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Thread #19944   Message #205737
Posted By: kendall
02-Apr-00 - 05:39 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Lizzy Lindsay (Child 226)
Subject: Lyr Add: LEAZIE LINDSAY
I like this version better..

LEAZIE LINDSAY

Will ye gang tae the heelands Leazie Lindsay
Will ye gang tae the heelands wi' me
Will ye gang tae the heelands Leazie Lindsay
My bride and my darling to be.

To gang to the heelands wi' you sir
Would bring the salt tear to my ee
For I'm bound to the green fields and woodlands
And the streams of my ain country.

repeat refrain

I'll show you the red deer a roaming
On mountains where wave the tall pines
And as far as the bounds of the red deer
Hill moorland and mountain is mine.

repeat refrain

A thousand Claymores I can muster
Hilt, blade, and it bearer the same
While around their chieftain they rally
The gallant Argyll is my name.

repeat refrain

There's dancing and joy in the heelands
There's piping and gladness and glee
For Argyll has brought hame Leazie Lindsay
His bride and his darling to be.

repeat refrain
^^

It's interesting to note that in one version, the "hero" is a MacDonald, and in this version, he is an Argyll, possibly a Campbell??