Name: Annie Laurie (Take 1 & 2)
Duration: 2 min 56 s
Channel: W. Douglas of Fingland / Lady (Alicia) John Scott
Description: "Annie Laurie (Take 1 & 2)" is a song by Trick T Olly. This song was recorded in a authentic Scottish environment as it was recorded in my apartment which is right under a grove of genuine Scottish Palm Trees. Although this studio is in Japan the Scottish flavour can be sensed in this picture!

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This song was recorded in a authentic Scottish environment as it was recorded in my apartment which is right under a grove of genuine Scottish Palm Trees. Although this studio is in Japan the Scottish flavour can be sensed in this picture!

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Trick T Olly

Elisha Zaporelostzi's first performances were the Open Stages put on by the Bytown Live in Ottawa Ontario, Canada. It is how Neil Young and Joni Mitchell started. Phreap magazine is a one page thing that went around Ottawa in the 1980s. Now it is a web site; http://home.att.ne.jp/blue/patchan With the help of Joe-Charly Smith, Molly Ding, Calhoon-Fred Febealie, and Butter Jones I was able to put out Phreap magazine.

Song Info

Genre

Alternative • Alternative

Author

W. Douglas of Fingland / Lady (Alicia) John Scott

Rights

Patrick T. Connolly

Uploaded

September 11, 2006

Track Files

MP3

MP3 2.7 MB • 128 kbps • 2:56

Story behind the song

The history of this sond is well known. The 3 sites, below, give a different slant to it;
http://www.moniaive.com/annielaurie.html
http://www.mixed-up.com/lyrics/folk/annie-laurie/
http://mysongbook.de/msb/songs/a/annilaur.html
They say;
Annie Laurie ... is probably Scotland's best-known love song.
The original words were penned (maybe in the late 1690s) by William Douglas of Fingland.
The tune was written by Lady John Scott (1810-1900) who altered the second verse and composed the third. A favourite with Scotsmen during the Crimean War.

Lyrics

Maxwelton's braes are bonnie,
Where early fa's the dew,
And 'twas there that Annie Laurie
Gave me her promise true;
Gave me her promise true,
Which ne'er forgot will be,
And for bonnie Annie Laurie
I'd lay me down and dee.

Her brow is like the snaw drift,
Her throat is like the swan,
Her face, it is the fairest
That e'er the sun shone on;
That e'er the sun shone on,
And dark blue is her e'e,
And for bonnie Annie Laurie
I'd lay me down and dee.

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Brainiac Fingers

Mar 02, 2008

...And now you've made me cry...