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Lyr Req: Love and Freedom (Hey Donald) DigiTrad: THE JUTE MILL SONG Related threads: Info: Mary Brooksbank (1897-1978) (25) Permission to record Jute Mill Song (51) (origins) Origin: Jute Mill Song (34) Lyr Req: 'Oh, dear me, the warld's ill-divided' (30) Lyr Req: Oh dear me the mills running fast (6) Tune Req: Jute Mill Song (11) Lyr/Chords Req: The Jute Mill Song (any Dundo (10) |
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Subject: SONG REQ: 'she's chosen love and freedom..' From: Susan-Marie Date: 21 May 99 - 04:12 PM I heard a song at a friends house that I liked - it was about a woman who is courted by a piper and decides to run away with him. The last line was "she's chosen love and freedom, now she'll wander all her days". The DT doesn't have a song with that exact phrase (although there are many on that theme). Anyone out there know it? |
Subject: RE: SONG REQ: 'she's chosen love and freedom..' From: Ewan McVicar Date: 06 Jun 99 - 04:48 PM The song was written by Dundee poetess Mary Brooksbank, begins As I came o'er Strathmartin Mains Chorus starts Hey Donald Ho Donald The song is known by it's first line, or as Hey Donald, or as Love And Freedom. I have not the time to tippy tap out the words, but may have it on file in the Linlithgow Sangschule Songbook. If so I'll dig it out when I can. |
Subject: RE: SONG REQ: 'she's chosen love and freedom..' From: Susan-Marie Date: 08 Jun 99 - 12:23 PM Ewan - Yes, that's the song, I remember the "hey Donald" part! Thanks for responding, I was beginning to think I'd imagined it. Any help you can give will be appreciated. I'm told it might be on a Cathi Ryan CD, in which case she might have the words on the CD notes, but I'd love to see your version.
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Subject: RE: SONG REQ: 'she's chosen love and freedom..' From: Peter Date: 08 Jun 99 - 12:28 PM Ossian - sorry, Oisin - do a version of this one, on (I think) their "Over The Moor To Maggie" recording. |
Subject: Lyr Add: LOVE AND FREEDOM^^ From: Susanne (skw) Date: 08 Jun 99 - 05:27 PM This is the version sung by Cilla Fisher & Artie Trezise on their album 'Balcanquhal'. Maybe it'll save Ewan some work. Chorus:
As I come o'er sweet Martin Braes what do you think I seen
He played a reel and he played a jig and he played a sweet strathspey
Well I've nae gown tae offer ye, I hae but little gear
There's gowd on the broom o' the Sidlaw Hills, honey ben the heather sweet
Syne he blew up his chanter and sic a spring he plays
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Subject: RE: SONG REQ: 'she's chosen love and freedom..' From: Susanne (skw) Date: 08 Jun 99 - 05:30 PM Sorry, too quick. I forgot my requests: In the first line the words sound like 'Sweet Martin Braes' to me but could as well be what Ewan wrote. And in the line with the question mark I just can't make out that bit. Any ideas anyone? - Thanks, Susanne |
Subject: RE: SONG REQ: 'she's chosen love and freedom..' From: Ewan McVic ar Date: 15 Jun 99 - 04:38 AM Susan-Marie Could not remember the name of your thread last night, so I posted the lyric as Hey Donald Ho Donald. It fills in the gap in Susanne's posting. |
Subject: Lyr Add: LOVE AND FREEDOM^^ From: Date: 15 Jun 99 - 04:53 PM Well I did indeed post the lyric, but the new thread I created has disappeared!" Weird. Mary Brooksbank also wrote Ten and Nine, also called The Jute Mill Song or Oh Dear Me. Here is the lyric.
Hey Donal', Ho Donal'
As I cam by Strathmartine Mains
He played a reel, an' he played a jig |
Subject: RE: SONG REQ: 'she's chosen love and freedom..' From: Ewan McVicar Date: 16 Jun 99 - 04:33 AM By the way, as my wife Linda pointed out, a tarn cannot purl! A tarn is a mountain lochan, to purl is to flow and babble. And that line is murder to phrase - the tune I suspect was added to a poem, from her book Sidlaw Breezes I think. |
Subject: RE: SONG REQ: 'she's chosen love and freedom..' From: Susan-Marie Date: 16 Jun 99 - 05:51 PM Thanks so much everyone! |
Subject: ADD: Strathmartine Mains (Love And Freedom) From: Joe Offer Date: 09 Dec 18 - 02:48 AM I found a Website that has a transcription of the Malinky recording of this song: http://www.celticlyricscorner.net/malinky/strathmartine.htm Can we find an original source for this song? STRATHMARTINE MAINS (LOVE AND FREEDOM) (Mary Brooksbank) As I cam owre Strathmartine Mains Wha dae ye think I seen? But a braw young piper laddie Cam a-linkin owre the green CHORUS: Singing hey Donald, ho Donald Dirrum-a-doo-a-day He played a jig and he played reel And he played a sweet strathspey He roused my hairt 'til the beat skipped time Tae the tappin' o' ma tae Well, I've nae gowd tae offer ye I hae but little gear But we'll hae love and freedom If ye'll gang wi' me, my dear There's gowd in the broom o' the Sidlaw Hills Honey in the heather sweet There's speckled trout in the Henlinn Tarn A cairpet 'neath oor feet He blew up his chanter An' it's sic a spig he plays So I chose love and freedom An' I'll wander all my days https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YkU6Nj8o2A |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Love and Freedom (Hey Donald) From: Reinhard Date: 09 Dec 18 - 06:00 AM You can hear Mary Brooksbank singing Love and Freedom in 1964 on Toban an Dualchais. And there is the Linlithgow Sangschule Songbook version of Hey Donal Ho Donal that Ewan McVicar mentioned in the second posting in this thread. |
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