Name: Glasgow Peggy
Channel: Trad. PD.
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This Song is about a Highland Lad (the lord of the Isle of Skye) who comes down to Glasgow to court the most beautiful Peggy away from her home in the Lowlands

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Darby O'Gill

Irish Scottish Celtic Rock Blues original Songs in a Stage show of Comedy Fun and Diversion from Life with Love Beer Drink and Spirit

Rollickin' Irish Stage Show

Song Info

Genre

World • Traditional Celtic

Charts

Peak #34

Peak in subgenre #2

Author

Trad. PD.

Rights

1996, Darby O'Gill

Uploaded

January 17, 2007

Track Files

MP3

MP3 3.5 MB • 320 kbps • 3:50

Story behind the song

The original poem was written as Queen Amang the Heather in the mid-1800's.  It was collected by Francis James Child in the late 19th century as Glasgow Peggie (Ballad 228). The collection was published as The English and Scottish Popular Ballads between 1882 and 1898.

Lyrics

Glasgow Peggy
(words adapted by W. Scott Messer)
First when I came to Glasgow town
The highland hills were all behind me
And the Bonniest lass that ever I spied
She lived in Glasgow, they called her Peggy

Oh highland lads are brisk young lads
Highland lads are young and bonnie
And I’m away to Glasgow town
To steal away the Bonnie Peggy

Her father he’s got word of this
And oh but he was wondrous angry
You can take my oxen and all of my cows
But Ye’ cannot take my Bonnie Peggy

Ah, hold yer tongue, ye silly old man
For I’ve got cows and yowes already
I’ll no’ steal yer oxen or your cows
But I will take your Bonnie Peggy

I said, braw lass, why roam ye there
Why roam ye ‘lone among the heather
She said: My father’s away from home
And I’m herdin’ all his cows together

So I said Braw lass if ye’ll be mine
And ye care to lie in a bed of feathers
In silks and satins you shall lie
Ye’ll be my queen among the heather

She’s mounted on his milk white steed
And he himself on his wee grey naggie
They rode away at the break of the day
He’s run away with his Bonnie Peggy

Well they rode o’er hills and they rode o’er dales
And they rode through the moors and the mosses many
Until they came to a little glen
He’s lighted down with his Bonnie Peggy

Their bed was of the gay green turf
Their blankets of the bracken bonnie
His laid his plaid beneath her head
And she’s lien down with her highland laddie

He’s taken her up
Yon high, high hill
When that the sun was shinin’ clearly
Says all that ye see
Belongs to thee
For lien down with a highland laddie

For all that ye have left behind
Is a wee cot house and a wee kale yardie
Now your the lady of the Isle of Skye
For lien down with a highland laddie

When first I came to Glasgow town
The highland hills were all behind me
And the bonniest lass that ever I spied
She lives in Skye now we called her Peggy