If I Were A Blackbird (Traditional Irish Folk Song)

If you are not trying very hard to be good, you may get only a rusty old halo in heaven.

A Rusty Old Halo

This album features traditional and new Christmas music in the style of folk music.  Several tracks are original songs written by Sue Whitehead.  All tracks are performed by Sue Whitehead.

Ain't That a-Rockin' All Night Long

My Lagan Love is a traditional Irish folk song.  It references a leanan sidhe (pronounced "lanan shee") which is a fairy who seeks the love of mortals. If they refuse, she must be their slave; if they consent, they are hers, and can only escape by finding another to take their place. The fairy lives on their life, and they waste away. Death is no escape from her.

My Lagan Love
Lyrics credited to Joseph Campbell
Where Lagan stream sings lullaby, there blooms a lily fair,
The twilight gleam is in her eye, 
The night is on her hair.
And like a love-sick leanan-sidhe
She has my heart in thrall.  
Nor life I owe, nor liberty,
For love is lord of all.

And oft-times when the beetle’s horn
Hath lulled the eve to sleep,
I steal unto her shieling lorn,
And through the dooring peep.
There on the cricket’s singing stone,
She spares the bogwood fire,
And hums in sad, sweet undertone
The song of heart’s desire.

Her welcome, like her love for me,
Is from her heart within.
Her warm kiss is felicity
That knows no taint of sin.
And when I stir my foot to go,
‘Tis leaving love and light.
To feel the wind of longing blow
From out the dark of night.

For she has my heart in thrall,
For love is lord of all.

My Lagan Love

This song is the title track off my new CD 'The Only Colour' which was produced by Neil Kelly and recorded at Run Stop Sound in Abbotsford Victoria. 

Thank you to Matthew Schiavello for the use of this beautiful photo.

Thank you John Fish for playing the violin.



The Only Colour That I See Today - Original

The fourth track from Distant Havens. Patrick Dean wrote a new tune for the traditional lyrics of this song about someone from Sheffield leaving home and getting into trouble. 

If you pre-order Distant Havens on bandcamp you get a full download of this song straight away. https://thefoxglovetrio.bandcamp.com/album/distant-havens

The Sheffield Apprentice (sample)

Faithless Shepherd

This lovely traditional English folk song is a song about love with no bounds. I fell in love with it when I first heard it but felt it was too short and so added my own lyrics and some of my own music to it.

The lyrics I added are:

I will give my love a boat without any oars
I will give my love an ocean without any shores
I will give my love a song where e'er he may be
And he may then sing it as he sails home to me

My body is a boat without any oars
My passion is an ocean without any shores
My soul is my song where e'er he may be
And he may then sing it as he sails home to me

I Will GIve My Love An Apple - traditional English folk song

From debut album Ground of Its Own, released June 2012.

Sam’s Mercury Award nominated 2012 debut album is a work several years in conception which brought together a multitude of experiences and influences for a musician who has cut an unique course in his artistic development. This 8-track release mixed by the legendary John Wood (of Nick Drake fame) comprises material gleaned from years of research and exploration into the forgotten songs and sounds of the British Isles.

The Ballad of George Collins

Taken from Sam Lee's debut album, Ground of Its Own. Released June 2012.

Sam’s Mercury Award nominated 2012 debut album is a work several years in conception which brought together a multitude of experiences and influences for a musician who has cut an unique course in his artistic development. This 8-track release mixed by the legendary John Wood (of Nick Drake fame) comprises material gleaned from years of research and exploration into the forgotten songs and sounds of the British Isles.

Goodbye My Darling

The Diggers' Song

This my journey into getting back into performing.  I am focusing on folk songs and especially old traditional ones.  
My tracks are available for purchase at https://oca2blue.bandcamp.com.  Come check out my album "For the Love Of Folk Music" there.

Since these tracks are works in progress in many cases, I often remove older versions and replace with newer versions.  If you heart a track, you may later find it is not showing your heart any longer when I have replaced it.   I try to keep all the songs on my playlist, Sue2BlueEyes Own, so you can always hear all the current versions on it.

I have 28 of these tracks available on ITunes, Spotify, Amazon, Google Play, Apple Music, and other venues.

My Lagan Love

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