The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #8022   Message #1145728
Posted By: GUEST
25-Mar-04 - 09:04 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Proud Maisrie/Bonny Maisrie/Lady Margaret
Subject: RE: Proud Maisrie/Bonny Maisrie/Lady Margaret
GUEST,DrWord wrote on 28 Mar 01:
> In another lifetime [the mid-60s] I set Scott's poem ["proud Maisie"] to music.
> One of two or three tunes I've ever written. & Sophocleese, I haven't until today
> heard of an air for the poem. :)

There was one written in Scott's lifetime, by George Linley. It works, in a rather
Germanic sort of way. It's on my "Embro, Embro" CD-ROM.

Jack Campin