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Bonnie Charlie​/​Song of the Travelling Beggars​/​Ina MacKenzie​/​Walking the Floor

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Bonnie Charlie/Song of the Travelling Beggars (Arrane Ny Jinnyn)/Ina MacKenzie/Walking the Floor
(Scotland, Isle of Man)

We play Bonnie Charlie as a hornpipe, and follow it with a Manx song in 3 part vocal harmony. It describes the trials and tribulations of a poor farm hand whose master wakes him up at the crack of dawn to feed a bunch of shiftless itinerants. Bob follows with a hornpipe by P/M R. Lawrie and jig by Jack Chisholm on great pipes--just to be sure the poor kid's awake

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Song of the Travelling Beggars
Arise, arise oh my trusty young lad
For the Master has knocked on the floor.
Oh arise you arise, for the pleasant sun rises,
And the grass awaits the scythe in the meadow,
Oh arise you, arise.

Behold us your friends, oh young man of the Isle,
Here afoot at the dawn of day.
We will clean out your byre for a meal in the morning,
Though we travel the roads all the day.
Oh arise you, arise.

Arise you, arise now oh pleasant young lad,
Give a heed to the knock on the floor.
Oh arise and come forth in the chill of the morning,
And give food to the beggars in the barn.
Oh arise you, arise.
© 1998 Barnaby Productions Inc.

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from The Sound of IONA, released October 30, 1998

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IONA Washington, D.C.

IONA has been taking its unique brand of traditional Celtic music to festivals, arts centers, schools & house concerts all over North America and Europe since 1986, blending music from the various Celtic traditions with stories and a little humor - Barbara Ryan (vocals, bouzouki, bodhran), Bernard Argent (flute, doumbek), Chuck Lawhorn (bass), Jim Queen (fiddle, banjo) & Kathleen Larrick (dance). ... more

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