shearin song

Subject: shearin song
From: tony archer
Date: 18 Feb 99 - 03:04 PM

there's a scots song.......

"Shearins not for you"..about a scots girl who's up the duff.....pregnant.

but the version in the Mudcat data base is far too short

ive heard it with a few more verses. in particular a verse refering to the rape and to the threatening of a killing...!!!!!

does any one have the full version????????

Subject: RE: shearin song
From: Bruce O.
Date: 18 Feb 99 - 03:30 PM

Stephen Sedley has a 7 verse version in 'The Seeds of Love', 1967, that was put together from two defective early 19th broadside copies from Yorkshire. I know Murray on Saltspring has a version, but that may be reserved for a book. I know of a text in a Newcastle chapbook of about the same date, but have no copy of it.

There are 3 versions in 'The Greig-Duncan Folk Song Collection', VII, #1486, 1997, but the longest is 4 verses.

Subject: RE: shearin song
From: tony a
Date: 18 Feb 99 - 03:56 PM

cheers Bruce

i heard it this sunday at HORSHAM FOLK CLUB

check out there web page

sung by a scots girl Marjorie Clark

but i cant make out the words.........duhhhhhh

there in dialect

but its a great song

Subject: RE: shearin song
From: Bruce O.
Date: 18 Feb 99 - 04:44 PM

For chapbook copies see Frances M. Thomson's 'Newcastle Chapbooks', 1969, items 212-14, "The sheering's no for you".

Subject: RE: shearin song
From: Barry Finn
Date: 19 Feb 99 - 12:13 AM

Do a fourm search. This came up somtime ago & has a fair amount of verses. Haven't checked the DT though. Barry

Subject: Lyr Add: THE SHEARIN'S NAE FOR YOU
From: Maelgwyn (inactive)
Date: 19 Feb 99 - 02:31 PM

Here's all the verses I have:

Oh, the shearin's nae for you, my bonnie lassie-o
Oh, the shearin's nae for you, my bonni lassie-o
O the shearin's nae for you, for your back it winna bou
And your belly's row-in fu' my bonnie lassie-o

Do you mind the Banks o' Aire, my bonnie laddie-o
Do you mind the Banks o' Aire, my bonnie laddie-o
Do you mind the Banks o' Aire whaur you caught me in your snare
And you've left me in despair, my bonnie laddie-o

Do you mind on Glescae Green, my bonnie lassie-o
Do you mind on Glescae Green, my bonnie lassie-o
Do you mind on Glescae Green, when I played on your machine
When I played on your machine, my bonnie lassie-o

Do you mind on yonder hill, my bonnie laddie-o
Do you mind on yonder hill, my bonnie laddie-o
Do you mind on yonder hill, whaur you swore you would me kill
Gin you didnae get your will, my bonnie laddie-o

Oh that you might kill me deed my bonnie laddie-o
Oh I'll no kill ye deed my bonnie lassie-o
Oh I'll no kill ye deed or mak your body bleed
But I'll marry you insteed my bonnie lassie-o

Tak the buckles frae your shoon, my bonnie lassie-o
Tak the buckles frae your shoon, my bonnie lassie-o
Tak the buckles frae your shoon, for you've married sic a loon
That your dancin' days are doon, my bonnie lassie-o

Tak the ribbons frae your hair, my bonnie lassie-o
Tak the ribbons frae your hair, my bonnie lassie-o
Tak the ribbons frae your hair, and cut off your ringlets fair
For you've nought but want and care, my bonnie lassie-o

Tak the flooncies frae your knee, my bonnie lassie-o
Tak the flooncies frae your knee, my bonnie lassie-o
Tak the flooncies frae your knee for it's better far for ye
To look out your bairnies three, my bonnie lassie-o

Tak the flooncies frae your goon, my bonnie lassie-o
Tak the flooncies frae your goon, my bonnie lassie-o
Tak the flooncies frae your goon, mak a frockie for your loon
Mak a frockie for your loon, my bonnie lassie-o

The pipes do loudly play, my bonnie lassie-o
The pipes do loudly play, my bonnie lassie-o
Oh the pipes do loudly play and I maun march away
For I can no longer stay, my bonnie lassie-o

Subject: RE: shearin song
From: Willie-O
Date: 19 Feb 99 - 02:37 PM

The Tannahill Weavers recorded this recently, (not with _all_ those verses though) with a liner note that its difficult today to imagine the conversation in the song occurring outside of a courtroom.

