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Ah Wid Dance wi Ye, Darlin

from Land and Sea (2017) by Bob Leslie

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A song about a soldier of fortune who joins the Garde Écossaise, an elite Scottish military unit founded in 1418, who fought for the King of France. Our hero does it all for love, to gain the hand of a well-off farmer's daughter. His plan works out, but it doesn't leave him unscathed.

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Ah wid dance wi ye, darlin,
Through the lang winter's night
We wid fly through the darkness
And on intae the light
Sae lang Ah've happ'd ye in ma hert
An held ye in ma mind
Sae wid ye dance wi me, darlin
Wid ye be sae kind?

Well, Ah wid dance wi ye, laddie
For Ah find ye passin fair
But Ah'm ma faither's daughter
An Ah'm canny wi ma care
Hae ye land, hoose and riches?
Hae ye yowes, hae ye kine?
For it lacks mair nor a gallus look
Tae win this hert o mine

Alas, ma wealth is oan ma back
Ma future's in ma hands
Ah hae nae coin, nae hoose, nae beasts
Nae servants, gowd or lands
But if ye'll promise me yer hert
Tae hold it for a year
Then Ah'll return a rich man
An Ah'll dance wi ye, ma dear

A year's a lengthy measure
Tae withold ma love from aa
That wid play the pairt o suitor
Aa sae gallant an sae braw
But Ah own Ah find ye bonnie
An weel-favour't in yer weys
Sae Ah'll no dance wi ony man
This twelve-month and a day

An he's gaun tae be a sodjer
In the regiment o France
An he's taen his share o plunder
Baith by hazard and by chance
But there's naethin comes frae naethin
As his scars they plainly show
For he's no the bonnie lad he wis
A long twelvemonth ago



Ah wid dance wi ye, darlin,
Through the lang winter's night
We wid fly through the darkness
And intae the light
But as ye see Ah'm no the lad
Ye once found passin fair
But dance a measure wi me
Then Ah'll be gone frae here

Well, Ah'll dance wi ye, laddie
For the constant that ye've been
For the hardship ye have borne
An the times that ye have seen
Aye, yer face is no yer fortune
But Ah own it suits me fine
For it wisna just yer gallus look
That won this hert o mine

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from Land and Sea (2017), released August 1, 2017

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