Hi! I've just recently started listening and I love it!!! I was wondering which songs were sung in the various episodes? I think it's Mabel singing them? I'm not sure but I recognised the parting glass but not many of the others
MUSIC IN MABEL SEASONS 1-3
0:47: Folk song, variously A Brisk Young Sailor, A Bold Young Farmer, Died for Love, I Wish, I Wish, etc. The story of a young unmarried pregnant woman. âAnd at my breast lay a snow-white dove / to let the world know that I died for loveâ. Sung by Anna Limon.
[Spoken, not sung]: A modified excerpt from the Scottish ballad Tam Lin, the story of a knight set to be sacrificed for a faery tithe and the young woman who ransoms him back from the faeries. Read by Anna Limon.
11:45: The Well Below the Valley. Folk song about the fate of a woman whose six children are buried outside the local churchyard. âYouâll be seven years ringing the bell at the well below the valley-o / green grows the lily-o / right among the rushes-oâ. Sung by Anna Limon.
7:00: The Stolen Child by W. B. Yeats. Poem about a faery abducting a small child. Arranged and sung by Mabel Martin.
10:00: Little Bird. American childrenâs folk song. âFly through my window, sugar lump / buy molasses candy.â Sung by Anna Limon.
8:10: A modified version of Hind Etin. Ballad about a woman stolen away by an âetinâ, a faery king/erlking/forest king/supernatural entity of some kind. âFor slighting my command / an ill death may you dieâ. Modified, arranged and sung by Anna Limon.
1:08: Where Did You Sleep Last Night / In the Pines. American folk song/murder ballad. âIn the pines, in the pines where the sun donât ever shine / Iâll shiver the whole night through.â Sung by Anna Limon.
12:20: TĂĄ MĂ© Mo ShuĂ. Irish folk song about a person who canât sleep due to unrequited love. âCasadh bean-sidhe dom thĂos ag Lios BhĂ©al an Ătha / dâfhiafraigh mĂ© di an scaoilfeadh glas ar bith grĂĄâ - âI met a fairy woman down at Lisbellaw / I asked her to remove from me my loveâ. Sung by Anna Limon.
17:22: Continuation of TĂĄ MĂ© Mo ShuĂ. Sung by Anna Limon.
0:45: Where Did You Sleep Last Night / In the Pines. Sung by Mabel Martin.
0:58: Portion of a rhyme entitled âAnaâs Prayerâ, popular on âpro-anaâ websites in the early 2000s. âIâll take you in and fill you up with a lack of being fed.â Arranged and sung by Anna Limon.
5:23: Modified version of several nursery rhymes. Used either as a jump-rope chant or a reminder of polite dining etiquette. âMabel, Mabel, strong and able, you are trapped inside this fableâŠâ Modified by Mabel Martin, arranged and sung by Anna Limon.
5:30: The Wind that Shakes the Barley. Nineteenth-century Irish ballad about the 1798 rebellion. âI sat within the valley green / I sat there with my true loveâ. Sung by Anna Limon.
9:00: Repeat of Died for Love. Sung by Anna Limon.