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[Fiddle Music; applause]
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[Robbie Shepherd] It's magic, absolutely great, great stuff
there, and a fine start to wir second half again. Eh, when
I mentioned to some people here tonight, that we having met
a lot more at the interval, it's absolutely tremendous as
far as I'm concerned. An see the tradition going so well,
but keep going on aboot this, ye've got tae keep on aboot
it because, ye've got tae keep the North East tae the fore.
And eh we have, with us tonight, members of the Buchan Heritage
Society who do so much for the cause, and the new president
Peter Buchan. Where are ye Peter, sitting doon ere, where's
Peter, he's there somewey. Peter delighted tae see you [clapping].
And a patron of the society and a man that we all admire for
his works and the written works David Toulmin, David is with
us as well, delighted tae see ye David, thank you.
And as you've heard me said
before, we are delighted, we are lucky in fact in Grampian
region that eh we have a director of education whos interested
in the cause as well, we have James Michie with us, James
thank you for turning up tonight thank you. If I miss onybody
oot fae that, well, ye can tell me later on but at's jist
the folk that I happened to meet at the interval there just
now…. Before the next artist comes on when ye're when
wir speaking aboot the North East culture and the music of
the North East, ye know, when ye get wrapped up in the music
isn't it an awfa lot better than the culture that's being
crept into our country from America where they've got all-night
television [clapping]. Dinna clap sae loud, ye hinna heard
the story yet [laugh], but ye hiv the all night television
and they've gone to the depths of despair now when we're trying
to keep our culture alive an we get whit dae we get, hardly
ony time on telly at all fur fiddle music or whatever in this
area nothing really, eh apart. But in America ye'll find a
whole channel, a whole channel going live round the United
States fan a' these boys saying my God I have sinned [laugh].
Ye get the, yes ye do, a religious channel goes right round
America, never mind the Scottish fiddle, its there the American
channel and there wis it six month ago that this boy come
on an he wis the greatest since sliced loaf wisn't he eh [laughs].
An he come there and said, now have ye just touched this television
screen and touch my hand you shall be saved within a wik [laughs],
within a week, for any visitors here within a week, there
wis the news that this same preacher had been caught by a
photographer gaan into some den of iniquity [laughs], wi this
lassie awa there in Dallas or someplace like that. So he had
tae come on the telly next week with another million dollars
of a fee and he says, my God I have sinned, an the water dreepin
doon here every ???. An his wife in the front pew going [laughs],
littin him aff wi the haill exercise, at widna happen, it
widna happen in Buchan wid it [laughs]? There's a helluva
a deathly hush here just now [laughs]. It widna happen up
here ye see, it couldna, couldna happen up here.
There wis the Buchan fermer
gaed doon tae the Smithfield show and someb'dy told him tae
go an visit this lady in Soho, so he went into this address,…Greek
street and he guid intae Greek street in Soho and he met this
young lassie and she says, come in, so he went in ye min if
I switch off the licht, he said no no switch aff the licht
gin ye like, ye min if ye sit close tae me on the sofa. They're
sitting close on the sofa an there's suddenly a spark, he
says, whit's that? Don't worry, jist afore you came in I wis
doing a bit of ironing an I've got a short somewhere in the
circuit here, jist a short off my iron. Don't worry jist a
short off the iron. Sit a wee bit closer, so he sat bit, another
spark. What's that? This time, she says, well I wis watching
television an it's jist the ye know it wis coming down to
that last little wee blob there on the television at's what
it is, nothing tae worry about at all. This happened the whole
half hour he wis there. There wis another flash, anither flash.
Back home, he came tae Aberdeenshire fermer awa there enjoying
himsel fine, when this lad come up from London, city gent
wi the pinstriped suit, an immaculate tie, an says, Are you
Geordie Macintosh.
He says, I am. Wis you doon
at the Smithfield, wis you doon [laughs] ach well ye ken whit
a mean, did you go down to the Smithfield show?
I did aye.
Did you happen to go into number,
em, certain street?
I did aye.
Did you happen to be sitting
on the sofa?
I did, aye, something wrang
wi her electricity, ye, ken an there wis jist flashes a ower
the place, an she didna understand, there wis something happened
there, ye ken?
Don't you believe a word, said
our city gent, he said. I have come up here today because
I happen to be the husband of that lady that you were in that
flat in Greek street in Soho, and…the flashes that you
saw, flashes of me taking photographs of you with my wife
on the sofa, what are you going to do about it?
