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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



....................

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



Her father, her father, him being the King

He done hung ... fae a tree and left her ...