A performance of “Mairi’s Wedding” from “Anne Murray in Nova Scotia”, 1993. Filmed on the wharf at Neil’s Harbour, Cape Breton. includes “Michael Rankin’s Reel”. Love the stepdancing!
“Mairi’s Wedding” (or the “Lewis Bridal Song”) is a well-known Scottish song. The lyrics are as follows:
Chorus
Step we gaily on we go
Heel for heel and toe for toe
Arm in arm and row on row
All for Mairi’ s wedding
1. Over hill-ways up and down
Myrtle green and bracken brown
Past the shielings through the town
All for the sake of Mairi
Chorus
2. Plenty herring plenty meal
Plenty peat tae fill her creel
Plenty bonny bairns as weel
That’s the toast for Mairi
Chorus
3. Red her cheeks as rowans are
Bright her eye as any star
Mairi’s got them all by far
That’s my darlin’ Mairi
Chorus
1. Over hill-ways up and down
Myrtle green and bracken brown
Past the sheiling through the town
All for sake of Mairi
Repeat Chorus
Repeat Verse #2
Repeat Chorus x2
Arm in arm and row on row
All for Mairi’ s wedding
Duration : 0:3:21
Love dancing this …
Love dancing this one
@magicsexcat thats …
@magicsexcat thats sooo weird cuz this is one of my chorus songs, and so is one called cape breton lullaby
I’m performing this …
I’m performing this song for my choir’s Spring Concert!!!!
This song embodies …
This song embodies everything I love about the Maritime provinces.
VEry cheerful and …
VEry cheerful and fun to listen to.
Magical …just …
Magical …just love it
I’m Cape Breton …
I’m Cape Breton born and raised the Rankins are a jewel we love them here.
Good as the Rankin …
Good as the Rankin family is, I prefer a Scottish accent, singing Scottish songs
what city?
what city?
love this song… …
love this song…and the highland dancing!
They’re coming to …
They’re coming to my city!!!!!
What I’m excited…sue me.
Good voices, too.
Good voices, too.
Great dancers.
Great dancers.
this is great stuff!
this is great stuff!
and love the …
and love the dancing…………….wish I could dance like that
Love The Rankins – …
Love The Rankins – I first heard of them thanks to the wonderful Rita MacNeil – Canada has some of the greatest musicians – love the celtic sound and influence.
My friends called …
My friends called mairi! shes going to have it played at her wedding with her mum and her two aunties singing!
Im from Scotland …
Im from Scotland and i know the Gealic version of this song before it was translated.
love it sounds so …
love it sounds so full of joy
I love the Rankin …
I love the Rankin Family !!!!
I love any kind of …
I love any kind of Scottish music and they do it so bloody well. The young girls doing the dance are beautiful, it just completes a perfect scene, even the old boy doing the jig on the boat.
You dunno the half …
You dunno the half of it! lol
Holy hell, I miss …
Holy hell, I miss Halifax.
-Ex-pat adopted Haligonian stuck in Ottawa
All Nova Scotians …
All Nova Scotians know how to have a good time with our music. Try visiting our pubs! Nothing better than a Saturday night at the Lower Deck, The Split Crow or Peddlar`s Pub in Halifax for good music, good beer and good food.
your right we …
your right we do!