Lyr Add: Plooboy Laddies (from Tannahill Weavers)

Subject: Lyr Add: PLOOBOY LADDIES (from Tannahill Weavers)
From: GUEST,Galen
Date: 18 Jul 06 - 12:23 AM

The Plooboy Laddies
Doon in yonder den there's a plooboy lad
An' summers day he'll be a' my ane

Chorus (after each verse):
And sing laddie aye and sing laddie oh
The plooboy laddies are a' the go

I will hae nae miller wi' his dusty coat
The merchant's gear isnae worth a groat

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

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

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

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Plooboy laddies by Tannahill Weavers
From: GUEST
Date: 18 Jul 06 - 04:26 AM

I would suggest you change the spelling of 'ane' which normally means 'one' to 'ain' which means 'own'. (first verse)

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Plooboy laddies by Tannahill Weavers
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 18 Jul 06 - 03:44 PM

See also

LRC ADD: Plooboy Laddies (words from Tannahill Weavers cd. Evidently they printed "ane" on the insert. Did they say where they got that version of the song?)

Add: Plooman Laddies (words from Buchan and Hall, Scottish Folksinger; originally from Lucy Stewart of Fetterangus).

Number 3447 in the Roud Folk Song Index. Other variants appear in Ord, Bothy Songs and Ballads (a rather different verse form, sung to 'Rigs of Rye', and in The Greig-Duncan Folk Song Collection (vol III: 5 examples, three with music).

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Plooboy laddies by Tannahill Weavers
From: GUEST,Auldtimer
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 05:50 AM

Maybe it's just being perverse but the chorus is often sang as ...

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

making a point of reaking the rhyme.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Plooboy laddies by Tannahill Weavers
From: Little Robyn
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 04:00 PM

Isla StClair used to sing this but with slightly different words, ending with:
And now she's gotten her plooman lad,
As fair as ever he came frae the ploo,

She was singing it before Buchan and Hall published their book so I guess she visited Fetterangus too.
Robyn