So he took a look an he says,
well, he says, I think I'll take twa o that een [laughs; applause].
Deathly hush is now over [laughs].
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Let us go on to the next item on the programme, that's to
introduce the last pupil, the last pupil of Hector MacAndrew,
and a tremendous fiddler he has turned out to be, He comes
from Durris, and eh Hector gave him the tips and he has certainly
taken off on his own line now and we're delighted tae welcome
him here tonight with, on piano we have Hugh Melvin, Alec
??? on fiddle.
We'll jist let Alec get a wee bit of titivation in there,
the little wee bit of tuning up, and I can explain tae ye
whit he's going tae be playing. Three of the tunes in fact
from the first set will be compositions of Hector's, at I
didn't know but I've heard on record Hector playing, Mrs J.
H. Alexander and J. H. Alexander. It wisna till I spoke to
John Junor and eh to Harry Smith earlier on this week that
I realised the major influence in Hector's career that J.
H. Alexander was. We're trying to discover, he certainly wis
a seedsman. We think he wis a director of Dobbies the Seedsman
come up from Edinburgh when Hector was working in this area
and J. H. Alexander, trained classically, passed on a lot
of tips to eh Hector. In turn Hector passed them on to, a
lot o tips to Alec T. Bain. The first tune will be Gight Castle,
by Hector, a slow air at'll be followed by Mrs J. H. Alexander.
The third tune, The Duchess of Manchester's Farewell tae the
Highlands of Scotland an then J. H. Alexander. Alec T Bain.
[Applause]
[Alec Bain] Fiddle Music
[Applause]
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[AB] Thanks very much going to play a slow air now, Mrs Scott
Skinner, and a march called Mrs H. L. Macdonald of Dunach,
em Strathspey The Miller o Hirn and a reel The Auld Wheel.
[Fiddle Music; applause]
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[RS] With him he's got Doug
Mathew and Fiona Aitken now they're there quietly taking recording
there, and eh hopefully, some of the recordings will appear,
some will appear on Shepherd's Fancy next Tuesday night. But
the point I wis gonna make, wis not so much the recording
their taking, but I've been a great devotee of the whole area
whither it be the ???, the music, disna matter which instrument.
It's a' tied in; we're of the North East we ken how we're
built. An there's a lad gonna tell me of the time that Hector
and him stayed in the same Fyvie, now Fyvie when Hector wis
there, sixty years ago perhaps, look at the environment, what
happened in Fyvie when Hector and Hugh were loons.
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[RS] Hugh Taylor, come in
Hugh. [Applause] He tells me he's a young loon; he's aboot
eichty. Whit ye admitting till?
[Hugh Taylor] Eichty five.
[RS] He's admitting tae eighty five, but he
says, [applause] anither skelp o Brylcreme on his hair he
wid pass fur sixty-two, he said. [Laughter] Hugh, come on,
tell us something aboot this Fyvie o your earlier days, man.
[HT] The eh, deein the Fyvie bit first, well
eh
[RS] Well up tae you sir.
[HT] Aye, the, I was well aquant wi Hector MacAndrew
and his father, I knew them very well. I've been in the bothies
many a time an a' through the ???. An eh they gave a lot o
pleasure tae thousands and thousands o people during the years
that they lived, and eh it wis really a pleasure tae listen
tae their fiddling. And not only that, the great love that
they had for flowers and everything. There wis two different
chaps that I'm going to mention. I wis on the phone with one
on Sunday, eh, that wis, eh, Bob Anderson at Forres. The training
tae got under the MacAndrews, it wis really great. He became
head gardener at an estate up in Forres, and eh, I wis on
the phone wi him on Sunday and he said it'd been really a
pleasure tae come along here tonight. And the next one is
Kenneth Mackenzie; he did his training at Fyvie castle. He
wis married tae a cousin o mine. He died a few years ago an
he become head gardener at an estate down in, in Dunfermline.
An it wis a' due to the training they got through the MacAndrews
at Fyvie castle. Twas really a pleasure tae meet the MacAndrews,
because I knew them very well. Been through the hothouses
and everything; it wis really a pleasure tae see a' thon place
yonder, so with that I suppose we'll hae tae get on tae the
rest o wir story. [Laughs]
This is eh my first visit to Aden Park the, it's quite a number
of years ago, an the caretaker and another lady wis trying
to get a' the Scotch words oot o me, but, eh, of course, eh,
I knew a' the different things ??? spades an a' the different
things, but this is made up after I left my, a certain chap
there aboot who wis visitin Aden.
