Will ye go lassie, will ye go, and we'll all go together
To pluck wild mountain thyme
all around the blooming heather
Will ye go lassie go

I will build my love a bower
near yon pure crystal fountain
And all around the bower
put flowers from the mountain

Will ye go lassie, will ye go, and we'll all go together
To pluck wild mountain thyme
all around the blooming heather
Will ye go lassie go

If my true love she would leave me
I would surely find another
Where wild mountain thyme
grows around the blooming heather

Will ye go lassie, will ye go, and we'll all go together
To pluck wild mountain thyme
all around the blooming heather
Will ye go lassie go

Oh the summertime is coming
and the trees are sweetly blooming
And the wild mountain thyme
grows around the blooming heather

Will ye go lassie, will ye go, and we'll all go together
To pluck wild mountain thyme
all around the blooming heather
Will ye go lassie go

Also called "Wild Mountain Thyme". First recorded by Francis McPeake in 1957 for the series "As I Roved Out" on BBC. There's conflicting information on whether he actually wrote this song. Ireland the Songs, Volume 2, pub. 1993 Walton Mfg, Walton Music Inc. says, "He learned it from his uncle, which gives it definite Ulster credentials. However, Eric Winter writes in the liner notes of the 1995 re-release of The Corries: In Concert/Scottish Love Songs: "... this is an elegant variant of a Scottish song by Robert Tannahill (1774-1819), "The Braes of Balquidder." The senior member of the McPeake family of Belfast, Francis I, wrote this version (the tune is markedly different from Tannahill's) and dedicated it to his first wife. Long after she died, he married again and his son, Francis II, wrote an extra verse to celebrate the marriage."

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