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Thread #79811 Message #1448957
Posted By: Roberto
01-Apr-05 - 08:51 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Binnorie (from Elizabeth Stewart, #10)
Subject: Lyr Req: Elizabeth Stewart's BINNORRIE (#10)
From the double cd by Elizabeth Stewart, title: Binnorrie, Songs, ballads and tunes; Elphinstone Institute, University of Aberdeen EICD002 . Please, help me complete and correct this attempt to transcribe what Elizabeth Stewart sings. Thanks. R
There was twa sisters lived in this place Oh heigh ho and binnorrie-O Oh one was fair and the ither was deen And the swan it swims sae bonnie-O
Dear sister, dear sister, will you tak' a walk Wid ye tak' a walk doon by the miller's dam
Dear sister, dear sister, put you your fit on marble stane An' so slyly, so slyly she gently pushed her in
Dear sister, dear sister, will ye gie to me your hand An' it's I'll gie to you a' my hooses an' my land
Dear sister, dear sister, I ... to you my hand For I've come here for to mak' ..(your hairt?) to droon
Noo, the miller he'd a daughter an' her bein' a maid She went doon for some water for to bake
Dear father, dear father, there (?) swims in your dam It's either a maid or a white milk swan
Noo the miller took a click and he clicked her oot And he put her on the dyke for to drip and to dry
Noo the king's three archers, they cam' ridin' by And they took three strands o' her bonnie yellow hair
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My sister Jane murdered me, they seemed ... to cry
She drooned me doon in the miller's dam
It was a' because she wanted my ain true love John