| Author | Topic: Add: Leezie Lindsay | |
| dmcg | Posted - 07 Aug 05 - 08:52 am | |
"Will ye gang to the Hielands, Leezie Lindsay? Will ye gang to the Hielands wi' me? Will ye gang to the Hielands, Leezie Lindsay, My bride and my darling to be?" "To gang to the Hielands wi' you, sir? I dinna ken how that may be, For I ken na the land that ye live in, Nor ken I the lad I'm gaun' wi'." "Leezie, lassie, 'tis little that ye ken, If sae be ye dinna ken me, For my name is Lord Ronald Macdonald, A chieftain o' high degree." She has kilted her coats o' green satin, She has kilted them up to her knee, And she's aff wi' Lord Ronald Macdonald His bride and his darling to be. Source: C Findlater and M Campbell,Scottish Songs, Lomond Books, 2004 Notes: The book merely says "Old Scottish Ballad." These are (almost) the words by Robert Burns. Leezie Lindsay first appears in Print in Johnson's Scots Musical Museum (1803). Other versions found by Child include Donald of the Isles. Child: 226 | ||
| dmcg | Posted - 07 Aug 05 - 08:54 am | |
This was one of the staples of the first folk club I went to. I haven't heard it for many years - probably since the power of advertising made the image of her eloping with a clown almost unavoidable. | ||
| Mr Happy | Posted - 08 Aug 05 - 02:17 am | |
I've fequently heard it sung: 'For my name is Sir Ronald Macdonald,' not 'Lord' | ||
| Malcolm Douglas |
Posted - 09 Aug 05 - 02:14 am | |
"Sir Donald" in older forms, or plain Donald. The Burns/SMM set has only the first verse. "Ronald" seems to be a later, 19th century development; perhaps introduced for the sake of euphony. I think that the "editors" of this book have copied the set from MacLeod and Boulton's Songs of the North. | ||