Mommie Ca's Me Annie- Alex Robb (Aber) c. 1929 Carpenter
[From James Madison Carpenter Collection MS, JMC/1/10/11, Cylinder 012, 08:58. Bizarre is the title "My mommie calls me Annie" which is named after a stanza that is missing!! I've added an approximation of the stanza in brackets.
The version begins with standard Wulkrife Mammy text but then goes into the "Maid and Soldier"revision but is missing the ending.
R. Matteson 2018]
Mommie Ca's Me Annie- sung by Alex "Sandy" Robb, New Deer, Aberdeenshire Scotland (Carpenter Collection 1929-1935). Robb (1863- 1940) was a school caretake at New Deer who got many of his songs while a boy in farm service from his employer.
As I went ower yon high, high hill,
I met a bonny lassie
She looked to me and I to her
And Oh bit she was sassy.
CHORUS: Wi' my turrin innal, ah reedle-ah,
Folde deril- aido.
Fare ye gang my bonny lassie,
Fare ye gang my honey
Right modestly she answered me
A yerrin [errand] to my mommie.
[Fat is yer name, my bonnie, lass,
Fat is yer name my honey,
Right modestly she answered me
My mommie ca's me Annie.]
Fare di ye bide my bonny lass
Fare di ye bide my honey,
Right modestly she answered me,
In a wee hoose wi' my mommie.
I will come to yourn windi,
When the moon is shinin' clearly,
And ee will rise and lat me in,
Your mommie will na hear me.
He did come to her windi,
When the moon was shinin' clearly,
And she did rise and lat him in,
And her mommie did na hear him.