Jun 10, 2020
Season 16 Episode 12 Show 359
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SONGS
The Campbells Haste To The Wedding performed by Oakley the Faerie from the album First Sapling
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Eriskay Love Lilt performed by Brian Tinker Leo from the album A Bottle O' The Best - Three Centuries Of Scottish Folksongs
Black Is the Color performed by Jesse Linder from the album Crescent Moon
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Went Sailing (Pirate Love Song) performed by Pirates Inc from the album Fools Gold
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Bogie's Bonnie Belle performed by Coeur De Lion from the album Coeur De Lion
So Ben Mi Ch'a Bon Tempo performed by Consort of SomeSorte from the album Danse
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Toast to Love and Marriage performed by Empty Hats from the album Greatest Hats
Tartan Is The Color Of My True Love's Hair performed by Barleyjuice from the album Six Yanks
Pride Of Ireland performed by Celtic Shores from the album Weathering The Storm
Mary Stewart Queen Of Scotts performed by Celtic Shores from the album Weathering The Storm
Mary Mack performed by Queen Ann's Lace from the album Unlaced
Lover's Wreck performed by Cheeks and Phoenix from the album Any Requests
I Still Remember performed by Blackmore's Night from the album Fires At Midnight
Mist-Covered Mountains performed by Crimson Pirates from the album Your Day In The Barrel
Love Has Shown The Way performed by Terry Griffith from the album Musings
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Married to a Mermaid performed by Dregs from the album Do It Like You're Drunk
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LYRICS
Haste to the Wedding/Rural Felicity
Come haste to the wedding ye friends and ye neighbours
The lovers their bliss can no longer delay.
Forget all your sorrows your cares and your labors,
And let every heart beat with rapture today.
Come, come one and all, attend to my call,
And revel in pleasures that never can cloy.
Come see rural felicity,
Which love and innocence ever enjoy.
Let Envy, Let Pride, Let Hate & Ambition,
Still Crowd to, & beat at the breast of the Great,
To Such Wretched Passions we Give no admission,
But Leave them alone to the wise ones of State.
We Boast of No wealth, but Contentment & Health,
In mirth & in Friendship, our moments employ
Come see rural felicity,
Which love and innocence ever enjoy.
With Reason we taste of Each Heart Stirring pleasure,
With Reason we Drink of the full flowing Bowl,
Are Jocund & Gay, But 'tis all within measure,
For fatal excess will enslave the free Soul,
Then Come at our bidding to this Happy wedding,
No Care Shall obtrude here, our Bliss to annoy,
Come see rural felicity,
Which love and innocence ever enjoy.
Eriskay Love Lilt performed by Brian Tinker Leo from the album A Bottle O' The Best - Three Centuries Of Scottish Folksongs
An Eriskay Love Lilt
Nana Mouskouri
Bheir mi oh a ro van oh;bheir mi oh a ro van e.
Bheir mi oh a ro ho! Sad am I without thee.
When I'm lonely dear white heart;Black the night or wild the sea,
By love's light my foot finds the old path way to thee.
Bheir mi oh a ro van oh;bheir mi oh a ro van e.
Bheir mi oh a ro ho! Sad am I without thee.
Thou art music of my heart;Harp of joy oh cush ma cree
Moon of guidance by night;light the pathway to thee.
Bheir mi oh a ro van oh;bheir mi oh a ro van e.
Bheir mi oh a ro ho! Sad am I without thee.
Black Is the Color performed by Jesse Linder from the album Crescent Moon
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"Author: adapted by John Jacob Niles
Copyright: G. Schinner Music Inc.
Black is the color
of my true love's hair
her lips are like
some roses fair
she's the sweetest smile
and the gentlest hands
and I love the ground
where on she stands
I love my love
and well she knows
I love the ground
where on she goes
if she on earth no more I'll see
My life will quickly fade away
I'll go to the Clyde
and I'll mourne and weep
for satisfied
I'll never be
I'll write her a letter
just a few short lines
and suffer death a 1000 times
Winter's past and the leaves are green
the time has passed that we have seen
but still I hope the time will come
when she and I will be as one
(Not the same version as Christy Moore sings)
The Christy Moore Version
Black is the Colour
Black is the color
of my true love's hair
her lips are like
some roses fair
she's the sweetest smile
and the gentlest hands
and I love the ground
where on she stands
I love my love
and well she knows
I love the ground
where on she goes
I wish the day
It soon would come
When she and I
Could be as one
I go to the Clyde
And I mourne and weep
For satisfied I ne'er can be
I write her a letter
just a few short lines
and suffer death
a thousand times"
Bogie's Bonnie Belle performed by Coeur De Lion from the album Coeur De Lion
"Bogie's Bonnie Belle
As I came down to Huntly town, a-searching for a fee
I met with Bogie o' Cairnie and with him I did agree.
