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Far Over the Forth

from My Mind From Love Being Free by Lindsay Straw

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Roud 3360. According to the Mainly Norfolk article, this song, in some forms, is sometimes attributed to Robert Burns. It was one of many I learned from Lizzie Higgins’ album Princess of the Thistle. Other renditions can be heard from her mother, Jeannie Robertson, and from Ray Fisher on her EP with Archie Fisher, Far Over the Forth.

Breadalbane is an area in the Scottish Highlands; the name means “the upper part of Alba.”

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Far over the forth, I look at the north
But what is the north with its highlands to me?
The south nor the east give ease to my breast
It’s a far foreign land o’er the wild rolling sea.

Ah, the long summer day, amid the heather and the bracken
The joy and delight in his bonny blue eyes
It’s little I knew that the wild western ocean,
Would be rolling this day between my laddie and me.

His father he frowned on the love of his boyhood
And oh, his proud mother looked cold upon me
But he still followed me to my home in the shieling
And the hills of Breadalbane rung wild with our glee.

We trysted our love on the cairn, on the mountains
The deer and the roe stood bridemaiden to me
And my love’s trying glass was a pure crystal fountain
What then was the world to my laddie and me?

So I look at the west as I go to my rest
That happy my dreams and my slumbers may be.
For far in the west lives a lad I love best
He is seeking a home for my baby and me.

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from My Mind From Love Being Free, released May 1, 2015

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Lindsay Straw Boston, Massachusetts

Traditional folk singer, guitarist & bouzouki player.

"Hearken(s) back to more innocent times, of Greenwich Village and pure folk." - The Living Tradition

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