Lyr Req: Will Ye Go, Lassie, Go

Subject: Will ye go, lassie go
From: mm
Date: 10 Jan 99 - 05:37 PM

Has anyone got the full words of "Wild Mountain Thyme, an Irish song with the chorus

Will ye go, lassie, go And we'll all go together To pull wild mountain thyme All among the blooming heather

(often misattributed as Scottish) - I can't remember them all and they don't seem to be in the archives.

Subject: Lyr Add: WILL YOU GO, LASSIE, GO?
From: anne
Date: 10 Jan 99 - 05:48 PM

Here it is:

Oh, the summertime is coming and the trees are sweetly blooming,
And the wild mountain thyme grows around the blooming heather.
Will you go lassie, go?
And we'll all go together to pluck wild mountain thyme
All around the blooming heather.
Will you go lassie, go?
I will build my love a tower near the crystal fountain,
And on it I will pile all the flowers of the mountain.
Will you go lassie, go?
If my true love she were gone, I would surely find another
Where the wild mountain thyme grows around the blooming heather.
Will you go lassie, go?

Subject: RE: Will ye go, lassie go
From: anne
Date: 10 Jan 99 - 05:52 PM

Sometimes in songbooks they use the title "Will ye go Lassie, go?" Maybe it's why it's not easy to find Love from anne, Denmark

Subject: RE: Will ye go, lassie go
From:
Date: 10 Jan 99 - 05:55 PM

Look for 'mountain thyme' in DT. Robert Tannahill's original version is in a thread of Oct. 26, 1998. In search box under filter put 'braes' and set age for 90 days.

Subject: RE: Will ye go, lassie go
From: John Hindsill
Date: 10 Jan 99 - 05:55 PM

You can hear this song on the following albums, which might (or not) be available on CD re-releases:

)THE CLANCY BROS. & TOMMY MAKEM, Columbia, C.B. & T.M. )A MAID OF CONSTANT SORROW, Elektra, Judy Collins )FAREWELL ANGELINA, Vangard, Joan Baez

Lyrics not available in database?

Subject: RE: Will ye go, lassie go
From: John Hindsill
Date: 10 Jan 99 - 06:08 PM

GO TO www.chivalry.com/wmt/lyrics/wildmt.html

Subject: RE: Will ye go, lassie go
From: Harry
Date: 10 Jan 99 - 06:42 PM

Sorry to disagree, mm, but the attribution was accurate. The song is not only Scottish in origin, it's not even a Folksong, if knowing the author etc. disqualifies it. But here we are on very shaky ground. Chase up the thread from before Christmas. It was very interesting. Harry

Subject: RE: Will ye go, lassie go
From: Pete M
Date: 10 Jan 99 - 06:43 PM

Umm well actually mm, if you are into assigning traditional songs to a particular locality, the evidence suggests that this was originally a Scottish song. There has been a previous discussions on the song here and the oldest extant words were listed by Bruce O here

Pete M

Subject: Lyr Add: THE BRAES O' BALQUITHER
From: Bruce O.
Date: 10 Jan 99 - 07:17 PM

Here's the Scots traditional version that Betsey Miller (Ewan MaColl's mother) knew and sang on Folk-Lyric FL 116.

Will you go, lassie, go
To the Braes o' Balquither,
Whaur the blaeberries grow
'Neath the bonnie blooming heather;
Whaur the deer and the roe,
Lightly bounding thegither,
Sport the lang simmer day
On the Braes o' Balquither.

I will mak' thee a bower
By the clear siller fountain,
Whaur the flowerets so gay
Deck the slopes o' the mountains;
I will gang ower the bens
And the vallies sae eerie
An I'll come back again
Tae the airms o' my dearie.

Noo it's high simmer-time,
And the flooers are a' blooming,
And the wild mountain thyme
On the breezes perfuming;
Let us go, lassie, go,
And we'll journey thegither,
Whaur the blaeberries grow,
On the braes o' Balquither.

Subject: RE: Will ye go, lassie go
From: Harry
Date: 10 Jan 99 - 08:45 PM

See also the "Edinburgh Book of Scottish Verse" ed. Prof Mc Neil-Dixon, E'burgh, 1910. The complete text as composed by Tannihill in the C18 is given. Traditional? Is "My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose" by Burns traditional ? Popular, yes, but traditional? Harry