Looking for a song

[janewilliams20]

There's a Burns poem called "The Bonny Moorhen" (spellings vary). http://www.worldburnsclub.com/poems/translations/459.htm
I gather that it's a song as well as a poem, and I'd like to know what it sounds like. Can any of my FL recommend a recording, so I can go and hunt Ebay/Amazon for CDs? About all I've found is something the Corries did many years ago, and it doesn't seem to be available.

edit: getting somewhere, even if a single-track MIDI isn't quite what I was hoping for
http://sniff.numachi.com/pages/tiMOORHEN;ttREDERIPP.html
Having listened to that, I can see why nobody's bothered recording it.

Comments

[alaimacerc.livejournal.com]

Jean Redpath was my first thought too, but as many of those as she's done, Burns wrote a pre-metric _shedload_ of songs, or poems he set to existing tunes, or poems that others subsequently set to music. (My mum has an allegedly complete Burns collection that is a) thick enough to stun an ox, and b) clearly isn't actually complete at all.)

You sure the Corries version isn't available on one of their various collections? Such as _Peat Fire Flame/Stovies_? Of course, that might also be the Ewan MacColl song...

All this reminds me, I should set about sorting out Eddi Reeder tickets...

[janewilliams20.livejournal.com]

I'll check the Corries again. Always worth a look. Also, I now know a little more about just how extensive a range the Amazon MP3 downloads cover, so I'll take a look at that as an option.

[alaimacerc.livejournal.com]

It seems that Stovies live track #2 is the "up hill, doon glen" one again.

[janewilliams20.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I'd found it on a CD, but one that I'd have to pay a tenner for. I won't bother....

[albanach.livejournal.com]

The Corries version is a traditional song, not Burns.

Here's the lyrics

http://www.scotsindependent.org/features/singasang/moorhen.htm

And here's the song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Y8lJeOrqPg