Christy Moore - Bunch Of Thyme Lyrics

This was kinda like my guilty pleasure song when I was a boy. My dad loved Foster and Allen and played their music in the house a lot. I always secretly liked some of their songs but I was to cool to admit it 😀 2019
20 years latet " Bunch of Thyme" came into my head while remembering my Dad so I decided to actually look up the song and actually Really listen to the lyrics and understand what the song is actually about.
It's pure genius and a message to women to be cautious about giving away your purity to lusty men.

my mas song

The audience is just so hypnotized by the music and singing.....and so am i myself. The best songs have been and gone. 2019 the proof.

Beware those who ‘chance to pass that way’

Do you have the full concert?

Wonderful 🦢🦢❤️🌹

This song is best here with the accordion! other versions just not as good in my opinion!

Heard them in Tivoli Theatre recently.Ever song sounded just like recordings
Fabulous night.

Just brilliant

The last concert I took my mum and dad to

My fav song x

Fabulous song so well sung,wish they were english

Lost my beloved dad 7 yrs ago.i grew up listening to F&A .wonderful memories for me 💖

LOVE FOSTER ,& ALLEN

Brings back so many memories of my childhood in the car with foster and allen on the stereo dad always had them on

My Grandfather passed away peacefully at the age of 89 on 23rd December just gone. We layed him to rest today. This song meant the world to him. Now and for the rest of my life, it means the world to me.

Build my gallows build them high

Brings back so many memories this wee song

Love this song! I remember my Nana used to listen to this....I miss her....and many others that are no longer here in the physical sense and my children will never have the chance to know what great history they come from....Life???

아일리쉬가수들이 우리들의 영혼을 대변해 심금을 달래주네요***음악에서는 타종을 불허하는 세계 최고같아요***

How Thyme goes by! This is just as fresh as ever - thanks!

beautiful

All together for the YCV...

nice song bunch of thyme

school days 70s and 80s with RLO with John the man

Fond memories of dear departed brother. Brilliant duo

meny have tried but non ken sing it like these two !!!!!! brilliant

Awesome....love this song and the way you guys perform it just wonderful....thank you!!! <3

very sweet!

Lovely song but almost the same as When you and I were young  Maggie

I love their soft and sweet voices.

big don aberdare lovely

beautiful

Heard them in a concert in Perth, Scotland, a year ago and they were just fabulous.

fantastic love them xxxx

my wee dad neily aitken   always  listened to you   and now i  am listening to you as the music is so good  thanks  DAD    rip

John Aitken

Wow loved this! ❤️👏👏👏👏👏

My Dad was the lusty sailor that stole my Mams tyme and he kept her and my 2 sisters and three brothers in his heart till the day he died! They were soal mates! xxxx

What a beautiful thing.

Beautiful song! xxx

lovely song xox

beautiful song

love this song

best duo I have ever listened to

that looks like a bush on your face lol your music is brilliant

Billy Pentland these two are the greatest i think they should have a nighthood ,l listen to them every day i am 78

a wise may for sure i loved the days of long ago, it seems it is hard to make sense of that cause we didn't have the same pot, we had very little but we enjoyed it a whole lot.

GET THIS!! bunch of thyme is originally an english folk tune. danny boy music was composed by a scottish lady, the words by an english man (manchester, i think), kevin barry music was originally called TAKE ME BACK TO DEAR OLD BLIGHTY, a lovely song about a homesick english sailor. Molly malone was originally an EDINBURGH street song!! The tri-coloured ribbon was either Cornish or English originally. Music is one of the seven arts and it TRAVELS. culture does.

Went to see them in Cardiff, had to sit at the back because the first 50 rows were filled with priests and nuns all out on a jolly..
Take care
Derek

Beautiful and well sung. I have been a great Fan for years. Keep up the good work. and thank You

absolute magical song . and 2 magical artist forster and allen will live on in my life forever

Always loved them and their music.. My mum Rip loved this song

OMG just gorgeous! Brings back memories of youth~

love these guys

Fantastic,Thanks for the posting

Beautiful song and beautifully sung

It's a song about losing your virginity .

they inspired me to keep singing...check out some of my videos as well.cheers,lads

the rose is syphilis ....the sailor raped her

Indeed. What a dark song! Everyone thinks it's romantic!!

