# Song ID - New age

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-id-new-age/557116>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [October 14, 2010, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-id-new-age/557116 "2010-10-14T12:26:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![secretgeneral](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@secretgeneral](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/secretgeneral)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2010, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-id-new-age/557116/1 "2010-10-14T12:26:42Z")

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I have been trying to find this song for a year now. It was kinda new age ish - I would say in the 80’s. It was a woman humming kinda Celtic sounding. No real words.

the rhythm was up up up down up, up up down up way down up (I know insert jokes here)

It was sample by a rapper in the last couple of years too. I have googled new age classics, nothing. New age top 100 (it was kind of popular to new age folks back in the day - me not being one), nothing. New age song woman humming - i don’t recommend that search.:smack:

Anyhow I am putting this out there to see if I can an answer back.

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**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2010, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-id-new-age/557116/2 "2010-10-14T12:37:39Z")

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[Sail Away by Enya?](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glyErSTQrDI)

Or [Return to Innocence by Enya and Enigma?](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojnieZ029Ls&feature=related)

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**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2010, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-id-new-age/557116/3 "2010-10-14T12:48:47Z")

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It would be by Enya, called [Boadicea](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4Cd3FCLScY), from her first album The Celts. It has been [sampled a lot](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enya_%28album%29#Sampling_by_other_artists).