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Polwart on the Green
[ Roud 8407 ; Bodleian Roud 8407 ; Allan Ramsay (1686-1758)]
Ancient and Modern Scottish Songs
Jean Redpath sang Polwarth on the Green on her 1977 album Song of the Seals. She noted:
Allan Ramsay was the author of this gentle proposition and it may be found in the Orpheus Caledonius. I learned it from the singing of Rory and Alec McEwen.
macAlias (Gill Bowman and Karine Polwart) sang Polwart on the Green in 2000 on their Greentrax album Highwired. They noted:
Credited in The Scots Musical Museum to Captain John Drummond McGrigor of Bochaldie and initially published in Allan Ramsay's Tea-Table Miscellany in 1724, it remarks on the rather saucy goings on in the small Scottish Borders village now called Polwarth. If only life were as exciting in twenty-first century Edinburgh!
Lyrics
Polwart on the Green in Hert's Ancient and Modern Scottish Songs |
macAlias sing Polwart on the Green |
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At Polwart on the green, |
At Polwart on the green, |
Let dorty dames say Na, |
Let dorty dames say na, |
At Polwart on the green, |
At Polwart on the green, |