@shialtin i thought" the rose" was a baby he gave her?

@1173Teresac My mother in law used to sing this, we recently lost her. I share your loss RIP

@shialtin too much informatio !!!!

nothing better than this. if I was alive I would live and love it

This is a blues song like Moon Mullican's "Worries on my mind". True love and then let down.

my wife who worked with one of the passed in dec 2101 rip fran

There's a dark undercurrent to this old song. The 'bunch of thyme' was a folk euphemism for innocence/maidenhead/virginity. This is what was 'stolen' by the sailor. However, the nasty little story doesn't end there. The 'sailor gave to her a rose, a rose that never would decay'. This was the 'devil's rose' - a euphemism for syphillis, at that time incurable. This isn't a romantic love song, but a coded warning!

He gave me a beautiful rose.
I let him have my time.
It is precious. So is he.
Some things are meant to be
not for just a time, but eternity.

Thank you for this most tender live performance of Foster & Allen.
My heart is applauding!
With love from my fair garden
... Evy

listen to this song anytime

i am 40 13-01- songs remind of my child hood in my nans and grandfathers.my uncle jimmy play does songs all the time.what great time.

Love this song, not heard it for years...Thanks for posting.

This song will unlock the darkest heart with a sonnet key.ADonovan43

beautiful, brings back so many memories of when i was in uk, and followed the tote around.

my mum and i used to sing this lovely song together she loved it.miss you love always.RIP.

My dads fav song,played it at his funeral, brings a tear to my eye every time i hear it.x god bless dad,love and mis you.

this was my dads favourite song and when he had had a beer he used to sit and listen to it for hours and hours , we played this at his funeral and now it brings a tear to my eye god bless you dad wherever you maybe

Lovely. It would be a good thing if this song was played to young people, before they become active in this area !

beuatiful song , xxxx

these are great Irish artists .thanks

does anyone know what the songs means but ? listen to the words it is about sex and women giving their self to a man, let no man steal your time away.

MaggieO75 I know exctaly what ya mean My dad used to sing it also, brings back lots of fond memories.................

love it xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

could listen to this pair all night.........

Dad as in other postings its now a year since you were taken from us and we miss you so much. God looks after the best. This song is for our wee Jessie who misses you so much as well, We will look after her. your loving family

well said!

Thank you so much

Dad still looking after our we mum, I am still delivering the papers just as you asked haha. Karen is been looked after by Ann we miss you and we will look after our we Jessie, she misses you so much

this was me da's fav song and he sang it so well between friends after a few pints,im so privilaged to have had the chance to sing it with him,now hes gone i feel so proud to have had the chance to sing this with him

snap well said

Thanks snap to your comments, my dad loved this one and got me in to Foster and Allen, and I too miss him very much. and snap to matty comments

feel the same james, brings back child hood memories i'll cherish forever. what you've wrote ie lovely and meant a lot to me.

Superb.I love you dad and miss you so much god bless you. I am not Irish but a Bluenose but my dads relegion was nature, if you plant a bulb and it turns out beautiful what has hatred between cathlioc and prods got got to worry about? His favourite saying "you only pass this way but once", think about about it people, The world is evil enough. He loved Irish music. Although tho he was truly scottish

I love rock and roll from the 50s, but Foster and Allen's music is so soothing and relaxing, it just makes you feel good.

my mum loves them and this somg she is 84 and the best mum in the world i luv her so much xx

this is so lovely

Can someone please upload the song Living in London by Foster & Allen. Cannot find it anywhere on the net!

this song will live forever!!!!

Great song - god bless Ireland.

The Author of this song remains unknown for some strange reason???

What great words, melody and delivery!

a great song, we played it at my grandads funalry,enyway no they didnt write this song, its a cover it was origaly writin by a celtic folk choir

Very fine !

correct

exactly - it was the same with me - i had to hide the fact that i was listening to it - from a street cred point of view - but it's in fact really good.

Such great memories! :)

Ilove this duo.I have seen them many times now.They are at Cambridge Corn Exchange later this year and i can,t wait to see them live again.Thanks for the video.