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Thread #439   Message #3506381
Posted By: Gutcher
20-Apr-13 - 08:46 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: My Ain Country / My Ain Countrie
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: My Ain Country / My Ain Countrie
A Scots gospel song of the same title was recorded by William MacEwan of Glasgow in 1911. The 1st. verse is:----

I am faur frae ma hame an aa wearie aften whiles
For the langed for hame bringin an ma faithers welcome smiles
An I"ll nae be fu content until ma een dae see
The gouden gates o heaven an ma ain countrie
For the earth is decked wi floors mony tinted fresh an gay
The birdies warble blythly for ma faither made them sae
But these sichts and these souns will as naethin be tae me
When aa hear the angels singin in ma ain countrie.

Although written and sung in broad Scots it was actually composed by an American lady around 1850. As far as is known the lady never visited Scotland, the connection being that she had been brought up by a Scots nanny