challenge: Looking to find a song.. no idea of artist

kenmc

Hi, hopefully someone can help me with this one. I think it's an Irish artist, in the style of the clancys.
Anyway, I remember hearing this as a kid when my parents would play it on a tape which is long since lost/ruined. If I recall correctly it was the story of a woman who was trying to have kids and she entered into a deal with the sea that in exchange for being able to have kids that the sea could have something of hers in exchange. Used haunt me a bit as a kid, cos it was kinda scary. If I remember correctly the chorus was something along the lines of
"Cast a ship upon the sea, a silver ship upon the sea,
a child will come back home to me...."
And there was all sorts of narrative between the woman and the sea (or maybe it was the wind??) and how she would not know when the sea wanted to take something from her in exchange, but in the end it took one of her family (husband maybe??)
Anyway, if anyone could tell me who this was and the song title i'd really appreciate it..
Cheers
Ken

Shadowdancer

Sounds like a variation of this ancient ballad

http://www.contemplator.com/child/silkie.html

Hope this helps,
S.

kenmc

nawww thats not it but thanks anyway....
there was a fair bit of spoken word in it if i remember correctly, and would describe the wind whistling around the cottage they lived in and the instruments would sound like the wind.....

Shadowdancer

This has been bugging the ass of me for days now but have no fear - I got it sussed!!!

The song is called "Peter Kagan and the Wind"

You might want to have a look here for some interesting info on the original recording ,

http://www.liamclancy.com/cgi-bin/teemz/teemz.cgi?board=_master&action=opentopic&topic=281&forum=Messageboard


The full lyric can be found in all its glory here,

http://www.makem.com/discography/recordings/lyricpage/peterkagan.html

I love a challenge..

Slan,
S.

kenmc

Yeah that sounds very like the concept all right, if not the same lyrics....could be a live variation on it though.
Thanks for searching!!
K