Mairi's Wedding<br>
Mairi's Wedding<br>
Johnny Bannerman, 1935, Scotland<br>
One verse and chorus: (150 K)<br>
Full song: (458K)<br>
"Mairi's Wedding" is performed by Wild Mountain Thyme on<br>
their album Can Be Only One.<br>
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Written by Johnny Bannerman for Mary McNiven by<br>
her friend Johnny Bannerman in Gaelic and first played to her at the Old<br>
Highlanders Institute in Glasgow for the Mod of 1935. (The song was<br>
translated<br>
into English by Hugh S. Roberton, a year after the Gaelic original was<br>
written.)<br>
Article on the original Gaelic composed for Mary<br>
McNiven, in 1935: Chorus:<br>
Step it gaily, on we go<br>
Heel for heel and toe for toe,<br>
Arm in arm and row on row<br>
All for Mairi's wedding.<br>
Over hillways up and down<br>
Myrtle green and bracken brown,<br>
Past the sheiling through the town<br>
All for sake of Mairi.<br>
Red her cheeks as rowans are,<br>
Bright her eye as any star,<br>
Fairest o' them a' by far,<br>
Is our darling Mairi.<br>
Plenty herring, plenty meal<br>
Plenty peat to fill her creel,<br>
Plenty bonny bairns as weel<br>
That's the toast for Mairi.<br>
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