The day wis baith dull an cauld,
If the sun wis sweir tae shine,
When steppin doon through the close,
Came a man fae lang lang syne.
He didna stop tae speir a lot,
It guid richt in till he's stride,
Tae tell's aboot lang ago,
And far he used tae bide.
He telt's aboot his grandfather,
An ??? further back,
When Cumberland's troops come through the toon,
The hens wis jist ???.
As a loon he rose at the scraik a day,
Tae tak his turn at the farm,
A bowl o brose an a jeely piece,
An aff tae the schuil he ran.
On he guid wi a great lang spiel,
Aboot ???,
And fu he travellt fae Fogieloan,
Tae be able tae see Gight games.
He set oot aboot as darkness fell,
He wis newsin till's a' the time,
Wi said haste ye back Hugh,
Wisht they wis mair o you wi yir news o lang lang syne.
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[HT] This is eh, this is eh, stories aboot ministers, of course
ye've tae take in the ministers as well as abudy else. This
wis a minister, his text wis to be on the dove. Well the budy
he wis supposed to be up on the rafters, an ??? tae pit in
a white dove. The minister he announced his text, "And
the dove descended from heaven." Nothing
happened, eh he announced it a second time, "And the
dove descended from heaven." Third time, "the dove
descended from heaven." [The man] put his heid inta the
hole. He says, "the black cat's etten the fite doo though
in the back ??? [laughter].
There wis anither een, anither een, anither een. He wis awfa
keen on a certain minister getting this vacancy an so, there
wis jist the two o them an so this minister particular minister
got the vacancy. He said wis it ma sermon? Na na, man, he
said, yon ither een wis a little mannie, he says, and you
and me's aboot size and your auld claes wid fitted me best.
[Laughter]
So, an, there wis, this wis
awa back lang ago when ye wis getting drams in the back shop,
and this wis ootside Fyvie jist, and eh this wis a fella that
went in and the vet wis in afore him, and an eh ye'd tae mak
different excuses and the vet wis needin a bit rope. An he…says
ye'll have to come through and see what length of rope yer
wantin. Oh well, through he gaed and back he comes an, Come
away then George, he says tae this ither een, what are e wintin.
Oh, he says, oh I'll take a daud e the tow that the fairrier
got. [Laughter]
So eh there wis anither occasion,
they were asking aboot words, eh when I wis wi Macintosh o
Forgue in 1927 an on the Forgue express, the steam wagon (there
wis three steam wagons). Ae particular day, one o the drivers,
on a Friday night, he landed at the pub at Rothie an he didna
hameower or the next morning, an the briggers got on til him
whit the deuce he wis deein at he wisna hame. Oh, the boy
says, ye perlagit me (at's the word perlagit me) last Saturday
and this Saturday, but ye winna dee it anither Saturday, he
laughs he wis ??? that he perlagit.
Here's anither one, ootside
Fyvie there that I knew very well, an eh, he wis running drunk
one day, ye see, and somebody come on him an said somethin
till him. He says the Lord spake unto Moses. Says, what did
he say? Take up thy bed and walk, he says, what the devil
way can a drunken man take up his bed and walk [laughter].
There's nothing much more that I can add folks….
[RS] There's an awfa lot mair you can add, my
mannie, a lot mair you can add, because a man eighty-five
there and I would, I would dashed near, you'd be the first
body I would apologise to thenicht, ye see, because you were
determined ye only got five minutes and ye gonna push it through
as quick as ye could, but ye're nae. I'll spik tae ye a whilie
langer, Hugh Taylor, Hugh Taylor. Well done, eighty-five [applause]
cause I happen tae know, having spoken to you tonight, that
Charlie Taylor, that did an awfa lot o work for the Aberdeen
and Strathspey and Reel Society, wis yer brother.
[HT] Yes, that's my youngest brither.
[RS] Yes, and did you play the fiddle yersel?
[HT] No, I played an aul fashioned melodeon.
[RS] Were ye good?
[HT] Well, eh ach at meal an ales and things
o that kind.
[RS] Good enough tae get by.
[HT] Aye, aye.
[RS] I would have thought, aye, but ye mentioned
there, come in aboot beside me, come on inboot, ye mentioned
there Macintosh o Forgue jist now because there's some o young
folk I mean we're baith in wir eighties .
[HT] Aye, aye, aye.
