007]

never . Tommy was the best of the best . Wrote four green fields . metaphor for a dived Ireland . Its a heart breaker

[@roly220]

Yes, that's the essence of all great music - and performances - like this; you never tire of it.

[@greggus42]

The greatest folk song ever.

[@rileycpo]

Then there's four green fields...

[@frankanderson3503]

Its Scottish

[@999manman]

If this doesn't make you want to shed a tear I wonder if you even have a soul.

[@heybeeg]

Tommy would have been 78 last week (Nov 4th). He was an outstanding ambassador for Irish folk music. Tommy, thank you for leaving us a legacy of wonderful songs to continue the tradition! He and Mary were the salt of the earth - I miss them both.

[@brumby440]

Makes me cry every time.

[@eileencurran3482]

My favorite concert of all time was Liam Clancy playing with the Spain brothers and the Clancy Brothers in Melrose, Massachusetts just a few years before he passed away

[@RyantoDidik]

Beautiful song ❤️🖤👌💯

[@edwardandrew4107]

Such a beautiful song and so well sung.

[@orlandoapollon586]

I could listen to this all day!

[@irishpuppy39]

I love this concert! So glad to see the recordings on You Tube.

[@NSResponder]

Thank you so much for posting this. A beautiful performance of a classic. -jcr

[@user-oh7iv3ij5x]

Lovely song thanks for the video🇬🇧💙

[@strangehero]

The master sings. "Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity". No shame in his life. Wonderful, endearing, ethnic, proud, talented, one of a kind. You shall be missed.

[@TimOBrien-n3l]

Absolutely brilliant, love the Clancy but my family won’t play them . Don’t know what they are missing.

[@jamesmohan8305]

A great song by one of the best singers from Ireland. My father really liked Tommy Makem may they both R.I P..

[@rvcrvc2]

Should be Cherish the Lassie - what a smile that keeps luring me back.

[@robertflint2549]

Great old Scots song well rendered.

[@MarkRobertCuthbert]

A Great Keady, Co. Armagh, Ireland man. R.I.P. Tommy

[@42awww]

I have been searching for a certain version of this song for 10 years. The advent of the computer is helping, but I'm thinking this could possibly be the world's most famous song. I tried this video. I have hit replay 20 times, and will continue. It is HEAVEN! I don't need to look for that version anymore, this is the most beautiful 5 minutes of music I have ever heard. To my shame, I have never heard of this fellow, but I will be looking into it. Thanks for posting.

[@eileencoleman6857]

They are magnificent. So many heartfelt songs.

[@johncook2748]

Yes, one of my Favorite renditions of this Beautiful Traditional song.

[@mrwolfhound]

They'll be others coming up... but none can take his place. He and the Clancy Bros. were true originals. God rest his soul!

[@hissmugness]

I have this on an old lp of the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem' I have listened to it since I was 8. I still completely lose it whenever I hear this song. Now that is immortality! For the Clancys on their own don't have the same effect on me!

[@brianhassett5252]

This is a lovely version of a lovely tune. The discussion of whether the song is Scottish or Irish is a huge distraction. Songs like this are universal.

[@richardmavin8255]

Brian Hassett I always get a huge shiver when I hear it, it brings back so many memories memories of moments cherished

[@robinconkel-hannan6629]

Scottish and Irish are often interchangeable..The Scottish Highlands were colonized by Irishmen who intermixed with the Picts..

[@cecircinn2908]

absolute rubbish ! Robert Tannahill (1774-1810) wrote the original . He was from Paisley (just west of Glasgow ) try finding Paisley in a map of the Highlands or Ireland ...colonized ? .. I give up

[@robinconkel-hannan6629]

David Kidd, you misinterpret what I said.. Research history before you make erroneous comments.. You did good telling us the origin of the song, thank you for that.. Your attitude is what's rubbish.. When most people think of Scotland they think of the Highlands.. That is where the richest Scottish culture comes from..

[@cecircinn2908]

The Picts,Strathclyde Britons and Angles were here prior to the Gaels , add the Vikings , Flemish,Normans etc etc all the way to the present day. The vast majority of Scots have always lived in the Lowlands . The border ballads and bothy ballads are a rich part of Scotland’s musical heritage.In more modern times the vast majority of music is still from the Lowlands.There are others of course some of whom sing in Gaelic. Capercaiilie (Argyll) Skerryvore (Tiree) RunRig (Skye) but what about Aly Bain ( from that hotbed of Gaelic culture (Lerwick in Shetland !!!!!!) his fiddling is more akin to the spirit of Norwegian culture. So the the richest Scottish culture comes from the Highlands eh ? No ,this aspect of my country’s culture is hugely valued and respected but is no richer than culture from our Lowlands and Islands .In literature (Burns , Tannahill,Scott , Grassic Gibbons etc) the lowlands again produces a huge amount of our cultural heritage . To say my attitude is rubbish when your opening gambit was “Scottish and Irish are often interchangeable” is laughable. Your statement of “colonized” is so far off the mark it is not even worth pursuing. None of what I have said in any way demeans the rich culture of all parts of my country (Scotland) and of our neighbours in Ireland. Perhaps you should research history yourself beyond watching Braveheart, the Quiet man or Whisky galore ….

