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Thread #29601   Message #376214
Posted By: InOBU
17-Jan-01 - 11:50 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Anachy Gordon / Annachie Gordon
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Anachy Gordon
Here we go - out of the dusty archieves, Leach's Ballad book...
Lord Saltoun and Auchanachie (239) Text, Buchan ii 133.
The song is very very much as Mary black sings it, but there are a few fragment verces missing, for example, aft er the verce about Sultan's lands are broad etc. the fathers verse goes on, two lines are missing
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Salton will gar you wear silk gowns frin'd to thy knee
But ye'll never wear that wi your love Auchanachie.
Then Jeanie sings about wearing gowd on my head... as per the Mary Black version. then there is another fragment, with the last two lines missing
O Salton's a vally lies low by the sea,
He's bowed on the back, and thrawin on the knee
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Well Mudcatters in Scotland - get ye to your grandmither's hearth and ask if she knows the missing lines!
All the best, Larry