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Ulster Girl

from Your Mother Was A Peacock by OXLIP

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Is about Deirdre of Sorrows- one of the most famous tragic heroines in Celtic mythology. The King of Ireland fell in love with her and then killed her because she didn't love him back. I took a bit of liberty in the song and said she was stabbed to death but in the real story she threw herself out of her chariot and hit her head on a rock.

lyrics

Ulster Girl

Gather round you tender ladies
a tale to you I'll tell
the murder of an Ulster girl
down by the well

Her hair was black as ravens
dancing in the sun
her cheeks crimson as the blood
on the pure white snow

Why the king would have her murdered
the truth nobody knows
some say it was the bitterness
of unrequited love

The king sent his alibi
stabbed her with a knife
an all the breath was taken
from this poor maidens life

How many men would follow
her tender hearted grace
and the many sorrows
written on her face

So when you see the ravens
dancing in the sun
pray for the Ulster girl
laying in the snow.

credits

from Your Mother Was A Peacock, released April 23, 2021
written by Jayne Trimble (OXLIP)
produced by Jayne Trimble (OXLIP)
co-produced by Erik Nielsen
engineered by Erik Nielsen
Mixed by Darryl Neudorf, Erik Nielsen
Mastered by Andrew Spindor
Vocals, guitar, banjo, piano: Jayne Trimble
Drums: Leon Power
Bass: Erik Nielsen
Lead Guitar, pedal steel: Matt Kelly
Viola: Thomas Beckman
Violin: Kendel Carson
Recorded at Afterlife Studios, Vancouver BC
Special thanks to Creative BC for their support

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Oxlip Vancouver, British Columbia

EMERGING ARTIST OF THE YEAR nominee by the 2022 Canadian Folk Music Awards for her recent work, 'Your Mother Was A Peacock',

"Sometimes a completely beautiful song is the most powerful way to say Fuck You.” says OXLIP who hails from Northern Ireland but currently lives in Vancouver, BC. ... more

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