Lyr Req: Flower o' the Quern (J Scott Skinner)

Subject: Flower O' The Quern - J Scott Skinner
From: GUEST,John in Brisbane
Date: 02 Oct 00 - 09:24 PM

This is too good a slow air to not have lyrics. Any help here please? Regards, John

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Flower O' The Quern - J Scott Skinne
From: GUEST,John in Brisbane
Date: 02 Oct 00 - 09:26 PM

Sorry, but you can find the tune at http://members.home.net/amferguson/music/Scottish.html

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Flower O' The Quern - J Scott Skinne
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 02 Oct 00 - 09:46 PM

Skinner wrote it as an instrumental piece only, of course, but Jean Redpath set A Weary Lot Is Thine (Sir Walter Scott, Rokeby Canto 111, Stanza 28) to it, and recorded it on The Scottish Fiddle: The Music & The Songs (Lismor, LIFL 7009, 1985).

Malcolm

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Flower O' The Quern - J Scott Skinne
From: MMario
Date: 02 Oct 00 - 10:22 PM

interesting. Is it really "flower" of the quern? a quern is a type of flour mill; could this originally have been "flour of the quern"?

Subject: Lyr Add: A WEARY LOT IS THINE, FAIR MAID (Scott)
From: GUEST,John in Brisbane
Date: 03 Oct 00 - 12:50 AM

Malcom, you are awesome. I grabbed the following lyrics from the Uni of Toronto. Is this the full version you described? If this is the case I will need to perform some minor tweaking of Skinner's tune to accomodate the repeat of the lyrics at the end of each verse. Regards, John

    A weary lot is thine, fair maid,
      A weary lot is thine!
  To pull the thorn thy brow to braid,
      And press the rue for wine!
  A lightsome eye, a soldier's mien,
      A feather of the blue,
  A doublet of the Lincoln green,--
      No more of me you knew
        My love!
      No more of me you knew.

    This morn is merry June, I trow,
      The rose is budding fain;
  But she shall bloom in winter snow,
      Ere we two meet again."
  He turn'd his charger as he spake,
      Upon the river shore,
  He gave his bridle-reins a shake,
      Said, "Adieu for evermore,
        My love!
      And adieu for evermore.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Flower O' The Quern - J Scott Skinne
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 03 Oct 00 - 09:53 AM

Yes, John; those are they.  Jean Redpath omits "My Love!" and the repeated lines.  MMario:  Yes, it is "Flower"; there's a reason, too, but unfortunately I can't remember what it was...

Malcolm

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Flower O' The Quern - J Scott Skinne
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 03 Oct 00 - 03:37 PM

Quern rather than actually being a mill is the name given to the old fashioned hand grinding stones used in homes presumably by the women. I suspect this is a pun!