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10 Oct 00 - 08:00 PM (#315858) Subject: Wild Mountain Thyme From: Dan Calder Hello, I've got the lyrics, now I wonder if some kind soul could see their way clear to posting (or sending) the chords to Wild Mountain Thyme. Thanks very much, and have a good evening. Dan |
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10 Oct 00 - 08:34 PM (#315879) Subject: Chords Add: WILD MOUNTAIN THYME From: Gary T This happens to be one of the simpler ones, so you may find you can work it out by ear without too much struggle. It uses the I and IV chords (in the key of D, D & G; in the key of G, G & C; in the key of C, C & F; etc.). Here it is in D: D G D |
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10 Oct 00 - 08:37 PM (#315880) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Wild Mountain Thyme From: Gary T Argggh! Dang lyrics and chords got misaligned on a bunch of that. Let me know if that's good enough, or if it would be more helpful to have everything lined up right. Sorry about that. |
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10 Oct 00 - 09:03 PM (#315888) Subject: Chords Add: WILD MOUNTAIN THYME From: GUEST,Joerg Lyrics by heart (sorry). Chords for tune in G. I play it with capo on the second fret, i.e. in A.
Now the [G]summer [D]time is [C]coming[G]
And we'll [C]all go to[G]gether Hope that helps. BTW - as far as I know 'thyme' means something like virginity or in general "innocence", i.e. not being f... (oh, no, not with this beautiful song). So plucking thyme or stealing (away) thyme should mean... (NO!). "I will build my love a tower" - fnarr, fnarr... Any additional information or correction? Cheers Joerg |
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10 Oct 00 - 09:12 PM (#315890) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Wild Mountain Thyme From: 1979 I always thought that the reference was simply to the herb thyme. thyme: any of the several herbs or small shrubs of the mint family having aromatic leaves, especially a garden herb, whose dried leaves and flowering tops are used as seasoning. And I beleive it is, I will build my love a bower, as in a shelter of leafy branches, a summerhouse or arbor. |
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11 Oct 00 - 07:59 AM (#316130) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Wild Mountain Thyme From: GUEST,John Hill No.. this song is about losing one's innocence. Joerg is quite right... except that the word is bower and not tower. The word "Thyme" has been used before in the past in songs to mean this... one shouldn't read poetry or song lyrics too literally. Look at the thread about "There's another train, there always is".. we all know its nothing to do with trains at all. |
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11 Oct 00 - 08:25 AM (#316138) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Wild Mountain Thyme From: GUEST,Fibula Mattock Nothing like a good plucking. |
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11 Oct 00 - 08:29 AM (#316141) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Wild Mountain Thyme From: GUEST,John Hill Too true |
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11 Oct 00 - 08:30 AM (#316143) Subject: Lyr Add: THYME IT IS A PRECIOUS THING^^^ From: Quincy The meaning is a little more clearly explained in this song. Come all ye maidens young and fair And you that are blooming in your prime Always beware and keep your garden fair Let no man steal away your thyme CHORUS For thyme it is a precious thing And thyme brings all things to my mind Thyme with all its flavours, along with all its joys Thyme, brings all things to my mind Once I had a bunch of thyme I thought it never would decay Then came a lusty sailor Who chanced to pass my way And stole my bunch of thyme away CHORUS A rose that never would decay He gave it to me to keep me reminded Of when he stole my thyme away CHORUS Come all ye maidens young and fair And you that are blooming in your prime Always beware and keep your garden fair Let no man steal away your thyme Still like to think of it as "1979" says.....much more decent!! Yvonne
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11 Oct 00 - 09:23 AM (#316185) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Wild Mountain Thyme From: A Wandering Minstrel Or as Sid Kipper would observe We'll be havin none o' that "Wild Mounting Time" here thankee! |
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11 Oct 00 - 10:03 AM (#316210) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Wild Mountain Thyme From: Malcolm Douglas I suspect that one or two people may be reading a little more into this song than is actually there! Unsurprisingly, it's been discussed here quite a bit in the past, and its authorship and ancestry examined; I put links to various related threads and DT entries on Wild Mountain Thyme--Variation some months back. The Bunch of Thyme is a very different matter, of course, but then, it's a different song. Sometimes, "thyme" just means thyme. Malcolm |
