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26 Jan 99 - 07:21 PM (#55810) Subject: Lyrics/Tune for Burn's Song From: dulcimer Heard the Burns' song I'm All Done for the Love of Johnny on the Thistle Sunday, but can't find source for words or midi. Any help? |
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27 Jan 99 - 12:55 AM (#55869) Subject: RE: Lyrics/Tune for Burn's Song From: Margo Here is a Robert Burns site where you can find some of his poetry. I hope this might help. If nothing else, it's interesting. |
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28 Jan 99 - 02:53 AM (#56038) Subject: Lyr Add: I'M A' DOON FOR LACK O' JOHNNIE From: Murray on Saltspring It's not by Burns. I'M A' DOON FOR LACK O' JOHNNIE In G. F. Graham, Wood's Songs of Scotland (1850), II.136 (+ music). [First publication of words and music; communicated by Finlay Dun as known and sung in the North of Scotland. GFG has no doubt both are modern.] Tune used in some sources, e.g. John Greig's Scots Minstrelsie for Burns' "What will I do gin my Hoggie die?" ; also Jean Redpath's "Auld Kilpatrick Hills". The most well-known use of the tune is in the slow movement of Max Bruch's Scottish Fantasy. Words as per GFG: I'm a' doun, doun, doun, I'm doun for lack o' Johnnie; I'm a' doun, doun, doun, I'm doun for lack o' Johnnie. Gin Johnnie kent I was na weel, I'm sure he would come to me; But oh! gin he's forsaken me, Och hone! what will come o' me! [Repeat 1-4.] I sit upon an auld feal-sunk, I spin and greet for Johnnie; But gin he's gien me the begunk, Och hone! what will come o' me! Gloss: feal-sunk = a seat made of turf; to gie the begunk = to deceive. |