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Rise up Guid Wife and Shak yer Feathers

Fieldworkers
Date 27 November 1976
Track ID 39809
Part 1

Track Information

Original Track ID

SA1976.256.A7

Original Tape ID

SA1976.256

Summary

Alexander Smith recites then sings the song that children used to sing at New Year when he was a boy [in Buckie]:

Rise up guid wife and shak yer feathers,
Dinna think that we are beggars,
We're wee bairnies come to play,
Rise up and gie's wur Hogmanay.
Hogmanay's a bawbee [halfpenny], a bawbee, a bawbee,
Hogmanay's a bawbee to greet the New Year.

Item Notes

Transcribed in School of Scottish Studies.

Non Scottish Recording Location

Australia

Item Location

County - Banffshire

Parish - Rathven

Village/Place - Buckie

Non Scottish Recording Location

Astràilia

Language

English, Scots

Collection

SoSS

Classification

R5887 GD639

Source Type

Reel to reel

Audio Quality

Good