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Thread #161654 Message #3846294
Posted By: Gutcher
23-Mar-17 - 09:14 AM
Thread Name: Songs about country crafts/occupations
Subject: RE: Songs about country crafts/occupations
Songs mentioning lassies milking include:--
"The {Old] Yellow Haired Laddie" [at least two others with this name]
Mentioned by Allan Ramsay B.1686 as an old song in his day.
[1] The yellowed haired laddie sat doon on yon brae
Cried milk the yowes lassie let nane o them gae
And aye as she milket she merrily sang
The yellow haired laddie shall be my gudeman.
On another recent thread I mentioned that I had a number of floating songs which, as far as I can determine, do not appear in any of the printed collections--one of them being:--
"Lassie Leave yer Milkin Pail"
[M] [1] O lassie lea yer milkin pail
O lassie lea yer fee
O lassie lea yer milkin pail
An come awa wi me.
[F] [2]
[M] [3]----I have recently found this one verse in an 1820s.
publication.
[F] [4]
[M] [5]
[F] {6]