Bert Jansch, "Wild Mountain Thyme"

[@thewindshecriesmary]

This song is too beautiful, I'm sitting in a parking lot- watching the sky change, and asking dumb questions nobody ever asked, and this song puts me in my place.

[@123thof]

That is my favorite song, hands-down, after 61 years, and this is a gloriously affirmative rendition of it.

[@Michael-mm3fm]

Have you listened to The Corries version (black & white images)

[@Michael-mm3fm]

I love it too, what melody and chords is better than this...

[@nicktighe3093]

he and renbourne with pentangle was the first brittish folk music we got in the states. unfortunately he smoked the wrong plant and died too early. he and other smokers could still be with us. he was great. rip

[@SirJazzMonk]

As a brit saying this, he lasted until the early 2010s. Legends ne'er die. He was prolific with you music and put down the bottle, that's what could of killed him. Loved Bert Jansch

[@AlbertoMons]

Strong and melancholy at the same time, a Great arrangement of a Great musician !

[@danholliday5564]

Discovered him late. Now my favourite guitarist.

[@tessjuel]

Welcome to the club! :-) Bert Jansch may never have become a household name for the masses but he was always highly respected, sometimes almost worshipped by other musicians. Neil Young went as far as saying Jansch was as important to the acoustic guitar as Jimi Hendix was to the electric and as somebody else has hinted at here, Jimmy Page "borrowed" as much from Jansch as he did from the old American blues masters.

[@tunguskalumberjack9987]

Same! And add to that, Johnny Marr of The Smiths is also a big proponent of his, luckily getting to play with him a few times. Bert’s a treasure. I’m so glad that I got to hear and enjoy him while I’m still on Earth.

[@withoutcrux]

Oh the summer time has come And the leaves are sweetly blooming And the wild mountain thyme Grows among the blooming heather Will ye go, lassie, go Yes, we'll all go together To pull wild mountain thyme All around the blooming heather Will ye go, lassie, go I will build my love a bower By yon clear crystal fountain And on it I will plant All the flowers of the mountain Will ye go, lassie, go Yes, we'll all go together To pull wild mountain thyme All around the blooming heather Will ye go, lassie, go If my true love won't go I will surely find another To pull wild mountain thyme All around the blooming heather Will ye go, lassie, go Yes, we'll all go together To pull wild mountain thyme All around the blooming heather Will ye go, lassie, go Oh the summer time has come And the leaves are sweetly blooming And the wild mountain thyme Grows among the blooming heather Will ye go, lassie, go Yes, we'll all go together To pull wild mountain thyme All around the blooming heather Will ye go, lassie, go Yes, we'll all go together To pull wild mountain thyme All around the blooming heather Will ye go, lassie, go

[@billbaggins1688]

I knew this song before i ever heard it.

[@tupelo1975]

FUCK YES

[@TheScunneredMan]

A really great arrangement of this timeless (no pun intended) old Scottish classic.

[@zorbanongreco]

Can't stop listening to this ! Perfection ! Great (live?)recording too .

[@bobskins808]

The jazz feel and rich variety of off beat jangle, with equally as much catchy jingle, that Bert brings to this traditional folk song is like heaven to my ears

[@JustSomeGuyOk]

This has to be my favorite version of this song / poem

[@grofys]

he's such an earthy, honest singer.

[@ianjohnson1206]

I heard him do this several times without any other musicians. Even better. Wish that had also been recorded.

[@montalbans]

Lucky man -- I never did get to see him perform. I saw Renbourn once late in his career, but never Jansch.

[@madeleinehague3247]

He puts such an interesting spin on this lovely song. Lots of love for Bert!

[@baljones]

Chill out dudes. We are all different. Love and peace

[@robertjamesselbyMTV]

Bert makes any song his own .. They are made sure he at least by gods will as his go at the best of them ... He's an apostle .. So grateful I got to tell him in person my gratitude X God bless ya Bert

[@jipes]

Such a wonderful voice and this particular guitar runs which are full of subtle bends. Bert Jansch is for sure one my favorite artist.

[@DuneAquaViva]

This guy was so incredible so fluid and lyrical..

[@Synycom1]

Whether or not you think Burt was the greatest guitarist ever one thing is for sure he had a sound and technique on it like no other,

[@tomokra]

for sure, no question.

