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Braw Sailin' on the Sea
[
Roud 5537
; G/D 6:1217
; Ballad Index Ord203
; trad.]
Ossian sang Braw Sailin' on the Sea in 1982 on their album Dove Across the Water.
Old Blind Dogs sang Braw Sailin' on their 2007 album Four on the Floor. They noted:
A classic from the Old Blind Dogs' north-east song bible, Ord's Bothy Songs and Ballads. […] First heard performed by Ossian then relearned from Orcadian Kris Drever at the sessions in Edinburgh's Central Bar.
Hannah Rarity sang Braw Sailin' on the Sea, “[a] take on one of my favourite well-known Scots songs”, on her 2018 CD Neath the Gloaming Star.
Lyrics
Old Blind Dogs sing Braw Sailin' | Hannah Rarity sings Braw Sailin' on the Sea |
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There came a letter yesterday, |
There cam a letter late yestreen, |
Chorus (after each verse): |
Chorus: |
So when he went to her farm house, |
He’s cam untae her faither’s hoose (Chorus) |
So she's ta'en the ring from her pocket, |
But he’s taen a ring frae his pocket, |
So he's ta'en the ring from his pocket, |
But she’s taen a ring frae her pocket, |
And it's braw drinking Glasgow beer, |
(Chorus) |