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As I Came in by Yon Castle Wall
[ Roud 16906 ; trad.]
Ellen Mitchell sang As I Came in by Yon Castle Wall on her and Kevin Mitchell's 2001 Musical Traditions anthology Have a Drop Mair.
Lucy Farrell sang As I Came in by Yon Castle Wall on the Furror Collective's 2018 album Fathoms. They noted:
One late night at Rod and Danny Stradling's house, during the Stroud Singing Weekend, Rod played Lucy a recording of this song by the Glaswegian singer Ellen Mitchell. In her notes from her 2001 joint CD release with Kevin Mitchell on the fantastic Musical Traditions label, Have a Drop Mair, Ellen says that she learnt the song from Don Martin, a founder member of the group The Clutha. The song is now generally considered to be the work of Robert Burns, although it doesn't bear his name in the Scots Musical Museum (1792), its first known printing. The first verse of the song, however, features in Burns' manuscripts along with the note: “This is a very popular Ayrshire song”.
Lyrics
Ellen Mitchell sings As I Came in by Yon Castle Wall | Lucy Farrell sings As I Came in by Yon Castle Wall |
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As I came in by yon castle wa |
As I came in by yon castle wall |
And such a bonny lassie she was |
And such a bonny lassie she was |
“Oh tae have such a bonny bride as me, |
“Oh to have such a bonny bride as me, |
“Oh talk not so very high bonny lass, |
“Oh talk not so very high, bonny lass, |
”Ah but I mean to climb a far higher tree |
“Ah but I mean to climb a far higher tree |