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Thread #7343   Message #44379
Posted By: mandy.bowater@easynet.com
05-Nov-98 - 05:30 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: The Shearing's Not for You
Subject: Lyr Add: THE SHEARIN'S NO FOR YOU
Thanks folks for your help and here's the verses I had before. They're from a group called Finn MacCuill (or MacCool?) 70s ?

Oh the shearin's no for you ma bonnie lassie O
for your back it winna bou
and your belly's row-in fu' ma bonnie lassie O

Do you mind the banks awhere ....
when you drew me in your snare
Aye and left me in despair ...

Do you mind on yonder hill
When you swore you would me kill
If you did nae get your will

Oh that you might kill me deed
Oh I'll no kill ye deed (man singing)
Or mak your body bleed
But I'll marry you insteed ma bonnie lassie O

Tak the buckles frae your shoe
And put on your working goon
For your dancing days are done

The pipes do loudly play
And I must away for I can no longer stay
bonnie lassie O

As you can gather some of this song is sung by the man and some by the woman and she sings "Bonnie laddie O"

Many thanks for all your help I tried to sing a 'toned down' version of this at the Penny Theatre in Canterbury, Kent, UK last Sunday.

Roly