Peggy-O: Simon and Garfunkel Content

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Wow, did not know they covered this..

 

Simon & Garfunkel "Peggy O" - Bing video

It's a traditional Folk song, so lots of people have performed it.  That first album of theirs is their weakest effort.  

I remember my buddy freaking upon hearing his first GD version; he was only familiar with the S&G track.

 Feelin' Groovy: Simon and Garfunkel Content

 

Story goes, Paul (and Art?) went to SF and hung with various luminaries, including the GD. The word "groovy" was heard frequently at that time and place, apparently, because it stuck in Simon;s head until he went back to NY and wrote "Feelin' Groovy (The 59th Street Bridge Song). 

When Jerry heard that tune, he liked it enough to include the melody in various Dark Star jams in the early 70s, and in a more spritely version connecting Chinacat and IKYR in 73-74.

So there you have it.

Long time ago 

The Bonnie Lass o' Fyvie

There once was a troop o' Irish dragoons
Cam marching doon through Fyvie-o
And the captain's fa'en in love wi' a very bonnie lass
And her name it was ca'd pretty Peggy-o

There's many a bonnie lass in the Howe o Auchterless
There's many a bonnie lass in the Garioch
There's many a bonnie Jean in the streets of Aiberdeen
But the floower o' them aw lies in Fyvie-o

O come doon the stairs, Pretty Peggy, my dear
Come doon the stairs, Pretty Peggy-o
Come doon the stairs, comb back your yellow hair
Bid a last farewell to your mammy-o

It's braw, aye it's braw, a captain's lady for to be
And it's braw to be a captain's lady-o
It's braw to ride around and to follow the camp
And to ride when your captain he is ready-o

O I'll give you ribbons, love, and I'll give you rings
I'll give you a necklace of amber-o
I'll give you a silken petticoat with flounces to the knee
If you'll convey me doon to your chamber-o

What would your mother think if she heard the guineas clink
And saw the haut-boys marching all before you o
O little would she think gin she heard the guineas clink
If I followed a soldier laddie-o

I never did intend a soldier's lady for to be
A soldier shall never enjoy me-o
I never did intend to gae tae a foreign land
And I never will marry a soldier-o

I'll drink nae more o your claret wine
I'll drink nae more o your glasses-o
Tomorrow is the day when we maun ride away
So farewell tae your Fyvie lasses-o

The colonel he cried, mount, boys, mount, boys, mount
The captain, he cried, tarry-o
O tarry yet a while, just another day or twa
Til I see if the bonnie lass will marry-o

Twas in the early morning, when we marched awa
And O but the captain he was sorry-o
The drums they did beat o'er the bonnie braes o' Gight
And the band played the bonnie lass of Fyvie-o

Long ere we came to Oldmeldrum toon
We had our captain to carry-o
And long ere we won into the streets of Aberdeen
We had our captain to bury-o

Green grow the birks on bonnie Ythanside
And low lie the lowlands of Fyvie-o
The captain's name was Ned and he died for a maid
He died for the bonnie lass of Fyvie-o

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bonnie_Lass_o%27_Fyvie

Edit: I love this seduction scene:

O I'll give you ribbons, love, and I'll give you rings
I'll give you a necklace of amber-o
I'll give you a silken petticoat with flounces to the knee
If you'll convey me doon to your chamber-o

Thanks Surf..love the Feelin Groovy JAm