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A Pair o Nicky Tams

Ceann-latha 26 December 1959
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7 verses of 4 lines. A song by the famous bothy balladeer G. S. Morris (1876-1958).

'Nickie-tams' were leather thongs (or sometimes pieces of cord) tied below the farm worker'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 'nickie' as an allusion to 'knickerbockers' (which were fashionable at the time) and 'taum' meaning 'a cord'.

See:
'Scotland Sings' (E. MacColl, 1953) p. 96
'101 Scottish Songs' (N. Buchan, 1962) pp. 48-49
'Kerr's Buchan Bothy Ballads' vol. 2 (G.S.Morris, J.S. Kerr, 1957) pp. 2-3
'Travellers' Songs from England and Scotland' (E. MacColl & P. Seeger, 1977) pp. 316-318
'The Scottish National Dictionary' (available online [[http://www.dsl.ac.uk/dsl/]], accessed 7 August 2009)

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