| 词条 | Wild Mountain Thyme |
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"Wild Mountain Thyme" (also known as "Purple Heather" and "Will Ye Go, Lassie, Go?") is an Irish/Scottish folk song. The lyrics and melody are a variant of the song "The Braes of Balquhither" by Scottish poet Robert Tannahill (1774–1810) and Scottish composer Robert Archibald Smith (1780–1829), but were adapted by Belfast musician Francis McPeake into "Wild Mountain Thyme" and first recorded by his family in the 1950s.[1] Tannahill's original song, first published in Robert Archibald Smith's Scottish Minstrel (1821–24), is about the hills (braes) around Balquhidder near Lochearnhead. Like Robert Burns, Tannahill collected and adapted traditional songs, and "The Braes of Balquhither" may have been based on the traditional song "The Braes o' Bowhether". History{{listen|filename=Christoph Nolte - The Rocky Road - The Wild Mountain Thyme.ogg|title=The Wild Mountain Thyme|description="Wild Mountain Thyme" performed by Christoph Nolte}}The existing tune of "Wild Mountain Thyme" is significantly different from Tannahill's "The Braes of Balquhither", which was most likely based on a traditional air. In an 1854 publication, George Farquhar Graham notes that Tannahill's song was set to the air "Bochuiddar" (Balquidder), as found in Captain Simon Fraser's Collection of Melodies of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland (1816).[2][3] Other scholars suggest the melody is based on an old Scottish traditional tune "The Three Carls o' Buchanan".[4] Despite the claims of McPeake's dedication of "Wild Mountain Thyme" to his first wife his son wrote an additional verse to the song in a triumphant endeavor to support the composition of his father and to celebrate the remarriage of his father. "Wild Mountain Thyme" was first recorded by McPeake's nephew, also named Francis McPeake, in 1957 for the BBC series As I Roved Out.[4] While Francis McPeake holds the copyright to the song, it is generally believed that rather than writing the song, he arranged an already-existent travelling folk version and popularised the song as his father's. [5] When interviewed on radio,[6] Francis McPeake said it was based on a song he heard whilst travelling in Scotland, and he rewrote it later. Bob Dylan's recording of the song cited it as traditional, with the arranger unknown, though Dylan's copyright records indicate that the song is sometimes "attributed to" McPeake.[7] LyricsThe original version of the song, published in 1957, closely paraphrases the Tannahill version, which was published posthumously in 1822.[1] Tannahill's original lyrics include a number of phrases that McPeake carried over into his song, including the lines "Let us go, lassie, go" and "And the wild mountain thyme" as he rewrote the song.[8][9][10][11][12] In her book Fragrance and Wellbeing: Plant Aromatics and Their Influence on the Psyche, author Jennifer Peace Rhind describes "Wild Mountain Thyme" as essentially a love song, with the line, "Wild Mountain Thyme grows among the Scottish heather" perhaps being an indirect reference to the old custom of young women wearing a sprig of thyme, mint or lavender to attract a suitor.[13] Rhind also notes that, in British folklore, the thyme plant was the fairies' playground and often the herb would be left undisturbed for their use.[13] RecordingsThe following is a chronological list of recordings of the song.[14] {{columns-list|colwidth=30em|
}} References1. ^1 {{cite web|last=Ferguson |first=Jim |year=2011 |title=A weaver in wartime: a biographical study and the letters of Paisley weaver-poet Robert Tannahill (1774–1810). |url=http://theses.gla.ac.uk/2395/1/2011fergusonphd.pdf|publisher=University of Glasgow}} 2. ^"[https://books.google.com/books?id=xF5cAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA112&lpg=PA113 The Braes o' Balquhidder]" arr. J.T. Surrene, in The Songs of Scotland vol. 1 (1865) George Farquhar Graham (ed.) pp. 112-113 3. ^"[https://books.google.com/books?id=adpWAAAAcAAJ Bochuiddar]" as performed by Major Logan. no.77 in The Airs and Melodies Peculiar to the Highlands of Scotland and the Isles Captain Simon Fraser (ed.) 4. ^1 {{cite web|last=Grant |first=Stewart |title=Wild Mountain Thyme |work=More Roots of Bob |date= |url=http://www.morerootsofbob.com/Ballads/WildMountainThyme/wildmountainthyme.html |accessdate=27 December 2012}} 5. ^{{cite journal | url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-178757785.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131105214429/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-178757785.html | dead-url=yes | archive-date=2013-11-05 | title=New questions with answers. | author=Hickerson, Joe | journal=Sing Out! |date=March 2008}} 6. ^BBC Radio 2 program "Folk on Two", broadcast in the 1970s by Jim Lloyd 7. ^{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CbJJLXdF0N4C&pg=PA397&dq=%22Wild+Mountain+Thyme%22+copyright&hl=en&sa=X&ei=bGaBUb-kHorF2wXev4GwBw&sqi=2&ved=0CD4Q6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=%22Wild%20Mountain%20Thyme%22%20copyright&f=false | title=The Bob Dylan Copyright Files, 1962–2007 | publisher=AuthorHouse | author=Dunn, Tim | year=2008 | pages=397 | isbn=1438915896}} 8. ^{{cite book|last=Smith |first=R. A. |title=Scottish Minstrel |publisher= |location= |year=1821 |page= |isbn= }} 9. ^{{cite book|last=Graham |first=George Farquhar |title=Scottish Songs |publisher= |location= |year=1850 |page= |isbn= }} 10. ^{{cite web|title=Cantaria: Traditional: Wild Mountain Thyme |work=Chivalry |url=http://www.chivalry.com/cantaria/lyrics/wildmt.html |accessdate=23 January 2008}} 11. ^{{cite web|title=Renaissance Festival Lyrics: The Braes of Balquhidder (Wild Mountain Thyme) |work=Renaissance Festival Music |url=http://www.renaissancefestivalmusic.com/lyrics/2006/07/braes-of-balquhidder-wild-mountain.shtml |accessdate=23 January 2008}} 12. ^{{cite book|last=Tannahill |first=Robert |editor= |title=Complete Songs and Poems of Robert Tannahill |publisher=William Wilson |location=Paisley |year=1877 |pages=6–7 |isbn= |oclc=262462998}} 13. ^1 {{cite book|last=Rhind|first=Jennifer Peace|title=Fragrance and Wellbeing: Plant Aromatics and Their Influence on the Psyche|url=https://books.google.fr/books?id=LamNAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA251&lpg=PA251&dq=wild+mountain+thyme+custom&source=bl&ots=yPADSwyZR-&sig=ACfU3U0UITi1Ub0RmroHE960LOiIsNwHAQ&hl=fr&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwje0YC797DgAhURBGMBHTcPAJIQ6AEwFHoECAIQAQ#v=onepage&q=wild%20mountain%20thyme%20custom&f=false|year=|publisher=Singing Dragon|location=London|isbn=0-85701-073-5|page=251}} 14. ^{{cite web|title=Wild Mountain Thyme |work=Discogs |url=http://www.discogs.com/search?q=Wild+Mountain+Thyme&=&type=all |accessdate=26 December 2012}} 15. ^{{cite web|title=Fifth Dimension |work=AllMusic |url={{Allmusic|class=album|id=r3062|pure_url=yes}}|accessdate=10 December 2009}} External links{{wikisource|The Braes of Balquhither}}
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