Honeymoon Bridge
Honeymoon Bridge
The first verse describes Glen Croe during a deep frost and temperature inversion.
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Songs, ballads and tunes, with notes by Donald WG Lindsay: traditional Scots songs, original writing, and the places and people behind the recordings.
Honeymoon Bridge
Drunk at Night, Dry in the Morning
Found in Gow’s Third Repository of 1806, Drunk at Night, Dry in the Morning belongs to a tune-family that also appears in Irish sources and under other titles, including Whistle and I’ll Come to You, My Lad and Since Love is the Plan.
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Sir Patrick Spens
Like many of the core ballads in my repertoire, I first encountered Sir Patrick Spens through the University of Glasgow’s Traditional to Digital project in 1999.
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A Port
I learned this Scots lute tune from Rob MacKillop, with whom I studied guitar for a time.
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Two Boats Under the Moon
Two Boats Village by night, and a counterbalance to the sun-soaked scenes of Casuarina.
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Casuarina
This song is titled for the casuarina tree, also known as the whistling tree, after the distinctive shushing or whispering sound made by its pines when even a light breeze blows through them.
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Lord Randal ↗
Learned from the singing of John Eaglesham through the Traditional to Digital project.
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