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Lyr Req: Rothesay Bay DigiTrad: ROTHESAY BAY Related threads: (origins) Origins: The Day We Went to Rothesay-o (20) Moira Anderson versions:Bonny Gallowa/Rothesay Bay (26) |
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Subject: Rothesay Bay- words?? From: Murray on Saltspring Date: 08 Jul 99 - 03:06 AM Has anyone got the words of this song by Mrs. Craik? [I do have them somewhere, I'm sure, but they've disappeared for the time being.] |
Subject: Lyr Add: ROTHESAY BAY From: Wolfgang Date: 09 Jul 99 - 04:39 AM typed from "Summer holidays in London, Programme, songs, etc, 1911". If that's not the one, there's a song 'Rothesay-O' aka 'The day we went to Rothesay-O'. My source gives no tune for this song and as for the author it only states: "By the author of 'John Halifax, gentleman'". My language correction programme went havoc with this song. Could someone please explain the following words to me: ava, harst, mools, aboon? Wolfgang
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Subject: RE: Rothesay Bay- words?? From: Wolfgang Date: 09 Jul 99 - 04:42 AM and: what's here 'tint'? |
Subject: RE: Rothesay Bay- words?? From: Murray Date: 12 Jul 99 - 01:21 AM Thanks a lot! The odd words mean: ava - synonymous with "at a'", + at all; harst = harvest; mools [which was queried on another thread not long since]= "mould", i.e. grave dirt; aboon = above; tint = lost. Author of JH Gentleman was a Mrs. Diana Maria Craik, nee Mulock (1826-1887); she wrote the novel in 1857. [Her most famous tale was the fairy story "The Little Lame Prince", which is maybe still in print. She was as far as I know English, but managed to write this pleasant song in good Scots. Thanks again Murray |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Rothesay Bay From: GUEST,Kirk Dandie. Date: 03 Mar 17 - 05:43 AM It is indeed a beautiful poem (and song) but the author's Scots in not perfect. "Wha'" in the final verse (i.e. "where") should read "whaur", based on the rhotic 'r' of Scots speech. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Rothesay Bay From: GUEST,Guest Date: 03 Mar 17 - 10:58 AM I thoght Scots speech was erhotic |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Rothesay Bay From: Gallus Moll Date: 03 Mar 17 - 07:02 PM Kenneth McKellar was well known for singing Sweet Rothesay Bay - don't know if it would be on youtube? The Day We Went Tae Rothesay O is a completely different type of song -- but fun! |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Rothesay Bay From: Joe Offer Date: 03 Mar 17 - 09:09 PM Here's the version George Seto found: Thread #862 Message #1025119 Posted By: George Seto - af221@chebucto.ns.ca 26-Sep-03 - 06:25 AM Thread Name: Moira Anderson versions:Bonny Gallowa/Rothesay Bay Subject: Lyr Add: ROTHESAY BAY
Don't know if Teru ever saw this later thread from 1999 where Wolfgang posted the words. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Rothesay Bay From: Allan Conn Date: 04 Mar 17 - 04:21 PM Dandie is correct though. The lyric in the final verse is surely a mistake/misprint? The far country who I would like to be" doesn't make any kind of sense and it is obviously meant to be "whaur" as in "where". This old recorded version definitely has it as "whaur" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnkkkb2MM8g |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Rothesay Bay From: GUEST,Don Meixner Date: 04 Mar 17 - 06:00 PM Jean Redpath did a grand version of Rothsea Bay on what I think was her second Electra Recording. Don Meixner |
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