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[RS] Macintosh o Forgue in
one day, I've seen, I've haen books handed in to me in the
last year two years published by Macintosh o Forgue. It's
so much of an institution, that ye've got these local books
an it says eh Macintosh o Forgue published it. Now whit did
Macintosh sell or fa wis this mannie Macintosh?
[HT] Macintosh the brigger, eh at Forgue, he
dealt amon binders, a' blinkin things. Ye get, an eh the trouble
wi him wis, ye gaed awa in the morning nine[?] the clock e
mornin and ye wis lucky if got hame three o' clock e mornin,
a poun the week and yer maet [laughter]. And ye got nae extra
recompense, only time that ye got, that ye landed better wis
if ye wis awa fae hame mair than one day, ye maybe got yer
denner fae somebudy, and ye pit it a' in yer book, ye see,
ye made a shilling or twa at wey, but [laughter].
He one thing aboot Macintosh, no, out at the shire, he knew
where everything was and he could ging in ask fur something
and he could get anything. There wis one case that I know
fae eh, somebudy who wis needin eh particular wheels at the
time at I wis there, and this fella oh I jist hiv the very
??? wheels but they were on a hearse an this boy widna hae
them. An syne ??? got him oot aboot; he the ??? got the wheels
aff an repainted em an selt the mannie the wheels aff the
hearse [laughter].
[RS] laughing, I've heard it said in my young
which is jist aboot the some, oh no I'm very very far awa
fae you, in my young day that Macintosh used tae [hae] athing
fae a needle til an anchor
[HT] Aye.
[RS] Wis that true?
[HT] Aye twas true.
[RS] Mean whit did he nae sell, or whit did
he sell?
[HT] He some eence sought an anchor, and he
hid the anchor; he got een fae a ship fae some o the boats
and he'd an anchor at nicht [laughter].
[RS] That night?
[HT] Aye, an I'll tell ye anither een, now there
wis a fella went one day tae buy a dog.
[RS] Carry on.
[HT] Aye a dog, an a dog that's nae trained,
it won't go round the sheep; it'll go right up the centre.
And the Macintosh says tae the dog tae bide. The dog jist
gaed richt up the centre, and the sheep flew aff [laughs].
An then the boy gaed awa, thocht the dog kent fine, wi nae
being a' trained, that that's the first thing it would dee,
and so when he left, he said, at dogs niver seen a sheep but
he's seen een noo. [laughter; applause]
[RS] Hugh Taylor, thank you very much. Well
the dog maybe hisna seen ony sheep but ye've seen a character,
and at's one noo, Hugh Taylor, well done. [laughter; applause]
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[RS] The Buchan Heritage Society are delighted at the response,
the folks that wanted to pay tribute tae Hector MacAndrew
and eh, I know in my early association wi Hector and my early
association wi the Borland family of Inverness, how much they
appreciated the advice they got. An I think o the three sons
now, when they were competing. One of the sons has gone on
to do great things in folk groups, but still retaining that
traditional atmosphere through his playing, and he's travelled
all the way up from Edinburgh tonight just so he could take
part in paying tribute as his thank you to the advice he got
from Hector, eh on piano is my wife Esma Shepherd. [applause]
But all the way up from Edinburgh
to play for ye the set starting off with Donald Maclean's
Farewell tae Oban, Earl Grey and Waverley Ball, will you please
welcome Gregor Borland. [tuning up]
Often wonder how that hair dos wid go wi Hielan dress but
I ken now. I'm only jealous I've nae hair. Once again Gregor
Borland.
[fiddle Music; applause]
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[GB] I'd like to play is, a ??? an a Strathspey and Reel,
the ??? I composed myself. Its called Mr and Mrs E H R Borland,
eh the Strathspey is called Maggie Cameron and the Reel is
??? Castle.
[fiddle Music; applause]
[RS] Smashing there, and if anybody tells me
aboot the youngsters playing now, just cos Gregor's got a
better haircut than me, that eh they spik aboot the youngsters
playing now, what they're doing, ye've got to take the groups
that Gregor's playing in and groups like Capercaillie. They
keep the traditional, [but] at the same time they do their
own thing and probably widen it out a wee bit and that was
tremendous playing there from Gregor Borland. Greg, thank
you, Gregor, for coming. We've got less examples o people
that's willing to experiment, eh, in the years bridging if
ye like the folk music and the traditional Scottish music.
