{"id":211,"date":"2014-12-08T15:33:09","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T15:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.petercookie.com\/?p=211"},"modified":"2016-01-07T11:51:39","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T11:51:39","slug":"macdonald-of-glencoe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sssa.llc.ed.ac.uk\/whalsay\/2014\/12\/08\/macdonald-of-glencoe\/","title":{"rendered":"MacDonald of Glencoe"},"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;\">71.219.5<\/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: \"71.219.5\", formats: [\"mp3\"], mp3: \"aHR0cDovL3d3dy5zc3NhLmxsYy5lZC5hYy51ay93aGFsc2F5YW5zL3dwLWNvbnRlbnQvdXBsb2Fkcy9zaXRlcy8yLzIwMTUvMDEvNzEuMjE5LjUubXAz\", 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><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">Willie Williamson \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><em>\u00a0 \u00a0[MacDonald\u2019s return to Glencoe]<\/em>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 SA1971.219.5<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A much traveled and popular broadsheet ballad harking back to the Napoleonic wars, for it was\u00a0known not only in the United Kingdom and and Ireland but also Australia and throughout the maritime provinces of Canada and the USA.\u00a0 Willie\u2019s tune is reminiscent of some of the many that Gavin Greig collected in Aberdeenshire.\u00a0 Scots traveler Sheila Stewart won a prize in the first festival of the Traditional Music and Song Association\u00a0 in Blairgowrie in 1970 singing this ballad, but with quite a different air (see <em>Tobar an Dualchais <\/em>\u2018Donald\u2019s return to Glencoe\u2019). The ballad\u00a0 is listed\u00a0 on page 1 of\u00a0 Chas. Sanderson\u2019s song sheet catalogue of <em>Favourite Songs in Country Districts<\/em> which was still reaching Whalsay\u00a0 in the 1940s.\u00a0 Willie said that it was one that his father sang. Roud index no. 515.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>As I was\u00a0 out walking one evening of late<\/em><br \/>\n<em> By Flora\u2019s gay mantle the fields decorate.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>I carelessly wandered where I did not know<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Near the slopes to a fountain that lies in Glencoe.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>Like her who the prize on Mount Ida had won<\/em><br \/>\n<em> There approached me a lassie as bright as the sun.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>Her ribbons and tartans around her did flow<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Which had once pleased MacDonald the pride of Glencoe.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>I said my bonnie lassie your enchanting smile<\/em><br \/>\n<em> And comely young features doth my heart beguile,<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>And if your affections on me will bestow<\/em><br \/>\n<em> We\u2019ll bless the happy hour that we met in Glencoe.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>Oh no my dear Sir, your suit I disdain.<\/em><br \/>\n<em> I once had a sweetheart, Macdonald by name.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>He went to the war about ten years ago<\/em><br \/>\n<em> And a maid I\u2019ll remain till he returns to Glencoe.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>Perhaps your Macdonald regards not your name<\/em><br \/>\n<em> And has fixed his affection on some foreign dame,<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>And may have forgotten for aught that you know<\/em><br \/>\n<em> The bonnie young lassie he left in Glencoe.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>My Donald can never from his promise depart<\/em><br \/>\n<em> For love, truth and honour are found in his heart,<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>And if I ne\u2019er see him still singly I\u2019ll go<\/em><br \/>\n<em> And mourn for my Donald, the pride of Glencoe.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>The power of the French it is hard to pull down<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Causing many a brave hero to die of his wound.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>And with your Macdonald it may happen so<\/em><br \/>\n<em> That the man you love dearly perhaps is laid low.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>MacDonald\u2019s true valour when tried in the field,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Like his gallant ancestors, disdain to yield.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>The power of the French he will soon overthrow<\/em><br \/>\n<em> And in splendour return to my arms in Glencoe.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>Then seeing her so constant he pulled out a glove<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Which in parting she gave him as a token of love<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>She fell on his arms while the tears down did flow<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Saying, \u2018You are my Donald returned to Glencoe.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">\u201cYon\u2019s aa right you know, whether you believe it or no\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sssa.llc.ed.ac.uk\/whalsay\/2014\/12\/08\/macdonald-of-glencoe\/\">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":[49,113,120,130],"class_list":["post-211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-i-p","category-willie-williamson","tag-broadsheet","tag-love-token","tag-napoleonic","tag-returned-lover"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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