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Subject: Lyr Add: PLOOBOY LADDIES From: Susan-Marie Date: 16 Oct 98 - 05:20 PM Heard this first from Dougie MacLean, who does more verses than I have below. These verses are from a Tannahill Weavers CD. If anyone has the additional verses I'd appreciate you posting them. Thanks. THE PLOOBOY LADDIES
Doon in yonder den there's a plooboy lad,
Chorus:
I will hae nae miller w' his dusty coat
I love him weel, I love nae but him
And when I think of my plooboy's smile
I see him coming frae yonder toon |
Subject: RE: LRC ADD: Plooboy Laddies From: John Nolan Date: 16 Oct 98 - 06:56 PM Couple of other verses: I might hae got the miller doon in yonder mill, But ach, the stour [dust] it would hae dune me ill. I might hae got the gardener by yonder tree, But, the smell o' thyme wad hae sickened me I might hae got the merchant in yonder shop But a' his gear it wasne worth a groat The Clutha did a great version, years ago. It's one of the great chorus songs of Scotland. Check out Ord's Bothy Ballads for a fuller variation. |
Subject: RE: LRC ADD: Plooboy Laddies From: Zorro Date: 16 Oct 98 - 08:22 PM A great song and a minor point; shouldn't it be Ploughboy?? |
Subject: RE: LRC ADD: Plooboy Laddies From: John Nolan Date: 16 Oct 98 - 08:47 PM Only when rhyming with doughboy. |
Subject: RE: LRC ADD: Plooboy Laddies From: Susan-Marie Date: 19 Oct 98 - 09:01 AM John - Thanks very much for the verses and reference. Zorro - There are a number of "ploughboy" songs but I've always seen this particular song written as "plooboy" and it is pronounced as if it rhymes with "shoe-boy". |
Subject: RE: LRC ADD: Plooboy Laddies From: Wolfgang Date: 22 Oct 98 - 02:28 AM a link to an older thread. Wolfgang |
Subject: RE: LRC ADD: Plooboy Laddies From: Susan-Marie Date: 22 Oct 98 - 03:26 PM Thanks Wolfgang, I tried to find that thread before I started this one but was unsucessful. Now I feel like we've closed the loop. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Plooboy Laddies (from Tannahill Weavers) From: GUEST Date: 22 Jul 06 - 01:12 AM chords for this anyone? |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Plooboy Laddies (from Tannahill Weavers) From: Scotus Date: 22 Jul 06 - 09:24 AM This used to be a 'biggie' for Jimmy Hutchison - he sings the chorus as collected from Lucy Stewart, where she sings 'And sing laddie-o and sing laddie-aye, the plooman laddies are a' the go'. Perversely non-rhyming but he likes it that way. The chords I play are: D A D G And sing laddie-o and sing laddie-aye, D A D The plooman laddies are a' the go Jack |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Plooboy Laddies (from Tannahill Weavers) From: Scotus Date: 22 Jul 06 - 09:28 AM Hmmmm - The chords have become out of place somewhere in the great cosmos! And (D) sing laddie(A) o(D) and sing laddie aye(G) The plooman laddies(D) are a'(A) the go(D) Jack |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Plooboy Laddies (from Tannahill Weave From: Abby Sale Date: 22 Jul 06 - 10:53 AM Also as Ploughman or Plooman Laddies. I can't get at any of my tapes or records or books for a while (it may take me 3 or 4 years to unpack, I think) but I have it on a tape I made at Hillend of Arthur Argo - he'd likely also have it from Lucy. And Redpath. I think I have it as the same tune as MacColl's "Beggar Laddie" I mean Child 280, not Gaberlunzie or Jolly 1. It was in the pleasant month of June When gentle ladies walk their lane, When woods and valleys all grow green And the sun it shines sae clearly. (While Phoebus shines sae clearly.) Does that sound right? |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Plooboy Laddies (from Tannahill Weavers) From: Big Tim Date: 22 Jul 06 - 01:23 PM Could the non-rhyming, which version Norman Kennedy also sings, be because 'aye' means 'always'? Jist a thocht! |
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