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Subject: BUSH A BOON TRAQUAIR From: rtraqumm@pop.k12.vt.us Date: 30 Mar 97 - 10:15 AM SEARCHING FOR MUSIC, LYRICS "BUSH A BOON TRAQUAIR". |
Subject: Lyr Add: THE BUSH ABOON TRAQUAIR (Scots) From: Jim Dixon Date: 23 Sep 09 - 11:24 PM From The Pocket Encyclopedia of Scottish, English, and Irish Songs, Vol. 1, (Glasgow: Andrew & James Duncan, 1816), page 243: THE BUSH ABOON TRAQUAIR. Hear me, ye nymphs, and ev'ry swain, I'll tell how Peggy grieves me; Tho' thus I languish and complain, Alas! she ne'er believes me. My vows and sighs, like silent air, Unheeded, never move her; The bonnie bush aboon Traquair, Was where I first did love her. That day she smil'd, and made me glad, No maid seem'd ever kinder; I thought myself the luckiest lad, So sweetly there to find her. I try'd to soothe my am'rous flame, In words that I thought tender: If more there pass'd, I'm not to blame; I meant not to offend her. Yet now she scornful flies the plain, The fields we then frequented; If e'er we meet, she shows disdain, She looks as ne'er acquainted. The bonnie bush bloom'd fair in May; Its sweets I'll aye remember: But now her frowns make it decay; It fades as in December. Ye rural pow'rs, who hear my strains, Why thus should Peggy grieve me? Oh! make her partner in my pains; Then let her smiles relieve me. If not, my love will turn despair; My passion no more tender; I'll leave the bush aboon Traquair; To lonely wilds I'll wander. When Burns visited this far-famed Bush in 1787, it consisted of eight or nine ragged birches. The Earl of Traquair has planted a clump of trees near it, which he calls the New Bush. [An arrangement for voice and piano can be found in The Popular Songs of Scotland with Their Appropriate Melodies by George Farquhar Graham (Glasgow: J. Muir Wood & Co., 1887), page 44.] |
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