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Gilderoy

from Two Blind Mice by Loreley

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A Scottish broadside that appears to be a parody of the English song “Geordie”, Gilderoy is based off a Perthshire bandit named Patrick McCregor, hanged in 1638. When it crossed the English border in 1707, collected by Thomas D'Urfey, it mutated, and the English version seems to suggest that he wasn't hanged for being a bandit, but rather for having a sexual pre-marital relationship with his fiancé! The first known printing of it is in 1690, though George Farquhar Graham says that it had been published as early as 1650. Our version was collected and edited by Thomas Campbell in 1856.

lyrics

Alas the dread hour is come
To bear my love from me
I hear the doom of the drum
To mark the fatal tree
The bell has tolled it shakes my heart
The trumpet speaks thy name
And must my Gilderoy depart
To bear a death of shame

No bosom trembles for thy doom
No mourner wipes a tear
The gallows' foot is all they tomb
The sledge is all thy bier
Oh Gilderoy I bethought we then
So soon, so sad to part
When first in Roslin's lovely glen
You triumphed o'er my heart?

Your locks they glittered to the sheen
Your hunter garb was trim
And graceful was the ribbon green
That bound your many limb
Little thought I do deplore
Those limbs in fetters bound
Or hear upon the scaffold floor
The midnight hammer sound

Ye cruel, cruel, that combined
The guiltless to pursue
My Gilderoy was ever kind
He could not injure you
A long adieu but where shall fly
Thy widow all forlorn
When every mean and man’s cruel eye
Regards my woe with scorn?

Yes they mock thy widow's tears
And hate thine orphan boy
And now infant beauty wears
The form of Gilderoy
Then will I seek the dreary mound
That wraps thy mouldering clay
And weep and linger on the ground
And sigh my heart away

No bosom trembles for thy doom
No mourner wipes a tear
The gallows' foot is all they tomb
The sledge is all thy bier
Oh Gilderoy I bethought we then
So soon, so sad to part
When first in Roslin's lovely glen
You triumphed o'er my heart?

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from Two Blind Mice, released March 1, 2015
Traditional arranged by Simon James Chisholm

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Sheffield-based duo pairing traditional folk lyrics to modern musical arrangements. Third album, "The Frozen North", released March 2017.

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