Lyr Add: Plooboy Laddies

Subject: Lyr Add: PLOOBOY LADDIES
From: Susan-Marie
Date: 16 Oct 98 - 05:20 PM

Heard this first from Dougie MacLean, who does more verses than I have below. These verses are from a Tannahill Weavers CD. If anyone has the additional verses I'd appreciate you posting them. Thanks.

THE PLOOBOY LADDIES

Doon in yonder den there's a plooboy lad,
An summer's day he'll be a' my ane

Chorus:
And sing laddie aye, and sing laddie oh
The plooboy laddies are a' the go

I will hae nae miller w' his dusty coat
The merchants gear isnae worth a groat

I love him weel, I love nae but him
I love the very cairt he hurls in

And when I think of my plooboy's smile
It's in his arms I would bide a while

I see him coming frae yonder toon
Wi' a his ribbons hangin roon an roon

Subject: RE: LRC ADD: Plooboy Laddies
From: John Nolan
Date: 16 Oct 98 - 06:56 PM

Couple of other verses:
I might hae got the miller doon in yonder mill,
But ach, the stour [dust] it would hae dune me ill.

I might hae got the gardener by yonder tree,
But, the smell o' thyme wad hae sickened me

I might hae got the merchant in yonder shop
But a' his gear it wasne worth a groat

The Clutha did a great version, years ago. It's one of the great chorus songs of Scotland. Check out Ord's Bothy Ballads for a fuller variation.

Subject: RE: LRC ADD: Plooboy Laddies
From: Zorro
Date: 16 Oct 98 - 08:22 PM

A great song and a minor point; shouldn't it be Ploughboy??

Subject: RE: LRC ADD: Plooboy Laddies
From: John Nolan
Date: 16 Oct 98 - 08:47 PM

Only when rhyming with doughboy.

Subject: RE: LRC ADD: Plooboy Laddies
From: Susan-Marie
Date: 19 Oct 98 - 09:01 AM

John - Thanks very much for the verses and reference.

Zorro - There are a number of "ploughboy" songs but I've always seen this particular song written as "plooboy" and it is pronounced as if it rhymes with "shoe-boy".

Subject: RE: LRC ADD: Plooboy Laddies
From: Wolfgang
Date: 22 Oct 98 - 02:28 AM

a link to an older thread.

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: LRC ADD: Plooboy Laddies
From: Susan-Marie
Date: 22 Oct 98 - 03:26 PM

Thanks Wolfgang, I tried to find that thread before I started this one but was unsucessful. Now I feel like we've closed the loop.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Plooboy Laddies (from Tannahill Weavers)
From: GUEST
Date: 22 Jul 06 - 01:12 AM

chords for this anyone?

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Plooboy Laddies (from Tannahill Weavers)
From: Scotus
Date: 22 Jul 06 - 09:24 AM

This used to be a 'biggie' for Jimmy Hutchison - he sings the chorus as collected from Lucy Stewart, where she sings 'And sing laddie-o and sing laddie-aye, the plooman laddies are a' the go'. Perversely non-rhyming but he likes it that way.

The chords I play are:

D       A      D                G
And sing laddie-o and sing laddie-aye,

             D          A      D
The plooman laddies are a' the go

Jack

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Plooboy Laddies (from Tannahill Weavers)
From: Scotus
Date: 22 Jul 06 - 09:28 AM

Hmmmm - The chords have become out of place somewhere in the great cosmos!

And (D) sing laddie(A) o(D) and sing laddie aye(G)

The plooman laddies(D) are a'(A) the go(D)

Jack

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Plooboy Laddies (from Tannahill Weave
From: Abby Sale
Date: 22 Jul 06 - 10:53 AM

Also as Ploughman or Plooman Laddies.

I can't get at any of my tapes or records or books for a while (it may take me 3 or 4 years to unpack, I think) but I have it on a tape I made at Hillend of Arthur Argo - he'd likely also have it from Lucy. And Redpath.

I think I have it as the same tune as MacColl's "Beggar Laddie"
I mean Child 280, not Gaberlunzie or Jolly

1.        It was in the pleasant month of June
        When gentle ladies walk their lane,
        When woods and valleys all grow green
        And the sun it shines sae clearly.
        (While Phoebus shines sae clearly.)

Does that sound right?

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Plooboy Laddies (from Tannahill Weavers)
From: Big Tim
Date: 22 Jul 06 - 01:23 PM

Could the non-rhyming, which version Norman Kennedy also sings, be because 'aye' means 'always'? Jist a thocht!