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Fellow Icelandic musician Júníus Meyvant joined Kaleo as the opening act for the European leg of the 2024 Payback tour. You may have heard them sing this traditional Irish/Scottish folk song together, popularly known as "Wild Mountain Thyme" but also referred to as "Will Ye Go, Lassie, Go?"
I caught parts of it at the K.B. Hallen show in Frederiksburg, Denmark on 8 December 2024, as seen in the clip below: |
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COMPLETE LYRICS
Oh, the summer time is coming, And the trees are sweetly blooming, And the wild mountain thyme Grows around the blooming heather. Will you go, lassie, will you go? And we'll all go together To pull wild mountain thyme All around the blooming heather, Will you go, lassie, go? I will build my love a bower By yon clear and crystal fountain, And all around the bower, I'll pile flowers from the mountain. I will roam the country o'er Through that dark land so dreary; And all the spoils I find, I'll bring to my darling dearie. If my true love, she won't have me, I will surely find another To pull wild mountain thyme All around the blooming heather. Oh, the summertime is coming And the trees are blooming And the wild mountain thyme Grows around the blooming heather. |
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They also performed it together at Hljómey 2026 in Vestmannaeyjar, an Icelandic music festival that takes place on the last Friday of April.
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