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Thread #140843   Message #3248647
Posted By: Jim Dixon
01-Nov-11 - 02:45 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Music-hall songs sung by Harry Lauder
Subject: Lyr Add: HEY, DONAL! (H Lauder/A Melville)
Here's my transcription from the recording at The Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project at University of California, Santa Barbara.


HEY, DONAL!
Words and music by H. Lauder and A. Melville
London: Francis, Day & Hunter, 1903.
As sung by Harry Lauder, 1908.

It was in the merry month o' May
That a bonnie wee lass Ah met one day,
And all the language she could say
Was "Donal, dinnae miss me.
Hug me, tug me, as ye please.
Watch an' mind ye dinnae squeeze.
When ye think that naebody sees,"
Says, "Donal, come an' kiss me."

CHORUS: Hey, Donal, ho, Donal!
Think upon yer vow, Donal,
In amang the bloomin' heather
Where ye vowed tae lo'e me. REPEAT

Oh, we stood that nicht at the fit o' the stair,
Blatherin' there like any other pair.
Ah kissed her till her gums were sair.
Said she: "Ye're misbehavin'."
When I tickled her, she said, "That's rash."
Then she gave me such a bash
And she said, "Yer whiskers needs a wash,
Or else they're needin' shavin'." CHORUS TWICE


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Lauder's song HEY, DONAL! has the feel of an old or traditional song that has been modified, but this is the only old song I could find that could be his source, and I have no tune for it.

From The Poems and Songs of Robert Tannahill with life and notes by David Semple (Paisley: Alex. Gardner, 1874), page 262:


HEY, DONALD! HO, DONALD!

Though simmer smiles on bank an' brae,
An' Nature bids the heart be gay,
Yet a' the joys o' flow'ry May
Wi' pleasure ne'er can move me.

Hey, Donald! ho, Donald!
Think upon your vow, Donald;
Min' the heathery knowe, Donald,
Whar ye vow'd tae lo'e me.

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(There is also LOVE AND FREEDOM, but that only has one line that is similar.)