John Smith of Falloch Fine
Track Information
Original Track ID
SA1959.110.A13
Original Tape ID
Summary
A dandling rhyme in which the adult pats the heels and toes of the child, then bounces him or her up and down during the last line:
John Smith of Falloch fine,
Can you shoe this horse of mine?
Yes indeed and that I can
Just as weel as ony man:
Put a bit upon the heel
For to make it pace weel,
Put a bit upon the toe
For to make the horsie go.
Gallopy, gallopy, gallopy.
The rhyme was sent to Jessie Chalmers by an 86-year-old woman from Dunoon named Mrs Nellie [?] (neé MacArthur).
Item Notes
See:
Greig-Duncan vol. 8, p. 114
'Scottish Nursery Rhymes' (N. & W. Montgomerie, 1946) p. 83
'Doh Ray Me, When Ah Wis Wee' (E. McVicar, 2007) pp. 24-25
'Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes' (P. & I. Opie, 1951) pp. 247, 366
Recording Location
County - Lanarkshire
Parish - Glasgow
Village/Place - Glasgow
Language
Scots
Genre
Collection
Source Type
Reel to reel
Audio Quality
Good