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Hame, Hame, Hame

[ Roud 269 ; Laws K43 ; Ballad Index LK43 ; trad., Andy M. Stewart]

Silly Wizard sang Hame, Hame, Hame on their 1981 album Wild & Beautiful. Steve Roud catalogued this as Roud 269, probably because of the similarity of the first verse to the sometime chorus of Rosemary Lane. Andy Stewart noted in his songbook The Andy M. Stewart Collection:

This is an old Jacobite ballad that I have substantially altered, as far as the lyrics are concerned. Versions can be found in old collections such as that edited by Alan Cunningham (1825) and also in Hogg’s Jacobite Relics (1819-21). Hogg suggests that the air is a modification of and old tune called Mary Scott, the Flower of Yarrow. It has also been set to variants of Dinna Think, Bonnie Lassie I’m Gaun tae Leave Ye and My Love’s in Germany.

Lyrics

Silly Wizard sing Hame, Hame, Hame

Hame, hame, hame,
Hame would I be
Hame, hame, hame
In my ain country
Where the birk and the pine
And the bonnie rowan tree
They are all bloomin’ fair
In my ain country.

Hame, hame, hame
Hame would I be
Hame, hame, hame
In my ain country
Where the wild deer run
Through the glen I’ll never see
Where my heart will aye remain
In my ain country.

Hame, hame, hame
Hame would I be
Hame, hame, hame
In my ain country
Where the glint through the mirk
Aye tells tae me
It’ll shine upon them yet
In my ain country.

(repeat first verse)