Get Up Auld Wife and Shake Your Feathers
Track Information
Original Track ID
SA1977.205.A2
Original Tape ID
Summary
Guisers came round at Hogmanay and said a rhyme, then sang or recited and got cakes.
Guisers knocked on the doors at Hogmanay and said a rhyme:
Get up auld wife and shake yer feathers,
Dinna think that we are beggars.
We're only bairnies come to play,
Get up and gie's oor Hogmanay.
They would be given cake and maybe a cup of tea. They went in groups of two or three, only in their own area, because other guisers would be going round other areas. Wat Ramage recalls the guisers coming to a farm. They would sing a song or recite a bit of poetry, but they were mostly interested in getting some cake.
Recording Location
County - Roxburghshire
Item Location
County - Roxburghshire
Parish - Morebattle
Language
Scots
Genre
Collection
Source Type
Reel to reel
Audio Quality
Good