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| Title: | Celt Notefile |
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| Moderator: | TALLIS::DARCY |
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| Created: | Wed Feb 19 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Tue Jun 03 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1632 |
| Total number of notes: | 20523 |
293.0. "Lord Ullin's Daughter" by WELSWS::MANNION (Ye Diggers all, stand up for Glory) Wed Nov 18 1987 08:10
Any one recognise/know anything about the following song/ballad?
From: MARVIN::KNOWLES "Bob Knowles - 830 3592 - REO2-G/L9" 6-NOV-1987 16:40
To: WELSWS::MANNION,KNOWLES
Subj: RE: Francis James Child
Lord Ullin's Daughter
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A chieftain to the Highlands bound
Cries 'Boatman do not tarry
And I'll give you [gie ye] a silver pound
To row us oe'r the ferry.'
`Now wha'd be ye to cross Loch Gyle [?sp}
This dark and stormy water?'
`Why I'm the Lord of Ulva's Isle
And this Lord Ullin's daughter.'
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And they were left lamenting
I came across this at primary school. Is it a ballad? I don't remember
it all, but it was distributed by a sententious moralist (so it might
be a literary contrivance or heavily bowdlerized). I've never known it
sung - so does Ewan McColl's exclusion clause rule it out?
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