We have one, he was born in 1873 I think and he's still living,
he coming on tae play for you jist now, because that's the
introduction that I'm sure Hector would like me tae give for
this next artist, an I dinna mean the piana player cos that
happens tae be ma wife again, Esma, you come back for a start
please, thank you.
[Applause]
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[RS] A'm nae spikin' aboot
you, no [Applause], I happen tae be spikin' aboot the mannie,
and I say the mannie we've hid mony a tune together in ceilidhs
wi Hector and this next artist and me. But again through the
Dickie family…. Jim Dickie [is] ninety-three years old
I think, when the last time that we saw him before he died.
An Jim Dickie used tae say that his brother John, wis eh [that]
Alec Green wis the nearest tae brother John that he hid heard.
Now, that is praise indeed I'm sure you'll agree with the
expertise within the Dickie family. So here is brother John's
prototype, if ye like, to play the tin whistle for you right
now. Starting off with tunes of Pipe Major John Stewart followed
by John D. Burgess and efter that he's going tell ye, and
he telt me tae shift at mikes boys.… He can please himsel.
Come on an play for ye now, on tin whistle, Alec Green.
[applause]
[Alec Green] Twas ower far awa fae the piana
ye see.
[RS] Aye.
[tin whistle; applause]
[Applause]
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[AG] Hello, and thank you,
can you hear me at the back? Almost, well I'd like to play
some slow airs, eh, perhaps simpler slow airs than have been
played on the fiddles or violins, jist, I would like to play
The Cradle Song and the Flower of the Quern both by Skinner
and finish up with a Hornpipe the name of which escapes me
at the moment.
[tin whistle; applause]
[applause]
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[AG] thank you again very much an I'd just like to finish
with em a traditional Scottish music set a march Strathspey
and Reel. A simple march, it's played every year at Ballater
games for the march on, its called The Invercauld March, the
Strathspey, The Rose Amongst the Heather and the reel Sir
David Davidson of Carntrae.
[tin whistle; applause]
[RS] Alec, thank you to you Alec, eh, I only
gave ye that vicious introduction cause I've known him for
years now, an he shifted ma mikes, at's why I did it, and
I'll take it back across here now [laughs] but eh, he's the
one lad that eh, I mean, been a pal o mine fur years, but
a think I should say he's the one lad that bridges the piping,
fiddling and accordion world, eh there's no spans with Alec,
he he takes the moo o the pipe or he takes the moo o the fiddling,
a tremendous artist in his own field: Alec Green. Once again
for Alec Green.
[Applause].
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[RS] Times wearing on but
not before we give you these traits of tradition once again,
I introduced earlier in the programme Alistair Hardie and
that fine line of the Hardie fiddlers. I'm delighted to welcome
along with Alistair now, his dad, now left Aberdeen but now
down tae Edinburgh, determined to come up to be part of the
Hector MacAndrew memorial concert. Bill Hardie.
[Applause]
[RS] And once again Alistair Hardie.
[Bill Hardie] ??? fit this.
[RS] I'll let them settle down, their sitting
down, Mary is at the piano and let the two o them sit doon
there and I'll tak this thing doon a wee bittie if I can,
if I canna, I canna an I'll curse a' the time. I'm deeing
my best ye ken but nothin happening here, ach it'll no matter
I'll pit it doon here beside him right up here and then we'll
have after the first selection a solo from Alistair himself,
but we are delighted to welcome back a great friend of the
Buchan Heritage Society, this mannie. He's got a bit o fungus
in his hair noo, [laughter]; at's whit happens tae aul seventy-eights,
you know, the aul seventy-eights they get that sorta green
bit, no at's grey bits there…. Bill and Alistair starting
off their first set for us and that'll be Macpherson's Lament
followed by the Keelrow and The Flowers o Edinburgh with Mary
Milne on piano. Father and son, Bill and Alistair Hardie.
[Applause]
[Fiddle music; applause]
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[RS] Once again we have this
common link as I shift the mike up a wee bit, cause Alistair's
gonna stan up and give us a slow air just now, but that common
link is to John Junor and starting off our show tonight mentioned
that he recommended at the time, in the early fifties I think
it was, two great fiddlers to show off of the North East Hector
MacAndrew one and this gentlemen the other, Bill Hardie, once
again for Bill.
[Applause]
[RS] Alistair's coming forward now, this time
to give us a slow air, great Marshall tune Chapel Keithack.
[AH] Um this is a slow air that was a particular
favourite with Hector and we would like to follow that jointly
with a composition by Hector which he [made] for my grandfather;
it's called John Hardie's strathspey. It obviously means a
great deal to us to have a direct musical link with Hector.
