Jon Riley | 2018. jún. 7.
https://www.youtube.com/@Jonpriley

From the Danish TV film "A Man And His Songs" broadcast 1976.
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Herbert Jansch (3 November 1943 – 5 October 2011) was a Scottish folk musician and founding member of the band Pentangle. He was born in Glasgow and came to prominence in London in the 1960s as an acoustic guitarist and singer-songwriter. He recorded more than 28 albums and toured extensively from the 1960s to the 21st century.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bert_Jansch
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"Down by Blackwaterside" (also known as "Blackwaterside", "Blackwater Side" and "Black Waterside"; see Roud 312, Laws O1 and Roud 564, Laws P18, Henry H811) is a traditional folk song, provenance and author unknown, although it is likely to have originated near the River Blackwater, Northern Ireland.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down_by_Blackwaterside
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This is actually a traditional Irish folk song, though this Jansch version has a unique, ear-catching arrangement and guitar style invented by Bert himself.

Curiously, three years later Led Zeppelin recorded a song called Black Mountain Side that sounded almost identical in style and arrangement to Jansch’s version, but Jimmy Page credited himself as the writer and arranger.

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One morning fair
I took the air
Down by black waterside
Was in gazing all around me
The Irish lad I spied

All through the fair part of that night
We lay in sport and play
Til this young man arose and gathered his clothes
Saying, "Fare thee well today"
That's not the promise that you gave to me
When you lay upon my breast
For you had made me believe with your lying tongue
That the sun rose in the west

Then go hometo your father's garden
Go home and weep your fill
And think on your misfortune
That you've wrought with your wanton will

One morning fair
I took the air
Down by black waterside
Was in gazing all around me
The Irish lad I spied

https://genius.com/Bert-jansch-blackwater-side-lyrics