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11 Oct 00 - 10:34 AM (#316227) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Wild Mountain Thyme From: catspaw49 Let's see if I can coerce Sandy Paton to this thread. I think he may have a word or two of interest for you all on this song. Spaw |
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11 Oct 00 - 11:27 AM (#316258) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Wild Mountain Thyme From: Haruo So if thyme is virginity, what are parsley, sage and rosemary? — and is the hidden meaning of rosemary to be read into the Boar's Head Carol, too, and if so, what is bay? Liland |
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11 Oct 00 - 12:39 PM (#316322) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Wild Mountain Thyme From: Malcolm Douglas Mostly, they are what they appear to be: useful culinary herbs. Thyme and rue do often have symbolic meanings (as does "broom") but by no means always. I think it was Lucy Broadwood who theorized a supernatural explanation of the "parsley, sage, rosemary, thyme" refrain, but there is little evidence to support her hypothesis, which is not taken very seriously nowadays. Malcolm |
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11 Oct 00 - 10:46 PM (#316799) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Wild Mountain Thyme From: GUEST,Joerg As far as I know these herbs (at least rosemary and thyme) were formerly used - or said to be useful - for contraception and/or abortion purposes. Hence those allusions in old songs where it wasn't allowed to call things by their name. But I know very few of this and I would really appreciate learning more. When I first heard "Wild Mountain Thyme" I thought the word was "town". I know "tower" from a songbook. "Bower" is new to me. Joerg |
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13 Oct 00 - 10:15 PM (#318447) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Wild Mountain Thyme From: Haruo Something in one of the Hymn threads reminded me that the US Catholic hymnal Gather II has two hymns in it set to (fairly different renditions of) Wild Mountain Thyme. One is a Magnificat, which I really liked, and the other is an Iona Community Christmas song which I was less thrilled with (but not unthrilled). Liland |
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14 Oct 00 - 10:41 AM (#318700) Subject: Lyr Add: THE BRAES OF BALGUITTER From: Bernard Francis McPeake set some of the words of Robert Tannahill's poem 'The Braes of Balguitter' to a tune, and 'Will Ye Go, Lassie, Go?' was born (aka 'The Wild Mountain Thyme').
I sing some of the original poem, and it is significantly different:
1. Where the deer and the rae,
Chorus: Will ye go, lassie, go?
2. I will twine my love a bower
3. Now the summer's in its prime
4. If your true-love, she won't come,
5. While the rude and wintry wind
6. I will roam the mountains wild,
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14 Oct 00 - 11:32 AM (#318723) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Wild Mountain Thyme From: Bernard I've got it down to about 3Mb, but it's low quality 11KHz 8 bit mono. All the instruments are me, overdubbed. I recorded it with 12 string guitar accompaniment (they way I usually perform it), and added mandolin and whistle afterwards. Download now Hope it's of some interest! Website
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14 Oct 00 - 12:25 PM (#318751) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Wild Mountain Thyme From: Mary in Kentucky Hi GaryT - You might be interested in my post on the "Lookin' for lyrics" thread here. If I ever figure out the best way to post chords above the lyrics using HTML, I'll name a thread so we can find it again. As best I can tell, if you had used the font face "Courier" your chords would have lined up precisely where you wanted them. |
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14 Oct 00 - 01:19 PM (#318788) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Wild Mountain Thyme From: Bernard One problem seems to be the way leading spaces are ignored ----use dashes, ...dots, or ___underscores instead. As Courier is a non-proportional font, it will make a big difference. The daft thing is, the text window for posting shows everything in Courier! To insert Courier, use: {FONT FACE="Courier New"}Put text here{/FONT}
but change the curly brackets for pointy ones!!
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14 Oct 00 - 01:20 PM (#318789) Subject: Chords Add: WILD MOUNTAIN THYME From: Mary in Kentucky Hi again Gary T - I just had a thought. I copied your HTML and put it in a courier font. Is this close? I like the use of the pre tags.