Bill

Subject: RE: shearin song
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 19 Feb 99 - 10:08 PM

Holly Tannen came up with (and yes, I know, and she knows that shearing referred to harvesting grain, but it's a good parody anyway):

"The shearin's nae for you, my bonnie lassie-o (2X)
The shearin's nae for you, for you cut the lamb in two
and we're havin' muton stew, my bonnie lassie, o"

Incidentally, there are at least two radically different versions of this song floating around: one involving rape and the other consensual social sex. We have the latter in the DT; the former will appear in the next edition.

Subject: RE: shearin song
From: Barry Finn
Date: 27 Jul 99 - 11:40 PM

Refresh

Subject: RE: shearin song
From: Ferrara
Date: 28 Jul 99 - 05:30 PM

Bruce O, Do you actually have the 7 verses in "The Seeds of Love"? If so, how do they compare with the version Maelgwyn posted? Can you post them? - Rita F

Subject: Lyr Add: THE SHEARING'S NOT FOR YOU
From:
Date: 28 Jul 99 - 05:57 PM

[Last verse is a repeat, so there are really only 6 verses in this version. Ferrara do you know Kathy W's version, since I've heard her do it a couple of times, then you have probably heard it too. If I recall corectly, she said she got it from Norman Kennedy.]

The Shearing's Not For You

It was in the month of May, my bonny lassie O
It was in the month of May, my bonny lassie O
It was in the month of May
When the flowers they were gay
And the lambs did sport and play, my bonnie lassie O.

O the shearing's not for you, my bonnie lassie O
No the shearing's not for you, my bonnie lassie O
The shearing's not for you
For your back it winna bow
And your belly's rolling fu', my bonnie lassie O.

Don't you mind on yonder hill, my bonnie laddie O
Don't you mind on yonder hill, my bonnie laddie O
Don't you mind on yonder hill
When you swore you would me kill
If you did not get your will, my bonnie lassie O.

Don't you mind the banks of Ayr, my bonnie laddie O
Don't you mind the banks of Ayr, my bonnie laddie O
Don't you mind the banks of Ayr
When you drew me in your snare
And you left me in dispair, my bonnie laddie O.

Tis you may kill me dead, my bonnie laddie O
Tis you may kill me dead, my bonnie laddie O
Tis I'll not kill you dead
Nor make your body bleed
Nor marry you with speed, my bonnie lassie O.

The fifes do sweetly play, my bonnie lassie O
The fifes do sweetly play, my bonnie lassie O
The fifes do sweetly play
And the troops do march away
And it's here I will stay, my bonnie lassie O.

O the shearing's not for you, my bonnie lassie O
No the shearing's not for you, my bonnie lassie O
The shearing's not for you
For your back it winna bow
And your belly's rolling fu', my bonnie lassie O.

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Subject: RE: shearin song
From:
Date: 28 Jul 99 - 06:20 PM

Jeannie Robertson sang a 4 verse version (with last verse a repeat of the first) under the title "Tak' the buckles frae your sheen" on an LP record, Prestige-Interrnational 13006.

Subject: RE: shearin song
From: Snookadive
Date: 28 Jul 99 - 07:06 PM

Thanks Barry and everyone else involved in this thread. I've been playing an arrangement for finger style guitar of this lovely tune by Martin Simpson. It's on his "When I was on Horseback" CD (Shanicie) and a tab book is (or was) included which contained Shearin' ( it also has Bogeys' Bonnie Belle grafted on to it) Regards

Snookadive