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11 Apr 03 - 09:14 PM (#931518) Subject: Lyr Req: False, False Hae You From: GUEST,Kathy Kestner I know the lyrics to this. It appeared on the National Geographic album of Scot music that came out sometime in the '70's. I memorised it but I never found out the meaning of one of the verses. Oh, but I mean to climb, Up some higher tree To harrie{sic} a white snowflake's nest. Oh, and doon sall I fall Aye without any fear Tae the arms that love me the best. It is the line about harrying the white snowflakes nest that I don't understand the meaning of. |
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11 Apr 03 - 10:52 PM (#931548) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: False, False Hae You From: Mark Cohen Kathy, that's one of my favorite albums! I found it in the Hershey, PA public library in 1973 when I was a first year medical student. I still have the rather fuzzy cassette tape I made of it on my cheap recorder, and listen to it often. It was my first introduction to folk music of the British isles. I love "A Lum Hat Wantin' a Croon" -- I was tickled to learn, through the Mudcat, that it was written by a doctor! As far as that line, I believe that "harry" means the same thing as "harass" (the accent of which is properly on the first syllable), namely, to bother or disturb--as in "harried". I figured that "snowflake's nest" was either a poetic metaphor or referred to the local name for a kind of bird. Aloha, Mark |
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12 Apr 03 - 12:02 AM (#931574) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: False, False Hae You From: GUEST,leeneia Yes, to harry surely means to harass, because there's a hawk-like bird called the Northern Harrier. 2. What luck! My unabridged dictionary says that "snowflake" is another name for a snow bunting. Ta da! |
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27 Apr 03 - 06:18 AM (#941138) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: False, False Hae You From: Hrothgar Coincidence - just catching up here after being away for the National Folk Festival in Canberra - where I heard this song sung for the first time. |