LOVE FOR LOVE IS THE BARGAIN January 25th is Burns Night .William Galloway, who investigated the Lan disaster for the Coroner, was the son of Scottish coal and iron master - our link with this Scottish festival. Robert Burns lived through the traumatic start of the agrarian and industrial revolutions. His poem, My Collier Laddie, tells the tale of a girl who will not forsake her collier lad. Here it is to celebrate Burns Night: My Collier Lad O, where live you my lovely girl, And tell me how they call (name) you? My name, she says, is Mistress Jean, And I follow the collier lad. O, see you not yonder hills and dales The sun shines on so finely? They all are mine, and they shall be yours, If you will leave your collier lad! And you shall go in gay attire, Well dressed up so gaudy, And one to wait on every hand, If you will leave your collier lad! Though you had all the sun shines on, And the earth conceals so lowly, I would turn my back on you and it all, And embrace my collier lad. I can win my five pennies in a day, And spend it at night full finely (well), And make my bed in the colliers corner And lie down with my collier lad. Love for love is the bargain for me, Though the little cottage-house should hold me, And the world before me to win my bread - And fair fall (good befall) my collier lad! https://youtube/watch?v=rm-BaPkNVvg
Posted on: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 05:17:33 +0000
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