The Wind Blew the Bonnie Lassie's Plaidie Awa
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Original Track ID
SA1952.34.B1 (B14)
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Summary
A fragment of the song 'The Wind Blew the Bonnie Lassie's Plaidie Awa':
There was a butcher wha lived in Crieff
And in come a bonnie lass tae buy some beef
But he took her in his airms and doon she did fa
O the wind's blown the bonnie lassie's plaidie awa.
The plaidie's awa, it's awa wi the wind
The wind's blown the bonnie lassie's plaidie awa
But he took her in his airms and doon she did fa
Sayin "I'll pey the plaidie that the wind blew awa."
Item Notes
1 verse and chorus of 4 lines; music transcribed in School of Scottish Studies.
Versions printed by Robert Ford and John Ord contain many more stanzas and tell a complete story. A friend of Robert Ford, a D. Kippen of Crieff, believed the song to have been written by an Irishman, known locally as 'Blind Rob', living in Crieff in the early nineteenth century.
See:
Greig-Duncan vol. 7, pp. 265-266, no. 1413
'Bothy Songs & Ballads' (J. Ord, 1930) pp. 96-97
'Singing Island' (E. MacColl & P. Seeger, 1960) p. 100
'Jeannie Robertson' (J. Porter & H. Gower, 1995) pp. 199-200
'Vagabond Songs & Ballads' vol. 1 (R. Ford, 1899) pp. 74-75
National Library of Scotland, Broadside Ballad collection, RB.m.143 (126)
'Till Doomsday in the Afternoon' (E. MacColl & P. Seeger, 1986) pp. 212-213
Murray Collection (Broadsides), Glasgow University Library, mu23-y4:029, mu23-y4:034
Language
Scots
Genre
Collection
Source Type
Reel to reel
Audio Quality
Good