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Thread #70464   Message #1203060
Posted By: Susanne (skw)
08-Jun-04 - 07:10 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Laird of Udny
Subject: Lyr Add: LAIRD O' UDNY'S WA'S (from Archie Fisher)
This is what Archie sings on 'Will Ye Gang Love' (1976):

LAIRD O' UDNY'S WA'S
(Trad)

O I'm the laird o' Udny's Wa's
And I've come here wi' richt guid cause
And I've had mair that thirty fa's
Comin' oot owre the plain
O let me in this ae nicht
This ae ae ae nicht
O let me in this ae nicht
And I'll never speir back again

My mother, she does soundly sleep
And my bedroom door does chirrup and cheep
My bedroom door does chirrup and cheep
And I cannae let ye in
So gang ye hame this ae nicht
This ae ae ae nicht
Gang ye hame this ae nicht
And never speir back again

I'll oil your door gin it maun squeak
And it will neither chirrup nor cheep
No it will neither chirrup nor cheep
And I'll get slippin' in
O let me in this ae nicht,
This ae ae ae nicht
O let me in this ae nicht,
And I'll never speir back again

When he's got in he was sae gled
He's taken his bonnet frae off of his head
And he's kissed her on the cheeks sae red
And the auld wife heard the din
O but well she likit that ae nicht
That ae ae ae nicht
O weel she likit that ae nicht
She let her laddie in

When he got in he was sae gled
He's knockit the bottom-boards oot o' the bed
And he stole the lassie's maidenhead
And the auld wife heard the din
O but well she likit that ae nicht
That ae ae ae nicht
O weel she likit that ae nicht
That she let her laddie in

Jeannie Robertson called itThe Laird o' Windywa's. One comment as yet missing from My Songbook:

[1995:] Udny is a small village a dozen miles north of Aberdeen (Peter Hall, notes 'Folk Songs of North-East Scotland')