11

Wild Mountain Thyme

Although this is very pretty song, there exist absolutely ridiculous and silly hand motions to it, which you can pick up if you keep questionable company around Somerville, MA. (The typesetting of the melody here is a mess. It’s really not as hard as it looks!)
Traditional
Key of G
X: 1
M: none
L: 1/8
K: G
 GE | D3  E G3 A | G6  B2 | d2 e3 ee3  | dB d6
    | Bd e4 d3   | B A G4 AB | c3 BA3 G E | G4
     GE | D3  E G3 A | G6 | B2d2 e4 e3 dBd3
     Bd e4 d3   | B A G4 AB | c3 BA3 G E | G4
     GE | D3  E G3 A | G6 |

         G
Well the summer time is coming
        C                 G
And the trees are sweetly blooming
        C    G        Em
And the wild mountain thyme
      C          D        Em
Grows around the blooming heather.
            C       G
Will ya go, lassie, go?

Chorus:

          C        G
And we’ll all go together
         C    G        Em
To pluck wild mountain thyme
G    C     G   D        Em
All around the blooming heather
             C       G
Will you go, lassie, go?


I will build my love a bower
By the clear crystal fountain
And around it I will pile
All the flowers of the mountain.
Will you go, lassie, go?


[Chorus]


I will range through the wilds
And the dark glens so dreary
And return with the spoils
To the bower of me deary
Will you go, lassie, go?


[Chorus]


If my true love she were gone
I would surely find another
To pluck wild mountain thyme
All around the blooming heather
Will you go, lassie, go?


[Chorus]