{"id":202,"date":"2014-12-08T14:56:23","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T14:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.petercookie.com\/?p=202"},"modified":"2016-02-12T17:57:27","modified_gmt":"2016-02-12T17:57:27","slug":"kitty-from-the-coast-of-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sssa.llc.ed.ac.uk\/whalsay\/2014\/12\/08\/kitty-from-the-coast-of-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"Kitty from the coast of Spain"},"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;\">71.213.13<\/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: \"71.213.13\", formats: [\"mp3\"], mp3: \"aHR0cDovL3d3dy5zc3NhLmxsYy5lZC5hYy51ay93aGFsc2F5YW5zL3dwLWNvbnRlbnQvdXBsb2Fkcy9zaXRlcy8yLzIwMTUvMDEvNzEuMjEzLjEzLm1wMw==\", 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 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <em>\u00a0 \u00a0[The Banks of Nairn\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em>or \u00a0<em> Nairn&#8217;s River Banks]<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 SA1971.213.13<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Willie learned this from his father. The song relates to the Napoleonic war in Spain around 1808-9. Numerous similar versions were collected in north-east Scotland and Gavin Greig noted in the Buchan Observer (no. 28, 1907 ) that it had been composed by \u201cA Mr Gordon whose widow was living in Nairn some 30 or 40 years ago\u201d.\u00a0 Roud no. 3780<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>\u2018Twas on the merry Month of June delightful fresh and fair<\/em><br \/>\n<em> For fishing sport I rose in time to take the country air;<\/em><br \/>\n<em> It so delighted me to hear that charming blackbird\u2019s song,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> While near to Nairn\u2019s river bank I slowly walked along.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>Cheered by the warm summer\u2019s sun I still kept on my walk<\/em><br \/>\n<em> And coming to some spreading trees I thought I heard some talk;<\/em><br \/>\n<em> I turned me quickly round about to hear the words were said<\/em><br \/>\n<em> And there beneath a bramble bush I spied a pretty maid.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>Her fleecy flocks around her upon the grass they fed<\/em><br \/>\n<em> As she did lie lamenting upon a primrose bed<\/em><br \/>\n<em> And as she vanquished forth her grief the little birds they sang<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Upon the trees whose branches out o\u2019er the river hang.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>But just as she was grieving there came a little boy,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> who had a letter in his hand that turned her grief to joy,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> And seeing it was her lover\u2019s write and opening it with speed<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Thinking no one was near her she thus began to read.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>\u201cSweet Kitty from the coast of Spain this letter I have sent<\/em><br \/>\n<em> With my dear wounded comrade who to Great Britain went;<\/em><br \/>\n<em> I write you this to let you know I\u2019m still alive and well<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Hoping fair Scotland yet to see, but when I cannot tell.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>Each day and night we are in field our enemy to subdue<\/em><br \/>\n<em> And when the bloody bullets fly oft times I think of you<\/em><br \/>\n<em> And of the happy days we spent among the grass so green,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> While near to Nairn\u2019s river banks how happy we have been.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>Grieve not for me my darling dear, though I far distant be<\/em><br \/>\n<em> I hope all dangers will me pass and I\u2019ll return to thee;<\/em><br \/>\n<em> And if kind Providence allots who guides the flying ball,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> No danger rise, I will be safe when thousands round me fall.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>And though I am far distant I here must take my lot<\/em><br \/>\n<em> While when among the shot and shell my love you\u2019re not forgot;<\/em><br \/>\n<em> And as I trample o\u2019er the dead as oft times I may do<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Deep in my mind I still can find your image in my view.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>Soon may the happy day arrive when our love will be complete<\/em><br \/>\n<em> And then we\u2019ll join our heart and hand in happiness we\u2019ll meet<\/em><br \/>\n<em> And then we\u2019ll join our heart and hands as happy as before,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> While louder now the bugle sounds and I can sing no more\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">\u201cThat\u2019s the whole lot \u2026 I think that\u2019s where Sir John Moore was killed at, you see&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sssa.llc.ed.ac.uk\/whalsay\/2014\/12\/08\/kitty-from-the-coast-of-spain\/\">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":[35,33],"tags":[40,112,121],"class_list":["post-202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-i-p","category-willie-williamson","tag-absent-soldier","tag-love-song","tag-napoleonic-war"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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