North East Ballad School | North East Ballad Skweel | Supported by the Doric Board
Description: The North East of Scotland is home to one of the richest traditions of Ballad Singing in the U.K. Ballads or “Muckle Sangs” are big, dramatic stories sung as songs. These were passed from generation to generation and singer to singer for hundreds of years, in their local communities and in their native language and style.
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Glenlogie o’ Glenlogie ye shine far ye stand The heather bells roon ye shine ower Fyvie’s land
O’ the gypsies cam tae oor ha door an o’ but they sang bonny o’ They sang sae sweet and sae complete that they stole the hert o’ the lady
Her faither struck her wondrous sore and likewise did her mither Her sisters they did her disown but wae be tae her brither
North East Ballad School | North East Ballad Skweel | Supported by the Doric Board