Lyr Add: Laddy, lye near me.

Subject: Lyr Add: Laddy, lye near me.
From: Bruce O.
Date: 05 Apr 99 - 01:09 AM

[From Ritson's 'North-Country Chorister', Durham, 1809]

Laddy lye Near Me.

As I walked over hills, dales and high mountains,
I heard a lad and a lass making acquaintance;
Making acquaintance and singing so clearly,
Long have I lain alone, laddy, lye near me
Near me, near me, laddy lye near me
Long, &c

What if I lay thee down, lassy my deary?
Cannot I rise again? Laddy, lye near me.
Near me, &c.

If I get thee with bairn, lassy, my deary?
Cannot I nurse the same? Laddy lye near me.
Near me, &c.

I'll never marry thee, lassy, my dearie.
Do as thou will, said she; laddy lye near me.
Near me, &c.

What will thy parents say, lassy, my dearie?
Never mind, let us play; laddy lye near me.
Near me, &c.

^^

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Laddy, lye near me.
From: Big Mick
Date: 05 Apr 99 - 02:00 AM

Thanks, Bruce, but as I indicated I already had the lyrics as they are in the DT. What I am looking for is the chords or a gif of the music. I have heard the song along the way somewhere but can't remember how it goes. Any chance for the chords?

Mick

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Laddy, lye near me.
From: Ferrara
Date: 05 Apr 99 - 04:50 AM

There's a Jean Redpath album called, coincidentally enough, "Laddie, Lie Near Me." I don't know if the song on there is the same word for word, but it's close and the tune would be the same. Or e-mail and then call Bill D or me & we'll play it into the phone or something. Worst case, I'll type it into Noteworthy Composer, but that's too much like work if quicker alternatives are available. - Rita F

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Laddy, lye near me.
From: Bruce O.
Date: 05 Apr 99 - 08:47 AM

Big Mick, this is a different set of lyrics, and has nothing to do wiith your request.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Laddy, lye near me.
From: Martin Jonas
Date: 05 Apr 99 - 12:28 PM

I can't help with the chords/music either, but there is a very nice recording of a different version of this song (titled "Lassie Lie Near Me") recorded by Dick Gaughan on the rather rare "Folk Friends 2" album. The lyrics are very different from either the one above or the very similar one in the DT, but it's still recognisably the same song structure and presumably the same tune.

Dick's version is from Hogg's "Jacobite Relics", Vol. II and it specifically mentions Culloden. The best shot I can make at transcribing the Scots lyrics is (with a fair dose of interpolation):

Long hae we parted been, lassie my dearie,
Noo we are met again, lassie my dearie.
Near me, near me, lassie my dearie,
long hast thou lain alane, lassie lie near me.

Frae dread Culloden field, bloody and dreary,
Mourning my country's fate, lame me(?) and weary.
Weary, weary, lame me and weary,
They(?) come as a banished weight(?), far frae my dearie.

Loud, loud the wind it roared, stormy and eerie,
Far frae my native shore, danger stood near me.
Near me, near me, danger stood near me,
Noo I've escaped the moor, lassie lie near me.

All that I hae endured, lassie my dearie,
hearing (thy name's ae cure(?)), lassie lie near me.
Near me, near me, lassie my dearie,
^^

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Laddy, lye near me.
From: Bruce O.
Date: 05 Apr 99 - 01:35 PM

Hogg, in his notes to the song above, says he got it from Cromek. It's in R. H. Cromek's 'Remains of Nithsdale and Galloway Song', which means that the song is probably by Allan Cunningham.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Laddy, lye near me.
From: Bruce O.
Date: 05 Apr 99 - 01:44 PM

Cromek's book was published in 1810, and reprinted in 1880, but Allan Cunningham imposed on Cromek, who lived in London, and little in the book is authentic Scots traditional song.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Laddy, lye near me.
From: Bruce O.
Date: 05 Apr 99 - 05:34 PM

I copied the tune from SMM #218 and made it into a JPEG. Good luck on the chords with those C sharp accidentals.

Click here for tune

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Laddy, lye near me.
From: John in Brisbane
Date: 06 Apr 99 - 08:55 AM

Mick, these are some suggested chords for the tune in the DT. Good luck! Regards, John.

Laddie, Lie Near Me

Dm / A | Dm / | / / A | Dm / | / Bb7 Gm |

Dm / | / / A | Dm / | / / | Gm / |

Dm / A | Dm / | / Bb7 Gm | Dm / | Gm Dm A |

Dm / ||