Roy’s wife - Short, George

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◈ Genre / Form → Folksongs ♬ Besetzung → SATB ¶ Sprache → Lowland Scots

Stimmen 4

Instrumente A cappella

Seiten 12

CPDL Nr. 77933

Bearbeiter David Anderson

Veröffentlicht 2023-12-07

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Roy’s wife of Aldivalloch, Roy’s wife of Aldivalloch, Wat ye how she cheated me, As I cam’ o’er the braes of Balloch? She vow’d, she swore she wad be mine; She said she lo’ed me best o’ onie; But ah! the fickle, faithless quean, She’s ta’en the carle, and left her Johnnie! O, she was a cantie quean, Weel could she dance the Highland walloch, How happy I, had she been mine, Or I been Roy of Aldivalloch. Her hair sae fair, her een sae clear, Her wee bit mou’ sae sweet and bonnie; To me she ever will be dear, Though she’s for ever left her Johnnie. Elizabeth Grant of Carron (1745-1814), near Elchies, on the river Spey. [Sometimes erroneously ascribed to Mrs. Grant of Laggan.] In a letter dated 1793, Burns wrote that he had original words for Roy’s Wife by “the lady who composed it.”

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