Willie's Lyke Wake
On Springthyme SPRCD 1043 Arthur Watson: The hero who feigns death to draw a timid maiden is a common ballad theme. This is among the commonest ballads in Danish, and is known in Magyar, Slovenian, and Italian variants but has been rare in Scotland. This version is based on the fragmentary ballad sung by Mrs Gillespie of Glasgow as learnt by her in Buchan from her father's stepmother, here with additional text from a similar but full version published as Among the Blue Flowers and the Yellow by Peter Buchan in his Ballads of the North of Scotland in 1828. (Child 25, Roud 30; Greig Duncan 4:843) Arthur (lead vocal) with Pete (melodeon and vocal) and Tom (fiddle and vocal)
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