Yer favourite "Scottish" poem

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Davie
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Yer favourite "Scottish" poem

Post by Davie » Sun Oct 29, 2006 10:28 am

One Hundred Favourite Scottish Poems, is out at the end of November.
Oany o' yoosyins gote wan?

And jist tae save yeese huvin’ tae dash oot furr yer mornin’ paper, here is The Sunday Times Scotland.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/section/0,,2764,00.html

No 17 in the list:
http://www.ingeb.org/songs/imaskysc.html

Davie

MargaretS
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Post by MargaretS » Sun Oct 29, 2006 1:25 pm

If anyone has a copy of 'Ye've hurt yer finger' I'd like a copy, but here's an old one. -

The bairnies cuddle doon at nicht
wi' muckle faught an' din,
"Oh, try and sleep ye waukrife rogues,
Your faither's comin' in"
They never heed a word I speak
I try to gi'e a froon;
But aye I hap them up an'cry,
"Oh, bairies ,cuddle doon

Wee Jamie wi' the curly heid-
He aye sleeps next the wa'-
Bangs up an' cries,"I want a piece,"
The rascal sterts them a',
I rin an' fetch them pieces,drinks,
they stop awee the soun'.
Then draw the blankets up an' cry
"Noo weanies cuddle doon."

But ere five minutes gang wee Rab
Cries out frae 'neath the claes,
"Mither, mak' Tam gie ower at ance,
He's kittlin' wi' his taes,"
The mischief in that Tam for tricks,
He'd bother half the toon;
But aye I hap them up an' cry,
"Oh bairnies cuddle doon!"

At length they hear their faither's fit,
And as he steeks the door
They turn their faces to the wa',
While Tam pretends to snore,
"Hae a' the weans been gude," he asks.
As he pits aff his shoon;
"The bairnies ,John, are in their beds
An 'lang since cuddled doon!"

An' just afore we bed oorsels
We look at our wee lambs,
Tam has his airm roun' wee Rab"s neck.
An' Rab his airm roun' Tam's.
I lift wee Jamie up the bed,
An' as I straik each croon,
I whisper till my heart fills up,
"Oh , bainies cuddle doon!'

The bairnies cuddle doon at nicht
Wi' mirth that's dear to me;
But soon the big warl's cark and care
Will quaten doon their glee.
Yet come what will to ilka ane,
May he who rules aboon.
Aye whisper though their pows be bald,
"Oh, bairnies, cuddle doon."

Alexander Anderson, whose fame rests almost entirely on this one gem of Scottish poetry, was a railwayman in Scotland, and his verses were written over the signature of Surfaceman. He became chief librarian to Edinburgh University in 1905. Born in 1845 he died in 1909"
Researching Campbell, Ramage, Moan, McAnulty (all spellings), Nelson, Gardner

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Post by Jean Jeanie » Sun Oct 29, 2006 1:51 pm

Hi Margaret

Here it is:-

You’ve hurt your finger?Puir wee man!
Your pinkie? Deary me!
Noo, juist you haud it that wey till
I get my specs and see!

My, so it is – and there’s the skelf!
Noo, dinna greet nae mair.
See there – my needle’s gotten’t out!
I’m sure that wasna sair?

And noo, to make it hale the morn.
Put on a wee bit saw.
And tie a bonnie hankie roun’t –
Noo, there na – rin awa’!

Your finger sair ana’? Ye rogue.
Ye’re only letting on!
Weel, weel, then – see noo, there ye are.
Row’d up the same as John.

Jean

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hurt yer finger

Post by Bertha » Sun Oct 29, 2006 3:57 pm

My its years (about 40) since I heard that poem when my wee sister had to recite it as her entry for the schools "Burn's Federation" prize. By the time it came up, I could recite it too and couldn't get it oot ma heid for months!
Thanks for the memory.
Bertha
looking for
Nelson/Neilson,Wood,McDonald,Baillie - East Lothian
McLaren,Ross,Kelly,McEwan,Nicholson,Price/Pryce,Telfer,Robertson, Dickson/Dixon, Gibson,Niven Edinburgh

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poems

Post by Bertha » Sun Oct 29, 2006 4:02 pm

Margaret S
See you have Nelson & Ramage as names you are researching.
Where about are you looking as I have Nelson's & Ramages from East Lothian. One of my Ramages married a railway surfaceman called Wood.
Any connection?
Bertha
looking for
Nelson/Neilson,Wood,McDonald,Baillie - East Lothian
McLaren,Ross,Kelly,McEwan,Nicholson,Price/Pryce,Telfer,Robertson, Dickson/Dixon, Gibson,Niven Edinburgh

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Post by MargaretS » Sun Oct 29, 2006 10:41 pm

Bertha

I really wish I could say yes as I haven't made any new discoveries for years (at least it seems like years). Unfortunately, my Nelsons and Ramages are all from Ayrshire.
Researching Campbell, Ramage, Moan, McAnulty (all spellings), Nelson, Gardner

MargaretS
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Post by MargaretS » Sun Oct 29, 2006 10:42 pm

Jean

Thanks for that. I only knew odd snatches. It was always a favourite for the Burns Federation things wasn't it.
Researching Campbell, Ramage, Moan, McAnulty (all spellings), Nelson, Gardner

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Post by joette » Mon Oct 30, 2006 4:52 pm

I am having a wee greet as "The Bairnies Cuddle Doon at Nicht" was one of our fav bedtime tales.
We would sit in the firelight & cuddle in (it was freezing with only a coal fire)& Mum would tell tales & we would all recite poems& sing.
It seems to have been a Torrance/Ross trait they would regularly hold wee concerts etc.
We would make up stories too & glad to say it's carrying on with even the Great-Grand weans.It will be hitting the Americas next year too.
My fav is "Tam O Shanter" ye just cannae whack it.Although "The Jelly Piece Song" has a certain nostalgiac place in my heart-think me in football strip aged 14(I had great legs)giving that ladly at a Church Social with my best pal Elizabeth.
Researching:SCOTT,Taylor,Young,VEITCH LINLEY,MIDLOTHIAN
WADDELL,ROSS,TORRANCE,GOVAN/DALMUIR/Clackmanannshire
CARR/LEITCH-Scotland,Ireland(County Donegal)
LINLEY/VEITCH-SASK.Canada
ALSO BROWN,MCKIMMIE,MCDOWALL,FRASER.
Greer/Grier,Jenkins/Jankins

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