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19 Nov 98 - 09:00 AM (#46096) Subject: Wild mountain thyme/blooming heather? From: mike.mcgrath@virgin.net hi Would anyone have the ABC music and words to ( I think the correct name is) Wild mountain thyme. The chorus has 'will you go lassie go in it' and it's difficult to get the correct name. Is it - 'go lassie go', or 'blooming heather' etc. Thanks Mike |
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19 Nov 98 - 09:25 AM (#46099) Subject: RE: Wild mountain thyme From: Dale Rose For the words, that is simple enough. Just go to the blue Search The DigiTrad Database box which always appears in the upper right hand corner of the screen. Enter [wild mountain thyme], hit search, and there you have it. The brackets are important. They restrict your search to just that phrase. |
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19 Nov 98 - 09:36 AM (#46102) Subject: Lyr Add: WILL YE GO, LASSIE? From: Frank Howe This song has several names and sets of lyrics. Here it is as: WILL YE GO, LASSIE?
Oh, the summer time is comin'
Will ye go, lassie, go?
I will build my love a bower Will ye go, lassie, go? ...
If my true love she were gone Will ye go, lassie, go? ...
Oh, the autumn-time is comin'
Will ye go, lassie, go? ... |
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20 Nov 98 - 10:20 PM (#46312) Subject: RE: Wild mountain thyme From: DonMeixner I like the verse below which I've only heard from the Corries.
I will range through the wild, Will yea go, lassie go. Don |
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20 Nov 98 - 10:55 PM (#46316) Subject: RE: Wild mountain thyme From: Bruce O. DonM's verse is the last half or the 2nd verse of Robert Tannahil's original. See thread Braes o' Balquidder, for all of it. |
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20 Nov 98 - 11:00 PM (#46317) Subject: RE: Wild mountain thyme From: Barry Finn Try the forum search, put in Wild Mountain Thyme & you'll come up with quite a few threads of this & under the names, Will Ye go Lassie Go & the Braes O' Balquidder. Barry |
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21 Nov 98 - 09:15 AM (#46347) Subject: RE: Wild mountain thyme From: DonMeixner Hello All, As I'm completelly unfamiliar with The Braes O' Balquider I must ask if it is the same melody as Wild Mountain Time. Don |
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21 Nov 98 - 05:00 PM (#46390) Subject: RE: Wild mountain thyme From: Liam's Brother No. Not the same tune but you can certainly hear a relationship.
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03 Dec 98 - 07:52 PM (#47883) Subject: RE: Wild mountain thyme From: Bruce O. There's an American sheet music copy, c 1820, of Tannahill's song on the University of North Carolina sheet music website, www.lib.unc.edu/music/eam.html. Click on 'View a list', then scroll down to 'Old Series #83'. It's in that, under 'Balquither'. |
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04 Dec 98 - 07:52 PM (#48036) Subject: RE: Wild mountain thyme From: Harry O Could someone clarify the position vis a vis the composer of "Will You Go, Lassie, Go ?" The Mc Peake Family of Belfast claim the song as their's having been composed by the old Grandfather Frank Mc Peake. Any thoughts out there ? |
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05 Dec 98 - 06:12 AM (#48082) Subject: RE: Wild mountain thyme From: Ewan McV As I recall from the time the song first became popular, 'Old Francie' himself claimed more to have remade it from an older song (The Braes of Balquidder, or some interim song?) than created it holus bolus. For intermediary songs, e.g in 1924 Sam Hendry collected The Flower of Glenleary, which uses the Balquidder tune and some vaguely familiar line construction. As for the family now making larger claims than the originator himself did - what's new? Families (nearly) always do that. |
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05 Dec 98 - 11:05 AM (#48122) Subject: RE: Wild mountain thyme From: Alice Bruce, thanks for that link. The 'Balquither' verses deserve to be sung more. I'm memorizing them now. Wild Mountain Thyme is beautiful as it is, but lyrics that have been rarely heard these days will be appreciated. |
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07 Dec 98 - 09:17 PM (#48489) Subject: RE: Wild mountain thyme From: Hielo Who are the Mc Peakes? The Wattersons and Chapins I have heard of but not these guys.Come back. |
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07 Dec 98 - 10:25 PM (#48496) Subject: RE: Wild mountain thyme From: Bill D I have sung 'Balquidder' off & on for several years....I sort of like the McPaeke tune...but the older version 'moves' me more... |
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08 Dec 98 - 01:30 AM (#48513) Subject: RE: Wild mountain thyme From: Liam's Brother Hi Hielo! To give you the short version... The McPeakes were a singing family from Belfast. They were popular in the 1960s. They played the Irish uilleann pipes and harp. |
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08 Dec 98 - 07:25 AM (#48541) Subject: RE: Wild mountain thyme From: Alan of Australia G'day, I've just downloaded a version of this from MP3 from an album called "Slainte". They seem to have made several tracks available for download. Get onto this - it's CD quality, I'm listening to it as I type, simultaneously downloading "The Star Of The County Down". Takes about half an hour to download a song.
Cheers, |
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08 Dec 98 - 08:09 PM (#48611) Subject: RE: Wild mountain thyme From: Bruce O. Several songs of the McPeakes, recorded in the 1950's and 60's, including "The Wild Mountain Thyme" were re-released on a CD: SAYDISC CD-SDL 411, in 1992.
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13 Jan 06 - 03:21 AM (#1647546) Subject: RE: Wild mountain thyme From: GUEST,G. Smith Is this commonly sung as a slow, moony love ballad? I'm of the mind that it's about a guy that, if his true love takes off, he'll just get another, so what the heck. I also believe that thyme is symbolic of virginity, so plucking wild mountain thyme seems rather randy to me. Am I totally off base? I've been accused of that by a bandmate. |
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13 Jan 06 - 04:17 AM (#1647558) Subject: RE: Wild mountain thyme From: woodsie Purple or blooming? that is the question! |
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18 Jan 06 - 10:26 PM (#1651332) Subject: RE: Wild mountain thyme From: GUEST,G. Smith Purple base, blooming bandmate (in an overripe sort of way). |
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18 Jan 06 - 10:37 PM (#1651338) Subject: RE: Wild mountain thyme From: GUEST,Rumncoke I have never mastered the dots for reading music, but this has led to some interesting juxstapositions over the years. I sing Braes of Baquidder to the tune of 'Will you come to the Bower' - try it - it fits perfectly well. I use Will you go lassie go to the Braes of Balquither as the chorus. It serves to wake up an audience. Anne |
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19 Jan 06 - 12:50 AM (#1651382) Subject: RE: Wild mountain thyme From: Seamus Kennedy Wild Mountain Parsley, Wild Mountain Sage, Wild Mountain Rosemary are the other three song in the quartet. Seamus |
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19 Jan 06 - 01:21 AM (#1651390) Subject: RE: Wild mountain thyme From: GUEST,Don Meixner Hi Seamus, Up late and no place to go? Don |
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19 Jan 06 - 01:25 AM (#1651392) Subject: RE: Wild mountain thyme From: Seamus Kennedy Just took a break from getting my income-tax shit together, Don. But you were close. Say Hi to the new Lowdwen owner for me. Seamus |