Name: Annie Laurie
Duration: 3 min 38 s
Channel: Jed Marum
Description: "Annie Laurie" is a song by Jed Marum. Old Scottish Ballad, solo guitar and vocal

Annie Laurie

Jed Marum

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Old Scottish Ballad, solo guitar and vocal

Jed Marum

Singer songwriter Jed Marum's music is folk, roots and bluegrass in style. With an earthy country and celtic air, he brings real-life stories to song with humor

I love music. I've been playing guitar since I was 10 years old and along the way I sang everything from old folk songs to rock and blues.Today I make a living playing a mix of Folk/Bluegrass and Celtic music venues around the US. I write a lot of the music I sing and I play banjo, guitar and harmonica. I have endorsement from Larrivee Guitars.

Song Info

Genre

Country • Bluegrass

Charts

Peak #186

Peak in subgenre #27

Author

Jed Marum

Rights

Jed Marum

Uploaded

December 19, 2008

Track Files

MP3

MP3 3.3 MB • 128 kbps • 3:38

Story behind the song

Annie Laurie is a very old Scottish folk song that is reputed to be based on poem by William Douglas (in early 1700s). The song was very popular in the US at the time of the Civil War and has been a favorite of generations

Lyrics

Maxwelton's braes are bonnie,
Where early fa's the dew,
'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 neck is like the swan,
Her face it is the fairest,
That 'er the sun shone on.
That 'er the sun shone on -
And dark blue is her e'e,
And for bonnie Annie Laurie
I'd lay me down and dee.

Like dew on gowans lying,
Is the fa' o' her fairy feet,
And like winds, in simmer sighing,
Her voice is low and sweet.
Her voice is low and sweet -
And she's a' the world to me;
And for bonnie Annie Laurie
I'd lay me down and dee.

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