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dmcg | Posted - 08 Dec 04 - 01:36 pm | |
Three score of nobles rode up the King's hall, But bonnie Glenlogie's the flow'r of them all! With his milk-white steed and his bonnie black e'e. "Glenlogie. dear mother, Glenlogie for me." "Hold your tongue daughter, there's better than he." "O say name sae, mother, for that cannot be;" "Through Drumlie is richer and greater than he, Yet if I must take him, I'll certainly dee." Then came Glenlogie but joy was not there, For bonnie Jean's mother was tearing her hair, "You're welcome, Glenlogie, you're welcome" said she; "You're welcome. Glenlogie, your Jeannie to see." Jeannie was pale as he entered the room, But red rosy grew she whene'er he sat doun; She then turned away with a smile in her e'e, "O dinna fear, mother, I'll maybe no dee!" Source: Singing Together, Spring 1972, BBC Publications Notes: Identified as an "Aberdeenshire ballad", this is Child #238. Contemplator has an extra verse:
Edited By dmcg - 08-Dec-2004 01:46:11 PM | ||
masato sakurai | Posted - 14 Dec 04 - 03:02 am | |
The Contemplator version is taken from Helen Hopekirk's Seventy Scottish Songs (1905; rpt. Dover, 1992, pp. 156-57), which in turn comes from Robert Archibald Smith's The Scot[t]ish Minstrel, (1820-24). Tune & text (8 stanzas) are in Bronson, vol. 3, no. 238-20 (p. 421). Edited By masato sakurai - 14-Dec-2004 03:11:57 AM |