{"id":192,"date":"2014-12-08T14:07:25","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T14:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.petercookie.com\/?p=192"},"modified":"2016-03-31T20:27:21","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T20:27:21","slug":"strathairly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sssa.llc.ed.ac.uk\/whalsay\/2014\/12\/08\/strathairly\/","title":{"rendered":"Strathairly"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mp3jWrap_0\" class=\"mjp-s-wrapper s-graphic unsel-mjp  sdl_right\" style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span id=\"playpause_wrap_mp3j_0\" class=\"wrap_inline_mp3j\" style=\"font-weight:700;\"><span class=\"gfxbutton_mp3j play-mjp\" id=\"playpause_mp3j_0\" style=\"font-size:18px;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span>&nbsp;<span class=\"group_wrap\"><span class=\"bars_mp3j\"><span class=\"loadB_mp3j\" id=\"load_mp3j_0\"><\/span><span class=\"posbarB_mp3j\" id=\"posbar_mp3j_0\"><\/span><\/span><span class=\"T_mp3j\" id=\"T_mp3j_0\" style=\"font-size:18px;\">71.213.11<\/span><span class=\"indi_mp3j\" style=\"font-size:12.6px;\" id=\"statusMI_0\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div><span class=\"s-nosolution\" id=\"mp3j_nosolution_0\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><script>\nMP3jPLAYLISTS.inline_0 = [\n\t{ name: \"71.213.11\", formats: [\"mp3\"], mp3: \"aHR0cDovL3d3dy5zc3NhLmxsYy5lZC5hYy51ay93aGFsc2F5YW5zL3dwLWNvbnRlbnQvdXBsb2Fkcy9zaXRlcy8yLzIwMTUvMDEvNzEuMjEzLjExLm1wMw==\", counterpart:\"\", artist: \"\", image: \"\", imgurl: \"\" }\n];\n<\/script>\n\n<script>MP3jPLAYERS[0] = { list: MP3jPLAYLISTS.inline_0, tr:0, type:'single', lstate:'', loop:false, play_txt:'&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;', pause_txt:'&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;', pp_title:'', autoplay:false, download:true, vol:100, height:'' };<\/script>\n<p><strong>Willie Williamson<em>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 [Coming Home]\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 SA1971.213.11<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The words for this sentimental and ultimately sad song were composed by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik (1826-1887), and can be found in <em>Sea and Shore \u2013 A Collection of Poems <\/em>edited by Charles Kingsley, (Boston 1874). Willie Williamson learned the song while in Singapore from a seaman working on a ship of the Blue Funnel Line. He learned it because he liked the tune so much and found the words &#8216;in some book&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Strathairly House, a listed building, lies just south-east of the village of Upper Largo with a good view out over the Largo Bay referred to in the song. It\u2019s possible that Dinah Mulock Craig visited Strathairly House for her husband was a Scot who became a became a partner in the MacMillan publishing firm.\u00a0 Roud no. 25901.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>The lift is high and blue.<\/em><br \/>\n<em> And the new moon glints through<\/em><br \/>\n<em> The bonnie corn-stooks o&#8217; Strathairly;<\/em><br \/>\n<em> My ship&#8217;s in Largo Bay,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> And I ken it weel, the way<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Up the steep, steep braes of Strathairly.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>When I sailed ower the sea,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> A laddie bold and free,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> As the dawn rose grey on Strathairly<\/em><br \/>\n<em> But when I come back again,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>&#8216;Tis\u00a0an old\u00a0man walks his way,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Up the steep, steep braes of Strathairly.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>Of the shearers that I see,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> No a\u2019 body kens me,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Though I ken them a&#8217; in Strathairly ;<\/em><br \/>\n<em> And the fisher-wife I pass,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Can she be the braw lass<\/em><br \/>\n<em> I kissed at the back of Strathairly?<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>0h, the land &#8216;s fine, fine!<\/em><br \/>\n<em> I could buy it a&#8217; for mine,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> My gold as the corn in Strathairly;<\/em><br \/>\n<em> But I fain that lad would be,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> That sailed o\u2019er the blue sea,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> As the dawn rose grey\u00a0on Strathairly.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sssa.llc.ed.ac.uk\/whalsay\/2014\/12\/08\/strathairly\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,33],"tags":[109,136],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-q-z","category-willie-williamson","tag-largo-bay","tag-sailor-life"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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