Swan Swims So Bonnie- Lucy Stewart (Aber) 1955 REC
[From Topic TSCD 673T ('Good People Take Warning') titled The Twa Sisters; also Volume 1, Child Ballads, Folkways FG 3519, 1961. Twa Sisters sung by Lucy Stewart of Fetterangus Aberdeenshire was first collected by Peter Kennedy, Hamish Henderson, in June 1955. See also: School of Scottish Studies The Swans Swim So Bonnie 1959.12 - Track ID: 56068 - Original Tape ID: SA1960.143where she sings only two stanzas:
There were twa sisters lived in this place,
Hey, ho, ma nannie o,
One was fair and the ither was deen [sic: din, dun],
And the swan swims sae bonnie o.
Dear sister, dear sister, would ye take a walk?
Hey, ho, ma nannie o,
Would ye take a walk doon by the miller's dam?
And the swan swims sae bonnie o.
R. Matteson 2018]
THE SWAN SWIMS SO BONNIE O- Lucy Stewart, Traditional singer from Aberdeenshire, Scotland, volume 1, Child Ballads, Folkways FG 3519, 1961
Oh, there were twa sisters lived in this place
Heigh ho, my nannie O
Een was fair an' the ither was deen
An' the swan swims so bonnie-O
Oh dear sister, dear sister, wid you take a walk
Heigh ho, my nannie O
Wid ye take a walk down by the miller's dam?
An' the swan swims so bonnie-O
Dear sister, dear sister, put you your foot on yon marble stone
Heigh ho, my nannie O
An' so slyly as she pushed her in
An' the swan swims so bonnie-O
Dear sister, dear sister, lend me your hand
Heigh ho, my nannie O
An' I will gie ye my gowd an' my land
An' the swan swims so bonnie-O
Oh I didna come here for to lend you my hand
Heigh ho, my nannie O
I come here for to see you drown
An' the swan swims so bonnie-O
Noo, the millert had a daughter an' she bein' the maid
Heigh ho, my nannie O
She came down for some water for to bake
An' the swan swims so bonnie-O
Dear father, dear father, swims in your milldam
Heigh ho, my nannie O
Either a maid or a white milk swan
An' the swan swims so bonnie-O
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The king's three harpers, they been passin' by
Heigh ho, my nannie O
They've ta'en three locks o' her bonnie yellow hair
An' the swan swims so bonnie-O.