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Thread #54665 Message #852229
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
22-Dec-02 - 02:30 PM
Thread Name: Origins: The Flying Cloud
Subject: Tune Add: WILLIAM HOLLANDER / THE FLYING CLOUD
X:1
T:William Hollander (The Flying Cloud)
S:James Ewen, Aberdeenshire, 1906.
Z:Gavin Greig.
B:Patrick Shuldham-Shaw and Emily B. Lyle (eds.) The Greig-Duncan Folk Song Collection, vol.I, 1981.
L:1/8
Q:1/4=100
M:4/4
K:D
HA2|D2 D2 E2 F2|G2 B2 A2 F2|G2 E2 D2 C2|
w:My name is Wil-liam Hol-lan-der as you may un-der-
D6 A A|d2 d d B2 B2|=c B3 A2 G2|F2 D2 F2 G2|
w:stand I was born in the town of Wa-ter-ford in Er-in's hap-py
A6 A2|d2 d2 B2 B2|(=c2 B2) A2 G2|F2 D2 F2 G2|
w:land. I be-ing young and can-*ty kind for-tune on me
A6 A2|D2 D2 E2 F2|B4 A2 F2|G2 E2 D2 C2|D6|]
w:smiled My par-ents doat-ed on me I was their on-ly child.
Note that the first verse as given with Greig's staff notation omits "then" in line three, which is however given in the text transcription.