[@markusalcudia]

My favourite version of this beautiful tune. With love from Germany

[@alexbowman7582]

Whenever I have suggested to my friends going anywhere near the countryside “we’ll get a carry out” is the first words spoken indeed I remember sitting in a transit van in Asda Summerston Glasgow car park on a blazing hot Sunday morning waiting for the offy to open because my friends refused to leave for the country without booze.

[@liamforrester2199]

What's changed? From a Stranger fae Central Scotland. Lol

[@lisarood9509]

I bet you had a great day!

[@okantichrist]

What has alcoholism got to do with this song?

[@johnmorrissey397]

heard many versions of this wounderfull song and sang it many times myself but this one beats all what a loss to the world .

[@Graceloveandtruth]

beautiful amazing man great talent, sadly missed by all His fans

[@johngowan815]

This is what you call a great mountain music soundtrack and one of the best Composer doing it.🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸☘️🍀😘🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@jacobalexandersmith619]

Bert owned everyting he cared did for.

[@Lobishomem]

Big fan of Bert since the early 70's. Another great version (instrumental) by Scott Tennant.

[@artistrunner3327]

Definitely the all time great! There knocking statues down Perhaps a statue in Hampstead for him

[@zootszabo2415]

Removing the past destines us to repeat it! Democrats support this because it's erasing their past! lol These Leftist Progressive Morons opened this can of worms that leads nowhere but more division and hate. We can't change the past we can only be accountable today for how we conduct ourselves. Where will this stop making non slave owners bowing to non slaves? Come to your senses America and bring God back and his teachings. Have Heart have Love have Forgiveness to thy neighbors of all colors religions. Keep your own back yard "clean" is all we can do and be accountable and have remorse for your mistakes.....Zoot

[@kiltedbill7594]

SIMPLY BRILLIANT...

[@albertaviking]

I like it a LOT

[@Jackknifegyp]

Fusion acoustic. Scottish brogue, and lyrics, but a coutry/folk guitar arrangement. Neat. Thanx.

[@vincentlussier8264]

He wrote song and created music that put him in a class of his own. And Wild Mountain Thyme is one you wish didn't have an end and has an Irish drinking bar sound to it!

[@thomassaunter]

i like it it reminds me of spring flower fields back when i was a wee lad

[@thomassaunter]

but i am still a wee lad

[@Berlinda-p7q]

Just awesome, thank you KZbin ❤😂🎉

[@criskatan]

awesome song

[@Berlinda-p7q]

Also by Bert, "A Woman Like You ", enjoy ❤😂🎉

[@Fairy-door-78-86]

Brilliant !

[@scottmcfadyen8921]

Made a pilgrimage tae this mans resting place at Highgate. Truth be told his was the first grave i spotted couldn't believe it a total shot in the dark

[@peterdollins3610]

Bert is in Highgate London? I'd thought he'd gone to Scotland.

[@JohnJohnson-cn9fh]

rip bert.jpj

[@pasturesplenty]

@@peterdollins3610yes he’s in high gate

[@ianyoung7077]

​@@peterdollins3610 Doesn't matter where he's from. Bert belongs to the whole world ❤️

[@oldbladderhorn949]

i was wondering why this tune was sounding so damn great and really like a rock, a rolling down it's imaginary brea and then i noticed Bert's sideman was, but none other than the legendary Albert Lee of Emmylou Harris fame and others. his backing is so very subtle and clever it takes it to another level to my ear. not to say that Bert is not of even greater, a musician. but his is of a different flavour, British folk. this tune has all the hallmarks of a great country rock song in some ways, is it because of Albert.

