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Wild Mountain Thyme​/​Braes of Balquhither

from Balquhither & Yon by Forrest VanTuyl

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Wild Mountain Thyme “is an old air” as Judy would say. I learned this from Judy, in her apartment in Bilbao, Paiz Vasco, the last winter that we could still travel. It’s a song of youthful yearning and moving on and been sung a million times; I’ve sung it horseback in the late spring when heather’s in the mountains and the grass, lupine, vetch, and clover are stirrup-high in the valley. My friend Ben Ziehm-Stephen, son of poet Ian Stephen of the Outer Hebrides, is featured reading the original verse upon which the song is based - Braes Of Balquhither By Robert Tannahill. Ben reads it in English/new Scots - "which people can actually understand."

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from Balquhither & Yon, released September 21, 2020
Ben Ziehm-Stephen - poetry

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Forrest VanTuyl Goldendale, Washington

Forrest VanTuyl is a Western songwriter, poet, and working cowboy based in the Inland Northwest. His work has been featured in the New York Times, at The National Cowboy Poetry Gathering, and he has written music for the US Forest Service.

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