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21 Jan 08 - 08:31 PM (#2241717) Subject: Origins: bonnie tyneside From: GUEST,archie robertson below are the words that I can remember my father singing to a song I knew as bonnie tyneside although he was a scot he had good reason to love the area as he was bonded (efectively sold) by his parents and could only escape his 7 years of slavery by escaping o'er the border to england I have been a folkie all my life and have sang in clubs and bars all over the world but I have never met anyone who knows this song can anybody help me? Its bonnie tyneside Where my infancy passed Like a beatiful dream That's too lovely to last I'd escape to the hills And i'd wander all day Amongst the green braes Where the lambs are at play And its bonnie tyneside I will see you no more After long years of exile Away from your shore Over far foreign countries A wanderer I've been And far have I wandered And much have I seen I have stood in the land Where the sun ever shone But I've nare seen country As fair as my own A place I've loved better Than bonnie tyneside |
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22 Jan 08 - 06:50 AM (#2241858) Subject: RE: Origins: bonnie tyneside From: eddie1 Hi Archie There's a lot about "Bonnie Tyneside" on Google. Not sure but I think I remember it being sung by The Five Smith Brothers! Eddie |
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22 Jan 08 - 06:58 AM (#2241863) Subject: RE: Origins: bonnie tyneside From: Fred McCormick Somewhere I have a recording of Willie Scott singing this song. Unfortunately, I know nothing about it other than that it appears in Alison McMorland's collection of Willie's songs, Herd Laddie of the Glen. It does however strike me that this might have been the inspiration for Paul McCartney's Mull of Kintyre. |
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22 Jan 08 - 05:38 PM (#2242373) Subject: RE: Origins: bonnie tyneside From: GUEST,archie robertson thanks eddie and fred I will follow up on your leads mudcat pointed me at a very old thread from someone with the tune looking for words and the midi is exactly the tune my dad used to sing! |
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23 Jan 08 - 04:23 AM (#2242618) Subject: RE: Origins: bonnie tyneside From: Fred McCormick The tune in the Lyr/Tune Add: Bonnie Tyneside is note for note as I remember, the one that Willie Scott used to sing. However, the words were as above, rather than the set in the Lyr/Tune Add thread. Indeed, the words in that set are a Geordiesed version of a song also found in NE Scotland. I'm struggling at this hour (still only on my third cup of coffee) to recall the title. Bonny Aithenside, I think. |
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23 Jan 08 - 04:59 AM (#2242628) Subject: RE: Origins: bonnie tyneside From: Mick Pearce (MCP) Bonnie Ythanside is probably what you're looking for Fred (sometimes just Ythanside). There's a set in Ord with first verse very close to the 1st verse of the set in the Lyr/Tune Add thread, but not otherwise the same at a quick glance. Greig-Duncan 5 has several version of that (but I don't have vol 5). Ord gives a tune, but I haven't time at the moment to compare it with the Bonnie Tyneside tune given in the other thread; I'll see if I can later. The first 4 lines in Ord are: As I cam' in by Ythanside. Where swiftly flows the rolling tide, A fair young maid padded by my side She looked at me and smiled. The tune is however not a "Scottish Waltz" - it's in 4/4. Mick |
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23 Jan 08 - 12:55 PM (#2242924) Subject: RE: Origins: bonnie tyneside From: Fred McCormick Mick, That's the one. |