[@jimmaculate5]

so good

[@julianvickery8341]

Scottish folk musician and founding member of the band Pentangle Bert Jansch (3 November 1943 - 5 October 2011) performing the traditional song "Wild Mountain Thyme, from his 1982 album "Heartbreak", with Jennifer Warnes on backing vocals. kzbin.info/www/bejne/j2fOgmWrrdCqqZo Lyrics Oh the summer time has come And the leaves are sweetly blooming And the wild mountain thyme Grows among the blooming heather Will ye go, lassie, go Yes, we'll all go together To pull wild mountain thyme All around the blooming heather Will ye go, lassie, go I will build my love a bower By yon clear crystal fountain And on it I will plant All the flowers of the mountain Will ye go, lassie, go Yes, we'll all go together To pull wild mountain thyme All around the blooming heather Will ye go, lassie, go If my true love won't go I will surely find another To pull wild mountain thyme All around the blooming heather Will ye go, lassie, go Yes, we'll all go together To pull wild mountain thyme All around the blooming heather Will ye go, lassie, go Oh the summer time has come And the leaves are sweetly blooming And the wild mountain thyme Grows among the blooming heather Will ye go, lassie, go Yes, we'll all go together To pull wild mountain thyme All around the blooming heather Will ye go, lassie, go Yes, we'll all go together To pull wild mountain thyme All around the blooming heather Will ye go, lassie, go

[@michealcurrie8272]

Surely find no other....

[@josephkeller4275]

Jimmy Page says that Bert is the best guitar player he ever heard.I agree.

[@OliverLaughton__]

Oh well - if JIMMY PAGE says so ...

[@bloodletter3400]

Oliver Laughton Jimmy called Bert the Acoustic Jimi Hendrix and even Took Berts Black Waterside and made his own version and almost took it note from note and just retuned the guitar to a different Tuning

[@morehmeir9906]

Black Waterside's melody comes from old celtic folk song, its not "Bert's"

[@atticustay1]

Moreh Meir - Do you know which old Celtic song?

[@MichaelGoldenberg]

That’s hyperbole of the silliest sort, with all due respect to both Page and Jansch.

[@jsilence418]

Careful Bert ,Jimmy Page may be watching and this will end up on a Led Zeppelin album as " Wild River Thyme" . credited to Page, of course.

[@TomasEagleMusic]

1 year on and no album - but that doesn't mean he doesn't have another ounce of theft in him

[@pascaljeanne6520]

lol man ok , one or two pieces but page wrote many songs ...but yes bert is so good ! magic musician !

[@peterhorsam8970]

Ha... check out On The Turning Away by Pink Floyd. Poor old Bert.

[@CarlosdaSilveiraGooglePlus]

Peter Horsam , this os a tradicional song. No RIP off.

[@nicholasfryer8793]

JP gives Bert a lot of credit in interviews and this is a cover of a traditional tune done by many others before Bert

[@homeofomfilms]

Very nice

[@TheRealFriar]

This has Pentangle behind him. beautiful version.

[@TheOne-fu1nh]

Correction: Pentangle has him behind it

[@TheRealFriar]

Haha. Either way that band was a fantastic collaboration.

[@MrMusicguyma]

Nice thiough this is, this does not sound like Pentangle, at all. Especially the drums. Not jazzy enough nor folky enough. Albert Lee Jennifer Warnes.

[@montalbans]

Not this time -- the only Pentangler on this track is Bert.

[@christianmoulin9056]

jadore

[@montalbans]

Moi aussi!

[@martinoban]

This is of course a song where a randy young man is trying to persuade his girl to go for a walk followed by some 'intimate contact'! I've heard it at funerals.....

[@kakenetit2]

Thanks

[@danielschaeffer1294]

Two notes. 1) I always wondered whether the melody is related to "Shenandoah." 2) Somewhere on KZbin somebody posted a little known version of this on electric by tne great Rory Gallagher. Very different, but equally goose fleshing.

[@fireandwater345]

I hear Shenandoah too!

[@zorbanongreco]

me too

[@MarthaT108]

Rory Gallagher with Phil Coulter did a beautiful version of this old song! kzbin.info/www/bejne/kJ-XgJmNitmoY5I

[@Pambill54]

Written as the " Braes of Balquidder " by Paisley Weaver Poet Robert Tannahill ...

[@daverenick5830]

great.

[@zorbanongreco]

🇬🇧

[@alexbowman7582]

You can buy thyme in Lidl for 50p.

[@alexbowman7582]

@@MrPennystyle01 it’s over £1 in most other supermarkets.

[@richardmarsden1759]

Where in Lidl? Is it near the heather?

[@alexbowman7582]

@@richardmarsden1759 they don't sell Heather.

