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Oh To Be in My Bed and Happit

[ Roud 6753 ; G/D 5:938 ; Ballad Index GrD5938 ; trad.]

Anne Neilson and Gordeanna McCulloch sang Oh To Be in My Bed and Happit at Celtic Connections at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall in January 2001. This recording was included a year later on the festival’s anthology on the Greentrax label, Scots Women. The album’s notes commented:

[Anne Neilson’s] fine duet with Gordeanna McCulloch, Oh To Be in My Bed and Happit, comes from the Greig-Duncan Collection. It was given to Gavin Greig by his prolific correspondent Annie Shirer, who only ever supplied the words, so the melody here is Anne’s own.

The Furrow Collective sang Oh To Be in My Bed and Happit on their 2015 EP Blow Out the Moon. Alasdair Roberts commented in their album’s notes:

I learnt Oh To Be in My Bed and Happit from the singing of Anne Neilson, at a meeting of the Glasgow Ballad Workshop focusing specifically on songs from the Greig-Duncan Folksong Collection.

Lyrics

The Furrow Collective sing Oh To Be in My Bed and Happit

Oh to be in my bed and happit
Hame in my bed and happit doon
Oh to be locked in my lovie’s airms
It’s I would lie in little room.

Oh to be in my bed and happit
Safe in my bed and happit doon
Oh to be locked in my lovie’s airms
And all the household sleepin soun.

Oh to be locked in my lovie’s airms
And my lovie locked in mine
The door to be locked and the key to be turned
And the night to be seven years long.