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Thread #6543   Message #925106
Posted By: GUEST,Philippa
03-Apr-03 - 05:13 AM
Thread Name: Info: Pretty Maid (Girl) Milking a Cow
Subject: RE: Info: Pretty Maid (Girl) Milking a Cow
The words of a 19th century Scottish Gaelic love-song, A Nighean Donn na Buaile(O brown-hairedgirl of the cattlefold) by Donald Fraser of Fannich, are similar to "The Pretty Maid Milking Her Cow". I will start another thread for that song. The third verse translates thus: "Though I should get Europe with all its treasures: though I'd have that at my command and a place to live there; though I were proclaimed a duke or crowned King - O, I'd sooner be married to you if only you would not reject me."
(from "James Campbell of Kintail - Gaelic Songs": Scottish Tradition no. 8, booklet to accompany Greentrax recording CTRAX 9008, previously released as Tangent LP.)