Leezie Lindsay
Posted in Folk Music on Aug 8th, 2008 No Comments »
Leezie Lindsay, part traditional Scottish song, part Robert Burns, was put to new use by Eddi Reader in her 2007 album ‘Peacetime’. For her version she kept the Burns chorus and added new verses written by herself and Boo Hewerdine. What was originally a song about Leezie Lindsay being wooed by the Laird MacDonald now becomes a song of longing – to be out of the city and in the Highlands with her. The city is in the verse – its noise, cars, and lights that extinguish the stars, where you “can’t hear the birds when they’re singing” and the “river is losing its voice”. In the last verse with Leezie, in the Highlands where she is, is love and a truer home.
A touching song from a lovely album.
