A Pair o Nicky Tams

Àireamh a' Chlàir Thùsail

SA1953.235.A6

Àireamh an Teip Thùsail

SA1953.235

Notaichean a' Chlàir

7 verses. A song by the famous bothy balladeer G. S. Morris. 'Nicky Tams' were leather thongs (or sometimes pieces of cord) tied below the farmworker's knee in order to keep the trouser legs from trailing in the mud (and allegedly to prevent rats and mice from crawling up the legs). The name derives from 'Nicky' as an allusion to 'knicker-bockers' (which were fashionable at the tim) and 'Tams' from 'Taum', meaning 'cord'.

See:
'101 Scottish Songs' (Buchan) pp. 48-49
'Kerr's Buchan Bothy Ballads' 2 (1957) pp. 2-3

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