“When the Kye Come Hame”
Description
The singer says "the greatest bliss" for shepherds when "his ewes are in the fold and his lambs are lying still" "'tis to woo a bonnie lassie when the kye comes hame ... beneath the spreading birch in the dell"
Notes
The cover to broadside LOCSheet sm1846 410220 states "Written by Hogg, the Etrick Shepherd Music by Wm Rogers." - BS
Cross references
- cf. "The Blathrie O't" (tune, per broadside Bodleian 2806 c.14(123))
Broadsides
- Bodleian, Firth b.26(194), "When the Kye Come Hame" ("Come all ye jolly shepherds"), John Ross (Newcastle), 1847-1852; also 2806 d.31(51), Harding B 11(4129), Harding B 11(4131), Harding B 11(3410), 2806 c.14(123), Harding B 11(4132), Harding B 26(670), Harding B 26(672), "When the Kye Come Hame"
- LOCSheet, sm1846 410220, "When the Kye Come Hame," G. P. Reed (Boston), 1846; also sm1876 11358, "When the Kye Come Hame" (tune)
- Murray, Mu23-y4:028, "When The Kye Come Hame," unknown, 19C
- NLScotland, L.C.Fol.70(5a), "When the Kye Come Hame," unknown, c.1875
Recordings
- Willie Scott, "When the Kye Comes Hame" (on Voice20)
References
- Roud #12919
- BI, RcWTKCHa