Lyr Req: Anakee Gordon / Annachie Gordon

Subject: Lyr Req: Anakee Gordon
From: GUEST,Annie
Date: 07 Aug 05 - 03:04 PM

I'm trying to find the lyrics and chords to this song. It's about a girl that is supposed to marry a sulton but she loves Anakee Gordon.
Can't find it anywhere!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Anakee Gordon
From: Le Scaramouche
Date: 07 Aug 05 - 03:13 PM

Try Anachie Gordon.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Anakee Gordon
From: Carol
Date: 07 Aug 05 - 03:15 PM

Try Annachie Gordon - it's on the Digitrad twice, lovely balled but not for a finishing song!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Anakee Gordon
From: The Borchester Echo
Date: 07 Aug 05 - 03:21 PM

The song is Annachie Gordon. Dunno if it's in the DT cos it's not working but there have been previous threads about it, mostly IIRC, about Mary Black nicking Nic Jones' arrangement.

It's on Nic Jones Unearthed obtainable direct from Mollie Music.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Anakee Gordon
From: Susan of DT
Date: 07 Aug 05 - 03:50 PM

Child #239 is in the DT as Annachie Gordon and I have heard it as Lord Saltoun, rather than "a Sulton". There are also threads on it.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Anakee Gordon
From: bbc
Date: 07 Aug 05 - 04:28 PM

Here's a link to a website w/ the lyrics:

Child Ballad 239

If that's not what you want, I have a lyric sheet from Steve Gillette & Cindy Mangsen's "Live in Concert" cd w/ a lovely version of the song. It's quite long, so I don't want to transcribe the lyrics. I will, however, photocopy them & mail them to you if you'll send me your address or, if you prefer, send me your email address & I'll try scanning them.

best,

Barbara

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Anakee Gordon
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 07 Aug 05 - 04:43 PM

I should imagine that Annie has heard the song on a record and would prefer, to begin with at least, something like that rather than getting bogged down in older, more authentic texts from printed sources. Most are available here in any case, though the server is up and down like a blasted yo-yo today, which makes both posting and using the onsite search engine quite difficult.

As I've mentioned before, virtually all modern recordings of the song derive from Nic Jones' revision of text and tune. Certainly that's true of Mary Black's arrangement (which has led many people to imagine, wrongly, that it's an Irish song), Loreena McKennitt's, Cindy Mangsen's and a great many more. (You can tell who learned the song -at one or more removes- from the Mary Black record, as she misheard what Nic sang and substituted the meaningless "Harking" for the original "Buchan"). All this has been said before in previous discussions here. One reason there are so many is that hardly anybody knows how to spell the hero's name, which isn't terribly surprising.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Anakee Gordon
From:
Date: 07 Aug 05 - 04:49 PM

Here is the song and 7 of the threads of the song. Try and learn the use of the Lyric Search box at the top. There are many variant spellings you might have to try, OR pick a specific line which is NOT ambiguous to search with. Anyway...

Annachie Gordon in DT
Annachie Gordon #1
Annachie Gordon #2
Annachie Gordon #3
Annachie Gordon #4
Annachie Gordon #5
Annachie Gordon #6
Annachie Gordon #7

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Anakee Gordon
From: The Borchester Echo
Date: 07 Aug 05 - 04:58 PM

Here it is in the DT Mirror, with notation, here.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Anakee Gordon
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 07 Aug 05 - 05:04 PM

On many of these songs, if the DT or midi is down, the music and midi is available at the Digital Mirror, numachi: Annachie Gordon

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Anakee Gordon
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 07 Aug 05 - 05:07 PM

Running second-

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Anakee Gordon
From: Joe Offer
Date: 08 Aug 05 - 01:18 AM

Malcolm, I wonder how many songs people have learned wrong from Mary Black recordings. She has a beautiful voice and I can certainly understand why she's so popular; but I do wonder if she understands what she's singing, since she regularly screws up lyrics so badly.

Maybe she's just a computer program invented by Microsoft to sing meaningless words in a mechanically cloying style, scientically designed to bring a tear to the eye and a sigh to the breast...

-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Anakee Gordon
From: The Borchester Echo
Date: 08 Aug 05 - 01:54 AM

Maybe she's just a computer program invented by Microsoft

Ah, just like Lizzie Cornish. She's even got sibling clones and an irritating tendency to regurgitate just like a random spam generator.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Anakee Gordon
From: GUEST
Date: 08 Aug 05 - 02:45 AM

..."she regularly screws up lyrics so badly."....

Almost as regularly (and as badly) as the DT ...

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Anakee Gordon
From: bbc
Date: 08 Aug 05 - 07:52 AM

Thanks, countess. That's the version I have.

bbc