Recordings & Info 7E. Will Ye Gang/ Rashy Muir
Rashy Muir, The
DESCRIPTION: The singer recalls making love in the hills one night and helping his sweetheart to dress. When they got to town "I saw another did my love attend". "Wid ye forsake a' yere former vows An break the heart o a lover true?" She would, maybe for money.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: before 1894 (Murison collection, according to Lyle, _Fairies and Folk_)
KEYWORDS: courting infidelity sex promise floatingverses
FOUND IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Greig #118, p. 2, "The Rashie Moor" (1 text); Greig #121, p. 2, "The Rashie Moor" (1 text plus 1 fragment)
GreigDuncan6 1215, "The Rashy Muir" (4 texts, 3 tunes)
Roud #6261
ALTERNATE TITLES:
O Will Ye Gang, Love, and Leave Me Noo?
Will Ye Gang, Love
NOTES: GreigDuncan6: "Noted by George F. Duncan from mother's singing in 1875."
The most common floating verse in the GreigDuncan6 texts is "I lent my back against an oak I thought it was a trusty tree But first it bowed an then it break And so has my false love to me." - BS
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File: GrD61215
My love he stands in yon chaumer door
Combing doob his yellow hair
His curly locks I like to see
I wonder if my love minds on me.
cho: Will ye gang, love, and leave me noo
Will ye gang, love, and leave me noo
Will ye forsake your own true love
And gang wi' a lass that ye never knew?
I wish, I wish, I wish in vain
I wish I were a maid again,
But a maid again I'll never be
Till an apple grows on an orange tree.
I wish, I wish my babe was born
I wish it sat on's daddy's knee
And I myself were deid and gone
And the wavin' grass all o'er me growin'.
As lang as my apron did bide doon
He followed me frae toon tae toon
But noo it's up and above my knee
My lovce gaes by but kens nae me.
Make my grave baith lang and deep
Put a bunch of roses at my head and feet
And in the middle put a turtle dove
Let the people know I died of love.
note: Not only is the sentiment universal, so, apparently,
are the words. RG
Frm Soodlums 100 Great Scottish Songs