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Mairi's Wedding

Alan Stivell · original p.164

Step we gaily on we go Heel for heel and toe for toe Arm in arm and row on row, all for Mairi's wedding Step we gaily on we go Heel for heel and toe for toe Arm in arm and row on row, all for Mairi's wedding Over hills and up and down, myrtle green and bracken brown Past the shielings, through the town, all for sake of Mairi Over hills and up and down, myrtle green and bracken brown Past the shielings, through the town, all for sake of Mairi Plenty herring, plenty meal, plenty peat to fill her creel Plenty bonny bairns as weel, that's the toast for Mairi Over hills and up and down, myrtle green and bracken brown Past the shielings, through the town, all for sake of Mairi Over hills and up and down, myrtle green and bracken brown Past the shielings, through the town, all for sake of Mairi Red her cheeks as rowans are, bright her eye as any star Fairest of them all by far is my darling Mairi Red her cheeks as rowans are, bright her eye as any star Fairest of them all by far is my darling Mairi Over hills and up and down, myrtle green and bracken brown Past the shielings, through the town, all for sake of Mairi Over hills and up and down, myrtle green and bracken brown Past the shielings, through the town, all for sake of Mairi Step we gaily on we go Heel for heel and toe for toe Arm in arm and row on row, all for Mairi's wedding Step we gaily on we go Heel for heel and toe for toe Arm in arm and row on row, all for Mairi's wedding Over hills and up and down, myrtle green and bracken brown Past the shielings, through the town, all for sake of Mairi Over hills and up and down, myrtle green and bracken brown Past the shielings, through the town, all for sake of Mairi

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