Re: Ye Banks and Braes


"MacP" <micheil@xxxxxxx> wrote in message news:43b55241.4634353@xxxxxxx
> On Sat, 31 Dec 2005 01:27:33 +1300, "Adam Whyte-Settlar"
> <grawillers@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >
> > "Ye Banks and Braes" (aka "The Banks o' Doon" -- Ye banks and
> >> braes o' bonnie Doon/How can ye bloom sae fresh and fair).
> >
> >Golly - how can you bear to stop there?
> >
> >
> >"Ye banks and braes o' bonnie Doon,
> >How can ye bloom sae fresh and fair?
> >How can ye chant ye little birds,
> >And I sae weary, fu' o' care?
> >
> >Ye'll break my heart, ye warbling birds,
> >That wanton through the flow'ry thorn,
> >Ye 'mind me o' departed joys,
> >Departed never to return."
> >
> >
> >That's a better place to stop.
> >Gets rid of those last two verses where he totally lost the plot but
leaves
> >the 'shagging song-thrush' scene that everyone can identify with.
> >
> >A W-S
> >
> >
> I hadn't realized how sensitive a soul you are. I thought your life
> was all hot dogs, shouting abuse at farmers and shagging their
> faithless wives...

I can still spring a surprise now and again then?
That is one of my favourite Burns songs.
I even knew that one as a young *nglish brat and pestered my parents to take
me to see 'bonnie Doon' on one of our frequent Scottish 'tours'.
This they duly did as it happens.
It *is* awfy bonnie round those parts.

A W-S


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