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Thread #44521 Message #2555957
Posted By: Bryn Pugh
03-Feb-09 - 05:55 AM
Thread Name: Lyr/Chords Req: Over the Water to Charlie
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Over the Water to Charlie
I sang a variant on the verse 4, above :
(I have and had no right to speak, or sing, in Scots, so please excuse the fact that I might set it forth in English) :
G Em C D
I once had sons, but now have none -
G Em C G
I bore them greeting sairlie.
G Em C D
But I would bear them o'er again
G D C G
And lose them all for Charlie.
I learned this from the singing of Ray Fisher, on an album (the name of which escapes me - an age thing, I suspect) entirely of Jacobite songs and tunes. There was an instrumental version of the tune to
'Over the Water to Charlie', in 6/8 time.
There is a Morris dance, Bledington Tradition IIRC, of the same name.