| Author | Topic: Add: Will you go Lassie? | |
| dmcg | Posted - 15 Jul 06 - 12:37 pm | |
Oh the summer time is coming, And the leaves are sweetly blooming, And the wild mountain thyme Grows around the blooming heather, Will ye go Lassie go, (Chorus) And we'll all go together, To pluck wild mountain thyme All around the blooming heather, Will ye go, Lassie, go. I will build my love a tower Near yon pure crystal fountain, And on it I will build All the flowers of the mountain, Will ye go Lassie, go? If my true love she were gone I would surely find another, Where the wild mountain thyme Grows around the blooming heather, Will ye go Lassie, go? Source: Singing Together, Summer 1979, BBC Publications | ||
| dmcg | Posted - 15 Jul 06 - 12:45 pm | |
I admit to some surprise that we didn't have this already, or more accurately that we still don't have "The Braes of Balquhidder" | ||
| GEST | Posted - 15 Jul 06 - 05:56 pm | |
In 1975, Ryan's Fancy did an arrangement of this song on their album, Ryan's Fancy Live. My records indicate Jimmy McPeake had the copyright. According to MTV Europe News, June 21, 1995, "A record company is capitalising on a blunder by Rod Stewart's label by releasing a version of the 1940's Irish folk song the British Star mistakenly claimed he had written. Stewart's version of the song Purple Heather was incorrectly credited to him on his latest WEA album Spanner In The Works. And now a version from 1985 by the real writer's son, Jimmy McPeake, 59, and his group Barnbrack is being released by Ireland's Outlet Records. McPeake's father Frankie wrote the song in 1947, calling it Will Ye Go Lassie Go." See: http://wtv-zone.com/phyrst/audio/nfld/11/lassie.htm Another variant is titled Wild Mountain Thyme. Edited By GEST - 15 Jul 06 - 05:58 pm GEST Songs Of Newfoundland And Labrador | ||
| dmcg | Posted - 15 Jul 06 - 07:39 pm | |
For comparison, here is "The Braes of Balquhidder": THE BRAES O' BALQUHIDDER Robert Tannahill ( 1774-1810 ) Will ye go, lassie, go, To the braes o' Balquhidder? Where the blaeberries grow, 'Mang the bonnie bloomin' heather; Where the deer and the roe Lightly bounding together, Sport the lang simmer day 'Mang the braes o' Balquhidder. Chorus: Will ye go lassie, go, To the braes o' Balquhidder? Where the blaeberries grow, 'Mang the bonnie bloomin' heather. I will twine thee a bower By the clear siller fountain, An' I'll cover it o'er Wi' the flowers o' the mountain; I will range through the wilds, An' the deep glens sae dreary, An' return wi' their spoils To the bower o' my dearie. Now the simmer is in prime, Wi' the flowers richly bloomin' An' the wild mountain thyme A' the moorlands perfumin', To our dear native scenes Let us journey together, Where glad innocence reigns 'Mang the braes o' Balquhidder. Robert Tannahill, poet and songwriter, was born in Castle Street, Paisley, son of a handloom weaver. The Roud Index shows versions of "Braes of Balquhidder" collected round about 1900. See Braes of Balquihidder database entry Edited By DMcG - 16 Jul 06 - 10:36 am | ||