The Lass of Glenshee (Roud 292), Sung by Sillertides - Linn Phipps and Doug Huggins

Traditional song (Roud 292) adapted, arranged and recorded by the Sillertides (Linn Phipps and Doug Huggins). One of a great many love songs found widely spread in the UK and the US about a noble lord who sweeps a pretty poor girl off her feet to make her his “Lady” or his “Queen” with mixed results. This one set near Saint Johnstoune (now Perth) has a happy ending and a haunting melody.
Oliver John Abbott of Hull, Quebec, sang The Lass of Glenshee to Edith Fowke in July 1957. Edith Fowke noted: ‘This is the only song in Mr. Abbott’s repertoire that is definitely Scottish in origin. John Ord notes: “I do not know a more popular song than this. It has been sung in nearly every farmhouse, cottage, and bothy in Scotland for the past seventy or eighty years. The author of it was a shoemaker named Andrew Sharpe, a native of Perth, who died there on 5 February 1817.” It has been collected in several places in the United States, although it is not very well known on this continent. Mr. Abbott learned it from Mrs. O’Malley, but where that old Irish lady picked it up we can only surmise.’ Recorded by many folk and Celtic artists in Ireland, Scotland and the US including Altan, Len Graham, Moira Craig, Niamh Boadle, and Jeff Warner.
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The Sillertides (Doug Huggins and Linn Phipps) are a transatlantic duo singing traditional songs in a conversation style:
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