"All on a Summer's Evening" from Polwart's
new album, A Pocket of Wind Resistance. The song, she says, is "rooted in
the ecology and history of my local heather moor by Fala Flow, Midlothian,
south of Edinburgh. All on a Summer's Evening rests upon the traditional song
Skippin Barfit Through the Heather. It's an introduction to the wide magical
space of the moor, and to the story of a local couple, Will and Roberta Sime,
which threads through the album." Great with pure silence.
As I was walking down yon hill
As I was walking down yon hill
All on a
Summer's evening
There I
spied a bonny lass
Skipping
barefoot through the heather.
And oh, but
she was neatly dressed
She neither
needed hat nor feather
She was the
queen among them all
Skipping
barefoot through the heather.
She wore a
gown o' bonny [?]
Her
petticoats were a pheasant colour
And in
between the stripes were seen
Shining
bells of blooming heather.
Oh dear lass
would you gan with me?
Would you
gan with me and leave your heather?
Silks and
satins ye shall wear
If you gan
with me and leave your heather.
[Interlude]
Oh oh oh oh...
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