WILD MOUNTAIN THYME  (aka WILL YE GO, LASSIE, GO)
(Francis McPeake - based on an 18th Century Scottish poem 
entitled "The Braes of Balquhidder" by Robert Tannahill


Francis McPeake - 1957
David Hammond - 1958
Sandy Paton - 1959
Judy Collins - 1961
The McPeake Family - 1961
Paul Clayton - 1964
New Christy Minstrels - 1965
Joan Baez - 1965
Lyn & Kathy - 1965
The Alexander Brothers - 1966
The Byrds - 1966
Marianne Faithfull - 1966
Nana Mouskouri - 1970
Bob Dylan - 1971
Long John Baldry - 1972
Gary Shearston - 1978
George Hamilton IV - 1979
Bert Jansch - 1982
The Clydesiders - 1983
Graham MacLeod - 1984
Barbara Ray - 1985
Slaughter Joe & Modern Folk Quintet - 1987
Valerie Dunbar - 1988
Penelope Houston - 1988
James Taylor - 1989
Glenn Frey - 1992
The Silencers - 1995
The Real McKenzies - 1998
Ronan Keating - 2009
Ed Sheeran - 2013

Also recorded by:
Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem; Simone Felice; Nigel & The Crosses; 
The Corries; Jensen Ackles; Kate Rusby; Don Williams & The Chieftains; 
Kate Rusby; Mark Ellington; Sarah Calderwood ........... and many others.


Oh, the Summertime is coming 
And the trees are sweetly blooming 
And the wild mountain thyme 
Grows around the blooming heather 
Will ye go, lassie, go
And we'll all go together 
To pull wild mountain thyme 
All around the blooming 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 
Will ye go, lassie, go
And we'll all go together 
To pull wild mountain thyme 
All around the blooming heather
Will ye go, lassie, go
 
If my true love she were gone 
I would surely find another 
To pull wild mountain thyme 
All around the blooming heather 
Will ye go, lassie, go
And we'll all go together 
To pull wild mountain thyme 
All around the blooming heather
Will ye go, lassie, go

Oh, the Summertime is coming
And the trees are sweetly blooming
And the wild mountain thyme
All the heather is perfuming
Will ye go, lassie, go
And we'll all go together 
To pull wild mountain thyme 
All around the blooming heather
Will ye go, lassie, go

And we'll all go together 
To pull wild mountain thyme 
All around the blooming heather
Will ye go, lassie, go



(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - November 2015)