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29 Sep 03 - 10:03 PM (#1026475) Subject: Lyr Add: MY HIGHLAND LASSIE, O (Robert Burns) From: Q (Frank Staplin) Lyr. Add: MY HIGHLAND LASSIE, O Robert Burns Nae gentle dames, tho' e'er sae fair, Shall ever be my muse's care: Their titles a' are empty show; Gie me my Highland Lassie, O. Chorus: Within the glen sae bushy, O, Aboon the plain sae rashy, O, I set me down wi' right guid will, To sing my Highland lassie, O. O were yon hills and vallies mine Yon palace and yon gardens fine! The world then the love should know I bear my Highland lassie, O. But fickle fortune frowns on me, And I maun cross the raging sea! But while my crimson currents flow, I'll love my Highland lassie, O. Altho' thro' foreign climes I range, I know her heart will never change, For her bosom burns with honour's glow, My faithful Highland lassie, O. For her I'll dare the billows roar, For her I'll trace a distant shore, That Indian wealth may lustre throw Around my Highland lassie, O. She has my heart, she has my hand, By secret troth and honour's band! Till the mortal stroke shall lay me low, I'm thine, my Highland lassie, O. Farewell the glen sae bushy, O! Farewell the plain sae rashy, O! To other lands I now must go, To sing my Highland lassie, O. Tune- The Deuks dang o'er my daddy. Looking for lyrics about lassies, and this song by Robert Burns was the only one I found. Laddies by the bushel, but few lassies. The song is thought to be about the Scots who went to the West Indies. Speculation also about the attachment to Highland Mary. Five or so years ago, someone asked for a song about a Highland lassie from auld Aberdeen, but such has not been found. One of the Highland Laddie songs mentions a girl in Aberdeen, but no song about the lassie herself. |
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30 Sep 03 - 06:05 AM (#1026637) Subject: Tune Add: HIGHLAND LASSIE O From: masato sakurai Tune from James Kinsley's The Poems and Songs of Robert Burns, vol. I (Oxford, 1968, p. 252): X:1 T:HIGHLAND LASSIE O-- M:C L:1/8 N:McLauchlin's Scots Measure K:C "Slowish"(ED)|C3 E (DC) (DE)|G2 D2 D2 (ED)|C3 E (DC) (DE)| (GE) (DC)c3 d|(ed) (ce) (dcA) d|cA GE D3 E| C3/2D/E F (GAc) G|E2 C3/2D/ C2||(ed)|c2 f2 (efg) e| a2 (d3/2e/)d2 (ed)|c2 g2 (efg) a|(gf) (ed)c3 d|(edc) e dcA c|(A3/2G/)F E D3 E|(CDE) F GAc G|E2 C3/2D/ C2|] |
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30 Sep 03 - 09:31 AM (#1026646) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: MY HIGHLAND LASSIE, O From: GUEST,MMario Thank you both! |
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30 Sep 03 - 12:48 PM (#1026695) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: MY HIGHLAND LASSIE, O From: masato sakurai Notes to "Nae gentle dames, tho' ne'er sae fair" from James C. Dick, The Songs of Robert Burns (1903; Folklore Associates, 1962, pp. 61 & 372): Tune: McLauchlin's Scots-measure. Scots Musical Museum, 1788, No. 117. |
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30 Sep 03 - 04:12 PM (#1026760) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: MY HIGHLAND LASSIE, O From: Q (Frank Staplin) "The Deuks Dang O'er My Daddy O" is listed in Olson. SMM # 396. Glen, ESM p. 184 notes English title "The Buff Coat Has No Fellow." Scots Tunes Scroll down. Other notes. This may help a better man than me to find the tune. Deuks = ducks. |
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30 Sep 03 - 05:59 PM (#1026785) Subject: Tune Add: THE DEUKS DANG O'ER MY DADDIE From: Malcolm Douglas Well, this is the tune from SMM: X:1 T:The Deuks dang o'er my daddie B:Scots Musical Museum IV 1792 no.396 p.409 L:1/8 Q:1/4=100 M:6/8 K:C "Lively"(e/d/)|c2 G E D C|DE D B2 (A/B/)|c2 G E2 D| E C2 C2 e/d/|c2 G E D C|DE D B2 A/B/| c c G {F}E2 D|E C2 C2 G|cB c A B c|de c B A G| cB c de f|(ec) c c2 e|f e f A B c| d e c B3/2 A/ B|c c G E E D|(EC) C C2|] |
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30 Sep 03 - 07:11 PM (#1026825) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: MY HIGHLAND LASSIE, O From: masato sakurai "The Deuks Dang o'er My Daddie" from The Athole Collection is at JC's ABC tune finder. There's a sound clip from Auld Scottish Sangs, Scots songs collected by Robert Burns. |