To work his two best horses, barrow, cart or plow
Or any kind of good farmwork he knew well that I could do.
He had a lovely daughter, and her name was Isabel,
She was the lily of the valley and the primrose of the dell.
And when she'd go out walking she'd take me for her guide;
Down by the banks of Cairnie we watched those small fish glide.
And when three short months had gone and passed, this lassie lost her bloom.
And the red fell from her rosy cheeks, and her eyes began to swoon.
And when nine long months had gone and passed, she bore to me a son,
And swiftly I was sent for to see what could be done.
I said that I would marry her, but och, that would not dee,
Saying, “You're no match for Isabelle, and she's no match for thee.”
So I took my own son all in my arms, may he bring to me much joy,
And may he mean as much to me as the girl that I adore.
And now she's married to a tinker lad and he comes from Huntly town,
Mending pots and pans and paraffin lamps and he scours the country 'round.
Maybe she's got have a better match, old Bogie can't tell,
Fare ye well, you lads o' Huntly side and Bogie's Bonnie Belle."
So Ben Mi Ch'a Bon Tempo performed by Consort of SomeSorte from the album Danse
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"So ben mi ch'a bon tempo,
Al so ma basta moSo ben ch'e favorito,
Ahimé no'l posso dir,O s'io potessi dire,
Chi va, chi sta, chi vien.La ti darà martello
Per farti disperarSo ben mi ch'a bon tempo,
Al so ma basta mo"
Toast to Love and Marriage performed by Empty Hats from the album Greatest Hats
"Toast to Love and Marrage
When I was just a lad, me mum said ""Darlin' Paddy
So's you won't be sad someday you'll want to marry
It's time we had this chat on how to find a wife for you
Old, young, skinny, or fat, the best to make a life for you
Just seek a girl with charms, like Venus but with arms
To keep your bed all warm and happily married will you be
It's how I caught your dad, me beauty drove him mad
And now you see he's had these many years of marital bliss and harmony.""
Raise your glasses high and toast to love and marriage
We'll never understand 'til they slide our coffins from the carriage
Whack-fe-lol-da-rah
But then I turned fourteen, me pa said, ""Darlin' Paddy
I'll teach you the routine to find the girl to marry
You'll have the benefit of all me experience
In a relationship of lasting joy and permanence
Just marry an ugly girl, the oyster not the pearl
The ugliest in the world, 'cause a bonny lass could leave ya
I'm telling you now, me son, it's the reason I married your mum
So do as I have done, if an ugly girl, she leaves you
You'll find you don't really mind.""
Raise your glasses high and toast to love and marriage
We'll never understand 'til they slide our coffins from the carriage
Whack-fe-lol-da-rah
So's I've grown up a bit confused, love was such a bother
Courted pretty girls, and some that looked like me mother
So Mom and dear old Dad, the words to me you've spoken
I feel that I've been had, me heart is always broken
When I thought Id found true love, and I'm thanking God above
Push it came to shove and I'm back out on me bum again
I'm telling you lads it's true, no longer will I woo
Me heart is black and blue, I'll leave this game of love to you
I'm going off to become a priest!
