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Thread #107931   Message #2242628
Posted By: Mick Pearce (MCP)
23-Jan-08 - 04:59 AM
Thread Name: Origins: bonnie tyneside
Subject: RE: Origins: bonnie tyneside
Bonnie Ythanside is probably what you're looking for Fred (sometimes just Ythanside). There's a set in Ord with first verse very close to the 1st verse of the set in the Lyr/Tune Add thread, but not otherwise the same at a quick glance. Greig-Duncan 5 has several version of that (but I don't have vol 5).

Ord gives a tune, but I haven't time at the moment to compare it with the Bonnie Tyneside tune given in the other thread; I'll see if I can later.

The first 4 lines in Ord are:

  As I cam' in by Ythanside.
  Where swiftly flows the rolling tide,
  A fair young maid padded by my side
  She looked at me and smiled.

The tune is however not a "Scottish Waltz" - it's in 4/4.


Mick