Creating The Lily of the West — The Chieftains documentary snippet

[quizzaciously]

Never seen this documentary, very interesting. From there it was taken from, maybe someone knows before I google it?

[Love Expresso]

Don't know, but after hearing it for the first time in approx. 15 years or so it struck me that the song All The Roadrunning sounds pretty similar to this..

LE

[Pottel]

seen this some many moons ago...still good to see it again

[Ingo]

Don't know, but after hearing it for the first time in approx. 15 years or so it struck me that the song All The Roadrunning sounds pretty similar to this..

Right, that was what I always thought. ATRR is Mark's version of it. I think Mark wrote several songs that 'absorb the spirit' of particular songs by other artists ... don't get me wrong, I am not criticizing this but see it as something normal in songwriting ... even if you try to find totally new melodies you might end with something not that new that came out of your sub-conciousness ... like the bonny banks thing in What it is

[superval99]

On Raglan Road is similar too.

[dmg]

Is it just me or does Mark drop in and out of an Irish accent while singing this?   

Yes it does sound very much like ATRR.  I must admit that I never noticed before but it's so obvious now you mention it LE.

[schmonka]

Ahh, Marks "crazy professor hair" era....