Tuesday 8 October 2013

Wild Mountain Thyme

By Master Hector of the Black Height

(Traditional, revised for Bernadette of RamsHaven)

Oh the summertime is come and the trees are sweetly blooming
And the wild mountain thyme grows around the blooming heather.
Will you go, lassie, go? And we’ll all go together
To pluck wild mountain thyme from around the blooming heather.
Will you go, lassie, go?

I will build my love a bower by yon cool, crystal fountain
And upon it will I pile all the flowers of the mountain.
Will you go, lassie, go?...

Bernadette is gone away in a glen so dark and dreary
So I’ll come back with my spoils to the bower of my dearie.
Will you go, lassie, go?...

And as we’ve lost our love we shall not find such another
Though the wild mountain thyme grows around the blooming heather.
Will you go, lassie, go? And we’ll all go together
To pluck wild mountain thyme from around the blooming heather.
Will you go, lassie, go?

(copyright Arthur McLean 1991-2000)

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