Raise your glasses high and toast to love and marriage
We'll never understand 'til they slide our coffins from the carriage
Raise your glasses high and toast to love and marriage
We'll never understand 'til they slide our coffins from the carriage
Whack-fe-lol-da-rah"
Tartan Is The Color Of My True Love's Hair performed by Barleyjuice from the album Six Yanks
"Tartan is the Colour Of My True Love's Hair
(Mark Mulholland / IMRO; Kyf Brewer / Brewerds&Music / ASCAP)
Well when I was just a young lad, my life about to start
There was ever only one girl had a place inside my heart
We walked the glen, we climbed the Ben, the forest was our bed,
And many a morn I'd wake to find me kilt across her head
And I been up and I been down and I been here and I been there
Never saw a bonny lassie quite as comely or as fair
You can talk of pretty maidens and I don't bloody care
Cause tartan is the colour of my true love's hair
We walked the bonnie highlands, no matter what the weather
And we'd shag each other senseless in the bonnie purple heather
ŒTil one day we were frolicking and as my true love laughed,
She fell into the workings of an old disused mineshaft
And I been up and I been down and I been here and I been there
Never saw a bonny lassie quite as comely or as fair
You can talk of pretty maidens and I don't bloody care
Cause tartan is the colour of my true love's hair
Well I never have recovered from that sad, sad, sorry day
So I left my native land for the shores of Amerikay
And many a man has made remark about me ancient dress
But I wear it in remembrance of the girl it e'er first kissed
And I been up and I been down and I been here and I been there
Never saw a bonny lassie quite as comely or as fair
You can talk of pretty maidens and I don't bloody care
Cause tartan is the colour of my true love's hair"
Mary Mack performed by Queen Ann's Lace from the album Unlaced
"Mary Mack
There's a little girl and her name is Mary Mack
Make no mistake, she's the girl I'm gonna track
There's a lot of other fellas who would get up on her track
But I'm thinking that they'll have to get up early
CHORUS
Mary Mack's father's makin' Mary Mack marry me
My father's makin' me marry Mary Mack
And I'm goin' to marry Mary for my Mary
to take care of me
Well all be making merry when I marry Mary Mack
There a little lass and she has a lot of brass
has a lot of gas and her father thinks I'm gas
And I'd be a silly ass for to let the matter pass
Her father thinks she suits me fairly CHORUS
Mary and her mother do an awful lot together
In fact you hardly ever see the one without the other
Lot of people wonder whether if its Mary or her mother
Or both of them together that I'm courting CHORUS
Now the weddin's on Wednesday and everything's arranged
Soon her name wil change to mine, unless her mind is changed
And makin' the arrangements is makin' me deranged
marriage is an awful undertaking CHORUS
It's sure to be a grand affair and grander than a fair
There's gonna be a coach and pair for every pair that's there
We'll dine upon the finest fare, I'm sure to get my share
If I don't I'll be very much mistaken CHORUS"
Lover's Wreck performed by Cheeks and Phoenix from the album Any Requests
"""Lover's_Wreck
A hundred days at sea, A retch away from misery
Rummies and rats and tarry jacks my only family (break)
The island of salvation Is still a scream a way
As the lungs of the night Blow out the light my heart kneels Down to pray
(strait into chorus)
Lord why did you take her She meant so much to me
Now I’m a wretched soul on a privateer Drowning out at sea
I’m killing and I’m drinking My blue heart to black
But I swear oh lord I’ll never sin again If you bring her back
Gypsy was a siren, Dripping with desire
Her moonless hair and skin so fair as warm as frozen fire
She had the loyalty of a cat, behind those pale green eyes
Through her cherry lips, the devil slipped, a thousand lies
A clan of rogues and vagabonds, occupied her head
That thieving band took her pale white hand and stole her from my bed
And like a ghost ship in the night, She drifted out once more
To land upon the sand of another lover’s shore
Lord why did you take her She meant so much to me
Now I’m a wretched soul on a privateer Drowning out at sea
I’m killing and I’m drinking My blue heart to black
But I swear oh lord I’ll never sin again If you bring her back
In my sleeping mind she sings a sad and lonely lullaby
When I wake there’s just the ache it will haunt me till I die
When those winds of vanity no longer blow her west
I pray they’ll guide her home (across the foam) and put my heart to rest
Press gang filled this Man-o-War To make the black mouthed cannon roar
Now all my trade is ball and blade, and blood forever more
And the sting of salt and spray, the ocean’s howl and squall
A stumbling wreck, I roam the deck, at the devil’s beck and call
At the devil’s beck and call
Lord why did you take her She meant so much to me
Now I’m a wretched soul on a privateer Drowning out at sea
I’m killing and I’m drinking My blue heart to black
But I swear oh lord I’ll never sin again If you bring her back
I swear oh lord I’ll never sin again If you bring her back"""
I Still Remember performed by Blackmore's Night from the album Fires At Midnight
"I thought of you the other day
How worlds of change led us astray
Colors seem to fade to gray
In the wake of yesterday
You looked into my eyes
You had me hypnotized and
I can still remember you
I had a dream of you and I
A thousand stars lit up the sky
I touched your hand and you were gone
But memories of you live on
You looked into my eyes
You had me hypnotized and
I can still remember you
Those moments spent together
Promising forever and
I can still remember you
Do you ever think of me
And get lost in the memory
When you do, I hope you smile
And hold that memory a while
You looked into my eyes
You had me hypnotized and
I can still remember you
Those moments spent together
Promising forever and
I can still remember you
Still remember you
Still remember you
Still remember you
Still remember you
Still remember you
Still remember you
Still remember you
Still remember you
Still remember you
Still remember you"
Mist-Covered Mountains performed by Crimson Pirates from the album Your Day In The Barrel
"O chì, chì mi na mòr-bheanna
O chì, chì mi na còrr-bheanna
O chì, chì mi na coireachan
Chì mi na sgoran fo cheò
Hail to the mountains with summits of blue,
To the glens with their meadows of sunshine and dew.
