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Thread #154968 Message #3904456
Posted By: Jim Dixon
08-Feb-18 - 05:52 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Male/female duets
Subject: Lyr Add: ANNIE'S TRYST
This song was mentioned by Gutcher on 11-Jul-2014. Apparently, it has never been posted at Mudcat before.
These words, with musical notation, can be found in Franklin Square Song Collection: No. 6 (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1888), page 155:
ANNIE'S TRYST*
Your hand is cauld as snaw, Annie.
Your cheek is wan and white.
What gars ye tremble sae, Annie?
What maks your e'e sae bright?
The snaw is on the ground, Willie,
The frost is cauld and keen,
But there's a burnin' fire, Willie,
That sears my heart within.
The spring will come again, Annie,
And chase the winter showers,
And you and I shall walk, Annie,
Amang the simmer flowers.
O! bonnie are the braes, Willie,
When a' the snaws are gane,
But my heart misgi'es me sair, Willie,
Ye'll wander there alane.
O! will ye tryst wi' me, Annie?
O! will ye tryst me then?
I'll meet ye by the burn, Annie,
That wimples doun the glen.
I daurna tryst wi' you, Willie,
I daurna tryst ye here,
But we'll hold our tryst in Heaven, Willie,
I' the springtime o' the year.
[* The sheet music, written in 4-part harmony, is attributed to "W. E. Aytoun" but I suspect he is merely the composer or arranger.
[In some old books, the spelling is "tryste."
[The oldest copy of the words I can find appears without a tune in The New Scottish Song Book, edited by J. E. Carpenter (London: John Routledge and Sons, 1867), page 186.]