Lyr Req: Wild Mountain Thyme / Braes o' Balquidder

Subject: other lyrics for wild mountain thyme
From: GUEST,isng4u
Date: 30 Jan 02 - 05:13 PM

I've heard there is another scottish song that uses the same melody as Wild Mountain Thyme. I hear this is the case for several tunes in fact. Can anyone point me to where I could find out?

thankx,

gil

Subject: RE: Tune Req: other lyrics for wild mountain thym
From: nutty
Date: 30 Jan 02 - 05:45 PM

The song is The Braes of Balquidder and the words are here in the DT
CLICK

Subject: RE: Tune Req: other lyrics for wild mountain thym
From: nutty
Date: 30 Jan 02 - 05:58 PM

In fact, The Braes of Balquidder is an old Scottish song that had been around for a long time before Frank McPeake wrote Will ye go lassie go

Subject: RE: Tune Req: other lyrics for wild mountain thym
From: paddymac
Date: 30 Jan 02 - 06:26 PM

Folkies of most persuasions have never been particulary bothered about "adapting" older melodies. All a part of the famous folk process. The interesting part is when the "new" lyrics become more well known than the older ones.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: other lyrics for wild mountain thym
From: 8_Pints
Date: 30 Jan 02 - 09:19 PM

But in this case I think the influence is unmistakable.

Bob vG

Subject: RE: Tune Req: other lyrics for wild mountain thym
From: Nerd
Date: 31 Jan 02 - 01:10 AM

Actually, Francie adapted both the words and the tune of Braes of Balquidder, so the tunes are quite a bit different. Thus, this may or may not be what isng4u is referring to...anyone know any other songe to the tune of Wild Mountain Thyme?

Subject: RE: Tune Req: other lyrics for wild mountain thym
From: masato sakurai
Date: 31 Jan 02 - 04:54 AM

Other related threads:

Wild mountain thyme

Wild mountain thyme

Lyr Req: Fourth verse for Wild Mountain Thyme

LYR ADD: Braes o' Balquidder

Lyr Req: Will ya go lassie go

Lyr/Chords Req: Wild Mountain Thyme

In the DT:

FLOWERS OF PEACE by Pete Seeger

HIGHLANDS OF HEAVEN (J.D. Arnold, 1869) --"accompanied by some confused and inaccurate notes" (Malcolm Douglas).

Result of search for "Wild Mountain Thyme" (The Fiddler's Companion):

CLICK HERE

~Masato

Subject: RE: Tune Req: other lyrics for wild mountain thym
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 31 Jan 02 - 06:55 AM

My comment on those notes (nearly two years ago) was a bit unfair, though they aren't exactly a model of clarity; I don't expect that whoever wrote them expected them to be put into the DT as they stood.  Accompanying the remark was a list of links to other discussions here of Wild Mountain Thyme and its relatives, which I may naively have believed would be useful to people in the future:

Lyr Add: Wild Mountain Thyme--Variation (links)