02 Oct 00 - 09:24 PM (#310626) Subject: Flower O' The Quern - J Scott Skinner From: GUEST,John in Brisbane This is too good a slow air to not have lyrics. Any help here please? Regards, John |
02 Oct 00 - 09:26 PM (#310627) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Flower O' The Quern - J Scott Skinne From: GUEST,John in Brisbane Sorry, but you can find the tune at http://members.home.net/amferguson/music/Scottish.html |
02 Oct 00 - 09:46 PM (#310642) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Flower O' The Quern - J Scott Skinne From: Malcolm Douglas Skinner wrote it as an instrumental piece only, of course, but Jean Redpath set A Weary Lot Is Thine (Sir Walter Scott, Rokeby Canto 111, Stanza 28) to it, and recorded it on The Scottish Fiddle: The Music & The Songs (Lismor, LIFL 7009, 1985). Malcolm |
02 Oct 00 - 10:22 PM (#310653) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Flower O' The Quern - J Scott Skinne From: MMario interesting. Is it really "flower" of the quern? a quern is a type of flour mill; could this originally have been "flour of the quern"? |
03 Oct 00 - 12:50 AM (#310716) Subject: Lyr Add: A WEARY LOT IS THINE, FAIR MAID (Scott) From: GUEST,John in Brisbane Malcom, you are awesome. I grabbed the following lyrics from the Uni of Toronto. Is this the full version you described? If this is the case I will need to perform some minor tweaking of Skinner's tune to accomodate the repeat of the lyrics at the end of each verse. Regards, John
A weary lot is thine, fair maid, |
03 Oct 00 - 09:53 AM (#310901) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Flower O' The Quern - J Scott Skinne From: Malcolm Douglas Yes, John; those are they. Jean Redpath omits "My Love!" and the repeated lines. MMario: Yes, it is "Flower"; there's a reason, too, but unfortunately I can't remember what it was... Malcolm |
03 Oct 00 - 03:37 PM (#311231) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Flower O' The Quern - J Scott Skinne From: Mrs.Duck Quern rather than actually being a mill is the name given to the old fashioned hand grinding stones used in homes presumably by the women. I suspect this is a pun! |