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27 May 09 - 04:07 PM (#2642138) Subject: Origins: Linton Lowrie - tune used for Barnyards From: GUEST,Ewan McVicar I don't think the following information has been put into Mudcat before. In the thread on The Barnyards of Delgaty the tune Linton Lowrie is named. In a 1908 volume called Song Gems (Scots) The Dunedin Collection, are "a goodly number of forgotten and little known gems of song". One is Linton Lowrie Words by James Ballantine, Music by Alexander MacKenzie [i.e. he is the composer, the tune is the one well known for the Barnyards] I tint my hert ae morn in May When birdies sang on ilka tree When dewdraps hung on ilka spray And lammies ply'd on ilka lea Linton Lowrie, Linton Lowrie Aye sae fond ye trowed tae be I never wist sae bricht a morn Sae dark a nicht wad bring to me O Linton's words sae saftly fell Sae pure the glamour o his ee That I hae never been mysel Sin ere he spak an keek't tae me Linton Lowrie, Linton Lowrie Come dear Lowrie back to me An siccan love I'se bear to you E'en your forgettin will forgie His absence I'll nae langer bear My grief I can nae langer dree I'll gang a thoosan mile an mair My Linton's comely face to see O Linton Lowrie, Linton Lowrie Gin you'll come to Loganlea I'll mak ye laird o Logan Ha And I your loving wife will be The song is also in Sam Henry's Songs of the People. There is a Loganlea in the south of West Lothian, and various candidates for Linton. |
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27 May 09 - 05:36 PM (#2642227) Subject: RE: Origins: Linton Lowrie - tune used for Barnyards From: Jack Campin I'm sceptical. If that was Alexander Campbell Mackenzie (art music composer and the biggest cheese in the Scottish musical scene in his time) he'd have been quite capable of claiming an old folk song as his own. And the tune is (nowadays at least) used for the song family "Oh that I had ne'er been married"/"Crowdie thrice a day", which goes back to about 1700. (I've transcribed old versions of that but I can't find them right now and can't remember what they sounded like). |
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29 May 09 - 04:27 AM (#2643433) Subject: RE: Origins: Linton Lowrie - tune used for Barnyards From: GUEST,Ewan McVicar Could well be, Jack. Never trust what you read. |