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Go get help, Lassie! Apr 25, 2020 12:03:21 GMT -5 Jim, seagullplayer, and 1 more like this

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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2020 12:03:21 GMT -5

Yes, once again I'm inflicting a song on you, this time the Scottish/Irish folk song alternately known as "Wild Mountain Thyme" or "Will Ye Go, Lassie, Go." No -- for the American audience, this is NOT referencing a TV show about a collie and his boy Timmy...

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Go get help, Lassie! Apr 25, 2020 13:24:34 GMT -5 aristophon likes this

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Post by Derick on Apr 25, 2020 13:24:34 GMT -5

@sleigh,

I was so impressed that I went to look for me kilt and sporran, but alas they could not be found.
Well played and sung as usual.

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Go get help, Lassie! Apr 25, 2020 15:38:31 GMT -5 Derick likes this

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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2020 15:38:31 GMT -5

I have English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, and German ancestry, so I'm a total mongrel. My Scottish family lines are Craig, McEwan, and Turnbull, while the Welsh is Lewis. All of those surnames have clan tartans in the Scottish Registry (though the registry turns up its nose at the "Lewis of Wales" tartan as not being a real tartan.) Maybe I should have a kilt made from one of those...

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Go get help, Lassie! Apr 26, 2020 17:26:18 GMT -5

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Post by aristophon on Apr 26, 2020 17:26:18 GMT -5

Apr 25, 2020 12:03:21 GMT -5 @sleigh said:

Yes, once again I'm inflicting a song on you, this time the Scottish/Irish folk song alternately known as "Wild Mountain Thyme" or "Will Ye Go, Lassie, Go." No -- for the American audience, this is NOT referencing a TV show about a collie and his boy Timmy...

Nice perfomance. I just don't understand the reference in the song to "heather" as I never saw anything but meadows on the TV show ...

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Go get help, Lassie! Apr 26, 2020 19:34:39 GMT -5 aristophon likes this

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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2020 19:34:39 GMT -5

"All around the blooming heather..." Heather is the composer's girlfriend, and 'blooming' is a British slang adjective that means attractively healthy and full of energy. So the wild mountain thyme is growing all around this healthy young woman, but the narrator in the last verse says if she's leaves him, he'll "surely find another." I suspect there's a lost verse that talks about "All around the blooming Sarah..."

And if you believe any of that...

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