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14 May 20 - 01:59 AM (#4052371) Subject: Origins: Old Scots Song: Gang Awa'... please? From: GUEST,Ross Guertin Hello. I am looking for the origins of an old Scots song that my Grandad used to sing to me when I was a young lad. Here are the words: Gang awa', Bonny laddie (lassie) gang awa' There's not a loch ness monster there ava' For it's only Auld MacDougal Who's awa' tae Auchenschugle Gang awa', bonny laddie (lassie) Gang awa'. This is the whole song as I know it. Apparently he had heard this on the radio when he was a a young lad, also. Does anyone know this, or something like it? Gang Awa' (The Loch Ness Monster song) |
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14 May 20 - 01:35 PM (#4052467) Subject: RE: Origins: Old Scots Song: Gang Awa'... please? From: cnd I can't find a recording online but could it have been "Loch Ness Monster" by Andy Stewart? (link) |
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14 May 20 - 01:54 PM (#4052473) Subject: RE: Origins: Old Scots Song: Gang Awa'... please? From: John MacKenzie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sq-T-3aTWs This is the Hall & MacGregor song. Doesn't seem to fit the description |
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14 May 20 - 02:46 PM (#4052484) Subject: RE: Origins: Old Scots Song: Gang Awa'... please? From: GUEST,Starship The one reference to it I've found was on another site from a post in 2012. It asks basically the same question posed by the OP. No joy at this end. |
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15 May 20 - 03:05 AM (#4052548) Subject: RE: Origins: Old Scots Song: Gang Awa'... please? From: Jack Campin Sounds like the sort of thing Ewan MacVicar would know about. |
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15 May 20 - 07:14 AM (#4052578) Subject: RE: Origins: Old Scots Song: Gang Awa'... please? From: GUEST,Ewan McVicar Sorry, I ken it not. Auchenshuggle brands it as Glasgow, music hall I should say. |
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15 May 20 - 08:59 AM (#4052595) Subject: RE: Origins: Old Scots Song: Gang Awa'... please? From: GUEST,akenaton Will Fyffe, Harry lauder.... pre 40's Ewan is spot on. Though it may have been a "self composition" roughly based on "Sailors hornpipe", there used to be loads of them in circulation. |