[@richardmarsden1759]

@@alexbowman7582 I'll ask my girlfriend to help me find it

[@keithwigley1256]

Make sure its fresh though? Like our music today ..is it fresh

[@VintageBurst42]

Holy crap. You just converted this Yank to Bert Jansch.

[@oldbladderhorn949]

you and Niel young

[@caroljohnson8570]

old bladder Horn - and an inspiration to Johnny Marr too

[@Vingul]

@@oldbladderhorn949 Neil Young is Canadian.

[@oldbladderhorn949]

@@Vingul yeah i know 🥱 and so is Joni Mitchell. and Bert was Scottish and Albert is still English and I'm Welsh and my neighbour is also English, their from London. But being Welsh i live directly above the centre of the planet as (Earthman) does Canada and everywhere else is my guess. that makes Neil an Earthman as well as a Canadian. does that make us all responsible🤔

[@Vingul]

@@oldbladderhorn949 lol, responsible for what? I was just pointing it out in case you were under the impression that Young is a "Yank".

[@chemelart3769]

I always thought it was the girl from Steeleye Span singing. Are you sure about Jennifer Warnes?

[@forestyves8067]

BON SANG on dirait Alain Souchon !

[@beverlyhayshouston2770]

💜💜💜

[@jeffreyhwilson]

But how about Jennifer Warnes harmonies, though?

[@freejulianassange3143]

She's angelic wherever you find her isn't she. It's not her is it?

[@jeffreyhwilson]

@@freejulianassange3143 Yes, it is. I was surprised.

[@Nigelzenig]

Love Jansch but this version has nothing on Clancy brothers

[@wadefite]

Danny Thomson BASS

[@kevinhaycelticwarrior]

Good decent version but check out the levelers !

[@ow3036]

いいね＾＾

[@madeleinehague648]

What LP would you recommend if one was to buy their first Bert Jansch album?

[@montalbans]

"Rosemary Lane" is my personal favorite -- but be forewarned that it's pretty dark in mood.

[@montalbans]

I also like the "bookends" of his career -- his first and last albums: "Bert Jansch" from 1965 and "The Black Swan" from 2006.

[@madeleinehague648]

Thanks for that advice. Yes I think I will start with his first LP.

[@montalbans]

Good choice. To tide you over until you get to "Rosemary Lane," here's a cut from it -- possibly one of his best. kzbin.info/www/bejne/laGVhamer9KrgsU

[@madeleinehague648]

Thanks again. I am on a Bert Jansch journey now. In the past, it's just been a song here and there...

[@danielryan3061]

Anyone got a tab for this? Can't find anything anywhere.

[@danielryan3061]

Alright calm down love.

[@danielryan3061]

Cool.

[@danielryan3061]

I already know that one.

[@JustSomeGuyOk]

No, but I can tell you right now it's not in standard tuning. I heard it's DADGAD, same with 'black waterside.' But Bert played in just about every alternate tuning. It sounds like DADGAD with a capo on the 3rd fret to me though.

[@cortezcortez739]

I'm also looking for a tab for this song (have been looking for ages)... I figured out a simplified version for myself, which is in standard tuning. Maybe I'll do an upload on how to play this... but it's not as technical like Bert's version.

[@Michael-mm3fm]

It is better, or more emotive at least, with the minor coming in earlier i.e. on ‘thyme’ not on ‘heather’/‘mountain’; the Corries and Clancy Bros nailed it. Altho Jansch is a guitar god, of course.

[@stanleysmith2300]

Banner Thomas

[@jamesfitzgerald6636]

Byrds do a great version

[@asmith9040]

The guitar doesn’t even nearly go with the melody of the song. I’m Scottish too ...I know the song inside out.

[@BoltBoltyBolt]

The Byrds did it better

[@gazparker6972]

Thomas I like this but I agree I love the byrds version

[@Vingul]

It's not a competition, but I agree, the Byrds' version is definitely the "definitive" one for me.

[@paulharty3081]

@@Vingul It is based on a Robert Tannahill poem that has adapted over the centuries and become more or less traditional. Versions abound, no need to pick just one. Check out the luminous Braes of Balquidder by Skylark kzbin.info/www/bejne/qHOknGyVh7Kmd8U