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Lyr Req: Cairnamount / Cairn o' Mount |
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Subject: Cairnamount From: Dunc Date: 25 Sep 01 - 11:16 AM Can anyone help with the words to the wonderful ballad "Cairnamount" Dunc |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Cairnamount From: Malcolm Douglas Date: 25 Sep 01 - 07:56 PM Offhand, I can't think of anything by that title. Do you perhaps mean Cairney Mount? Have a look at:
...and see if you recognise anything. Burns wrote a song called As I Cam O'er the Cairney Mount, based on The Highland Laddie, which might also be a candidate. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Cairnamount From: GUEST,Janice Date: 26 Sep 01 - 04:01 PM Is this the song with lyrics 'though Cairnamount is bleak and bare ...... I'd rather meet my Donald there than be fair Scotland's queen' I have the words of this one - let me know if it's what you're looking for. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Cairnamount From: Dunc Date: 28 Sep 01 - 11:36 AM Oh Cairnamount is bleak and bare And as cold as Clach na Ben And you can see the snow lay there Alang the summer's end. These are the only words I know and it seems to be the same one that Janice is thinking off. |
Subject: Lyr Add: CAIRN O' MOUNT (Balfour) From: Malcolm Douglas Date: 28 Sep 01 - 02:20 PM A phrase or two from the text can make all the difference when searching for a song; titles are often misunderstood or mis-spelled, as is the case with this one, which is properly called Cairn O' Mount. Armed with the bit you quote, it was easy to find; evidently it is a poem written by Alexander Balfour (1767-1829). It can be seen at Brechin: The Ancient City: Cairn O' Mount. The site compilers describe it as "From A North Country Garland"; there have been several publications of this title, but I take the book in question to be James Maidment's A North Countrie Garland (1824). Can you provide any information about the tune you've heard it sung to? |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Cairnamount From: Malcolm Douglas Date: 28 Sep 01 - 02:41 PM Further information: the song appears on Bob Blair's record in Pete Heywood's "Tradition Bearers" series: Reaching for the High, High Lands (Living Tradition LTCD1001). You can hear him singing it at the "Living Tradition" site: Reaching for the High, High Lands. The tune used is a modern one, written by Tony Cuffe; so it may be that the song is not known in tradition. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Cairnamount From: Dunc Date: 29 Sep 01 - 10:10 AM Thanks for that Malcolm - Duty Hero once again. Dunc |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Cairnamount From: GUEST,Chris B (Born Again Scouser) Date: 30 Oct 13 - 09:12 AM Hi Janice. If you have the lyrics for Tony Cuffe's version I'd love to have sight of them. I've transcribed most of it myself but I'm struggling with a few bits. Gorgeous song. Thanks Chris |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Cairnamount From: Jim Carroll Date: 30 Oct 13 - 11:55 AM Would highly recommend Bob Blair's version on 'Reaching for the High, High Lands'. Bob's exquisite rendition (along with Bonnie Lassie of the Mornin') puts this album right up there with the biggies as far as I'm concerned. Unfortunately Malcolm's link no longer works, but worth the effort of a further search. Jim Carroll |
Subject: Lyr Add: CAIRN O' MOUNT (from Tony Cuffe) From: Jim Dixon Date: 31 Oct 13 - 07:11 PM Here's my attempt at a transcription. Caveat: I am not a native speaker. A few of these words are pure guesswork, or spelled phonetically with only a vague concept of their meaning. I have marked the more doubtful ones with (?). CAIRN O' MOUNT As recorded by Tony Cuffe on "Sae Will We Yet" (2003) 1. I left the banks o winding Dee and hausle(?) bonnie green, Where birds sang blithe through ilka tree and flooers bloomed fair atween. As I gaed down by brig o Dee just as the sun gaed doon, A lassie sang sae merrily amang the heather broon. CHORUS: Though Cairn o Mount is bleak and bare, and cauld is Clochnaben, I'd rather meet my Donald there than be fair Scotland's queen. 2. I jumpit off my dappled grey; I walked doon by her side. Said, lassie, I hae lost my way amang yer muirs sae wide. Yet leeze me o yer bonnie face, yer een sae bonnie blue. The langest day I'd blithely spare(?) tae be alane wi you. 3. O bonnie lassie, think o me; my lands stretch far and wide. I've gowd in banks; I've ships at sea, sae will ye be my bride? My faither left me lairdships twa, a hoose at my command, And I'll mak ye lady oer them a' if ye'll gie me yer hand. 4. I flung aside my lowland coat, kamed doon my yella hair, Cried leeze me on, leal bonnie Bess; we meet tae pairt nae mair. Nae langer Donald o the glen, I'm laird ayont the Dee, And a hairt that proved thee forrit syne, I'll aye prove true to thee. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Cairnamount From: Tattie Bogle Date: 31 Oct 13 - 10:09 PM The Cairn o Mount Road rises to nearly 1500 FT between Banchory, on Deeside, and Fettercairn. In good weather, really beautiful, but it is always one of the first roads to be mentioned on the weather and travel reports as being closed by snow! The longer version of the song is a favourite of several singers from the NE of Scotland, such as Geordie Murieson, Jock Duncan, Joe Aitken (I think I've heard them all do it!) Sadly Malcolm Douglas is no longer with us, hence the link not working. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Cairnamount / Cairn o' Mount From: GeoffLawes Date: 14 Jan 21 - 08:42 AM YouTube Cairn O' Mount · Tony Cuffe |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Cairnamount / Cairn o' Mount From: GUEST,Kenny B (inactive) Date: 14 Jan 21 - 12:15 PM Notes from Alastair Brown's version on his CD "Swan Necked Valve" Cairnomount Words: Alexander Balfour. Tune: Tony Cuffe Cairnomount was originally published in the early 1800s as Donald, a Ballad by Alexander Balfour. It follows the classic broken token plot (minus the token). A lover returns in disguise to test his sweetheart's fidelity. He hints that she might as well transfer her affections to him, for her absent Donald is busy wrapping other women in his plaidie. She doesn't fall for this ruse and on learning his true identity, falls into his arms instead. She'd have been better off slugging him for playing such a dirty trick. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Cairnamount / Cairn o' Mount From: leeneia Date: 14 Jan 21 - 12:52 PM Geoff, thank you for the link to the Tony Cuffe version. It's a lovely melody. Kenny B, I agree with you that it was a dirty trick. I have known two people, both men, who thought it was funny to tell lies calculated to make other people upset. Neither one would make a good husband, in my opinion. |
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