Ewan MacColl - Are Ye Sleeping, Maggie? Lyrics

Lyrics Are Ye Sleeping, Maggie? - Ewan MacColl

Dark and rainy is the night,

There′s no a star in a' the carry;

Lightnings gleam athwart the lift,

And the cauld winds drive wi′ winter's fury.

O! are ye sleepin', Maggie?

O! are ye sleepin′, Maggie?

Let me in, for loud the linn

Is roarin′ o'er the warlock craigie!

Fearfu′ soughs the boortree bank,

The rifted wood roars wild and drearie,

Loud the iron yett does clank,

And the cry o' howlets makes me eerie.

Aboon my breath I daurna speak

For fear I rouse your waukrife daddie;

Cauld′s the blast upon my cheek, -

Arise, arise, my bonnie lady!

She op'd the door, she let him in;

He coost aside his dreepin′ plaidie;

Blaw your warst, ye rain and win',

Since, Maggie, now I'm in aside ye.

Now since ye′re waukin′, Maggie,

Now since ye're waukin′, Maggie,

What care I for howlet's cry,

For boortree bank, or warlock craigie?

Album The Anthology

date of release

19-03-2010

1 Geordie
2 Are Ye Sleeping, Maggie?
3 Turpin Hero
4 Spence Broughton
5 Ivor
6 The Bonnie Banks of Airdrie
7 Superintendent Barratt
8 Barratty-Parratty
9 Van Dieman's Land
10 Whiskey in the Jar
11 Bill Brown
12 The Banks of the Royal Canal
13 The Black velvet Band
14 Hard Case
15 Ballad of Bentley and Craig
16 Treadmill Song
17 Gilderoy
18 Whistle, Daughter Whistle
19 Once I Had a True Love
20 The American Stranger
21 My Bonny Miner Lad
22 Let No Man Steal
23 Buy Broom Besoms
24 The Maid On the Shore
25 Still I Love Him
26 The Waters of Thyme
27 The Bleacher Lassie of Kelvinhaugh
28 Bobby Shaftoe
29 Green Grow the Rashes, O
30 Landlady, Count the Lawin
31 I Maun Hae a Wife
32 O That I Had Ne'er Been Married
33 Galloway Tam
34 I Hae a Wife O' My Ain
35 There's a Cauld Kail In Aberdeen
36 A Braw Wooer
37 The Rantin' Dog, the Daddie O't
38 Ay, Waukin, O
39 Duncan Gray
40 Wha'll Mow Me Now?
41 Rattlin Roarin' Willie
42 Hey Ca' Thro'
43 To Daunton Me
44 Jumpin John
45 What Can a Young Lassie Do Wi' an Auld Man
46 The Dusty Miller
47 Tibbie Dunbar
48 The Cooper O'Cuddy
49 She's Fair and Fause
50 The Deil's Awa Wi' Th' Exciseman
51 A Man's Man for A' That

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