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26 Oct 00 - 06:37 PM (#328089) Subject: Black Family Ploughboy Lads From: GUEST,dulcimer I'm slow sometimes getting around to some of the music I have recorded off the air, but I just hear this one by the Black Family. I've searched to DT and past Threads and not seem to found specifically lyrics, tune or discussion of this song. |
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26 Oct 00 - 09:51 PM (#328212) Subject: Black Family's Ploughboy Lads From: GUEST,dulcimer I would like to have the lyrics and tune if possible. |
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26 Oct 00 - 09:58 PM (#328217) Subject: Lyr Add: PLOUGHBOY LADS and WHEN I WAS NOU BUT ... From: Malcolm Douglas This is the song as sung by the Black family: THE PLOUGHBOY LADS Ah well I was na but sweet sixteen With beauty chance a blooming oh It's little little did I think At nineteen I'd be grieving oh Chorus: Well the ploughboy lads they're all brau lads But they're false and they're deceiving oh They'll take your all and they'll gang away And leave the lassies greetin' oh Ah well I was fond of company And I gave the ploughboy freedom oh To kiss and clap me in the dark When all me friends were sleeping oh Well if I did know what I know now And I took me mothers biddin' oh I wouldn't be sittin' by our fireside Crying hush a ba my baby oh Well it's hush a ba for I'm your ma But the Lord knows who's your daddy Oh And I'll take care and I'll beware Of the ploughboys in the gloaming oh They learnt the song from the Scottish singer, Jeannie Robertson, but changed it around a bit. Here is her version: WHEN I WAS NOU BUT SWEET SIXTEEN When I was nou but sweet sixteen, In beauty jist in bloomin' O; 0 little, little did I think At nineteen I'd be greetin' O. Refrain: O the plooman lads, they're gey weel lads, They're false and deceivin' O; They sail awa' and they gang awa' And they leave their lassies greetin' O. O hishie ba, O I'm your ma, But the Lord kens fa's your daddie O; For I wouldnae be sittin' at your fireside Cryin' hishie ba, my bairnie O. For if I hadda kent whit I dae ken, An' taen my mither's biddin' O, I wouldnae be sittin' at your fireside Cryin' hishie ba, my bairnie O. I'll send a midi of Jeannie's tune to Alan'sMudcat Midi Pages, but it may take some time to appear there. Malcolm |
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26 Oct 00 - 10:01 PM (#328219) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Black Family's Ploughboy Lads From: Malcolm Douglas Please ignore the above link, which goes nowhere. It should be: Mudcat Midi Pages |
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27 Oct 00 - 08:09 AM (#328429) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Black Family's Ploughboy Lads From: GUEST,dulcimer Thanks very much. |
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15 Dec 00 - 10:02 PM (#358083) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Black Family's Ploughboy Lads From: Alan of Australia G'day, Thanks to Malcolm the tune for "Ploughboy Lads" can be found here at the Mudcat MIDI site.
Cheers, |
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10 Aug 01 - 10:39 AM (#525054) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Black Family's Ploughboy Lads From: GUEST,Reiver 2 I found a CD called Classic Irish Love Songs that has the Black Family singing "The Ploughboy Lads. Beautiful melody but I've been unable to make out all of the words. I looked in the DigiTrad data base and didn't find it and I was just preparing to start a new thread asking for the lyrics. Then I searched the threads and found just what I was looking for right here. Many thanks, Malcolm, for posting both versions. It renews my belief that if you can't find anything about a song at the Mudcat Cafe, it doesn't exist! |