Backing track with added lyrics -
The song is also known as "Purple Heather" and "Will Ye Go, Lassie, Go?". "The Braes of Balquhither" is an early 19th century song about the hills (braes) around Balquhidder near Lochearnhead, written by Scottish poet Robert Tannahill and Scottish composer Robert Archibald Smith.
In the 1950s the song was adapted by Belfast musician Francis McPeake into "Wild Mountain Thyme".
O the summer time has come
And the trees are sweetly blooming
And wild mountain thyme
Grows around the purple heather.
Will you go, lassie, go?
And we'll all go together,
To pull wild mountain thyme,
All around the purple heather.
Will you go, lassie, go?
Click link below for Pennywill’s MIDI clarinet / flute version
Further down the page is a link to Elspeth’s vocal with guitar.
With thanks to amc2919 for the Slideshare ‘First Flowers PPT’ that includes superb photos of Creeping Buttercup, Germander Speedwell, Bush Vetch, Herb Robert, Rough Bedstraw, Wild Thyme, Ramsons, Ginkgo, Snow in Summer, Common Boxwood, English Lawn Daisy, Ribwort Plantain, Hedge Bedstraw, Bladder Campion, Norway Spruce, Meadow Buttercup, Red Clover, Black Medick, Common Bugle, Hoary Plantain, Spiked Rampion, Field Scabious, Ox-
THE WILD MOUNTAIN THYME