Lyr Req: The Shearin's Nae For You

20 May 97 - 06:16 PM (#5447)
Subject: Lyrics; The Shearin's Nae For You
From: Barry Finn

I'm looking for at least 2 other verses that are not in the DT database. I have "Do you mind on younder hill my bonnie lassie O (2X), do you mind on younder hill where you said you would me kill, if you did not get your will". What's in the DT is "Take the buckles frae your shoon. Take the flounces frae your gown. Do you mind on Greata (sp?)Green, and the chorus. Thanks, Barry

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21 May 97 - 02:32 PM (#5496)
Subject: ADD Version: The Shearin's Nae For You
From: LaMarca

The Fisher Family (Ray, Cilla, Archie and another sister) recorded a version on an old Topic LP with these three verses, with "The shearin's nae for you" as the chorus:

Tak the buckles frae your shoon, my bonnie lassie-o (3X)
For ye've married sich a loon
That your dancin' days are doon, my bonnie lassie-o.

Tak the ribbons frae your hair, my bonnie lassie-o (3X)
And cut off your ringlets fair,
For ye've naught but want and care, my bonnie lassie-o.

Tak the flooncies frae your knee, my bonnie lassie-o (3X)
For it's better far for ye,
To look out your bairnies three, my bonnie lassie-o.

There's a Burns version called The Banks o' Aire which has a lot of verses, but I don't remember them that well. It's a good deal grimmer than the already melancholy idea that the lassie's social life is over now that she's pregnant. It includes verses implying she got that way through forcible rape:

Do ye mind the Banks o' Aire, bonnie laddie-o (3X)
Whaur ye caught me in your snare,
(?)Til I've naught but want and care, my bonnie laddie-o (?)

Do ye mind on younder hill, my bonnie laddie-o (3X)
Whaur ye swore ye would me kill,
If ye dinna have your will, my bonnie laddie-o.

You can maybe find the rest of it (or the correct wording for the two verses I've tried to remember here) by looking up Banks o' Aire in a Burns collection.

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21 May 97 - 11:53 PM (#5509)
Subject: RE: Lyrics; The Shearin's Nae For You
From: Barry Finn

LaMarca, Thanks, that was more than I was looking for, and better than I expected. The verse I have with Greta Green follows with - "when you played on my machine" and the verse with the flounces goes "take the flounces frae your gown, make a frockie for your loon. Barry

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