Shirley & Dolly Collins - Polly on the Shore video free download

curvlinear1

Personally, this is my favorite version of this song - sparse, haunting, and lonely. The folk band versions are always too slow and melodramatic for me. The words can't help but stir deeply heroic and tragic visuals, and the listener hangs on every word. With the protagonist of the song sharing his last wystful moments with us, I can't help but feel that this version sounds like it was being sung in 1812, rather than the 60's.

Giselle Fauquet

This is not as easy-listening as some of the other versions---but I like hearing how a woman can use her voice on this. All about the voice.

kittensandflowers999

i just found out that i'm related to him...thank you for liking my great,great,great uncle's music

Tornfreedom

Trees' version is here in several guises, and I much prefer it.This is Folk; theirs is nothing less than Proto-Goth-Celtic-Psychedelic-Folk-Punk-Rock, most of which styles hadn't even been Invented by 1970, when their Album "On the Shore ~ 1970" was released. A Must-hear.

Hans Fried

I love this song and Shirley but I prefer it by "Pop" Maynard from Sussex from whom Shirley learned it.

Lindsay Fulcher

Clear, brutal, heartfelt - this was England

Sigrid Marie Refsum

I was searching for the Trees' version, and I found this one. "Polly on the Shore" is a song I never have forgotten. Polly Collins' version is.. I simply needed to learn from it.

MehefinHeulog

great version spare, tragic, chilling thanks for posting

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