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Thread #94094 Message #1818428
Posted By: Joe Offer
25-Aug-06 - 02:43 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Will Ye Gang Love
Subject: ADD: The Rashy Muir
The Rashy Muir Greig-Duncan #1215A
As I came through yon rashy moor How spied I in my true love's door My heart grew sair an my eyes grew blind To think my bonnie love left me behind.
As we came through the water wan The brig's being broken at yon mull dam I boued my body an took her through But alas she's gone an she's left me noo.
As we came our yon hill sae high The nicht wis dark an my love took fleig I took her in my arms twa An we lay there till it wis day.
And in the morning when we arose I helped her on wi her clothes First her stockings an then her sheen It was bit my duty when a wis dene.
But when I came in at yon town end I saw another did my love attend I took aff my hat an I said Hough hon The best o my weel days are done.
O are ye gone lovey are ye gone O are ye gone an left me noo Wid ye forsake a' yere former vows An break the heart o a lover true?
I lent my back against an oak I thought it was a trusty tree But first it bowed an then it break And so has my false love to me.
Now since all my days are done, I'll have it written on my grave stone, Here lies a young man that died for love Because his mistress wid not approve.
noted by George F. Duncan from his mother's singing in 1875