When Fortune Turns Her Wheel

DESCRIPTION: "Come, fill a glass, let's drink about... To meet ye a' ance mair, my friends, A sacred joy I feel, Though far awa I noo maun stray Till fortune turns her wheel." The singer has been betrayed by love and comrades, and bids farewell to Scotland and home
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1874 (Poet's Box broadside, according to Greig/Duncan3)
KEYWORDS: parting drink
FOUND IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber,Bord))
REFERENCES (5 citations):
Greig-FolkSongInBuchan-FolkSongOfTheNorthEast 88, p. 2, "When Fortune Turns Her Wheel" (1 text)
Greig/Duncan3 667, "When Fortune Turns the Wheel" (5 texts, 2 tunes)
Ord-BothySongsAndBallads, pp. 180-181, "When Fortune Turns Her Wheel" (1 text)
McMorland/Scott-HerdLaddieOTheGlen, pp. 43-44, 149, "When Fortune Turns Her Wheel" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, FORTRNWH*
Roud #3798
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "I'll Take This Glass into My Hands" (theme)
NOTES [40 words]: The "Wheel of Fortune" was a leading image of the medieval era -- how fate could turn take one who was successful and cast him into dust, and raise anothe rin his place. For more about this image, see the notes to "The Downfall of Heresy." - RBW
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