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14 Oct 00 - 01:30 PM (#318794) Subject: Chords Add: WILD MOUNTAIN THYME From: Bernard ........D......G.......D Oh, the summer time is coming, ........G.................D And the trees are sweetly blooming, ........G....D And the wild mountain thyme .........G grows around the blooming heather. .........D...G.......D Will you go, lassie, go? ..........G.........D And we'll all go together G D To pull wild mountain thyme .......G All around the blooming heather, .........D..G.......D Will you go lassie, go? Or is it more like that? ;-) Right interfering lot, aren't we?!! |
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14 Oct 00 - 01:33 PM (#318796) Subject: Chords Add: WILD MOUNTAIN THYME From: Bernard Oops! Missed a bit! ..........G.........D And we'll all go together ........G....D To pull wild mountain thyme Sorreeeee! |
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14 Oct 00 - 04:32 PM (#318900) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Wild Mountain Thyme From: Mary in Kentucky By George, I think he's got it! |
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14 Oct 00 - 04:47 PM (#318907) Subject: Chords Add: WILD MOUNTAIN THYME From: Gary T Thank you, Mary and Bernard. I have generally been successful in getting things to line up and stay lined up by using "left arrow, pre, right arrow" before and "left arrow, /pre, right arrow" after the whole body of text while using line breaks for each line. For reasons beyond my ken, most of the lines in my attempt above seemed to get various amounts of space added from the left margin. I have tried it again, and took the precaution of sending it in a PM to myself to verify it came out right. (Sorry, Bernard, but both of your attempts have some misalignments in them, at least in terms of what I was trying to post.) So here it is again:
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14 Oct 00 - 04:48 PM (#318908) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Wild Mountain Thyme From: Gary T Okay, that time it came out precisely as intended. |
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15 Oct 00 - 10:16 AM (#319192) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Wild Mountain Thyme From: M. Ted (inactive) Bernard, I enjoyed you version a lot, especially since it has all the words of the poem, which I didn't know about before, but makes much more sense than the song as I have known (and loved) for all these years. The file came up as a wav., not as an MP3, which, while implicit in what you said in retrospect, you didn't actually say, and I was a bit suprised when I got screen message that I was downloading a wav.-- Also, the sound is a bit rough around the edges--might have been better not to make it so small, maybe would be better left as an MP3--Anyway, for some reason, folk MP3's tend to be bigger than others--I downloaded something the other day that was nearly 9mb--and it was just voice and harp-- |
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15 Oct 00 - 01:32 PM (#319287) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Wild Mountain Thyme From: Bernard Okay! The difference between your alignment and mine is down to the difference in the way we play it! Neither is 'right' or 'wrong' - just a question of personal preference. You'll be delighted to know we sang it vociferously at Llanstock! |
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15 Oct 00 - 01:37 PM (#319292) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Wild Mountain Thyme From: Bernard Sorry about the sound quality - if you give me your email address, I'll send it to you as an MP3 - space is limited on my website. |
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15 Oct 00 - 01:40 PM (#319294) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Wild Mountain Thyme From: Bernard Forgot the 'clicky'!! |
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16 Oct 00 - 01:19 AM (#319575) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Wild Mountain Thyme From: Alice There are a number of threads about this song. Here is a good one, with links in it to others.Lyr Add: SFTD - Braes o' Balquither - 11/19 Alice |
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16 Oct 00 - 01:48 AM (#319586) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Wild Mountain Thyme From: Lonesome EJ Joerg's tablature works better for me. |
