Young MacDonald

DESCRIPTION: "He is young and fair and handsome, he's my fancy late and early..." Chorus in Gaelic. Love song to the young MacDonald who was brought up in Glengarry, fought battles, and is now off to Colorado.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1962 (Fowke/MacMillan-PenguinBookOfCanadianFolkSongs)
KEYWORDS: love battle travel
FOUND IN: Canada(Ont)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Fowke/MacMillan-PenguinBookOfCanadianFolkSongs 54, "Young MacDonald" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #4536
NOTES [71 words]: [The version in Fowke/MacMillan-PenguinBookOfCanadianFolkSongs is from] Mrs. A. Fraser of Lancaster, Ontario, who said she learned it from her brother-in-law, Mr. John A. MacDonald. MacDonald is one of the commonest names in Ontario's Glengarry county.
The [version in Fowke/MacMillan-PenguinBookOfCanadianFolkSongs] has a mix of English and Gaelic lyrics, though the Gaelic has become too garbled to be correctly translated. - SL
File: FowM054

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