Annie Laurie (Thomas Crampton)

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• (Posted 2023-12-21)  CPDL #78463:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-12-21).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 420 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: Annie Laurie
Composer: Anonymous (Traditional)
Arranger: Thomas Crampton
Lyricist: Alicia Scott
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong, Folksong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: ca. 1865 F. Pitman
Description: Scottish Folksong

Original text and translations

English text

Maxwelton’s braes are bonnie,
Where early fa’s the dew,
’Twas there that Annie Laurie
Gi’ed me her promise true.
Gi’ed me her promise true -
Which ne’er forgot will be,
And for bonnie Annie Laurie
I’d lay me down and dee.

Her brow is like the snaw-drift,
Her neck is like the swan,
Her face it is the fairest,
That e’er the sun shone on.
That e’er the sun shone on—
And dark blue is her e’e,
And for bonnie Annie Laurie
I’d lay me down and dee.

Like dew on gowans lying,
Is the fa’ o’ her fairy feet,
And like winds, in simmer sighing,
Her voice is low and sweet.
Her voice is low and sweet—
And she’s a’ the world to me;
And for bonnie Annie Laurie
I’d lay me down and dee.