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Thread #125348   Message #2778103
Posted By: Jim Dixon
01-Dec-09 - 10:38 PM
Thread Name: Origins/lyrics: Queen Among the Heather
Subject: Lyr Add: QUEEN AMANG THE HEATHER (Harry Lauder)
You can hear Harry Lauder's recording from a 1911 Edison cylinder at The Internet Archive. It doesn't seem to be related to the song being discussed above.

Here's my transcription:


QUEEN AMANG THE HEATHER
Words, Harry Lauder and James Malarkey. Music, Harry Lauder.
London: Francis, Day & Hunter, 1909.

1. I ken a lass. How happy I'm a-feelin!
She's in Argyll, and Argyll is in the hielands.
Ma hond's on my hairt; to her I present it
And in return tae me she's gien her vow an I'm contented

CHORUS: My hairt's in the hielands wi ma bonnie Bessie Lee.
I've gien ma hairt tae Bessie an she's gien hers tae me.
Aye when I think on her, ma bosom fairly thrills.
She's ma queen amang the heather, on the bonnie heather hills. REPEAT CHORUS.

2. She disnae sigh for dresses that are silken.
She's quite contentit at the churnin an the milkin.
She has eyes like the stars that fairly set me reelin,
And in here were ma hairt is, I've got such a funny feelin.

3. Sweet were the days when the blaeberries we gathert.
A' we did all day was sit on the heather and blathert
There was naeone tae see but the wee birdies tae listen
And the sheep would cry out "baaa" when we began tae kissin.