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Thread #60391   Message #966104
Posted By: Stewie
11-Jun-03 - 07:11 PM
Thread Name: Origin: Innisvaddie Annie
Subject: Lyr Add: INNISVADDIE ANNIE
I intend to use 'Innisvaddie Annie' for a presentation, but I have no information about it at all. Is it Sots or Irish, traditional or recently composed? Any information will be welcomed. A Net search only unearthed a track listing for an English group called LongNote. I have emailed a couple of members of that group (and one has returned as undeliverable) - the page for their album was 1997, so they may have disappeared from the scene. Anyhow, these are the lyrics:

INNISVADDIE ANNIE

Up the winding river
In by Innisvaddie
Annie's got a baby
That hasn't got a daddy

Who the baby's father is
Annie wouldn't say
But some think that it's Thomas's
And some think that it's Shane's

Up the winding river
The bonnie little baby
Oh it's dandled and it's cuddled close
By Innisvaddie Annie

Who the baby's father is
Annie wouldn't say
But nobody expected it
With Annie's quiet ways

Up the winding river
The country folk are kind
And who the baby's father is
I'm sure they don't mind

But, oh the bairn at Annie's breast
And the love in Annie's eye
It makes me wish with all my heart
The bonnie bairn was mine

Up the winding river
In by Innisvaddie
Annie's got a baby
That hasn't got a daddy

Who the baby's father is
Annie wouldn't say
But nobody expected it
With Annie's quiet ways

--Stewie.