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25 May 09 - 05:56 PM (#2640778) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Wild Mountain Thyme From: GUEST,Dan Well, the (D) summer (G) time (D) is comin (D7) And the (G) trees are (A) sweetly (D) bloomin (D7) And the (G) wild (F#m) mountain (Bm) thyme Grows (G) around the (Em) bloomin (G) heather Will ye (D) go, (G) lassie, (D) go Fingerpick this and it sounds beautiful. |
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25 May 09 - 06:51 PM (#2640810) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Wild Mountain Thyme From: Nick Dan That's how I've always played it but I know many who just do it to three chords. Usually you find the singers throw the chord substitutions in as they harmonise. |
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25 May 09 - 09:39 PM (#2640903) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Wild Mountain Thyme From: GUEST,Uncle Jaque When our Daughter was married aboard the Katahdin in the middle of beautiful Moosehead Lake in Greenville, Maine - where they had both spent a lot of time in the course of their work as Wildlife Biologists - It was my privilege to pipe her down the isle - or more properly the deck - to "Wild Mountain Thyme" on my tin whistle. Some time ago a kind 'Catter explained to me the mysterious computer code incantations requisite for posting a picture in here, but can't seem to find the formula at the moment... so give this a try: CLICK HERE For most of her childhood, and to this day, I fondly refer to our Daughter as "The Wylde One" - and for good reason. Now she and her little 2 1/2 year old Daughter, who shows every indication of being just as precocious, spontanious and "Wylde" as her Mom, bay at the full moon together when it rises on a clear night. -------------Link fixed. Mudelf--------- |
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28 Jan 11 - 03:11 AM (#3083841) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Wild Mountain Thyme From: sandinmyears TRY THESE CHORDS: [D]Oh, the summer [G] time is [D] coming, And the [G] trees are sweetly [f#m] blooming, And the [G] wild [f#m] mountain [bm] thyme Grows a [G]round the blooming heather. Will you [D] go, [G] lassie, [D] go? And we'll [G] all go to [f#m] gether To pluck [G] wild [f#m] mountain [bm] thyme All a[G]round the blooming heather. Will you [D] go, [G] lassie, [D] go? |
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28 Jan 11 - 07:09 PM (#3084371) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Wild Mountain Thyme From: nager The F#m on "Blooming" and "Together" sounds great... I have always used this chord it and the Bm as shown on "Mountain" and "Thyme" but the extra two you have used are really icing on the cake. Thanks very much, will definitely play it like that now. |
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19 Feb 11 - 10:07 PM (#3098829) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Wild Mountain Thyme From: GUEST You're welcome. I play by ear and tend to catch those deeper chords beyond I, IV, and V ;) |
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19 Feb 11 - 10:17 PM (#3098836) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Wild Mountain Thyme From: sandinmyears Oops. I forgot to log in. That was my post just up above. |
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19 Feb 11 - 10:42 PM (#3098846) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Wild Mountain Thyme From: andrew e Could have a few E minors in there too. Go Lassie Go! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcN3Inbykx4 |
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19 Feb 11 - 11:06 PM (#3098856) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Wild Mountain Thyme From: sandinmyears I could also hear: MOUNTAIN as an A7. THYME as a bm And just after THYME as a bm (add c) or something like that. I would finger it like this (* = Bar the fret) _ _ _ _ _ _ _ |_|*|_|_|_|_|_ |_|*|x|_|_|_|_ |_|*|_|_|x|_|_ |_|*|_|x|_|_|_ |_|*|_|_|_|_|_ |_|*|_|_|_|_|_ OR CHEAT LIKE THIS: _ _ _ _ _ _ _ |_|x|_|_|_|_|_ |_|_|x|_|_|_|_ |_|_|_|_|x|_|_ |_|_|_|x|_|_|_ o_|_|_|_|_|_|_ o_|_|_|_|_|_|_ Basically, I'd be sliding my pink up the neck one fret. |
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19 Feb 11 - 11:13 PM (#3098859) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Wild Mountain Thyme From: sandinmyears @ Andrew -- Ya. I could hear an Em on "WILD" and possibly on TIME (i.e. summer[em]time), "a[em]round" (going to "G" on Heather) and on LEAVES. |
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19 Feb 11 - 11:38 PM (#3098865) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Wild Mountain Thyme From: sandinmyears Or even MOUNTAIN as an A (or A7) and THYME as a D and then a D7. Hmmmm. A simpleton's version anyway. ;) |
