Ye Lan's and Banks o' Bonny Montrose

DESCRIPTION: This is the singer's departing night and "the morn's the day I'm gaun awa'" from Montrose. There's "a silly auld man" he'll be glad to leave. Nevertheless he grieves "for the sake o' my kin comerade, And the bonnie lass that I am leavin'"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1908 (Greig/Duncan8)
KEYWORDS: love emigration parting Scotland
FOUND IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Greig/Duncan8 1529, "Ye Lan's and Banks o' Bonny Montrose" (4 texts, 4 tunes)
Roud #12954
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "The Evening Sun Goes Down the West" (chorus)
cf. "The Parting Glass" (chorus lines)
ALTERNATE TITLES:
Guid-nicht and Joy
Oh Once Good-night
NOTES [24 words]: The chorus is close to the usual first verse of "The Parting Glass" with lines transposed.
Montrose is on the coast between Dundee and Aberdeen. - BS
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File: GrD81529

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