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GUEST,Dave MacKenzie	Origins: The Great Silkie (68* d)	RE: Lyr Req: The Great Silkie	09 Mar 09
I have the words of "The Play o' de Lathie Odivere" that I copied out in manuscript on quarto sheets over 40 years ago from the Proceedings of some Antiquarian Society,the held in Edinburgh Corporation's Scottish Library. There was a bit more than just the song text, and if I remember rightly, the author was explaining how the original had been lost so he/she had had to reconstruct it from fragments, and also discussing various points such as the implications of making an oath to Odin. The spelling was slightly different from the posted version. Here's the first verse, umlauts and all. In Norowa a lathie bed, A bonnie lass in muckle gare; An' hid wus soothly sung an' said, Shü wus a lathie sweet an' fair.

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