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The Wild Mountain Thyme is

apparently based on this, much older, Scottish ballad:

 

"The  Braes of Balquidder"  

 

     Let us go, lassie, go

   Tae the braes o' Balquhidder

   Where the blaeberries grow

   'Mang the bonnie bloomin' heather

   Whar the deer and the rae

   Lichtly bounding thegither

   Sport the lang summer day

   On the braes o' Balquhidder

 

   I will twine thee a bower

   By the clear silver fountain

   And I'll cover it o'er

   Wi' the flowers o' the mountain

   I will range through the wilds

   And the deep glens sae dreary

   And return wi' their spoils

   To the bower o' my dearie

 

 

 

 

contd.............

 

   I will range through the wilds

   And the deep land so dreary

   And return with the spoils

   To the bower o' my dearie.

   Will ye go lassie go ?

 

   Chorus

 

   If my true love she'll not come,

   Then I'll surely find another,

   To pull wild mountain thyme,

   All around the purple heather.

   Will you go, lassie, go?

 

   Chorus

   This is the song that gave me the idea for the name of the site.  To be sung around a campfire with friends...

 

   The Wild Mountain Thyme

 

   O the summer time has come

   And the trees are sweetly blooming

   And wild mountain thyme    

    Grows around the purple heather.

   Will you go, lassie, go?

 

   Chorus

   And we'll all go together,    

    To pull wild mountain thyme,

   All around the purple heather.

   Will you go, lassie, go?

 

   I will build my love a bower,

   By yon clear crystal fountain,

   And on it I will pile,

   All the flowers of the mountain.

   Will you go, lassie, go?

 

   Chorus ...............