Sinéad O’Connor

Featuring: Larry Adler

Songwriter: Dorothy Heyward DuBose Heyward George Gershwin Ira Gershwin

Producer: George Martin

My man's gone now, ain't no use a listening
For his tired footsteps, climbing up the stairs
Ah, oh, old man sorrow's come to keep me company
Whispering beside me when I say my prayers

Ain't that a mine working
Working I and I travellers
Journeying together to the promised land
But old man sorrow's marching all the way with me

Telling me I'm old now since I lost my man
Since I lost my man
Old man sorrow's sitting by the fireside
Lying all night long by me in the bed

Telling me the same thing morning, noon and evening
That I'm all alone now since my man is dead
Ah, since my man is dead
Ooohhhhooo...

Sinéad O'Connor (who goes by Shuhada' Sadaqat in her private life) is an Irish singer-songwriter who rose to fame in the late 80s with her album The Lion and the Cobra and achieved worldwide success with her cover of Prince’s “Nothing Compares to You” in 1990.

O'Connor was discovered in 1985 when Nigel Grainge of Ensign Records saw her band Ton Ton Macoute perform. Although he was not fond of the band’s music, he was impressed by O'Connor’s ‘amazing voice’. Grainge had O'Connor record four songs with Karl Wallinger (World Party) and signed her to his label. O'Connor’s first single was the song “Heroine” which she co-wrote with U2’s guitarist The Edge for the film Captive.

Her debut album The Lion and the Cobra was a sensation when it was released in 1987, reaching gold record status and earning a Best Female Rock Vocal Performance Grammy nomination. O'Connor’s debut single “Troy” charted in The Netherlands and Belgium, and “Mandinka”, released in late 1987, cracked the top 20 in the UK and top 30 in three other European countries, helping her album chart well in Europe. Spin Magazine described the album as a “remarkable, still-spine-tingling first record”.

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