Anachie Gordon.
Sunday show: 23rd June 2013.
This weeks show opens with a track from Arcanadh (on the Soundings album). The track is called Anachie Gordon and it is a story told in song. Its heroine, Jeannie, is to be married
off at the insistence of her father to a wealthy man, Lord Saltoun, but she is
in love with Anachie Gordon, the subject of the song. The song chronicles her
resistance to the marriage before she is eventually dragged to the church.
Jeannie refuses to sleep in the same bed until her father comes down and tells
her maid to undo her gown. Jeannie collapses at her father's feet and dies for
love of Anachie. Anachie, having been away at sea, returns where Jeannie's
distressed maidens tell him that Jeannie has been married in his absence and
has now died of a broken heart. Anachie tells the maidens to take him to the
chamber where Jeannie lies and then, having kissed her cold lips, also dies of
a broken heart.
One of the members of Arcanadh is Fiona
Walsh (Bohola, Co. Mayo)
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