To Thread - Forum Home

The Mudcat Café TM
https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=84191
10 messages

Lyr Req: Lay Ye Doon, Love (from Old Blind Dogs)

30 Aug 05 - 04:35 PM (#1552972)
Subject: Lyr Req: I will lay you down
From: Michael

The only reference to this song I can find is via Google on an Old Blind Dogs site www.geocities.com/celticlyricscorner/ oldblinddogs/talltails.htm
Does anybody know any any other versions and anything about the song?

Mike


30 Aug 05 - 04:37 PM (#1552977)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I will lay you down
From: Michael

Tried to make a blue clickly, doesn't seem to have worked, sorry.

Mike


30 Aug 05 - 04:48 PM (#1552985)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I will lay you down
From: GUEST

It's in the Digitrad, and here:-


I'LL LAY YE DOON, LOVE

   O I'll lay ye doon, love, I'll treat ye decent
   I'll lay ye doon, love, I'll fill your can
   O I'll lay ye doon, love, I'll treat ye decent
   For surely he is an honest man

As I walked oot on a summer evenin'
Doon by the water and the pleasant strand
And as I was walkin, I heard them talkin'
Sayin', Surely he is an honest man

O I'll lay ye doon, love, I'll treat ye decent
   I'll lay ye doon, love, I'll fill your can
   O I'll lay ye doon, love, I'll treat ye decent
   For surely he is an honest man

I hae traveled far frae Inverney
Aye, and doon as far as Edinburgh toon
And it's I maun gae, love, and travel further
But when I come back, I will lay ye doon

O I'll lay ye doon, love, I'll treat ye decent
   I'll lay ye doon, love, I'll fill your can
   O I'll lay ye doon, love, I'll treat ye decent
   For surely he is an honest man

I maun leave ye noo, love, but I'll return
Tae ye my love and I'll tak' your hand,
Then no more I'll roam frae ye my love
Nae mair tae walk on a foreign strand.

O I'll lay ye doon, love, I'll treat ye decent
   I'll lay ye doon, love, I'll fill your can
   O I'll lay ye doon, love, I'll treat ye decent
   For surely he is an honest man


30 Aug 05 - 04:48 PM (#1552986)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I will lay you down
From: The Borchester Echo

It's in the DT here

The version I know best is from an early 1960s Topic LP The Hale & The Hanged by the Exiles (Enoch Kent, Gordon McCulloch, Bobby Campbell and Tim Lyons).


30 Aug 05 - 04:57 PM (#1552992)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I will lay you down
From: ranger1

It's on Castlebay's first album (titled "Castlebay"), with Fred Gosbee doing the vocals. I think they may have been with Outer Green back then.


30 Aug 05 - 06:12 PM (#1553052)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I will lay you down
From: Michael

Thanks Guest & countess, I searched for 'Lay YOU down' and got no result.


30 Aug 05 - 06:56 PM (#1553070)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I will lay you down
From: Susanne (skw)

I've got a recording by Alex Campbell, on the double album 'Live and Studio' (1976).


30 Aug 05 - 09:05 PM (#1553164)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I will lay you down
From: Malcolm Douglas

See past threads for more information. A search for solid man would prove rewarding. OBD rarely bother to provide information about the songs they record, so we have to do it here instead.


20 Apr 15 - 07:05 PM (#3703259)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lay Ye Doon, Love (from Old Blind Dogs)
From: GUEST

Jeannie Robertson sung this on a Vanguard anthology of folk music


21 Apr 15 - 04:42 PM (#3703434)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lay Ye Doon, Love (from Old Blind Dogs)
From: GUEST

now we're getting to the real source!