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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.

Date: 2009-01-14 09:21 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eoforyth.livejournal.com
I haven't heard it, but apparently it is on the second disc of the remastered Steeleye Span's Original Masters

Date: 2009-01-14 01:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] janewilliams20.livejournal.com
Having found reference to that one on Mudcat, it turns out to be a totally different song with the same title :(

http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=10726

This is the Steeleye Span song:
"My bonny moorhen, my bonny moorhen,
Up in the gray hill, down in the glen;"

and what I'm after is this:
I rede you, beware at the hunting, young men!
I rede you, beware at the hunting, young men!
Take some on the wing, and some as they spring,
But cannily steal on a bonie moor-hen.
1.
The heather was blooming, the meadows were mawn,
Our lads gaed a-hunting ae day at the dawn,
O'er moors and o'er mosses and monie a glen:
At length they discovered a bonie moor-hen.

There's a hint that Ewan MacColl may have recorded the one I'm after.
I'm struggling somewhat with the Mudcat site: the search searches their forum, and I can't find anything that looks like a database.

So, chasing Ewan via Amazon....
http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_ss_w_h_?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=Ewan+MacColl+jacobite+moorhen&x=15&y=19
The Bonnie Moorhen by Ewan MacColl (MP3 Download - 1 Jan 1960)
Buy new: £0.79
In stock

Date: 2009-01-14 02:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] janewilliams20.livejournal.com
And having previewed it: no, wrong song. That's the "Up in the gray hill, down in the glen" one again.

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