Lyr Req: Are Ye Sleepin Maggie?

Subject: Are Ye Sleepin Maggie?
From: Willie-O
Date: 10 Nov 00 - 10:53 AM

I've thought of this as a well-known song, by Burns, but its not in the DT under the title I know anyway. And doesn't turn up in any of my scottish songbooks. I transcribed the lyrics off the Tannahill Weavers first album once, but can't find the text file now.

Great raucous and rather broadly suggestive song. Who's got the words? starts:

Dark and dreary is the nicht;
There's no a star in all the carry(?) Cauld the blast upon my cheek,
Arise, arise my bonnie lady...

Thanks
Willie_O

Subject: Lyr Add: ARE YOU SLEEPIN' MAGGIE? (R Tannahill)
From: Calach
Date: 10 Nov 00 - 11:03 AM

ARE YOU SLEEPIN' MAGGIE?
Robert Tannahill

Mirk and rainy is the nicht,
There's no' a staum in a' the carry
Lichtnin's gleam athwart the lift,
And cauld winds drive wi' winters fury.

Chorus: Oh, are ye sleeping Maggie
Oh, are ye sleeping Maggie
Let me in, for loud the linn
Is howling ower the warlock Craigie.

Fearfu' soughs the boortree bank,
The rifted wood roars wild and dreary
Loud the iron yett does clank,
The cry of hoolits mak's me eerie.

Abune ma breath, I daurnae speak,
For fear I rouse your waukrife Daddy
Cauld's the blast upon my cheek,
O rise, O rise my bonnie lady.

She's ope'd the door, she's let him in,
She's cuist aside his dreepin plaidie
Blaw yer warst ye rain and wind,
For Maggie noo I'm an aside ye.

Noo since your waukin' Maggie,
Noo since your waukin' Maggie,
What care I for hoolits cry,
For boortree bank or warlock Craigie.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Are Ye Sleepin Maggie?
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 10 Nov 00 - 01:26 PM

This one is in the DT, with a midi of the tune, and may be found by typing -for example- sleeping maggie into the "Digitrad and Forum Search" box on the main Forum page.  It is usually a mistake to try searching for the full title, as spellings are often variant (or wrong!)  Here is a direct link:  Oh Are You Sleeping Maggie

Malcolm

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Are Ye Sleepin Maggie?
From: Willie-O
Date: 11 Nov 00 - 03:03 PM

Thanks lads. So it's not by Burns at all?

Malcolm, I ken whit ye mean, mon.

Willie-O