Draw Breath

I've been exploring Youtube, mainly for Clancy Brother tunes but came across this Planxty gem. Perm-tastic! And as for Christy on the piano: recede-abulos!

That said, I've always thought that the two songs bookending The Woman I Loved So Well were Planxty at their best.

The last song, Little Musgrave, is a variation on a 17^th Century folk song called Matty Groves. There's something wonderful about the very old songs giving as they do tiny snapshots of sensibilities long passed. Also: The Rocks of Bawn with its aspirations for joining up, and the distinctly pro-Napoleon Isle of Saint Helena (I can't find lyrics, but it's on this album).

Anyway, I'm wandering. Here's all ten minutes of an older and less hirsute Planxty's Little Musgrave: