#bonnie lass of fyvie

[scotianostra]

The folk singer-songwriter and playwright Ewan MacColl was born on January 25th at Salford, England.

Now and again I post about Anglo-Scots, those born over the border in the home of our closest neighbours England, McColl is a man who was proud of his Scottish heritage, there is no doubt, but there is no doubt he took much from his upbringing in Salford, most evident in the song about the city Dirty old Town.

Ewan was born as James Henry Miller to William Miller and Betsy (née Henry). William, an iron moulder and trade unionist, had to leave Scotland after being blacklisted at every foundry in Scotland, one of them being the Carron Ironworks at Falkirk, that crops up in my posts now and then.

Ewan left school in 1930 after an elementary education, during the Great Depression and, joining the ranks of the unemployed, began a lifelong programme of self-education whilst keeping warm in Manchester Central Library. During this period he found intermittent work in a number of jobs and also made money as a street singer.

In 1932 the British intelligence service, MI5, opened a file on MacColl, after local police asserted that he was "a communist with very extreme views" who needed "special attention” For a time the Special Branch kept a watch on the Manchester home that he shared with his first wife, Joan Littlewood. MI5 caused some of MacColl's songs to be rejected by the BBC, and prevented the employment of Littlewood as a BBC children's programme presenter.

Inspired by the example of Alan Lomax, who had arrived in Britain and Ireland in 1950, and had done extensive fieldwork there, MacColl also began to collect and perform traditional ballads. Some of you might remember my post Come All Ye Tramps And Hawkers from the Lomax archive a few weeks ago, he was a folklorist, archivist, writer, scholar, political activist, oral historian, and film-maker.

More well known by most as a singer, MacColl was also an actor, writer and playwright To put him into some sort of importance George Bernard Shaw said of him in 1947, “Apart from myself, MacColl is the only man of genius writing for the theatre in Britain today., fine praise indeed.

MacColl recorded a huge volume of traditional Scottish and English folk songs, as well as creating a vast body of his own work, which ranged from satirical protest songs to tender love ballads, the latter most popularly renowned in his composition, The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, written for his wife, Peggy Seeger (another folk singer), but made most famous by Roberta Flack. His songs have been sung by the likes of the Dubliners, Dick Gaughan, The Clancy Brothers, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, David Gray and The Pogues.

Back to my favourite song by Ewan MacColl, Dirty Old Town, it’s not about Dublin, as many believe but Salford, because the Dubliners made it famous I think that’s where the confusion comes from.

Ewan must have been very proud of his daughter the late Kirsty MacColl, who followed on from her dad as a singer songwriter.

In 1979 he suffered the first of many heart attacks. The next ten years saw a steady deterioration in his physical condition, but he continued to work, tour, lecture and write songs. In 1980 he wrote his last play, The Shipmaster, the moving story of a sailing ship captain who cannot adapt to the coming of steam. In 1987 he began to write his autobiography, Journeyman. In the same year the University of Exeter presented him with an honorary degree. On October 22nd 1989, he died of complications following a heart operation. The University of Salford awarded him a posthumous honorary degree in 1991.

I’ve chosen The Bonnie Lass of Fyvie today as it is the first song I learnt and sang while still at primary school, probably aged about 10 year old.

If you want to know more about the man, his music and lots more check out the web page dedicated to Ewan here http://www.ewanmaccoll.co.uk/ewan-maccoll-biography/

[heartstopperlarrie]

can u give me some songs recs? literally anything i just want to upgrade my music taste

Hi anon!!

Oooo this is a very open question, I’ll try to keep it fairly short! So apart from 1D (as a band and individually) I personally also really like 5SOS, Little Mix, The 1975, Ed Sheeran, all of the heartstopper soundtrack and a few random songs here and there. I’ll give you some personal faves from each?

5SOS

Voodoo Doll, Teeth, BLENDER, Lover of Mine, Permanent Vacation, Safety Pin, Lie to Me

Little Mix

Salute, I won’t, Power, Told You So, Wasabi, No, Kiss My (Uh Oh)

The 1975

(I prefer their earlier music personally) Robbers, Chocolate, Girls, Love Me, UGH!, She’s American

Ed Sheeran

Drunk, Take It Back, Galway Girl, Nancy Mulligan, South Of The Border (feat. Camila Cabello & Cardi B), Boat, Colourblind, American Town

Heartstopper Soundtrack

Dover Beach (Baby Queen), Buzzkill (Baby Queen), Retrospect (Vistas) , Shatter (Maggie Rogers), ur so pretty (Wasia Project), Moment In The Sun (Sunflower Bean), Nobody Really Cares (Baby Queen)

Random Songs

Princess Dress (Tom King), Mother (Meghan Trainor), Honey I’m Good (Andy Grammer), Personal (HRVY), Pretty Boys (Caity Baser), If Is What It Is (Jenna Raine), Waffle House (Jonas Brothers), Strong Enough (Jonas Brothers), Unhealthy (Anne Marie ft Shania Twain)

I also love pretty much EVERYTHING from NATI. She’s a Scottish singer, still fairly new. If you have TikTok I HIGHLY RECOMMEND checking out her stuff, especially her traditional Scottish covers (you’ll need to scroll down her page a bit but I promise you it’s worth it!!) like Lads Among Heather, Bonnie Lass Of Fyvie, Bonnie Wee Jeannie McColl, The Drunken Scotsman

So much for keeping it short 😂 anyway THANKS FOR THE ASK ANON I HOPE THIS HELPS!!

[macvicarpipetunes]

Complete repertoire of tunes for the bagpipe

all tunes are Scottish unless otherwise stated

In case of doubt, ask for tunes with a connection to your clan or area

An average tune has a duration of +\- 40 seconds, so make sure you pick plenty or ask about the standards for weddings

A

Abide With Me -

Ae Fond Kiss - Burns

All the Fine Young Men - Irish

All those Endearing Young Charms - Irish

Amazing Grace

An Dro - Breton

Andy Renwick’s Ferret

St.Anne's Ballad & Reel

Arrival Song - Abba

Ash Grove - Welsh

the Ass in the Graveyard

Atholl Highlanders ( Clan Murray )

At Long Last

Auld Lang Syne – Burns

Auld Town March

B

the Back o' Ben Achie

Banjo Breakdown

Bannocks of Barley Meal

Barbara's Jig

the Barlinnie Highlander

the Barnyards of Delgaty

the Barren Rocks of Aden

the Battle of the Somme

the Battle of Waterloo

the Bells of Dunblane

Belmont

Ben Gullion

the Black Bear

the Blackthorn Stick - Irish

the Black Widow's Dance - Irish

the Bluebells of Scotland

the Bloody Fields of Flanders

(All the) Blue Bonnets o'er the Border

Bonnie Dundee

Bonnie Gallowa'

the Bonnie Hoose o' Airlie

the Bonnie Lass o' Fyvie

Boys of Bluehill - Irish

(the Standard on) the Braes of Mar

Braveheart theme - film theme

Brenda Stubbert's Reel

Brian Boru's March - Irish

the Bride's Jig

the British Grenadiers - English

Brose & Butter - Burns

the Brown Haired Maiden ( a.k.a. Horo, my Nut Brown Maiden )

Bugle Horn

Busindre reel - Spanish

C

Cabar Feidh ( Clan Gordon )

Caledonia

the Campbells are Coming ( Clan Campbell )

Campbelltown Loch ( a.k.a. the Glendaruel Highlanders )

Camptown Races - American

Carlingford Loch - Irish

the Castle Walls

Changing Your Demeanour - Irish

Chariots of Fire - film theme

Clueless

the Clumsy Lover - Irish

Cock o' the North ( Clan Gordon )

Cogadh no Sidhe – the True Gathering of the Clans / War or Peace - Pibroch

Come by the Hills - Irish

Comin' thru the Rye ( a.k.a. gin a Body meet a Body ) – Burns

the Conundrum

Cork Hill - Irish

Corn Riggs ( -are Bonnie ) – Burns

Corriechoillie's Welcome

The Crags of Tumbledown

Crossing the Minch

Cwm Rhondda ( a.k.a. Guide me Oh Thou Great Jehovah ) -Welsh

D

Dana ( et les trois Matelots ) - Breton

Dancing Feet

the Dashing White Sergeant

the Day ( Thou Gavest, Lord ) has Ended

Death of a Space Piper

De'il Among the Tailors

Donald Blue

Donald Where's Yer Troosers

Donald Willie and his Dog

The Dornoch Links

Dream Angus

the Dream Valley of Glendaruel

Drops of Brandy

Drowsy Maggie - Irish

Drunken Piper / Red Rory

( What shall we do with a ) Drunken Sailor - English

Dulaman - Irish

Dumbarton's Drum

Duncan Gray ( Rob Roy MacGregor )

Duns Dings A'

E

Earl of Mansfield

El Alamein

Emerald Echoes - Irish

En Ferus Hostis

Erchless (Chisholm's) Castle

Erin Shore ( a.k.a. Paddy's Green Shamrock Shores ) - Irish

an Eriskay Love Lilt

F

the Fairy Dance

My Faithful Fair One

the Famous Bridge

Fanfare Salute Alba

Far Away in Australia – Irish

Fare Thee Well

Farewell to the Creeks ( a.k.a The Hills of Sicily )

Lá Fhéile Pádraig - Irish

the Fields of Athenry - Irish

the 51st Highland Division

Finnegan’s Wake

500 Miles (I’m Gonna Be)

Flower of Scotland

the Flowers of the Forest ( lament )

the Foggy Dew - Irish

For Ireland I'll Tell not her Name - Irish

the 42nd ( Black Watch )

Friendship

G

Galway Girl - Irish

The Garb of Auld Gaul

Garryowen - Irish

Ghillie Calum (Sword Dance)

Gin I were a Baron's Heir

Ms. Girdle

the Girl I Left Behind

Glasgow Police Pipers

Going Home ( Largo )

the Gordon's March ( Clan Gordon )

Grand March ( Aida ) - Italian

Grannie Duncan

Gravel Walk

the Green Glens of Antrim - Irish

Greensleeves - English

Greenwoodside

Grimstock - English

the Gruagach

H

Happy We've been A' Tegither

Harris Dance

The Harvest Home - Irish

Haste Ye to the Wedding

Here's a Health unto His Majesty - English

Hearken my Love

Hector the Hero

Heights of Dargai

the Herding Song

the Heroes of Vittoria

Heyken's Serenade

Hielan' Laddie

The Highland Brigade ( at Tel el Kebir )

Highland Cathedral

Highland Cradle Song

Highland Lassie

Highland Wedding

Highland Whisky

High Road to Gairloch (a.k.a. We will take the Good Old Way)

High Road to Linton

HLI Hornpipe

Hot Punch

I

I'll Tell me Ma - Irish

I Love a Lassie

the Irishman’s Heart to the Ladies - Irish

the Irish Pub - Irish

the Irish Washerwoman - Irish

I See Mull (, Land of my Youth )

the Isle of Skye (Three Bonnie Maidens)

Itchy Fingers

J

Jennie's Bawbee / Put the Kettle on

Jig of Slurs - Irish

Jimmy Allan's Fancy

John Anderson, my Jo - Burns

John Barleycorn - English

Johnnie Cope

John Ryan's Polka - Irish

the Jolly Beggar

the Jolly Beggarman - Irish

K

the Keel Row

Kelsey's Wee Reel

Kennie Gillies (of Portnalong, Skye)

Kenmuir is Up and Awa (, Wullie) - Burns

the Kesh Jig - Irish

Killiecrankie - Burns

the Kilt is my Delight

the Kilworth Hills

King George V's Army

the Kitchen Maid

L

Lady Carmichael's Strathspey

Lady Ramsey's Strathspey

(Dae Ye Mind / Lang ) Lang Syne (John Peel)

the Last Cradle song

the Last of the Mohicans ( the Gael ) - film theme

Laugh and Half Daft - Irish

Leaving Port Askaig

Leezy Lindsay - Burns

Let's Have a Ceilidh ( a.k.a. Liberton Boys’ Pipe Band / Polka )

Lexie MacAskill

Lillibullero - English

Limerick's Lamentation - Irish pibroch

Little Drummer Boy

Lochaber no More ( lament )

Lochanside

Loch Lomond

it's Lonely at Night in the Bothy

Lord Lovat's Lament ( Clan Fraser )

Lord of the Dance - Irish

Loudon's Bonnie Woods and Braes

M

Maggy - Irish

Mairi's Wedding

MacCrimmon Will Never Return ( Cha till MacCruimeinn ) - pibroch

MacDonald's Awa' Tae the War

Ms. MacLeod of Raasey

MacPherson's Rant

A Man's a Man for A' That - Burns

Marching Though the Heather

March of the Cameron Men ( Clan Cameron )

March to the Battle (Los San Patricios) - Irish

the Mason's Apron - Irish

Mingulay Boat Song

the Minstrel Boy - Irish

Mist Covered Mountains

Mo Ghile Mear - Irish

Molly Malone ( a.k.a. In Dublin’s Fair City ) - Irish

Morning Has Broken

Moving Cloud

the Muckin' of Geordie's Byre

Mull of Kintyre

The Munro's Wedding

My Ain Fireside

My Home

My Love is But a Lassie Yet – Burns

My love is like a Red Red Rose - Burns

N

Nairn

Nick MacVicar's Reel

The Noose and the Ghillie

The Northern Lights of Old Aberdeen

O

Orange and Blue

Oft in the Stilly Night

Oh, Danny Boy

Oh, Mairi

the Old Rustic Bridge ( - by the Mill )

Oro se do Bheatha Bhaile - Irish

O'Sullivans March ( Rob Roy Theme ) - Irish

Our Wedding Day ( a.k.a. She Moved Through the Fair ) - Irish pibroch

Over the Hills (and Far Away) - English

P

Pack Your Baggage

Paddy McGinty's Goat - Irish

Paddy's Leather Breeches - Irish

the Panda

Perfect Day

Pibroch of Donald Dubh ( Clan Cameron )

The Piper's Cave (Ms. Ainslie Grant Duff)

Piper's Prelude

the Piper's Waltz – Irish

the Point of War

The Price of a Pig

The Pride of Petravore - Irish

Q

Queen Elizabeth's March

The Queen Of All Argyll

Queen Victoria's Jubilee

R

Rab's Wedding

Raglan Road - Irish

Rantin' Rovin' Robin - Burns

Rip the Calico

the Road to Dundee

the Road to the Isles / Bens of Jura

Rose among the Heather

the Rose of Allandale

the Rose of Kelvingrove

the Rowan Tree

the Royal Irish Polka - Irish

the Royal Scot Polka

S

Saint Andrew's Cross

Salute to the Royal Fendersmith

Scarborough Fair - Irish

Scarce of Tatties - Irish

Scotch on the Rocks

Scotland Forever

Scotland the Brave

Scots Wha Hae ( a.k.a. Hey Tutti Tatti )

Scottish Soldier

the 79th's Farewell to Gibraltar

Skye Boat Song

the Sick Note - Irish

Sleep Dearie Sleep

the Sleeping Tune

Snug in the Blanket

Soft Lowland Tongue

Soldier's Joy

The Soldier's Return

Some Say the Devil's Dead - Irish

the Spanish Lady

Speed the Plough - Irish

the Star of the County Down - Irish

Stars and Stripes Forever - American

Staten Island

Steal Away - Irish

the Steamboat

Step it out Mary - Irish

Stolen Kiss – Irish

Stop Yer Ticklin’ Jock

Streets of London - English

Suil a Ruin - Irish

Sunshine on Leith

Suo Gan - Welsh

Sword Dance (Ghillie Calum)

T

Tail Toddle

Tartan Army ( a.k.a. We'll Be Coming )

Teribus Ye Terioden

Theme for the Greenlands

There were Roses - Irish

These are my Mountains

Tommy Tully's Air

Toots and Hickory Edwards

Troy’s Wedding

Turkey in the Straw - American

the Twa Corbies

U

Up and Waur Them A'

Up in the morning Early

V

the Victory Polkas

W

Waltzing Matilda - Australia

the Water is Wide

the Wearing of the Green ( a.k.a. By the Rising of the Moon / Sae Wull We Yet ) - Irish

the Wee Cooper o'Fife

the Wee Highland Glen

Wee Highland Laddie

the Wee Spree - pibroch

We're no Awa' tae Bide Awa'

Westering Home

When the Battle's Over ( a.k.a. After the Battle )

Whiskey in the Jar - Irish

Wild Mountain Side - Burns

Wild Mountain Thyme

the Wild Rover - Irish

Will Ye No Come Back Again

Willie Allan's Fancy

Willie Stewart - Burns

Wings - RAF march

With a Hundred Pipers

Wooden Heart

Y

Yankee Doodle - American

Ye Banks and Braes – Burns

Yellow Rose of Texas - American

Ye Jacobites by Name - Burns

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[vesseloftherevolution]

There are many songs which say this a little more politely! The Scottish song The Bonnie Lass of Fyvie is a good example of a lass turning down a soldier.

More often, sailors get the girl instead, and the soldiers are humiliated. The first that comes to mind is Rolling Sea (Eliza Carthy Version) , and Blue's Gone Oot o' t' Fashion (Unthanks version).

Tonight's adventures in the 18th century British slang dictionary: apparently the correct response to a soldier propositioning you is "I will not make a lobster kettle of my cunt." In case you were wondering

[timehascomeagain]

It was early last morning when we marched away the captain said he was sorry oh well the drums they did beat like the ground beneath our feet and the band played the bonnie lass of fyvie if never i return pretty peggy if never i return pretty peggy when i see the morning dew oh i will think of you my bonnie lass of fyvie

[ayeforscotland]

Tune of the day

[szappan]

Green grow the berks on bonnie Ythanside And low lie the lowlands of Fyvie-o Poor captain's name was Ned, and he died for a maid He died for the chambermaid of Fyvie-o

[tallmadgeandtea]

I actually love folk songs where the guy dies of a broken heart like. Yes queen! You don’t owe him shit! Don’t marry him! Let him die!

[superspeare]

AYO @ the flamboyant 5 (i love you guys) do you get along with macduff or macbeth?

"Thanks for the love! Hm... I don't have much beef with Macduff. I've got ties somewhere to Lady Duff, so we're basically family. Beth occasionally gets in the way of some of the more--ahem--devious things we try to get up to, but that's just his job as captain, I guess." - Ross

"Macbeth may not seem like the most upright person, but he has the capacity for good. He's saved my life before, and I'd gladly return the favour. Macduff is and has always been my friend. We've known each other since our first month in Duncan's army." - Angus

"Much love your way as well! Let's see... Macduff is an absolutely outstanding guy. I love babysitting his kids--the wee things are so cute! Macbeth's a bit harsh as captain, though I suppose that's to be expected. He can joke when he wants to, though." - Lennox

"Now this is an interesting question... Macduff, with all due respect, has no idea how to have fun. I show up with fine wine and a flute and suddenly it's 'No, Menteith, you'll wake the baby! Think of the neighbours! Tomorrow's Easter, why are you doing all this now?' Macbeth is pretty easy to joke with when he's not giving orders to the soldiers." - Menteith

"Macbeth and I have been through a lot of different battles and troubling times together. I look up to him. Macduff has a kind of 'stern, caring father' air about him that demands respect, and it's a respect that I freely give him." - Caithness

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In Want of a Wife Songs

Okay, so this includes my IWOAW, Yvonne, Bonnie, and Penny playlists. Underneath, I’m just going to write which songs align with which volume so you can listen along. Feel free to listen if you want! It’s just here in case anyone’s interested.

This post covers volumes 1-4. Other songs and volumes will be released when the chapters are 😊

General Listening (no specific timeline)

From IWOAW:

Country Life

The Game of Cards

The Bonnie Lass of Fyvie

Scarborough Fair

Doodle Let Me Go

Blooming Heather

Gentleman Jack Live

From Yvonne:

Butch

From Bonnie:

Mary Magdalene

From Penny:

Here’s To Never Growing Up

Banjololo 

Liv Tyler

Better in Color

Vincent

Never One Thing

Comet

Penny & Me

Vol.1

From IWOAW:

I’ve Just Seen A Face (Undoubtedly Winsome)

Leatherwing Bat

From Yvonne:

This Is The Day

As A Man

Girls

Liability

Haunted House

Career Boy

From Bonnie: 

River (though it’s no longer on there rip Joni Mitchell)

Love You For A Long Time

From Penny:

Wildflowers

Don’t Go

Don’t Rain On My Parade

Under the Table

When Will My Life Begin?

Change

Vol.2

From IWOAW: 

She’s Always A Woman

I Know A Place

I’ve Been Waiting For You

O Waly, Waly (Romanze)

From Bonnie: 

Just Friends

I’m Every Woman

Your Song (Romanze- can also apply to other musical scenes)

Vol.3

From IWOAW:

I Could Write A Book

Stuck in the Middle with You

From Yvonne:

Soft Bitch

Vienna

Landslide (Castle In The Sky)

I Think I Love You (for Y’s realisation)

From Bonnie:

Save the Last Dance for Me (The Last Dance)

From Penny:

Rich Girl (from her convo with Greg and continuing her political arc)

Vol.4

From IWOAW:

The Name of the Game

Let No Man Steal Your Thyme (for the marriage storyline and for the business storyline)

Enjoy The Silence (Obstinate)

I’ve Got You Under My Skin

Waiting For A Girl Like You

Where You Lead

From Yvonne:

Say It

Come Here and Leave Me Alone

Boyfriend

Can I Say Baby

So Afraid

Everything Matters (The Divine Within Us)

Here She Comes

Lay All Your Love On Me 

Too Late To Turn Back Now

From Bonnie:

Ora

I’ll Never Want a BF

What’s It Gonna Be?

These Days

Too Much

In My Room

Shut Up Kiss Me

Devotion (Obstinate)

Easy To Love

It’s Okay To Cry

From Penny:

Capacity (A Stark Comparison)

Eighteen (Maisie Mine)

[scotianostra]

Singer Jean Redpath was born in Edinburgh on 28th April 1937.

Revered as a Scottish musical treasure for her knowledge, understanding and research into traditional music, and her uniquely sensitive interpretations of some of the great ballads, she made more than 50 records, including seven LPs of Robbie Burns’s songs, and was an authority on traditional song, LP’s are what we used to call albums by the way, meaning log players!

In the early Sixties she shared an apartment with Bob Dylan at the epicentre of the American folk revival in Greenwich Village.

Jean Redpath disliked the term “folk singer”, insisting: “I avoid it like the plague. In fact, I avoid putting a label on anything. I just like to sing – it’s an easier form of communication to me than talking.”

She had no formal training and said the best advice she ever received was when she sought the help of a singing coach, to be told that if she wanted to improve, the best thing she could do was go away and sing for 20 years the way she was doing already.

Jean spent a decade as a lecturer in Scottish folk song at Stirling University, as well as performing in venues across the including U.S. and to Canada, and played venues in South America, Hong Kong, and Australia’s Sydney Opera House, she also performed often at the Edinburgh Folk Festival. In 1996 she launched the Burns International Festival, and in 2011 was appointed artist-in-residence at the University of Edinburgh’s Department of Celtic and Scottish Studies.

In 2014 Jean was diagnosed with cancer and died later that year in a hospice in Tucson, Arizona.

I love singers like Jean that kept Scottish song alive, I also the singers that can sing with no musical accompaniment, here Jean does this with Highland Harry’s back again, a song made famous by Robert Burns, who said of it he picked up the chorus of the song — ‘My Harry was a gallant gay’ — 'from an old woman in *Dumblane; the rest of the song is mine’. The song, like many of the ones Jean sang has Jacobite theme, listen to the musical warm in Jeans voice, it’s beautiful……….

I make  no apologies for posting my favourite song by Jean,  The Bonnie Lass O Fyvie  was the very first Scottish folk song I learned to sing, I think I was about 10 or 11 and it was at a concert at primary school, I have been a dan of the song ever since.

 There once was a troop o' Irish dragoons Cam marching doon through Fyvie-o And the captain's fa'en in love wi' a very bonnie lass And her name it was ca'd pretty Peggy-o There's many a bonnie lass in the Howe o Auchterless There's many a bonnie lass in the Garioch There's many a bonnie Jean in the streets of Aiberdeen But the floower o' them aw lies in Fyvie-o O come doon the stairs, Pretty Peggy, my dear Come doon the stairs, Pretty Peggy-o Come doon the stairs, comb back your yellow hair Bid a last farewell to your mammy-o The colonel he cried, mount, boys, mount, boys, mount The captain, he cried, tarry-o O tarry yet a while, just another day or twa Til I see if the bonnie lass will marry-o Twas in the early morning, when we marched awa And O but the captain he was sorry-o The drums they did beat o'er the bonnie braes o' Gight And the band played the bonnie lass of Fyvie-o Long ere we came to the Howe of Auchterless We had our captain to carry-o And long ere we won into the streets of Aberdeen We had our captain to bury-o Green grow the birks on bonnie Ythanside And low lie the lowlands of Fyvie-o The captain's name was Ned and he died for a maid He died for the bonnie lass of Fyvie-o I never did intend a soldier's lady for to be A soldier shall never enjoy me-o I never did intend to gae tae a foreign land And I never will marry a soldier-o It's braw, aye it's braw, a captain's lady for to be And it's braw to be a captain's lady-o It's braw to ride around and to follow the camp And to ride when your captain he is ready-o

