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From our album 'We Know by the Moon'

Alasdair: This is the very last song written by Scotland’s most famous poet, Robert Burns, who dedicated it to Jessie Lewars, the family friend who nursed him in his final illness. Burns himself suggested that the text be set to the traditional tune ‘Lennox Love to Blantyre’; however Felix Mendelssohn composed a tune for it, which is the one that we sing. The legend goes that Mendelssohn heard Jessie Lewars singing the traditional song ‘The Robin Tae the Wren’s Nest’, which became the inspiration for his own melody. I first heard this sung by the great Glaswegian singer Ellen Mitchell, although it appears to have been slightly ‘folk-processed’ by me over the years into a slightly different shape.

TOUR DATES DEC 2025 http://www.thefurrowcollective.co.uk/tour-...

Thursday 11th The Met, Bury

Friday 12th The Nest at Chichester Festival Theatre

Saturday 13th Grayshott Folk Club

​Sunday 14th Halsway Manor

Monday 15th-19th Halsway Manor
​Longest Nights residential course with Emily Alasdair and Lucy

Friday 19th Blaxhall Sessions

Saturday 20th Ludlow Assembly Rooms

Sunday 21st Neuadd Ogwen