Then we will follow that with The Firth House Hornpipe. But
first the William Marshall slow air.
[fiddle; applause]
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[BH] thank you very much
indeed ladies and gentlemen. Now, Alistair and I would like
to conclude our contribution by playing two tunes which were
composed by my late great old musical friend John Murdoch
Henderson which he dedicated to Jimmy Dickie of New Deer.
The first one is The Wonderful[?] Boy, James F. Dickie's Delight
followed by James F. Dickie Reel, thank you.
[fiddle; applause]
[BH] Thank you very much.
[applause]
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[ME]
The Diamond is a ship, me lads, for the Davis Strait she's
bound,
And the quay it is all garnished with bonny lasses roun;
Captain Thompson gives the order to sail the ocean wide,
Where the sun it never sets, my lads, an darkness dims the
skies.
And it's cheer up my lads, let your hearts never
fail,
As the bonny ship, The Diamond, goes a-fishing for the whale.
Along the quay at Peterhead, the lasses stand
around,
With their shawls all pulled about their heads and the salt
tears running down
Well don't you weep, my bonny lass, though you'll be left
behind,
For the rose will grow on Greenland's ice before we change
our mind.
And it's cheer up my lads, let your hearts never
fail,
As the bonny ship, The Diamond, goes a-fishing for the whale.
Well it'll be bright both day and night when
the Greenland lads come hame,
With a ship that's full of oil, me boys, and money to our
name;
They'll make cradles for to rock and the blankets for to tear,
And every lass in Peterhead sings "Hushabye, my dear."
And it's cheer up my lads, let your hearts never
fail,
As the bonny ship, The Diamond, goes a-fishing for the whale.
Here's health to the Resolution, likewise the
Eliza Swan,
Here's health to the Battler o Montrose and The Diamond, ship
of fame;
We'll wear the trousers o the white and the jackets o the
blue,
When we return to Peterhead, we'll hae sweethearts eneuch.
And it's cheer up my lads, let your hearts never
fail,
As the bonny ship, The Diamond, goes a-fishing for the whale.
And it's cheer up my lads, let your hearts never fail,
As the bonny ship, The Diamond, goes a-fishing for the whale.
[RS] Thank you very much indeed,
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[ME] Right well I don't really
think we should get through this night without singing the
Bonny Lass o Fyvie-o
There was a troop o Irish Dragoons
Came marchin down through Fyvie -o,
Oor captain's fall'n in love wi a bonnie, bonnie lass,
They called her the bonnie lass o Fyvie-o.
There's mony a bonnie lass in the Howe o Auchterless,
There's mony a bonnie lass in the Garioch-o,
There's mony a bonnie Jean in the toon o Aiberdeen,
But the flooer o them lies in Fyvie-o.
Well come doon the stair, pretty Peggy, my dear
Well come doon the stair, pretty Peggy -o,
Well come doon the stair, comb back your yellow hair,
Take a last farewell o yer Daddy-o.
There's mony a bonnie lass in the Howe o Auchterless,
There's mony a bonnie lass in the Garioch-o,
There's mony a bonnie Jean in the toon o Aiberdeen,
But the flooer o them lies in Fyvie-o.
The colonel cried, mount, boys mount,
Tarry says oor captain, oh tarry-o,
Oh tarry for a while, for another day or twa,
Till I see if this bonnie lass will marry-o.
An as we passed ower the bonnie braes o Gight,
The band played The Lowlands of Fyvie-o
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And lang ere we got tae Old Meldrum toon ,
We had oor captain tae carry-o,
An by the time we got tae bonnie Aiberdeen,
We had oor captain tae bury-o.
Well green grow the birks upon bonnie Ythanside,
An low lies the lowlands o Fyvie-o,
Our captain's name was Ned an he died for a maid,
He died for the bonnie lass a Fyvie-o.
There's mony a bonnie lass in the Howe o Auchterless,
There's mony a bonnie lass in the Garioch-o,
There's mony a bonnie Jean in the toon o Aiberdeen,
But the flooer o them lies in Fyvie-o.
[ME] Once more.
There's mony a bonnie lass in the Howe o Auchterless,
There's mony a bonnie lass in the Garioch-o,
There's mony a bonnie Jean in the toon o Aiberdeen,
But the flooer o them lies in Fyvie-o.
[Applause]
[ME] Thank you very much indeed thank you.
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