[macvicarpipetunes]

Repertoire of Burns tunes for the bagpipe

A

Ae Fond Kiss

A Man’s a Man ( For A’ That )

Auld Lang Syne

Bonnie Gallowa'

the Bonnie Hoose o' Airlie

the Bonnie Lass o' Fyvie

Brose & Butter - 9/8

C

Comin' thru the Rye ( a.k.a. gin a Body meet a Body )

Corn Riggs ( -are Bonnie )

D

Duncan Gray (Rob Roy)

G

Green Grow the Rashes, O

J

John Anderson, my Jo

John Barleycorn

Johnnie Cope

K

Kenmure’s on and Awa, Willie

Killiecrankie

L

Leezy Lindsay - Burns

M

A Man's a Man for A' That -

My Love is But a Lassie Yet – Burns

My love is like a Red Red Rose - Burns

R

Rantin' Rovin' Robin - Burns

S

Scots Wha Hae ( a.k.a. Hey Tutti Tatti, Robert Bruce’s March to Bannockburn )

W

Welcome Willie Stewart

Y

Ye Banks and Braes of Bonie Doon

Ye Jacobites by Name

[electraheart2012]

the national doing a version of the bonnie lass of fyvie is such a weird and niche intersection of my interests but ill take what i can get

[newusernamepending]

I love “The Bonny Lass of Fyvie” but I hate when people try too hard to make it sad. She is absolutely right to reject him.

[garudabluffs]

Fennario (Folk Song Cover)_Nina Ricci

"Fennario" is a version of “The “Bonnie Lass o’ Fyvie” which originated in Scotland but has since made it’s way to America and been covered and adapted by many musicians such as Simon and Garfunkel, the Grateful Dead, Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Jerry Garcia, and the list goes on. The song’s story continues to envelop today’s listeners in the mysterious love story of Pretty Peggy-O and Sweet William. The version I fell for is from a live recording sung by Joan Baez called Joan Baez in Concert, Part 2. Recounting the story according to the version I sing, soldiers were marching down to “Fennario.” Standing by watching the soldiers pass is Pretty Peggy-O and perhaps her mother. A relationship takes shape after Peggy-O’s mother measures Captain Sweet William by the gold standard and he measures up. She’ll have a carriage and true love, how could there be a happier match? But the time comes for Sweet William to leave and Peggy-O must run downstairs to bid him fare thee well unknowing that it is the last time ever she will see his face alive. There is an announcement of the death of Sweet William and the ominous narrator warns that if ever he returns to the...  more lyrics As we marched down to Fennario, As we marched down to Fennario, Our captain fell in love with a lady like a dove They call her by name pretty Peggy-o. What will your mother think pretty Peggy-o? What will your mother think pretty Peggy-o? What will your mother think when she hears the guineas clink, The soldiers all marchin' before you-o? In a carriage you will ride, pretty Peggy-o. In a carriage you will ride, pretty Peggy-o. In a carriage you will ride with your true love by your side, As fair as any maiden in the are-o. Come runnin' down your stairs, pretty Peggy-o. Come runnin' down your stairs, pretty Peggy-o. Come runnin' down your stairs combin' back your yellow hair, And bid farewell to sweet William-o. Sweet William is dead, pretty Peggy-o. Sweet William is dead, pretty Peggy-o. Sweet William is dead, and he died for a maid, The fairest maid in the are-o. If ever I return, pretty Peggy-o. If ever I return, pretty Peggy-o. If ever I return all your cities I will burn, Destroying all the ladies in the are-o. Destroying all the ladies in the are-o.

credits from Anthologies Sung: Roots for the Record, track released November 1, 2016 Voice and guitar: Nina Ricci Guitar: Eddie de Pool