LOREENA McKENNITT: EL VIAJE CONTINÚA. 2 "PARALLEL DREAMS" (1989): 4 "ANNACHIE GORDON"

Hola a todos.
Hoy Loreena McKennitt nos lleva a Escocia, con esta canción folk escocesa: "Annachie Gordon".
Se trata, de una versión de "Romeo Y Julieta"., que a mi personalmente, me encanta.
Según, la wikipedia, estos algunos datos sobre la canción:

Sinopsis:
Su heroína, Jeannie, debe estar casada lejos en la insistencia de su padre a un hombre acaudalado, Sultán de Señor, pero ella está enamorada de Anachie Gordon, el sujeto de la canción. La canción hace una crónica de su resistencia al matrimonio antes de que la arrastren finalmente a la iglesia. Jeannie rechaza dormir en la misma cama hasta que su padre baje y diga a su criada deshacer su vestido. Jeannie sufre un colapso en los pies de su padre y muere para el amor de Anachie. Anachie, habiendo sido lejos en el mar, vuelve donde las doncellas apenadas de Jeannie le dicen que Jeannie ha estado casado en su ausencia y ha muerto ahora de un corazón quebrado. Anachie dice a las doncellas tomarlo a la cámara donde Jeannie mentiras y luego, habiendo besado sus labios fríos, también muere de un corazón quebrado.
Mas datos:
Las palabras fueron imprimidas en "North Countrie Garland" de Maidment (1824) y en "Ancient ballads and songs 2" (1828). La melodía fue primero imprimida en "Bronson's "Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads" de Bronson. La historia está a lo largo de las líneas "de Romeo y Juliet", con los dos amantes que mueren al final. Algún día entre 1800 y 1829 una balada de periódico de gran formato llamada "una Nueva Canción" fue imprimida. En ello el nombre "Auchanachie Gordon" ha sido sustituido por "Hannah Le Gordon", pero es por otra parte muy similar. Es difícil explicar por qué han dado al héroe el nombre de una muchacha. Quizás el nombre de escoceses era tan desconocido a la impresora de Newcastle que él hizo una opción algo confusa del nombre.
El cantante Nick Jones la grabó, como "Annachie gordon" en su album "The Noah´s Ark Trap" (1977).

Y más tarde Loreena McKennitt lo haría en su álbum "Parallel Dreams" (1989).

He aqui, la letra y la canción:

ANNACHIE GORDON

Words and music, traditional, arranged by Loreena McKennitt

Harking is bonny and there lives my love

My heart lies on him and cannot remove

It cannot remove for all that I have done

And I never will forget my love Annachie

For Annachie Gordon he's bonny and he's bright

He'd entice any woman that e'er he saw

He'd entice any woman and so he has done me

And I never will forget my love Annachie
Down came her father and he's standing at the door

Saying Jeannie you are trying the tricks of a whore

You care nothing for a man who cares so much for thee

You must marry Lord Sultan and leave Annachie

For Annachie Gordon is barely but a man

Although he may be pretty but where are his lands

The Sultan's lands are broad and his towers they run high

You must marry Lord Sultan and leave Annachie.
With Annachie Gordon I beg for my bread

And before I marry Sultan his gold to my head

With gold to my head and straight down to my knee

And I'll die if I don't get my love Annachie

And you who are my parents to church you may me bring

But unto Lord Sultan I'll never bear a son

To a son or a daughter I'll never bow my knee

And I'll die if I don't get my love Annachie.
Jeannie was married and from church was brought home

When she and her maidens so merry should have been

When she and her maidens so merry should have been

She goes into her chamber and cries all alone.
Come to bed my Jeannie my honey and my sweet

To stile you my mistress it would be so sweet

Be it mistress or Jeannie it's all the same to me

But in your bed Lord Sultan I never will lie

And down came her father and he's spoken with renown

Saying you who are her maidens

Go loosen up her gowns

And she fell down to the floor

And straight down to his knee saying

Father look I'm dying for my love Annachie.
The day that Jeannie married was the day that Jeannie died

And the day that young Annachie came home on the tide

Saying oh it's been so long, you've been so long on the sands

So long on the sands, so long on the flood

They have married your Jeannie and now she lies dead.
You who are her maidens come take me by the hand

And lead me to the chamber where my love she lies in

And he kissed her cold till his heart it turned to stone

And he died in the chamber where his love she lies in.

Besos y nos vemos en "Standing Stones".