Robert Burns: Leezie Lindsay

[JonnyTTV]

good schtufff

[joeygsmom]

very good version. love these old romantic ballads.

[keltickev27]

@joeygsmom

me too... thnx for stopping me...

[QueenLiz88]

This is absolutely lovely! I'm writing my senior thesis on folk music of Scotland and England and this is getting added to my thesis writing playlist! Good job!

[keltickev27]

@QueenLiz88

thnx.... Folk music is my subject! If you need any help then get in touch. Good Luck!

[Alleline]

In 1984, I borrowed an LP of Scottish Classics (or some such title) with this song from the college library. My daughter was born in 2000. One night after I'd sung all the lullabies I know, I found it coming back to me. It has been a standard lullaby ever since. It only occured to me tonight to look it up on youtube. I've heard the Korries sing it and the Furey Brothers tonight - I like yours best. And thanks for posting the lyrics. I find that after 25 years I had them about 50% right.

[keltickev27]

thnx for the feedback....glad you like this version ;o)

[locheelad2]

Never thought of Leezie as a lullaby, but I agree with you, it's a great lullaby, for babies "Coulter's Candy" is another good one, they love it. Donovan sings it very nicely.

[fionnven]

Excellent stuff - You should have been in the music dept at QAHS!

[keltickev27]

heh heh...Now there's a blast from the blast...Queen Anne High School!  It's now 10 years since I taught there but glad to see someone remembers.....although you'd need to give me a clue as to who ;o)

Thnx for the feedback...check out some more of my videos...

Kev

[Coolspot80]

Saw a folk band called ' On The Wagon' play this at a hotel in Fort Williams about 4 years ago. Has been my favourite song ever since. Very good version

[keltickev27]

thnx for the comments. I know On the Wagon - look for the beard! They too do a good version of this one.

[FolkinLanarkshire]

Really nice version and Voice.

[keltickev27]

thnx my friend.... I see you sing too, is this one you do?

slainté

[jamiereidit]

Great rendition of the song.

[keltickev27]

thnx my friend

slainté

[PinataWithPizazz]

This is song is so good. You play and sing very well.

[keltickev27]

thnx my friend

slainté

[readchesterton]

Did Burns sing lyrics to the hymn/tune of Be Thou My Vision? I was at a jam in Texas and was playing a fingerstyle arrangement to this Hymn and this Irish guy starts singing these pub lyrics to the tune...Maybe its just an Irish thing...

[keltickev27]

not that I know of....what lyrics did he use?

[hilaryjp]

Will you gang to the Highlands Leezie Lindzie?

[garycleghorn]

One of my favourite songs, and you sing it well! Ive recorded some of my own songs, you can have a look at my videos as there are a few on there...

[keltickev27]

thanks for that...will do

[hilaryjp]

Beautiful .. called my Bearded Collie Lizzie Lindsey as was not sure about the name, even though I am from the Fraser Clan ;)

Love to hear you singing it, so does my Lab CD ...

Can you tell me why?

Hilary

[keltickev27]

thanks for the comments ;o)

[creeshywabster]

ta fer answerin its no many folk answer ,but its such a lovely tune,i don't ,know if the tune is as old as the poem ,or as old as eddi reader ll a bet ye,ll let me ken

[keltickev27]

As far as I know Robert Burns collected the chorus on one of his tours presumably being sung to the tune you hear here. So that would be around 1787. Various verses have been added since. For instance I sing different words to the Corries in their version but the chorus is the same in both. I have never heard it sung to any other tune.

[creeshywabster]

y've a lovely voice ,fur sic a nice song

[keltickev27]

many thanks for the feedback

[Gimmer3]

Very nice! THANX!

[irishcottage]

I discovered this video while researching the lyrics to Leezie Lindsay, and, I must say, you perform a lovely rendition.

Thanks.

[DarkroomAngel]

Hmm, now THAT brings back some long forgotten memories!

Good to hear the old stuff!

Bx

[BardofCornwall]

Very nice, but would be nice to see the fretwork, which sounds lovely.

[keltickev27]

thanks and fair comment. Still experimenting with camera angles! Another time....

[Deland0]

I'd never heard of Robert Burns before, but I can see I missed on something. Old scottish songs are great ! There is this little something more that cannot be found in modern songs. And your performance is excellent, as usual.

[keltickev27]

thanks again! Burns wrote or collected and improved, over 360 songs between 1786 and his untimely death aged 37 in 1796. Until that time many were only known in Scotland by oral tradtion ie they had not been written down.

[Deland0]

360 songs ! Well, quite a repertoire. Good for us listener, if you keep singing and uploading the songs. And it's a good thing Burns wrote them down, it would have been a pity if these songs had been lost.

[bella96]

We have to sing that in choir lawl

[AreolaTheodosia]

simple, elegant, and moving.

[keltickev27]

thanks....its been popular for a long time on the Scottish folk scene