To the women and men ever constant and true,
Ever ready to welcome one home.
Oh ro soon shall I see them;
Oh he ro see them oh see them.
Oh ro soon shall I see them the
Mist covered mountains of home.
There shall I gaze on the mountains again,
On the fields and the woods and the burns and the glens,
Away 'mong the corries beyond human ken
In the haunts of the deer I will roam
Oh ro soon shall I see them;
Oh he ro see them oh see them.
Oh ro soon shall I see them the
Mist covered mountains of home.
There shall I visit the place of my birth
And they'll give me a welcome the warmest on earth
All so loving and kind full of music and mirth,
In the sweet sounding language of home.
O chì, chì mi na mòr-bheanna
O chì, chì mi na còrr-bheanna
O chì, chì mi na coireachan
Chì mi na sgoran fo cheò
Oh ro soon shall I see them;
Oh he ro see them oh see them.
Oh ro soon shall I see them the
Mist covered mountains of home.
Married to a Mermaid performed by Dregs from the album Do It Like You're Drunk
"Married_to_a_Mermaid
There was a gay young farmer,
Who liv'd on Salisbury plain;
He lov'd a rich Knight's daughter dear!
And she lov'd him again.
The Knight he was distressed,
That they should sweethearts be.
So he had the farmer soon pressed,
And sent him off to sea.
Singing Rule Britannia,
Britannia rules the waves
Britons never, never, never shall be slaves...
'Twas on the deep Atlantic,
Midst Equinoctial gales;
This young farmer fell overboard
Among the sharks and whales;
He disappeared so quickly,
So headlong down went he,
That he went out of sight
Like a streak of light
To the bottom of the deep blue sea.
Singing Rule Britannia,
Britannia rules the waves
Britons never, never, never shall be slaves...
We lowered a boat to find him,
We thought to see his corse,
When up to the top he came with a bang,
And sang in a voice so hoarse,
'My comrades and my messmates,
Oh, do not weep for me,
For I'm married to a mermaid,
Atthe bottom of the deep blue sea.'
Singing Rule Britannia,
Britannia rules the waves
Britons never, never, never shall be slaves...
He said that as he went down,
Great fishes he did see;
They seemed to think as he did wink,
That he was rather free.
But down he went so quickly,
Saying, ""Tis all up with me, '
When he met a lovely mermaid
Atthe bottom of the deep blue sea.
Singing Rule Britannia,
Britannia rules the waves
Britons never, never, never shall be slaves...
She came at once unto him,
And gave him her white hand,
Saying, 'I have waited long, my dear,
To welcome you to land.
Go to your ship and tell them,
You'll leave them all for me;
For you're married to a mermaid
At the bottom of the deep blue sea.'
Singing Rule Britannia,
Britannia rules the waves
Britons never, never, never shall be slaves...
The wind was fair, the sails set,
The ship was running free;
When we all went to the captain bold,
And told what we did see.
He went unto the ship's side,
And loudly bellowed he,
'Be happy as you can, my man,
At the bottom of the deep blue sea.'
Singing Rule Britannia,
Britannia rules the waves
Britons never, never, never shall be slaves..."