Lyr Add: The Blooming Heather

Subject: Lyr/Tune Add: THE BLOOMING HEATHER (from Polwarth)
From: *#1 PEASANT*
Date: 10 Jun 04 - 12:42 PM

The Blooming Heather

As I was coming home from the fair of Barquetha,
I met a comely lass, she was fairer than Dianne,
I ask'd her where she liv'd as we jogg'd along together
By yon bonny mountainside, she replied, amongst the heather.

Lasse I'm in love with you, you have so many charms;
My heart is in a love with you, my bosem to you warms,
The blythe blinks of your een, and your person is so clever,
I'd fondly wed with you, you're my lassie o'er the heather.

Dinna think, young man, I believe what you have spoken;
Nor dinna think, young man, I would be so easy taken,
For I'm happy and I'm weel, with my father and my mither,
It wo'd tak' a canny chiel to wile me frea the heather.

Lassie condescend with me and dinna be sae cruel;
Spare to me one kiss my dear, one kiss of thee my jewel.
If I were to give you one you wo'd surely ask another:
And may be closely join, to tent me mong the heather.

Now here my bonnie lass, I have houses I have land,
And whatever else I have, I will put into your hand,
Oh if that be your will, here's my hand, let's join together,
Then he hugg'd and kiss'd his fill, and she's his lassie o'er the heather.

Blythe= glad
Blink=Glance
Een=eyes
Chiel=friend
tent=tempt

From the Manuscript of Mr. Hepple- "As I was coming home from the fair of B…..". There is a Scottish song, with a different tune, called "The Braes o' Balquhidder" with a final four lines of each verse as follows:-
Will ye go, lassie, go
To the braes o' Balquhidder
Where the blueberries grow
"Mang the bonnie bloomin' heather.
A corruption of the original Scottish place name to 'Balquetha", which has been used in the local ersion, is inserted where the word is missing." There is an Irish version of this song but the tune is different.-Polwarth

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