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[gothwalk]

There is a song which I have only ever heard in one shop in Dublin, and it wasn't a music shop; they were just playing the radio. All three times. One of the lyrics was something like "...and I will lay me down, in the hollow ground" - or possibly "hallowed ground", or possibly I'm completely mishearing it. Any ideas?

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[hkim.livejournal.com]

the frames?

[socmot.livejournal.com]

Yes, it's The Frames, from the album "For The Birds".

[crimmycat.livejournal.com]

wow, you guys are good.

[gothwalk.livejournal.com]

Perfect, cheers!

(Now why weren't my web searches finding that, I wonder...)

[suibhne-geilt.livejournal.com]

Is it done at a really slow, almost dirge-like pace, with pipes? That little snatch of lyric sounds a lot like a song that's played a couple of times in the movie "We Were Soldiers". If it's the same song, I absolutely love it.

- Eric

The Frames

[cheerfulcynic.livejournal.com]

IIRC it was a song written for Glen Hansard's mother when she was ill or something. They've just released a live album recently so it may be the version from that.

[(Anonymous)]

The track is 'Lay me down' by the magnificent Frames, from their most recent album 'For the Birds', beautifully rendered most recently on a warm summer evening at Witnness, as the sun was going down, and soon to be revisited at the Lisdoonvarna festival on August 30, taking place many miles from Lisdoonvarna in the good old RDS. It's also a cinch on guitar.