Here’s some music for you that I recorded on my week off last week. It’s called Wild Mountain Thyme (or sometimes Will Ye Go Lassie, Go) and is a modern variation of a traditional Scottish folk tune called The Braes of Balquidder.

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Meadow

The lyrics are:

Oh the summer time is coming,
and the trees are sweetly blooming
and the wild mountain thyme
grows around the purple heather

Will ye go, Lassie, go
and we’ll all go together
to pluck wild mountain thyme
from around the purple heather.
Will ye go, Lassie, go.

I will build my love a bower
near yon pure crystal fountain
and on it I will pile
all the flowers of the mountain

Chorus

If my love she were gone
I would surely find no other
where the wild mountain thyme
grows around the purple heather

Chorus

I recorded it using my cheap Wesley guitar that I’ve tuned down to DADGAD tuning so that I can learn that tuning. The chords are pretty simple; mainly D5, Gadd9 and Bm7. These are pretty easy chords on DADGAD (I might do a future post about DADGAD), but here’s the chords:

My Roland Juno 106 provides a pad backing, and my Ozark bouzouki provides an counterpoint melody as well a duet with my Scandalli accordion during the middle break. It’s all recorded and mixed in Cakewalk Sonar and was picked up mainly with my Zoom H4, although the accordion was recorded with a Microvox pickup.