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Thread #10536   Message #814885
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
30-Oct-02 - 09:36 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Tyree Love Song
Subject: Lyr Add: HO-REE, HO-RO, MY LITTLE WEE GIRL
Perhaps I should just give Roberton's text; the DT entry is uncredited and innaccurate.

HO-REE, HO-RO, MY LITTLE WEE GIRL (A Tiree Love Song)

(Set to English words by Hugh S. Roberton: Tune by Andrew Sinclair.)

Ho-ree, ho-ro, my little wee girl!
Ho-ree, ho- ro, my fair one!
And will you go with me, my Love,
To be my own, my rare one?

Smiling the land! Smiling the sea!
Sweet is the scent of the heather.
Would we were yonder, just you and me,
The two of us together!

All the day long, out at the peat,
Then, by the shore in the gloaming,
Stepping it lightly with dancing feet,
And we together homing.

Laughter o' love! Singing galore!
Tripping it lightsome and airy:
Could we be asking of life for more,
My own, my darling Mary?

Songs of the Isles, Hugh S. Roberton, 1950. The tune was reproduced "by permission".