{"id":21530,"date":"2023-06-28T14:23:53","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T14:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/folksongandmusichall.com\/?page_id=21530"},"modified":"2023-06-28T15:54:13","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T15:54:13","slug":"piper-macfarlane","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/folksongandmusichall.com\/index.php\/piper-macfarlane\/","title":{"rendered":"Piper MacFarlane"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
AKA<\/strong><\/td>Bonnie Wee Lassie frae Gouroch, The<\/td><\/tr>
First Published<\/td>1906<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Writer\/composer<\/td>Harry Lauder and Gerald Grafton<\/td>Roud<\/strong><\/td>RN5212<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Music Hall Performers<\/strong><\/td>Harry Lauder<\/td><\/tr>
Folk performances<\/strong><\/td>Collected from the singing of:<\/strong>
Stewart, Sheila; Scotland : Perthshire; 1954
Stewart, Belle; Scotland : Perthshire; 1976<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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From Francis & Day's 2nd Album of Harry Lauder's popular songs<\/strong>\n\nO! A'm Piper MacFarlane and A\u2019m on the beer\nBut still A\u2019m in love wi\u2019 a  bonnie  wee dear\nYe\u2019d like her yersel\u2019 if ye only could see her\nHer faither\u2019s a grocer in Gourock\nThe first time I met her I\u2019ll never forget\nThe rain it was raining the weather was wet\nI kiss'd her and told her that she was a pet\nThis bonnie wee lassie frae Gourock\n\nO! she\u2019s a bonnie wee beautiful thing;\nI\u2019ve popp\u2019d her the question and bought her the ring\nA\u2019m goin\u2019 tae get married sometime in the Spring\nBut I dinna like to askin\u2019 her faither<\/em>\n\nO! I took her tae London I did by-the-by\nTae spend a few days wi\u2019 my auld freen\u2019 Mackie\nMac \u201cWho\u2019s the lady?\u201d \u201cD\u2019ye no ken?\u201d said I\n\u201cThat\u2019s the bonnie wee lassie fra Gourock\u201d\nMac started tae tickle her under the chin\nWhen who but his wife, Missis Mac, should come in\nShe shifted his whuskers and half o\u2019 his chin\nThro' this bonnie wee lassie fra Gourock\n\nO! I borrow\u2019d twa pounds frae my auld freen Mackie\nAnd I took my wee sweetheart to dine at the Cri\nWhen a masher he started a winkin\u2019 his eye\nAt my bonnie wee lassie frae Gourock\nHer temper it rose - she fair played the deuce!\nShe walloped his neck wi\u2019 the leg o\u2019 a goose\nShe hunted the masher all over the hoose\nTwas a glo-rious vict\u2019ry for Gourock\n\nO! I bought my wee lassie a nice bit of lace\nAnd a hat and some powder tae puff on her face\nWe caused a sensation all over the place\nMe and my lassie frae Gourock\nI treated her handsomely just like a swell\nTook her roon\u2019 tae the back o\u2019 a first class hotel\nPut her nose tae  the window to smell the nice smell\nShe\u2019d ne\u2019er smelt a smell like it in Gourock<\/pre>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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A  Harry Lauder song which was later sung by traditional singers in the Stewart family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Steve Byrne points out that finding snatches of Lauder songs in the Scots Traveller repertoire is not unusual occurrence\u2026 Belle Stewart\u2019s repertoire contained the Harry Lauder piece \u201cPiper MacFarlane\u201d long misidentified as \u201cThe bonnie wee lass frae Gourock<\/em>\u201c. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I am compiling a list of Music Hall songs and song fragments that have ended up in the Scots Traveller repertoire here <\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You can hear Jeannie Robertson sing it at Tobar an Dualchais \/ Kist o Riches<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
Sources:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n