Wild Mountain Thyme : The Byrds and Rufus Wainwright & Family

The Byrds 1966 and Rufus Wainwright & Family 2023 Wild Mountain Thyme" (also known as "Purple Heather" and "Will Ye Go, Lassie, Go?") is a Scottish/Irish folk song. The lyrics and melody are a variant of the song "The Braes of Balquhither" by Scottish poet Robert Tannahill (1774–1810) and Scottish composer Robert Archibald Smith (1780–1829), but were adapted by Belfast musician Francis McPeake (1885–1971) into "Wild Mountain Thyme" and first recorded by his family in the 1950s. Other versions recorded by Judy Collins, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Marianne Faithfull, Van Morrison, Thin Lizzy, Bert Jansch, the Irish Rovers, Mark Knopfler, the Chieftains, James Taylor, Robyn Hitchcock, Gerry Rafferty and countless others.