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Tune Req: The Rowan Tree

15 Nov 01 - 08:47 AM (#593115)
Subject: The Rowen Tree
From: Brigie

Can anyone get me the notation for this tune? It is a lovely air written by Phil Coulter. thanks in advance Brigid

15 Nov 01 - 08:59 AM (#593124)
Subject: RE: Tune Req: The Rowen Tree
From: MMario

possibly it is the air to this song? ROWAN TREE

from the adverts on the web he seems to do a lot of traditional stuff.

15 Nov 01 - 09:15 AM (#593135)
Subject: RE: Tune Req: The Rowen Tree
From: masato sakurai

We can get much info (with ABC notation and lyrics) on "The Rowan Tree" from The Fiddler's Companion.
~Masato

15 Nov 01 - 09:42 AM (#593162)
Subject: RE: Tune Req: The Rowen Tree
From: Sorcha

And several choices for sheet music and MIDIs at JC's Tunefinder.

15 Nov 01 - 10:19 AM (#593196)
Subject: RE: Tune Req: The Rowen Tree
From: Scabby Douglas

I'm sure that Phil Coulter would be the first to own up to not having written this one..

words by Robert Burns tune by Traditional

Cheers

Steven

16 Nov 01 - 04:40 AM (#593771)
Subject: RE: Tune Req: The Rowen Tree
From: GUEST,Boab

I know that you are at least half right Mr S. Doug! While I can just hear Phil Coulter doing a master's job in the playing of it, it is, I think a traditional Border counties tune [played a lot on the Northumbrian pipes]. I doubt, however, that the lyrics were by Burns. Not that I have any idea exactly of the origin, but I've never seen them included in any collection of Burns' work."The Rowan Tree"[ "mountain ash"--but who the hell would sing about that?!?] was, and is, a popular song throughout Borders society in Scotland.

16 Nov 01 - 05:41 AM (#593801)
Subject: RE: Tune Req: The Rowen Tree
From: Scabby Douglas

Boab I stand corrected - you are of course correct - I posted without thinking..

It was Lady Nairn(e)- Carolina Oliphant, 1766-1845 - apparently who wrote the words - and it's a lot more like her sort of stuff.

Cheers

Steven

23 May 05 - 01:09 AM (#1491001)
Subject: Lyr/Chords Add: OH ROWAN TREE
From: chico


      D                                  G             D
  Oh rowan tree, oh rowan tree, thoul't aye be dear to me.
      Bm                 F#m  G        D        A7   D
  Entwin'd thou art wi' mony ties, o' hame and infancy.
                            G                   D                    A7
  Thy leaves were aye the first o spring, thy flowr's the simmer's pride:
          D                   G       D        A7     D
  There was na sic a bonnie tree, in all the country side.
     A9      D
  Oh rowan tree.
  
  How fair wert thou in simmer time,
  Wi' all thy clusters white.
  How rich and gay thy autumn dress,
  Wi' berries red and bright.
  Oh thy fair stem were mony names
  Which now nae mair I see,
  But there engraven on my heart,
  Forgot they ne'er can be.
  Oh rowan tree.
  
  We sat aneath thy spreading shade,
  The bairnies round thee ran,
  They pu'd thy bonnie berries red
  And necklaces they strang.
  My mither oh, I see her still,
  She smil'd our sports to see,
  Wi' little Jeannie on her lap,
  Wi' Jamie at her knee.
  Oh rowan tree.
  
  Oh, there arose my father's pray'r
  In holly evening's calm,
  How sweet was then my mither's voice
  In the martyr's psalm;
  Now a' are gan! We meet nae mair
  Aneath the rowan tree,
  But hallowed thoughts around tee twine
  O' hame and infancy.
  Oh rowan tree.