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The Broom o' the Cowdenknowes
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This is a very much personal interpretation of the 1830 words for this Scots song from R A Smith's Scotish Minstrel, with nylon string guitar accompaniment. An unrehearsed live recording with some variation from the original words.
singer songwriter acoustic folk british guitarist song celtic traditional fingerstyle scottish scotland guitar kelso
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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.
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Peak #139
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David Kilpatrick
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David Kilpatrick 2006
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September 10, 2006
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MP3 5.1 MB 192 kbps 5:35
Story behind the song
The subject of this song and its variations as a dance tune and a song came up again in discussion. See my website notes, made some years ago, on the version which I sing (relatively freely, as my memory is never word-perfect and I tend to adlib whatever I forget). http://www.maxwellplace.demon.co.uk/pandemonium/cowdenknowes.html
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O the broom, the bonnie bonnie broom, an' the broom o' the Cowdenknowes! And aye sae sweet the lassie sang, I' the bucht milking the yowes "O ah hae bin east, an' ah hae bin west, an' hae bin far ower the knowes But the bonniest lass that ere I saw is I' the bucht milkin' o' the yowes!" O the broom, the bonnie bonnie broom! She set the cog upon her head and she's gane singin' hame "O whaur hae ye bin, my ae dochter? Ye haena bin yer lane!" "O wae be tae yer yoweherd, faither, and an ill deeth may he dee, He biggit the bucht at the the back o' the knowes, and a tod has frichted me!" O the broom, the bonnie bonnie broom! It fell on a day, a het simmer day, she wis ca'in' oot her faither's kye There cam' a troop o' gentlemen a-riding merrily by "Weel may ye save and see, bonnie lass! Weel may ye save an' see! For dinna ye mind that misty nicht, I was I' the bucht wi' thee?" O the broom, the bonnie bonnie broom! Then he's leap'd aff his berry-brown steed and he's set that fair may on "Ca' oot yer kye, gude-faither, yoursel'! For she'll neiver ca' them oot again! I am the laird o' the Oakland Hills, I hae thirty ploughs an' three An' ah hae gotten the bonniest lass that's in a' the south-countrie!" O the broom, the bonnie bonnie broom!
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