#Scots Song

[paulinecordiner]

Well today was our last week in Aberdeen’s primary schools as tutors for SC&T Youth! Cornhill Primary School – thankyou for your amazing enthusiasm and wonderful singing!

Once again, pupils from three classes had 4 hours – only 4 hours! of tuition in penny whistle, clarsach, guitar and … Scots Song!

Despite my ever-worsening laryngitis, the pupils of P4, P4/5 and P5 learned to sing The Silver Darlings, The Fisherman’s Lassie and The Barnyards of Delgaty as well as learning all bout the history of the songs and how they describe life in the North East of Scotland. I’ve posted in greater detail about all of these songs in the past few weeks, but I’ve not yet posted about the songs the pupils have been learning for their grand finale! It is of course Billy Connolly’s The Wellyboot Song – which probably doesn’t need much of an introduction! One of the teachers managed to find this recording of Billy singing it in 1976 -which I can share here cos there’s no swearing!

Noo I’m aff tae nae spik for a wik!

[zhanteimi]

Hamish Imlach - Hamish Imlach

UK, 1966, Scottish folk / contemporary folk / Scots song

[squidcave]

feeling real normal about this song 👍

[leclercskiesahead]

Boogie Burgers

[burricane]

No offence but hearing the Doctor sing the skye boat song while crying was the most devastating thing Doctor Who has ever done sassenachs do NOT interact

[kay9leo]

Surviving the Winter Blu-TUKI TUKI TUKI TUKI, ¡TUKI TUKI TUKI TA!🫏- Modern AU

BEFORE DECEMBER 1

Latina!MC: Nothing in this world can cheer me up Seb, not with the sun rising at 8:20 AM and setting at 3:30 in the afternoon! It's worse than New York!!😭😭😭

Sebastian: Come on MC, the lack of sunlight won't kill you *pats MC with a sad concerned smile*. You sure nothing can cheer you up? 🥺

Latina!MC:...nothing can Sebastian...😔😔😔

Sebastian: Not even me?🥹

Latina!MC:...nothing...😔🥺😭

Sebastian: So you're going to be a depressed winter bean for this entire season? 🤨

Latina!MC: Yes. There is nothing that brings me joy from this season nor do I find reason to smile for I was not made for this time of cold and darkness 😔😔😔

Sebastian: 😥😓

ALSO MC AFTER DECEMBER 1

Latina!MC: ¡TUKI TUKI TUKI TUKI || TUKI TUKI TUKI TA || APÚRATE, MI BURRITO || QUE YA VAMOS A LLEGAR! 😃🫏

Sebastian: Wait what? I thought you were going to be depressed all winter season! ☕🫤🍫

Latina!MC: ¡CON MI BURRITO SABANERO, VOY CAMINO DE BELÉN || CON MI BURRITO SABANERO, VOY CAMINO DE BELÉN 😃🫏🫏🫏

Sebastian: I even stole- 😅 I mean, I brought chocolate to cheer you up! ☕💁‍♂️🍫You didn't smile for over a week-where did those donkey come from?!?☕🫤🍫

Latina!MC: SI ME VEN, SI ME VEN || VOY CAMINO DE BELÉN🫏🫏🫏😃🫏🫏🫏

Sebastian: Now there's more! WHERE DID YOU EVEN GET THE DONKEYS MC?!? *Runs after MC riding away on her donkey with her donkey army behind her with the chocolate in his hands*

Latina!MC: SE ME VEN, SI ME VEN || VOY CAMINO DE BELÉN!

🫏🫏🫏😃🏇🫏🫏🫏💨 ~~~~~~🍫🏃‍♂️💨

IMELDA: SALLOW! DID YOU STEAL MY GOOD HOT CHOCOLATE BAR! 🍫 *runs after Sebastian*

Sebastian: *runs faster*

😃🏇🫏🫏🫏🫏🫏🫏💨 ~~~🍫🏃‍♂️💨~~~~~🏃‍♀️💨

[vananilla]

I recently (like 3hrs ago) got really into reign and there’s a thing about watching a series that’s from the early 2010s, because most songs are classics from that time, that nowadays simply can’t be used in series anymore because they’re too well known.

But like that a really specific point but there’s a thing abt feeling like you’ve gone back to early teenhood in one second.

[high-quality-tiktoks]

Wee scots song for ye (Star O the Bar)

[mikyapixie]

So I FINALLY watched Ultraman Rising with my mom & we loved it!!! I was able to fill my mom in on everything I know about Ultraman which isn’t much since it was really rare to be able to watch the show in America!!! We loved it I can’t believe the played Ultraman No Uta & did the original transformation sequence!!! I LOVED IT!!! I REALLY HOPE THEY MAKE A SEQUEL!!! THEY JUST GOT TO!!! So here’s a gif I made!!!

[bookymcbookface]

“For she’d met with books, she went into them to a magic land far from Echt, out and away…”

‘Sunset Song’ by Lewis Grassic Gibbon (James Leslie Mitchell)

[sleepy-stories]

[paulinecordiner]

Anither grand day today at Ashley Road Primary School! The P3, 4 and 5 pupils (2 classes of each!) are fair gettin on wi their class songs - The Fisherman's Lassie, The Barnyards O Delgaty and The Silver Darlings which I spoke about yesterday. (They're also learning a fourth song which everyone is to join in with, but more on that in another post!)

There are a few videos online, but I like this one the best - the recording is the original by Alastair McDonald and the film that has been put to the song shows old footage of the fishing fleets and the fish gutting lassies swiftly preparing the fish to be salted and packed into barrels. The pupils fair enjoyed watching it! https://youtu.be/LcHhSywE9pk?si=krGQ1GY4WYRqJMwG

[arcadianico]

I'll look for an actual translation because I did not understand Most of it and I don't want to make you translate everything to me, like I kinda got what was happening until like the middle of it and then I got really lost and confused, but I really liked the phonetic of it and the bits I understood, so here's some of the verses I found really pretty (I'll come back once I read a translated version)

Gathering her brows like gathering storm, Nursing her wrath to keep it warm.

The souter tauld his queerest stories; The landlord's laugh was ready chorus: The storm without might rair and rustle, Tam did na mind the storm a whistle.

But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed; Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white—then melts forever; Or like the borealis race, That flit ere you can point their place; Or like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm.

isn’t the imagery just gorgeous. also yeah i love the phonetics of scots. id say i can read you some aloud so you can hear how it sounds if you want but i don’t think you can do voice messages on tumblr. i guess i could send a video or something.

the bloom is shed stanza is one of my favourites in the poem. i think it’s between that one, one at the dance of witches and the last stanza

[haveyouheardthisfolksong]

Note: I am including the link that the submitter provided, but for some reason, it is age restricted. You may have to find the song on youtube.

[autistic-katara]

dont ask me why but W should be pronounced “Wee” not “Double You”

[clamorybus]

there are quite a few traditional english folk ballads that are racist (the raggle taggle g-slur) or antisemitic (sir hugh), but sometimes i wonder if "long lankin" counts

i know the song is essentially about a revenge murder by a mason who wasn't paid, but the versions that include him and the nurse gathering the baby's blood feels too much like blood libel. and i know the most common theory is that lankin is a leper who wanted to use the blood as a cure, but historically it was lambs or dogs blood that was used for that so i dunno

unless that would've been obvious to audiences at the time and was meant to show lankin was a bad liar or something i don't knowww