{"id":1250,"date":"2019-06-30T09:14:58","date_gmt":"2019-06-30T13:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cliffhaslam.com\/?page_id=1250"},"modified":"2019-06-30T09:14:58","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T13:14:58","slug":"maries-wedding","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cliffhaslam.com\/?page_id=1250","title":{"rendered":"Marie&#8217;s Wedding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Also known as Mairi&#8217;s Wedding, the Lewis Bridal Song, and the original Scottish Gaelic: M\u00e0iri Bh\u00e0n &#8220;Blond Mary&#8221;. It is a Scottish folk song originally written in Gaelic by John Roderick Bannerman (1865\u20131938) for Mary C. MacNiven (1905\u20131997) on the occasion of her winning the gold medal at the National M\u00f2d in 1934; winning the\u00a0<a title=\"M\u00f2d\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/M%C3%B2d\">M\u00f2d<\/a> gold medal is the highest singing award in Gaelic Scotland. However her wedding did not take place until six years later when she married Captain John Campbell of Glendale, Skye. Mary continued to perform until her death in 1997 at age 91. In 1959, James B. Cosh designed a Scottish country dance to the tune. So it is not as old as some people have claimed.<\/p>\n<p>A best friend of Sandy was named Mari, so she always enjoyed me singing this song.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Chorus:<\/em><br \/>\nStep we gaily, on we go<br \/>\nHeel for heel and toe for toe<br \/>\nArm in arm and row on row<br \/>\nAll for Marie&#8217;s wedding<\/p>\n<p>Over hillways up and down<br \/>\nMyrtle green and bracken brown<br \/>\nPast the shielings through the town<br \/>\nAll for sake of Marie<\/p>\n<p>Red her cheeks as rowans are<br \/>\nBright her eyes as any star<br \/>\nFairest of them all by far<br \/>\nIs our darling Marie<\/p>\n<p>Oh plenty herring, plenty meal<br \/>\nPlenty peat to fill her creel<br \/>\nPlenty bonny bairns as well<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s the toast for Marie<\/p>\n<p><em>Chorus 2x<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Also known as Mairi&#8217;s Wedding, the Lewis Bridal Song, and the original Scottish Gaelic: M\u00e0iri Bh\u00e0n &#8220;Blond Mary&#8221;. It is a Scottish folk song originally written in Gaelic by John Roderick Bannerman (1865\u20131938) for Mary C. MacNiven (1905\u20131997) on the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cliffhaslam.com\/?page_id=1250\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88892,"featured_media":0,"parent":1219,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1250","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cliffhaslam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cliffhaslam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cliffhaslam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cliffhaslam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/88892"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cliffhaslam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cliffhaslam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1251,"href":"https:\/\/cliffhaslam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1250\/revisions\/1251"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cliffhaslam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cliffhaslam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}