3095. Twa Corbies (Child #26) Traditional Scottish – at Fawkner Park

Описание: I sang this song last Friday at a concert of songs from Scotland at South Yarra Senior Centre in Fawkner Park.

It is a nineteenth-century variation of a less cynical earlier song - "The Three Ravens". In this story the fallen knight is quickly deserted by his hawk, his hound and his woman, all of whom remained loyal in the three-bird version.

I learnt this song as a poem when I was at school. It has been recorded by Maddy Pryor, but I first heard it sung by Scottish singer, Jean Redpath, many years ago.

Glossary:

gang = go
fail = turf
dyke = ditch
wot = know
kens = knows
haus-bane = neck bone
e'en = eyes
theek = thatch

Lyrics and chords:
.... Em ................ (B7 Em)
As I was walking all alane
.................................. (B7 ....... Em)
I heard twa corbies making a mane:
............................... Am ... B7
The tane untae the tither say,
.......... Em
"Whar sall we gang and dine the day?"
......................................... B7 ...... Em
"Whar sall we gang and dine the day?"

"In behint yon auld fail dyke
I wot there lies a new-slain knight;
And naebody kens that he lies there
But his hawk, his hound, and his lady fair.

"His hound is to the hunting gane,
His hawk to fetch the wild-fowl hame,
His lady 's ta'en anither mate,
So we may mak our dinner sweet.

"Ye'll sit on his white hause-bane,
And I'll pike out his bonny blue e'en:
Wi' ae lock o' his gowden hair
We'll theek our nest when it grows bare.

"Mony a one for him maks mane,
But nane sall ken whar he is gane:
O'er his white banes, when they are bare,
The wind sall blaw for evermair."

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