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The tale of Gordon of Auchanachie and his love Jeannie, who is married off by her domineering father to wealthy Lord Saltoun.

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David Kilpatrick

Solo singer-songwriter and tunesmith playing British fingerstyle steel and nylon string guitar, and historic instruments. Scots and Irish influences.

I've been writing and playing songs and tunes since teenage years in folk clubs and pubs. I co-organise the Kelso Friday night live music sessions at the Cross Keys (hosted singaround 7.45-10pm) and Cobbles Inn (10-12pm open mic with The Cobbles Band) with the help of many friends. All welcome! Visit us at kelsofolkandlive co uk. It is worth clicking on the tab because the sound quality of my tracks is far higher than the auto player on this page. Many can be streamed or downloaded at 320KBps and the enhancement for solo guitar/voice far exceeds the benefit you get for highly compressed band recordings. My recordings are full dynamic, not compressed. Just select Hi-Fi for the first song, and an MP3 high bitrate window will open - you will still get a sequence of songs. Most of my downloads are free, but some 320KBps tracks are paid-for. These are selected because they make up my main instrumental album. I now have a YouTube page and have started doing some video recordings for fun: @daviddkilpatrick I have mainly played Lowden guitars since 1999. I current play a 1985 S5FN (nylon string), 1986 S22 (jumbo O-size mahogany/cedar), and 1995 S32 (small body rosewood/spruce). I also play my own 1997-built Martin 'kit' Grand Auditorium rosewood/spruce, a Sigma OM-T, Furch Little Jane, Tacoma Papoose, Guild 8-string baritone, Vintage V880 parlour guitar and Gordon Giltrap signature model, a Troubadour mahogany/spruce classical and an Adam Black 12-string. And that's just the guitars... also viola, mandolin, mandola, waldzither, bouzouki, Appalachian dulcimer, low D whistle, keyboards.

Song Info

Genre

World • Traditional Celtic

Charts

Peak #37

Peak in subgenre #1

Author

Trad. Arr. David Kilpatrick

Rights

David Kilpatrick

Uploaded

November 25, 2003

Track Files

MP3

MP3 7.2 MB • 128 kbps • 7:53

Story behind the song

This has one of the best singing tunes in the Scottish ballad tradition. It is a 20th century rediscovery, of course, and popular in many styles. This is just a plain guitar and voice arrangement with emphasis on the meaning and clarity of the ballad words.

Lyrics

Annochie is bonnie and there lives my love
My love lies on him and can not remove
It cannot remove for all that I have done
For I never will forget my love Annochie

For Annochie Gordon he's bonnie and he's braw
He'd entice any woman that ever he saw
He'd entice any woman and so he has done me
And I never will forget my love Annochie

It's down and came her father, he's standing at the door,
Saying Jeannie you are trying the tricks of a whore
You care nothing for the man who cares so very much for thee
You must marry Lord Saltoun and leave Annochie

For Annochie Gordon he's barely but a man
Although he may be pretty, but where are his lands?
For the Saltoun lands are broad and his towers they run high
You must marry Lord Saltoun and leave Annochie

With Annochie Gordon I'd beg for my bread
Before I marry Saltoun his gold to my head
With gold unto my head and gowns fringed tae my knee
I will die if I don't get my love Annochie

And you who are my parents to church you may me bring
But unto Lord Saltoun I'll never bear a son
To a son or daughter I'll never bow my knee
And I'll die if I don't get my love Annochie

Jeannie was married, from church was brought home
And she and her maidens so merry should have been
When she and her maidens so merry should have been
She goes into her chamber and cries all alone

Come to bed my Jeannie, my honey and my sweet
To style you my mistress it would be so sweet
Be it mistress or Jeannie it's all the same to me
But in your bed, Lord Saltoun, I never will lie

It's down and came her father, he's spoken with renown,
Saying you who are her maidens come loosen up her gowns
And she's fallen to the floor and straight down to his knee
Saying father look I'm dying for my love, Annochie

The day that Jeannie married was the day that Jeannie died
The day that young Annochie came home on the tide
And down came her maidens a-wringing of their hands
Saying O you've been so long, you've been so long on the sands
So long on the sands, so long upon the flood
They have married your Jeannie and now she lies dead

You who are her maidens, come take me by the hand,
And lead me to the chamber where my love she lies in
And he kissed her cold lips till his heart had turned to stone
And he died in the chamber that his love she lay in

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