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"Geordie" is an English language folk song concerning the trial of the eponymous hero whose lover pleads for his life. [1] [2] It is listed as Child ballad 209 and Number 90 in the Roud Folk Song Index.
Versions of the song exist in Ireland, Scotland and at times England, and several variants of the lyrics exist. The song variously describes the young man's conscription, the woman's grief at his death and her refusal to adorn herself or marry again, and sometimes a verse where the woman's mother advises her to find a new partner, or an account ...
"Barbara Allen" (Child 84, Roud 54) is a traditional folk song that is popular throughout the English-speaking world and beyond. It tells of how the eponymous character denies a dying man's love, then dies of grief soon after his untimely death.
"Annie Laurie" is an old Scottish song based on a poem said to have been written by William Douglas (1672 - c1760 [1]) of Dumfriesshire, about his romance with Annie Laurie (1682–1764). The words were modified and the tune was added by Alicia Scott in 1834/5. The song is also known as "Maxwelton Braes".
Porcelain image of John Barleycorn, c .1761. The first song to personify Barley was called Allan-a-Maut ('Alan of the malt'), a Scottish song written prior to 1568; [3]. Allan is also the subject of "Quhy Sowld Nocht Allane Honorit Be", a fifteenth or sixteenth century Scots poem included in the Bannatyne Manuscript of 1568 and 17th century English broadsides.
The tune and lyrics are featured in the 1969 film The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. The tune is used in the soundtrack for the 1973 folk horror film The Wicker Man. In McAuslan in the Rough, George MacDonald Fraser writes whimsically of being woken by the song while serving as a young subaltern in the Gordon Highlanders. [4]
There are many renditions of this song: Here are the lyrics to another version, with mother instead of father in the chorus: Chorus Mary Mack's mother's making Mary Mack marry me, My mother's making me marry Mary Mack. I'm gonna marry Mary so my Mary will take care O' me, We'll all be feeling merry when I marry Mary Mack.
Caledonia is a modern Scottish folk ballad written by Dougie MacLean in 1977. [1] The chorus of the song features the lyric "Caledonia, you're calling me, and now I'm going home", [2] the term "Caledonia" itself being a Latin word for Scotland. "Caledonia" has been covered by various artists, and is often dubbed Scotland's "unofficial national ...