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15 Oct 00 - 12:03 PM (#319238) Subject: Scottish Tragic Love Song From: GUEST,Claire.henaghen@stb.gov.uk I'm trying to track down the name and lyrics of a song I once heard somebody sing about 6 years ago. It's a tragic Scottish love song about a woman who is watching her only true love get married to someone else. I'm pretty sure the song is actually being sung at the wedding, although it is ages since I heard it. Does it ring any bells with any one? I have looked in the database but I don't really have much to go on. I'll recognise it as soon as I see it but I don't really know where to start looking!! Thanks Claire |
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15 Oct 00 - 12:13 PM (#319240) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Scottish Tragic Love Song From: Keith A of Hertford This sounds like a version of The False Bride except the gender is wrong. The refrain is "..gone to be wed to another" Does that sound right? |
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15 Oct 00 - 12:39 PM (#319254) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Scottish Tragic Love Song From: Keith A of Hertford Funny, I've always known it as False Bride. See "I Loved A Lad" on the DT |
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15 Oct 00 - 12:41 PM (#319257) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Scottish Tragic Love Song From: Malcolm Douglas As Keith says, that would be the song. There are a few versions in which the sexes are reversed as in Claire's question; there's at least one on the DT. I've put links to all the material available here in this thread: The False Bride Malcolm |
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15 Oct 00 - 08:43 PM (#319474) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Scottish Tragic Love Song From: Mary in Kentucky Hi Claire, if you enter flsebrd* in the blue Digitrad box, you'll get 13 entries. I believe Malcolm's linked-to thread above just leads to 9. This is one of my favorite songs...so when I posted an off topic comment about "salt sea" words in another thread, Susan of DT said it was indeed The False Bride and there was something about the numbering of that one in the DT that perhaps made it hard to find. Good luck. Mary |
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15 Oct 00 - 08:55 PM (#319482) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Scottish Tragic Love Song From: Malcolm Douglas You'll get 13 hits, right enough, but 4 of them are unrelated contemporary songs that just happen to be set to the best-known "Week Before Easter" tune. I did check them all at the time! Malcolm |
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15 Oct 00 - 08:56 PM (#319483) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Scottish Tragic Love Song From: Mary in Kentucky ...oops...I was just checking them too! Sorry 'bout that. |
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15 Oct 00 - 08:59 PM (#319486) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Scottish Tragic Love Song From: Malcolm Douglas No problem. It's one of my favourites, too. |
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16 Oct 00 - 07:56 AM (#319692) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Scottish Tragic Love Song From: GUEST,Claire.henaghen@stb.gov.uk Thanks for all your help!! The version I was looking for was I Loved a Lad. I've been looking for it for years and I'm so happy I found it. Now I just have to get round to singing it!! Claire |