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Thread #53299   Message #819316
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
05-Nov-02 - 04:40 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: I must away love
Subject: RE: words for song - I must away love
If we're talking Scottish versions of the song which begin I must away love, then I expect most people will be familiar with it from the arrangement recorded by the Tannahill Weavers. I don't know if they credited their source or not; it isn't difficult to find transcriptions of their recording on the web, but nobody seems to have bothered to quote the sleevenotes. Stanley Robertson and Bobby Robb are both possible traditional sources. Robb's set is quoted in Shelia Douglas' book Come Gie's a Sang; you can see Robertson's text at Nathan D. Rose's site: I Must Away, Love

Note that Nathan, who recorded that text from Stanley, asks that it not be reproduced on other websites.