[@edejan]

This is the first time to see this performance! I have loved Tommy Makem all my life and it's wonderful to see a new video of him performing. Thank you!

[@mariancooper2776]

Memories of my Dad 😢🇮🇪☘️

[@regine5285]

I miss you Tommy Makem,....you are in heaven, I know ...-:))))

[@breffnipark]

excellent ! Love that girl's voice !

[@andyegan9587]

Cathie Ryan, She has lots of songs on Spotify & You Tube

[@irishpride9999]

@TommyPM Tommy will always be with us...whether it be through song...through his children...or through his spirit. Although his body is laid to rest Tommy will never go away.....never. As long as I live and the people of Ireland live there will be no rest for Tommy Makem. Long Live Tommy.

[@iceaxe56]

I use to go to Makems irish pavalion in New York--What a place and a singer-Strange how time passes

[@southtownj382]

Great was. Tommmy Make! I love this song!

[@michaelduggan1890]

OMG , I love this song , it makes me cry . Thank you ..........

[@999manman]

My copy of this had a glitch so I am so happy to see this in its entirety...if there s a more bittersweet song on Earth I don't know what it is...it could move a statue to tears.

[@carthageflaherty6247]

what a great gentleman he was RIP

[@befalvey]

No one will ever compare with Mr. Makem...

[@swanvi11e]

What can i say but i love it and without it the world would not be same

[@stanibol]

Goosebumps. Beautiful rendition.

[@elliewong162]

I first heard this in London in a communal apartment...sung by my new friends Ruby and Tim..she was a girl from Belfast..Tim played guitar...I thought it was the most beautiful song I ever heard...excepting...maybe Danny Boy....

[@fmichaelb]

I was was thinking at first it the North Texas Irish Festival, held in Dallas. We've had him there 5 or 6 times (and once or twice on stage with Cherish the Ladies). But upon reflection, that doesn't look like any of our stages. Tommy is not only a great entertainer, he is a true gentleman as well.

[@trilobyte51]

I've asked that this recording of this song be played at my funeral. Followed by Sharon Shannon's The Blackbird. No hurry. For now, I'm going to visit Tommy's grave this week and lay some Tendercrop flowers. 🍀🍀🍀🍀 Update: Done. Irish and American flags wave over Tommy's grave (just look for them toward the back of the cemetery of you go). Plenty of stones, shells and coins left by visitors.

[@michaelrickard9890]

Great. He lies and sleeps peacefully.

[@philipegan1806]

beautiful to see Cherish the Ladies again 😍😍😍

[@shamnet]

A legend who with his music helped to enstill my love for this music & my pride for my Irish heritage...

[@kieranflynn1895]

The Bard of Armagh ,a favourite song and performer of my late father

[@pfeifferpack]

Happy birthday Tommy and RIP.

[@Section5_CdnIntelService]

Aye. They're all gone now, but never forgotten.

[@michaelcushing430]

Will you go lassie go , Wild mountain thyme originates like many of our songs from real places, events ( from human stupidity to happiness) and real people ( evil - holy , drunk or sober ) - The Braes O Balquidder is north of the Highland line Rob Roy country where I met my wife Catriona and laid her family to rest by the wee Kirk and lochan surrounded by these braes the hills rising to 3000ft - Alba Scotland

[@OisinmacFionn]

+michael cushing Actually it was written by old Francie (Meda) McPeake from Belfast - not Scots at all LOL

[@albertsmith1048]

Robert Tannahill (1774-1810) of Paisley wrote the lyrics for this song I believe.

[@OisinmacFionn]

Sorry - it wasn't. As John Duffy pointed out a couple of years back, it paraphrased a couple of lines of a Scots poem

[@gaconnochie]

sorry but that is nonsense. The entire lyric apart from the title and the line "if my true love could not come I would surely find another" is by Robert Tannahill the Scottish songwriter. In the first recording of this from 1952 Frank McPeake confirmed he learned the song when he was a boy from an old uncle only he did not have the last verse (hence the new line stated above). When asked if the song was Scottish he says "well I don't know.....it could be". McPeake modestly says he played around with it on the pipes - and the tune was credited to him as that is different from the original Scottish song.

[@wisers001]

Tommy Lives in all hearts. We will all be judged and sorted out , i hope i am on Tommy's side!

[@clintmaddoxii6153]

I just love this,

[@johncook7281]

I like Tommy Makem's voice. Baritone in a tenor world? I like the lady, the backing singers(Barley Bree.) I like the whole thing.

[@mcsachsenhausen]

my mother used 2 sing dis 2 me wen i was a baby she had a dog called lassie who died it reminds me of my childhood love u mam miss u from aisling in germany xxxxxxxxx

[@GregoryJWalters]

Super! Thank you.

[@DanPurdy1]

The explanation should also say that it is Kathie Ryan of Cherish The Ladies singing the beautiful solo.

[@Hemulen40]

Beaut rendition of ´Mountain Thyme´ . Thanx, Tommy !

[@tristanburke6575]

Nice, so nice! Thanks

[@jackieshmueli1850]

My Scotland born Mom would have loved this, with thanks from Israel .

[@karensaville4952]

SO BEAUTIFUL,,,