Lyr Req: Magdalen Green

Subject: Lyr Req: Magdalen Green
From:
Date: 10 Nov 02 - 01:22 PM

Looking for the words to the Magdalen Green

Subject: Lyr Add: THE MAGDALEN GREEN
From: weerover
Date: 10 Nov 02 - 02:48 PM

From Norman Buchan's "The Scottish Folksinger":

THE MAGDALEN GREEN

I am a brisk young sailor lad, just newly come from sea
My gallant ship lies anchored in the harbour o' Dundee
Young Betsy being the fairest girl that e'er my eyes have seen
I asked her would she take a walk all along by the Magadalen Green

But, roguish smile upon her face, she answered me and said:
To take a walk with you, young man, it's I would be afraid
For the roads they are so slippery and the night so hard and keen
And it would not do for me to fall all along by the Magdalen Green"

But with false words and flattering tongue the lass soon gied consent
We wandered here, we wandered there, and happy times we spent
And mony's the day and night we roamed to view the pleasant scene
I'm afraid this maid got mony's the fall all along by the Magdalen Green

But some strange thought had crossed my mind that I would go to sea
And leave my bonny Betsy, my maid o' sweet Dundee
I bade farewell to Dundee where happy we had been
And left this maid to weep and mourn all along by the Magdalen Green

One day as I lay slumbering I dreamed a fearful dream
I dreamed I was the father of a darling little son
And for that dear young maiden I saw her there quite plain
And she was sad lamenting all along by the Magdalen Green

So come all you brisk young sailor lads and a warning take by me
Never love a fair young maid the shun her company
But I'll come back to Dundee town, for a rascal I have been
And I will make it up to her all along by the Magdalen Green

Subject: Tune Add: THE MAGDALEN GREEN
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 10 Nov 02 - 03:18 PM

The above version came from Jessie McDonald of MacDuff. Here is the tune:

X:1
T:The Magdalen Green
S:Jessie McDonald of MacDuff
B:The Scottish Folksinger, Buchan & Hall, 1973
L:1/8
Q:1/4=100
M:4/4
K:G
D2|G B3 A2 B2|G2 D2 B,2 C2|D2 A2 G2 F2|G6
w:I am a brisk young sail-or lad, just new-ly come from sea;
d2|B G3 B2 c2|d2 c2 c2 d2|B2 G2 F2 E2|D6
w:My gal-lant ship lies an-chored in the har-bour o' Dun-dee.
d2|B2 (GA) B2 c2|d2 (dc) c2 d2|B2 G2 F2 E2|D6
w:Young Bet-sy_ being the fair-est_ girl that e'er my eyes have seen,
D2|G2 B2 A2 B2|G2 (DC) B,2 CC|D2 AA G2 F2|G6|]
w:I asked her would she take a_ walk all a-long by the Mag-dalen Green.

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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Magdalen Green
From: weerover
Date: 10 Nov 02 - 03:46 PM

While I was working on the abc Malcolm was posting it. Next time I'll know to wait a bit!

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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Magdalen Green
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 10 Nov 02 - 03:58 PM

No, please don't wait! So many people post lyrics without tunes, though, that I do add them if I have the things reasonably to hand; unless I know that they're coming back to finish the job. If lyric and tune appear in the same post, though, I can be doing something else instead and effort isn't duplicated. :)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Magdalen Green
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 10 Nov 02 - 09:07 PM

I have a version of this by Dick Gaughan - taped from the radio some day in the early 80s (probably Wally Whyton's Folk Review). Dick says he's never recorded it, and suspects it's from a gig for a radio broadcast. (Wally probably gave the source, but that was in the days before I wrote these things down.) Has anyone heard it and could give me an idea when and where it might have been recorded?