Mary Black’s voice is beautiful and evocative in her rendition of this Irish Jacobite song, Mo Ghile Mear (“My Gallant Darling”).
Sting did a version of this with the Chieftains on The Long Black Veil.
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So lovely!! 😀 Thank you for the post.
I really liked it — Mary Black has a gorgeous voice — and I thought the photo montage video was quite good.