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about

Julie Fowlis’s Scots Gaelic album ‘Cuilidh’ was given to me as a present and I was immediately captivated by the traditional melody on ‘An t-Aparan Goirid ’s an t-Aparan Ùr: Òran do Sheasaidh Bhaile Raghnaill‘. It spoke to me of seafaring life, its loves and tragedies and so I wrote Annie’s story. Later, I discovered the Gaelic version portrays the famous elopement of Jessie of Balranald with a man from the Isle of Skye, depicting similar themes of the sea, love and drama!

lyrics

My fair sister Annie did love one man true
He was the tallest with eyes so blue
Please give up your sailing for farming she said
I fear for you when I’m lying in bed
So far do you sail and so much I miss thee
So make your life here on this fine land with me
She opened her window each evening for him
This man she did love and to him she would sing

So come all you sailors and fine fishermen
Haul the sheets down and draw the nets in
When the white horses call to the storm clouds above
Then look to the skies and follow my own white dove

Then one day the sailors set out on the sea
The wind and the waves were as wild as can be
My sisters and I we held hands so tight
Then later the news of that terrible night
For thunder and rain did come down heavily
Those sailors were frightened and ere they’d be
They held on the sides and they prayed it would float
But that was the end of the men and their boat

My Annie did cry for one month and a day
She sent all her visiting friends on their way
Until one fine morning her belly had one
Jack would be the name of her fine sailor’s son
When growing up Annie told Jack every day
She feared for his father when he sailed away
She told him the story of how they first met
And for loving her sailor she’d never regret

Now that was the story of Annie’s true love
She dreams that her sailor is now a white dove
Whenever she sees a white bird by the sea
This song she sings in his fine memory

credits

from Beside the Waves of Time, released April 6, 2009
Lyrics: I. Leigh/PRS, Melody: I. Leigh / Trad (Verse melody from ‘An
t-Aparan Goirid ’s an t-Aparan Ùr: Òran do Sheasaidh Bhaile Raghnaill’)

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