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Thread #22345   Message #3445146
Posted By: Jim Dixon
30-Nov-12 - 09:05 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Songs by Joe Corrie
Subject: Lyr Add: FAIR MAID OF KENMORE
Found on a web page called NEFA - Banff and Buchan Collection – Tape Transcription:

The lonely moors pale on the lovely Loch Tay,
Thy shiel in my sentinel stands by the shore
The hills are asleep in the lade of Loch Tay
As I wait by your window, fair maid of Kenmore

Awaken my loved one, come wander with me
The joys that are passing will come never more
As the waters of Tay flow down to the sea
Loves pleasures are pleasing fair maid of Kenmore

The sheep on the hillside have gone to the fold
On the peak of Ben Lawers that ere????
O why need we sigh for the pleasures of old
Awaken my loved one, the world is our own

Awaken my loved one, come wander with me
The joys that are passing will come never more
As the waters of Tay flow down to the sea
Loves pleasures are pleasing, fair maid of Kenmore

Though fair is thy beauty and gently thy heart
Though you would be jewelled for kings to adore
Come by with the joys that are passing away
And fleeting forever fair maid of Kenmore

Awaken my loved one, come wander with me
The joys that are passing will come never more
As the waters of Tay flow down to the sea
Loves pleasures are pleasing, fair maid of Kenmore

So pure was thy beauty, so gentle thy heart
That mountains may rumble and roll to the shore
Ere the love and devotion shall fade from my heart
And the song from my lips now fair maid of Kenmore

Awaken my loved one, come wander with me
The joys that are passing will come never more
As the waters of Tay flow down to the sea
Loves pleasures are pleasing, fair maid of Kenmore


[I can't find any confirmation that the Corries recorded this.]