Oh, Are You Sleeping, Maggie?

X:12278
T:Oh, Are You Sleeping, Maggie?
S:Digital Tradition, areuslep
D:Sung by Ray Fisher on Willie's Lady from Tannahill collection
O:Scots
Z:dt:areuslep
M:4/4
L:1/8
Q:2/4=100
W:Mirk and rainy is the nicht
W:There's no a star in a' the carry
W:Lightening gleams across the sky
W:And winds they blaw wi winter fury
W:
W:  Chorus:
W:  O are you sleeping Maggie
W:  O are you sleeping Maggie
W:  Let me in , for loud the linn
W:  Is roaring o'er the warlocks craigie
W:
W:Fearfu' flows the boortree bank
W:The rifted wood roars wild and dreary
W:Loud the iron yett does clank
W:And cry of howlets mak me eerie
W:
W:Aboon my breath I daurna speak
W:For fear I'll rouse your wakeful daddie
W:Cauld's the blast upon my check
W:O rise, O rise, my bonnie lassie
W:
W:She's op'ed the door, she's let him in
W:He's cruist aside his dreeping plaidie
W:Ye can blow ye worst, ye winds and rain
W:Since Maggie noo I'm in aside thee
W:
W:  O noo that you're wakin, Maggie
W:  O noo that you're wakin, Maggie
W:  What care I for howlets cry
W:  For roaring linn or warlock's craigie.
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Alternative sources for this tune:

• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/mirror/OTIS_Irish_Session/melnets_big_abc_file/09557
• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/mirror/atrilcoral.com/n-o/0671
• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/mirror/kirby98.fsnet.co.uk/oh/Oh_Are_You_Sleeping_Maggie_1/0000
• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/mirror/melnets_big_abc_file/09557
• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/mirror/terra.es/personal8/niltoni/n-o/0671

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